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Since its release in 1977 Star Wars has done far more than spawn a six-movie series, as this diagram, originally published by Wired, depicts. Fascinating, as Star Trek’s Mr Spock, would say. Via Kottke.

Tom Spina of Tom Spina Designs has recently completed the restoration of the original werewolf from “American Werewolf in London“, a piece for which Rick Baker received his first Academy Award.  He did an amazing job, as it was in pretty terrible shape.  This piece is in the collection of Bob Burns. 

Splitting a frame into a grid of smaller frames isn't that hard... once you know the secret!

S.britt tipped me off to this; it’s a shockingly accurate and highly enjoyable fan-created Gremlins sequence designed to replace the scene in Gremlins 2 in which the green guys take over the film medium itself.

S.britt tipped me off to this; it’s a shockingly accurate and highly enjoyable fan-created Gremlins sequence designed to replace the scene in Gremlins 2 in which the green guys take over the film medium itself.

Special Effects Contact Lenses: What They Are and Why to Use Them If you’ve ever seen a movie about vampires or monsters where people have oddly colored eyes, cat eyes or other types of eyes, you’ve seen special effects contact lenses in action.

This is an oldie but a goody from tlrmade that was, allegedly, made by some of the guys up at Industrial Light & Magic when they got bored with all the new Star Wars stuff they were working on a couple of years ago. If you live anywhere near Los Angeles you know how completely crap the traffic is on the 405 / 10 freeways.

Ordinarily, a new SEGA racer ? particularly one that hails from the arcades ? is our cue to get very excited indeed. With the unrivalled abilities of SEGA’s AM teams to craft deep, yet accessible coin-op titles and the company’s expertise in bringing these to console, any home port is usually worth keeping an eye on.