One of the holy grails of artificial intelligence is teaching a machine how to understand and feel emotions. We’re a very long way from that, but what happens when we manage that milestone? The short film ABE gives us one possible answer…and you’re not going to like it. The answer, that is, not the short. […]
Much of my free time, what little of it there is, I spend aimlessly meandering around the web looking for things to amuse me. If I’m lucky I’ll find something I think you’ll find amusing, too. I realized it had been some time since I made my way over to ShortOfTheWeek.com to see what indie […]
For as long as I can remember I’ve loved amusement park rides. I’d ride anything from the spinning teacups to the craziest, fastest rollercoasters and love every second of it. After watching the fictional “documentary” The Centrifuge Brain Project I’ll definitely think twice before allowing myself to be nonchalantly shackled to what could be death […]
When you watch R’ha you’ll have a hard time believing this is the work of a 23-year-old student in his first year studying film and animation. The Hollywood Reporter has posted an article about the short and its creator, Kaleb Lechowski, who attends Berlin’s Mediadesign Hochschule. With no budget to work with, Lechowski spent seven […]
This just in: (I’ve always wanted to say that). Okay, so it was released November 2 and my lazy butt is just getting to it, but there’s another chuckleworthy, minion-filled teaser trailer for Despicable Me 2. If you know me, you probably have a restraining order out on me. Beside that you probably also know […]
Pac-Man Is there anybody on this planet who isn’t familiar with that name? Those whose domestic address is the downward-facing end of a rock aside, I’d have to say the answer is “no.” The original game, which came out in 1980, has spawned near countless spin-offs, sequels, and even a TV series. After more […]
While tooling around on the interwebs earlier this week I found this cool little short. I love anything with good CGI and though it’s short, it has some amazing CGI. Okay, so it’s really short at a total of four minutes thirty-nine seconds, but it is very well done, not only with spectacular CGI, but […]
Next summer we’ll once again be treated to a CGI action comedy. That may be nothing new these days and while this isn’t from the venerable Pixar, what little we’re shown in this first trailer is promising. There’s action and comedy, as one would expect, but something about the trailer just gives me hope that […]
So you’re a wolf with a dead-end, boring job as a window washer for a high-rise office building. Not exactly the kind of career that caters to your carnivorous canine cravings, right? Well, one day as you clean one of those grimy windows the dirt gives way to clarity and your gaze falls upon the […]
Wreck-It Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) is the bad guy in a classic 8-bit arcade game named Fix-It Felix Jr., a game in which Felix (Jack McBrayer) fixes buildings destroyed by Ralph. Ralph, who after 30 years of being the villain, longs to be a good guy for a change and sets out to […]
