Tag: Movies

DVD Review: Stardust

Fairy tales may not always come true, but sometimes they come to a theater near you. Director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) and his co-scripter, Jane Goldman, have delivered a big screen adaptation worthy of Neil Gaiman’s classic Stardust. It’s on DVD now. Our tour guide is the warm voice of Sir Ian McKellen, which begins …

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Interview: Tom Woodruff

Yesterday I had the massive honor of interviewing Tom Woodruff, who, along with Amalgamated Dynamics partner Alec Gillis, built the creatures and supervised the special effects in the next week’s action/horror sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Check out Tom’s amazing credits right here. In addition to building the creatures, Tom is also a performer in …

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Where there's a Will, there's a way

In the year 2009, we cure cancer. By 2012, we’re all dead. That’s the storyline of the new action/horror film I Am Legend, a re-imagining of the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson. The cure for cancer ends up wiping out most of humanity; most of those who didn’t die mutated into monsters called Dark Seekers …

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