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Movies

• 08.21.07
  Not Surprisingly, Hollywood Fails Physics
  Science, Movies (0)

  Not surprisingly, Hollywood movies are particularly bad at adhering to laws of physics. Ars Technica offers a few examples of less-than-realistic special effects from movies like Speed, Spider-Man, X-Men and Superman.  Here's one: The X-Men make a last food stand: rough estimate of the calories Magneto had to consume to fuel ...
  
  
• 08.15.07
  Watch Jeff VanderMeer’s Shriek Movie
  Movies, Science Fiction (0)

  Watch a short indie film of fantasy author, Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek by Finnish director J.T. Lindroos. Music is by The Church. The full video is available on their website, but I can't embed it. Here's the trailer instead: And Jeff VanderMeer's blog post about it.
  
  
• 08.15.07
  Beowulf Movie Trailer
  Movies, Science Fiction (0)

  Check out the official site of BeoWulf, which stars some big names like Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Ray Winstone - and Angelina Jolie plays Grendel's mother. Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary wrote the screenplay so this might be the first good BeoWulf movie to be released! The site is ...
  
  
• 08.13.07
  Woody Allen Quiz
  Movies (0)

  Can you match 15 Woody Allen sound bites with the movies they came from? Try Mental Floss' new quiz and find out.
  
  
• 08.13.07
  New Resident Evil: Extinction Trailer
  Movies (0)

  Yes, they're making another Resident Evil. Picking up where the last film left off, genetically enhanced super woman, Alice, is now hiding in the Nevada desert with old buds and new survivors. As her team desperately tries to find a way to eradicate the virus turning everyone into the undead, ...
  
  
• 08.12.07
  What You Can Learn from Zombie Movies
  Mythology, Movies (0)

  If you've never thought to deeply about zombie movies, you may want to read Discover Magazine's article on what you can learn from them. For instance: zombies are the perfect horror creations for a ­media-saturated age overloaded with reports of terrorism, famine, disease, and warfare. Zombies tap into our primal fear ...
  
  

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