Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage Danse La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) was released in Paris 105 years ago today — by any definition of the term, the first science fiction special effects summer spectacular. And now, through the magic of the internet, we bring it here to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0BmQaIIR4
Enjoy it before some bozo decides to remake it for Summer 2009.
For those who can’t wait to see it on the big screen with Oz the Great and Powerful this weekend, Disney has released the new Iron Man 3 trailer online. Marvel’s Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at…
I won’t lie — I usually find it cute when my sons and my husband geek out over Superman or Batman. But there are times when the antics wear thin. Like when my 3-year-old refuses to wear his glasses because “Wolverine doesn’t wear glasses.” Or when he chases our cat around the house, fists flying,…
There’s a report in Entertainment Weekly that the U.S. version of Torchwood – should it get picked up – will have a Captain Jack with more narrowed sexual interests. That does not please Captain Jack himself, actor John Barrowman. Digital Spy reports the current Desperate Housewives guest-star “The last thing I would want would be…
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