Your moment of Zen

Mary Badham et Gregory Peck sur le tournage de "To Kill a Mockingbird". [photo via Improbables Librairies/Improbables Bibliotheques]

Your moment of Zen

Loretta Young, 1931 edition. [graphic via]

Creature Feature

Truthfully, I had no idea who Ray Harryhausen was until he died this week, but I've enjoyed his work my whole life. I've watched every one of these movies more than once. When I was kid this kind of special effect was scary as hell. In many ways I still like this obviously fake, hand done stop action much better than today's computer generated realism.

RIP Mr. Harryhausen. You may have lived in relative obscurity but your creatures will live forever on the screen.

Hula's that girl?

Doctor day so been offline. Just catching up on the news now. So here's something I've never seen before. Imagine there's a movie to go with this little clip. I really want to find it.

Your moment of Zen

In memory of Roger Ebert. Yvonne DeCarlo. [source unknown]

Middle-earth will swallow you

Fully engulfed in The Hobbit mania building on the internets. Love this from George Takei this morning on the facebook.

And haven't watched this whole video yet, but thanks to Atrios who uncovered this gem of a former adaption in the original Russian.


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Come to think of it, there was also a hopelessly unsatisfying animated version that aired on the teevee at least two decades ago. Odd that hasn't turned up yet. Perhaps we're all trying to forget that one.

I'm so excited, just can't hide it

Seems like I've been waiting forever for the new Hobbit movie but it's almost here now. Just saw Peter Jackson's latest video blog on the post production phase but I liked the previous one about the last days of the shoot better. Better spoilers.



If you click to watch it on youtube directly, you can catch up on all the blogs and trailers you may have missed. Looks it's going to be even better than LOTR. And my sister just told me it's going to be playing at IMAX around here. So even more excited now.

When I was young

Looking forward to this movie short. Somebody unearthed previously unreleased footage from a 1965 taping of the Rolling Stones. We were all so young and innocent then. Well, maybe not that innocent, but surely idealistic and maybe a little naive.

Love this trailer from the Stones movie so much. Can't wait to see it.



[via Greg Mitchell, once editor of Crawdaddy magazine]

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Random nerdery

These guys often go over my head, but this epic xkcd cartoon is easy to understand and it's not hyperbole to say it's the most incredible ever. Warning: Don't click the link unless you have at least ten minutes to look at it all.

And I'm too excited for this December release. First trailer for the new Hobbit movie is finally out:



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