23 of James Bond’s Most Memorable Gadgets
(via Popular Science) Defending Great Britain and the rest of the free world takes more than dashing looks, a quick
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The Passion of Phil Tippett: Building Stop-Motion Masterpieces by Hand
(via Great Big Story) Phil Tippett has spent a lifetime in the film industry, working as a model-maker, visual effects
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10 Everyday Words Star Wars Gave Us
(via mental_floss) Episode IV, Star Wars: A New Hope, the film that lit lightsabers everywhere, was released 40 years ago
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The Original Stop-Motion Imperial Walkers Were a Triumph of Craftsmanship
(via Popular Mechanics) Nowadays, cinematic creations like the AT-AT walkers from Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back are completely computer-generated. But
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11 Classic Films in the Public Domain
(via mental_floss) Thousands of films have been released in the U.S. since the dawn of cinema, meaning it’s only natural
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The Man Who Was Godzilla
(via Great Big St0ry) Haruo Nakajima is perhaps Japan’s most famous actor, but you wouldn’t necessarily recognize his face. That’s
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Top 10 Movie Cars of All Time
(via Popular Mechanics) When a vehicle eclipses the flesh-and-bone actors and becomes the superstar of a film—that’s when it’s a
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10 Sharp Facts About Marvel’s Wolverine
(via mental_floss) Wolverine was never supposed to be this popular. Created as a one-time villain for the Incredible Hulk to
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Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town
(via Amusing Planet) In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of
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15 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’
(via FlavorWire) On February 4, 1938 Walt Disney’s earliest animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had a
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The History of Black Hats, White Hats, And Villains
(via Atlas Obscura) In the fictional American West, good and evil were not so clearcut. Go digging into the history
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The Myth of the Damsel on the Railroad Tracks
(via Atlas Obscura) Most people are familiar with that most clichéd of old cinema tropes: the damsel-in-distress, tied to the railroad tracks by
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