Entries Tagged as 'movie'

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Wes Anderson // Centered

If you were ever in doubt as to how meticulous and pedantic the director of The Royal Tenenbaums is, then look no further than this video from Kogonada—who specializes in making videos about directors’ tropes and signatures—in which Anderson’s obsession with symmetry is laid clear.

Saturday, March 8th, 2014

The Exorcist Recut as a 1980s Sitcom

Gone is the iconic Tubular Bells track, replaced with canned laughter, lamewad opening credit music, and adverts for popular fast food chains— in what is a funny and shrewd reworking of the original film’s audience-frightening, pant-soiling tale of devil possession. Gone is the terror and with some neat editing we get The Exorcist, a [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2014

Jeff Goldblum’s Weird Laugh From Jurassic Park Becomes a Song

Whatever you were about to do, it can wait, because you really need to listen to this song made entirely from chaos math man Dr. Ian Malcolm’s weird laugh in Jurassic Park—it’s the kind of video that justifies you spending your entire life glued to the unnatural glow of a computer screen rather than getting [...]

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

The Onion Film Standard: Oscars Edition

You’re probably not aware because it’s a very low key affair, but a little ceremony known as the Academy Awards was held over the weekend—it’s kind of insignificant but Hollywood likes to make a big deal of it and Hollywood rules the earth so you should maybe feign interest just in case. And there’s no [...]

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Academy Awards PSA with Celebrity Impressions by Piotr Michael

Piotr Michael is an impressionist and voice actor whose spot on impersonations of celebrities like Charlie Sheen, Maggie Smith, Jeff Bridges, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, Ian McKellen, Steve Martin, and John Malkovich will have you making with the lolz as you watch this parody PSA about the Oscars. It’s the best celebrity impression reel featuring [...]

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

Everything Wrong With Taken In 9 Minutes Or Less

These guys are brave doing this video, because if Liam Neeson finds out he’ll lose shiz and start giving it the old “I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you!”—so kudos to them for doing it, and if you’re any kind of movie geek then you’ll like nothing more [...]

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Pogo – Willy Wonka Remix

Everyone’s favorite Gene Wilder film about a little boy and a chocolate factory and everyone’s favorite movie remix artist team up to wow your brain with another masterfully crafted song, this time created from both visual and aural elements of 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—it’s a process which takes Pogo 3 weeks [...]

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

Last Man Standing

Tonight is movie night! In fact, right now is movie night, so put down that spreadsheet, cancel those back-to-back meetings and spend some time in the company of Bruce Willis in Walter Hill’s Prohibition era set remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo—a drifter rolls into town and is caught up between two warring parties—the Irish and [...]

Monday, February 10th, 2014

Our Robocop Remake – Scene 27

Following on the heels of that crowdsourced Star Wars remake, Star Wars Uncut, is a crowdsourced Robocop remake called Our Robocop Remake—which is a much better idea than a stupid Hollywood studio doing a stupid remake. To give you a taste of its awesomeness this is scene 27 from it, it’s the bit from the [...]

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

The Sunday Times Newspaper: “Icons” Super Bowl Ad

Shot in one-take, this advert sees one man morphing from one iconic scene to another, from film to TV and art to music, from Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam to Mr Pink and Mr White facing off in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs to Daft Punk—the piece stylishly looks at what makes something iconic, tipping its hat [...]

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects Oscar Winners

With the 86th Academy Awards looming on the awards season horizon, this neatly edited video by Nelson Carvaja takes a look back at the winners since the current incarnation of the award was introduced in 1977, with that year’s Oscar being awarded to a little film called Star Wars. Down the years it’s gone to [...]