Articles tagged "hollywood"

SAD RON.

The film is a rallying cry for a freer internet, but it shies away from the obvious question: is piracy more than glorified stealing?

It's all a bit silly, but it could prove serious for torrent sites.

Jobs got punk'd.

You might think about big Hollywood movies these days not just as stories but increasingly as attempts to tackle tough problems.

Aaron Sorkin revealed the structure of his own Steve Jobs biopic.

Trying to evaluate Tony Scott's last work, a television commercial for Diet Mountain Dew that he completed weeks before committing suicide, requires looking back at his work in order to understand his style and to appreciate the piece in context. I n…

If creepy ambient music is the backbone of a good horror flick, the screams are the stars of the show.

… aka “Panic Attack!” You should do so now. The five minutes above was released in 2009 and comes courtesy of Uruguayan animator/director Fede Alvarez. The video premiered at a the indie sci-fi/horror film festival Buenos Air…

I've been wanting to watch the OG _Star Wars_ trilogy for about three months now, but I don't have any of the DVDs any more. I don't want to drop "$175 clams":http://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Empire-Strikes-Widescreen-Edition/dp/B00003CXCT/ref=sr_1_1?ie…

In Hollywood’s unrelenting fight against online piracy, Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom has emerged as an unlikely hero whose story has now become, well, pretty damn Hollywood. Footage of the stunning raid on the piracy kingpin has now been "released b…

Our ideas about gender, race, and countless other unconsciously held beliefs affect the way we frame diseases and disorders. But sometimes they create those diseases too. In 1859, it was believed that a quarter of women suffered from hysteria. Man…

Psychologist Aaron Sell and his team have found a strong correlation between physically formidable action stars and pro-war right wing politics.

Where Marilyn was discovered.

The Grammys is one of those events that continues to highlight our astounding ability as a culture to choke down the most insufferable bullshit imaginable. I'm not talking about the music itself (though some would argue that that too is following a "…

Jobs basically invented the iPad over noodles with an actor from the TV show ER.

_I would have waited for the iPad 3 to come out before I sold one of my kidneys, but that's just me._ h3. ONE: Flying robot soccer ball can be my wingman any day. ("ieee spectruyn":http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/japane…

After carefully inspecting dozens of Hollywood films, "a team of researchers has determined":http://www.physorg.com/news185781475.html that the rhythm of shots in movies matches a pattern called the 1/f fluctuation, the same pattern that is found in