Movie review: Damsel How many times will Hollywood resurrect the old princess-and-dragon routine? Probably as often as the archetypical premise appears in literature and folklore, going all the way back to classical mytho ... 03/15/2024 - 1:35 am | View Link
The Ray Harryhausen Awards 2024: Call for Entries Established in honour of the legendary master of stop-motion animation, the Harryhausen Awards 2024 are now accepting submissions for animated films of ... 03/13/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Ramping Up the Fantasy: Damsel Delivers Intensity and Dragon-Scale Spectacle In the realm of high-fantasy action, Netflix’s Damsel emerges as an adventurous tale with Millie Bobby Brown at the helm. However, the true scene-stealer is the impressively designed dragon, an entity ... 03/7/2024 - 12:11 pm | View Link
The greatest fantasy movies of all time Behold a cyclops wrestle a dragon and a skeleton taking up arms with a sword and shield, and ask yourself why today’s super fancy CGI still can’t match up to what the likes of Ray Harryhausen made ... 02/17/2024 - 4:05 am | View Link
Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 Ray Harryhausen, the animator and special-effects wizard who found ways to breathe cinematic life into the gargantuan, the mythical and the extinct, died on Tuesday in London. He was 92 and lived... 03/25/2024 - 6:20 am | View Website
Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92 Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry graced such films as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, has died aged 92. The American made his models by hand and... 03/25/2024 - 3:21 am | View Website
Ray Harryhausen Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation". 03/24/2024 - 8:37 am | View Website
Ray Harryhausen From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion-picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since. Born in Los Angeles, the signature event in Harryhausen's life was when he saw King Kong (1933). 03/23/2024 - 11:30 am | View Website
Ray Harryhausen, the Godfather of Stop Motion Animation, Dies Producer and animator Ray Harryhausen, who invented a kind of stop motion model animation called ‘dynamation’ and created special effects for classics such as Jason and the Argonauts and One... 03/23/2024 - 1:07 am | View Website
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.