There are two ways to talk about Astro-Boy, both of them a little incomplete, so I must speak of both. Way #1 is as an Osamu Tezuka fan, seeing his work adapted for the big screen for a primarily English-speaking...
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On the devaluation of monsters... and movies - scanners
Just because it can be shown, doesn't mean it should be. A movie with all "money shots" has no climaxes. It just neutralizes itself. The rules of storytelling apply to CGI: if anything can happen, then what's the significance? Today's CGI, when noticeable as a "special effect," plummets ( Read more... )

A quick skip-and-jump through some recent items of interest...

• Bertrand Russell's An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (probably public domain). Even if you're no fan of Russell's stances on religion, his reasoning for each of his points is defended with spirit and wit. "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ( Read more... )