Giveaway: Win a Massive Transformers Blu-ray Bundle
| It won’t be quite the same as seeing Michael Bay’s spectacular alien invasion on the big screen, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon should still pack a solid bot punch when it hits home theaters on DVD and Blu-ray. The DVD, Blu-ray, and 3-D Blu-ray combo pack will include four hours of bonus material, plus [...] |  |
Alt Text: The Sinister Sons of SOPA
| SOPA and PIPA may sound like adorable gnomes from a Finnish children’s program in which puppets teach Scandinavian children the virtues of taciturnity, taxation and hot-tubbing, but they’re actually even more sinister than that. |  |
Room 237 Explores Hidden Meanings in The Shining
| Directed by Rodney Ascher, the documentary Room 237 interviews some of The Shining's most passionate fans about what they think are the film's secret messages. And while that could just sound like a compelling romp through conspiracy-theory land, what the film really gets at is what it means to be a fan and why fandom often leads to a search for deeper meanings in the films we love. |  |
Exclusive: Boy Meets Borrower in The Secret World of Arrietty Clip
| A bed-ridden boy finds comfort in miniature people eking out an existence beneath his floorboards in the latest Studio Ghibli fantasy to surface stateside. |
Algorithm-Powered Movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir Computes at Sundance
| PARK CITY, Utah — It’s never the same movie twice. Eve Sussman’s experimental cinema project whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir uses a computer to build a movie out of 3,000 video clips, 80 voiceovers and 150 pieces of music. Though it makes choices in largely random fashion, the computer is surprisingly adept at editing together a pretty good movie. Sometimes. [...] |  |
Picking at the Bones of New The Hunger Games Trailer
| The new trailer for The Hunger Games drops a few tasty morsels about the upcoming film adaptation of the young adult sci-fi novel, but holds off on spilling too much fight-to-the-death footage. It’s probably a smart choice, considering that fans of Suzanne Collins’ book series [...] |
Video: Portlandia Parties Like It’s 1899
| Artisan baking, retro fashions and fanciful facial hair — new Portlandia song “Dream of the 1890s” roll-calls the century-old fascinations of the most colorful residents of Portland, Oregon. The video above, from this Friday’s episode of the crack-up sketch-comedy show, is a time-travel follow-up to “Dream of the 90s” (below). Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and [...] |
Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book Reveals Sweet Secrets
| The coolest secret in modern dessert sits behind a glass-topped display case in San Francisco, packed into a large cylindrical container next to Jesus Juice Sorbet or maybe Thai Chili Lime, depending on the day. But the recipe for the mouthwatering mystery known as Secret Breakfast — an eccentric ice cream flavor that tastes of [...] |  |
Video: Of Monsters and Men’s ‘Little Talks’ Conjures Mind-Wiping Fantasy
| Icelandic indie-folk sextet Of Monsters and Men won’t release its debut full-length, My Head Is An Animal, stateside until April, but rousing single “Little Talks” has made the international rounds since last year, and never in more eye-frying fashion than in the new CGI-stuffed video. Directed by We Were Monkeys‘ Mihai Wilson, the “Little Talks” [...] |
Me @the Zoo Exemplifies Internet’s Infiltration of Indie Film
| Nothing illustrates the web's growing influence on filmmakers more effectively than Me @the Zoo, a feature-length documentary that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. |  |
Art Installation Tracks Visitors’ Time With Tape Measures
| The method used to track attendance at artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s current installation might not be the most efficient, but it is unique. The exhibit — called Tape Recorders, Subsculpture 14 — uses a computerized system to detect the presence of people in the room, then indicates how long they stay with motorized tape measures that [...] |  |
One Model Nation Eyes ’70s-Era Terror Through Krautrock Lens
| “Remastered” graphic novel One Model Nation is an intriguing and humorous historical fiction set in ’70s Berlin, as seen through an imaginary German art-noise band. But the fake musicians in the book aren’t as important as their fates, which are intertwined with all-too-real terror group Red Army Faction. The hardcover, written by The Dandy Warhols [...] |  |
