io9 has a great article about called 20 Technothriller Tropes We Hope Never to See Again.
I’d also like to add that you should avoid mentioning technical specs at all, because a few years from now your 1GB/1066Mhz/Dual Core will be so obsolete it’ll be laughable. Plus, can you we …
There’s an interesting article in the New Scientist about blinking.
Worried you’ll blink and miss a crucial piece of the action? Then you can relax. While watching a film, we subconsciously control the timing of blinks to make sure we don’t miss anything important. And because we tend to watch films …
I’ve heard rumours that a new Tron movie was on the cards for some time and I was very dubious, I didn’t think it could live up to the original, which is cheesy, but a classic. Having seen the test footage/clip I’d go see Tron Legacy.
Quite an interesting article on the BBC about how the industry is ‘tackling the film piracy problem.’
The federation [FACT] says other countries, including the US, Canada and Italy, already have a specific law against camcording in cinemas and believes the UK should follow suit.
But a spokesman for the Intellectual Property …
An article in The Guardian states that the British film industry enjoys steady growth despite recession. The question is how many of those films were actually British?
Yes, we may make money for the production of the Harry Potter films, but most of the profits go back to …
Gone With the Wind is the top grossing film of all time according to the inflation adjusted figures from Bloomberg, not Titanic.
Some interesting movies make it into the top 10 (The Ten Commandments, for example, and Doctor Zhivago, The Exorcist) and quite a few come down to Lucas and Spielberg …