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Codehunters – Stunning!

Long time no see, y’all.  Here to order you to check out Codehunters.
Ben Hibon has done an amazing job with his animated short, Codehunters.  Absolutely beautiful, and a must for cyberpunk/steampunk fans out there.   At first glance it reminded my of Jamie Hewlett’s work (Gorillaz/Tank Girl) and there are touches of Peter Chung in there [...]

Max & Co

I went to see Max & Co this week. A cute story by Christine Dory and Emmanuel Salinger, and very cool stop animation. The mise-en-scene is a nice mixture of steam-punky technology and alpine small-town idealism. And there’s something I really like about French with subtitles. Just sounds cool.

While it’s essentially a kids film, it [...]

If you woke up tomorrow with a different set of memories, would you still be you?

A while back I watched A Scanner Darkly. While this is a good enough film (and yet another cinematic adaptation of a Philip K Dick novel), it’s certainly not the best film I’ve seen about fractured identities and perspectives that are warped by drugs or technology. Total Recall has much more fun with the

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A Scanner Darkly

Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly highlights a world “seven years in the future” where a highly addictive and lethal drug has taken a hold of 20% of the population.
The gimmick of this film is the computerized animation called “rotoscoping,” which is the film equivalent of running an expensive Photoshop [...]

 

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