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I’ve seen some funny things in my time, I really have. Star Wars kid has been and gone, as have the GI Joe parodies and a number of other internet funnies. However, short film-maker Richard Gale has completely blown away everything I’ve seen and set a new standard. If anything beats this in the next few years I’ll show my arse in a Tesco advert. I’m posting this about a week late as I’ve been too distracted to blog.

Richard Gale presents: ‘The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon’. Check it out and prepare to reconnect your ass, as it may fall off.

What? TWO posts containing cool videos during the course of one evening?! The human mind simply cannot handle such an entertainment overload! Well, you can at least try. Two guys have recreated part of ‘The Matrix’ using Lego and still photography to produce a stop-motion animation of the ‘bullet time’ scene that was broke new ground in visual effects. It is sodding superb. Here is the animation:

And here is the animation running alongside the original scene:

Head over to Lego Matrix to find out more about how they produced the animation.

I came across this short film thanks to Sci-Fi Wire, and am absolutely blown away by the quality of it. Big frakkin’ robots attacking a city, with brilliant camera work & editing as well as outstanding special effects.

The director of commercials in his native Uruguay, Fede Alvarez has now received the green light from a production company to turn this short film into a full-length feature. That, ladies and gentlemen is the ‘Holy Grail’ of independent film-making.

Watch this in high quality and full screen modes, I beg you.

Yesterday evening, Mr & Mrs Stevens and I ventured to the cinema to see the much hyped ‘Paranormal Activity’, a film that has been on my radar for some time. Writing a review with a hangover is perhaps not the best idea, but as I have an hour to kill… Continue Reading

One of the phenomenons of the last twelve months on the Interwebs has been the craze of people ‘rick rolling’ one another, that is, to trick one or more people into listening to or viewing Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hit from the eighties.

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