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Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton sign at Forbidden Planet on November 22nd. Read more...
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The Ray Harryhausen Collection on Blu-ray Disc
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
1950's B-movie cheese arrives in all its stop-motion glory from Sony in this collection of Ray Harryhausen films on Blu-ray Disc.
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Blu-ray Review: It Came from Beneath the Sea
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
It Came from the Ray Harryhausen box set on Blu-ray actually. Harryhausen’s giant monster movies have never been regarded as highly as some of his later work, and that’s a shame. His animation brought to life some of the most memorable creatures of the ‘50s, one of them being the giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea. While the human drama sags, the action is top notch, and the...
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Bluewater To Release The Pit and the Pendulum
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The success of Ray Harryhausen Presents; The Pit and the Pendulum, a short stop motion animated film produced by Hand Made Heroes Film & Television has resulted in a comic book deal with Bluewater Productions. When Bluewater President Darren G. Davis and Director Marc Lougee of Hand Made Heroes discovered they were both producing work independently under the Ray Harryhausen Presents...
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Pit and The Pendulum Comic Coming
ReelComix.com! (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The success of Ray Harryhausen Presents; The Pit and the Pendulum, a short stop motion animated film produced by Hand Made Heroes Film & Television has resulted in a comic book deal with Bluewater Productions. When Bluewater President Darren G. Davis and Director Marc Lougee of Hand Made Heroes discovered they were both producing work independe...
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Digigods Holiday Special '08
IGN (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
- From their secluded home-theater compound, film critics Wade Major and Mark Keizer mix insightful commentary with irreverent banter, covering the latest DVD and Blu-ray news and new releases of the week, including studio, independent, television and special-interest titles. The Gods discuss (DVD); Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection (DVD); Alvin and the Chipmunks Classic...
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Dynamation
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Stop-Motion Animation through the Ages : For his third collaboration with ex-film publicist Tony Dalton, animation legend Ray Harryhausen ( Clash of the Titans ) originally intended to write a book about his mentor Willis O’Brien, the man who brought the original King Kong to life. However, upon realizing that no history of live action and model animation — an art Mr. Harryhausen refers...
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Movie of the Week: 20 Million Miles to Earth
Jon's Random Acts of Geekery (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Enjoy (if Google still has it available) this classic Ray Harryhausen movie, and then afterwards, check out the slideshow! Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR .
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (3 Disc Special Edition)
Twitch (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Just a reminder that Hellboy II is glorious. If you are fan of Ray Harryhausen, or any of del Toros movies or even Barry Manilow then you owe it to yourself to go out and get this thing. It’s exactly the kind of film fans will watch over and over again and it will bring a smile to your face every time. It’s also likely to, perhaps somewhat unexpectedly, move you. del Toro deconstructs myth here...
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Behind the Curtain: More apocalypse please pt. 1
Massively (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Filed under: World of Warcraft , Fantasy , Horror , Culture , Events, in-game , Game mechanics , Opinion , Behind the Curtain , Exanimus So let's be clear here - I loves me some zombies. A childhood brush with Ray Harryhausen means that I still get chills when I think abut armoured skeletons eviscerating hapless Argonauts. Later encounters, first with ridiculously over-wrought Victorian Gothic...
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Forrest J. Ackerman "Slipping Away"
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Above: Forrest J. Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen and Ray Bradbury in a photo from the 1980s, nicked from the Official Sci-Fi Boys site. Via Harry Knowles : " ... I was told that Forry was lucid, peaceful and not even on pain medication, but that he was progressively getting worse - and was ready to move on." Ackerman, who is 91, helped found the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society and edited the...
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Jack Black on board for Gulliver's Travels
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... Worlds of Gulliver, which was directed by Jack Sher and featured the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, and 1977's Gulliver's Travels, starring Richard Harris as the traveller.
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Fallen Art: Where CG and Stop Motion Collide
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
I watch this bit of morbid whimsy and I can't help but think: it's like Ray Harryhausen through the lens of Warren Ellis' Ruins. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via Who Killed Bambi? This post from: Needcoffee.com
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New DVD Reviews: Sinbad, Halloween, and L.A. Confidential
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Some great new films have been entered into the DVD Talk Review Database over the last week. Here are some of the stand out discs that you might want to check out: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad [ Blu-ray review ]- the exceptional special effects and creatures of Ray Harryhausen, the greatest visual effects artist of all time, bring this fantasy film to life; Halloween (2007) - 3-Disc Unrated Collector's...
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