BBC: Horizon - most of our universe is missing

Another great documentary from the “BBC science series”. This 50 minutes movie is explaining the fundamentals of gravity, astrophysics, galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. It is also the story of a controversy in science based on observation supporting a theory that has yet to be experimentally or conclusively proven…

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Fun: Human Skateboarding

We recently have done a post on “stop motion movies”. These guys here have created a really great one. It is called “Human Skateboarding” and guess what it shows…

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Animation: The movies of Clemens Kogler

Austrian artist “Clemens Kogler” has a series of great short movies online. Our favorite is the movie “Le Grand Content” - a must watch that he describes as…

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Web: Why movie downloads are not getting off the ground

Gadget web log “Gizmodo” has a great top 10 list why movie downloads still didn’t make it. They estimate that it will take a few more years until movie downloads from the Internet become as common as DVDs or rentals. Their list of reasons includes…

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Movie: Yellow Submarine online

The Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” is still an outstanding piece of art after more then 30 years. Those who have never seen it, can now also watch it online. Available in full length at…

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Myths: What computer code does in movies but not in reality

Whenever you see a computer in a Hollywood movie it always makes some sound or when you see the (in)famous hacker working on it, always something on the screen is moving. “Drivl.com” has put together a list of 10 “Myths” that are continuously used in movies but don’t compile happen in real life. The list includes the following…

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USA: Director Robert Altman dies age 81

We leave the obituaries up to those who are much better then we will ever be with that kind of stories, but wanted to send out a last tribute to one who’s life might have been much more then “short cuts”.
We limited ourselves to just citing from his most popular movie (Mash) that is still [...]

Star Trek vs. Star War: Empire vs. Warp drive

As a nice add on to our recent Star Trek article below a mash-up movie of Star Wars and Star Trek. Who will win…
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Star Trek 40 years anniversary and Christies

Beam me up Scotty…
Christies last week completed its first “official” auction of Star Trek items, with about 1,000 lots put up by CBS Paramount Television Studios, including props and costumes used in the TV shows and films.

And Kirk you’re a Red Shirt when you didn’t get your hand on some of the alien ship [...]