180 posts tagged ‘netflix’
Don't worry too much about the clay, says Wallace And Gromit studio
AV Club,
In an age of excess, the news that the makers of Wallace And Gromit had essentially run out of clay to make more Wallace And Gromit rocked the world. (Or at least a niche community of animation enjoyers.) The unique clay is apparently a finite resource, and The Telegraph reported that the production company, Aardman… Read more...
Adam Sandler says Roseanne Barr was originally to sing “The Chanukah Song”
Adam Sandler’s iconic Saturday Night Live musical number “The Chanukah Song” is nearly 30 years old, but he just dropped a surprising reveal about the song in a chat with Access Hollywood about his new movie Leo. The song was written for an episode hosted by Roseanne Barr in December of 1994, and Sandler told Access… Read more...
Welcome to Zack Snyder's Space Snyderverse With New Rebel Moon Posters
Gizmodo,
The ambitious risk Netflix is taking on a Zack Snyder sci-fi franchise looks like it could be worth it, based on these damn good character posters presenting the sci-fi ensemble of Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire. Read more...
Escaping Twin Flames is your next infuriating cult docuseries
Soulmates are a tricky concept. Most people who believe in them (for the sake of transparency, this writer does not) may understandably do so because it’s reassuring to think someone out there is willing to accept them exactly as they are. It’s as comforting a notion as any—wanting to find the one, a perfect fit, an… Read more...
Aardman Says Its Future Is Fine After Clay Shortage Worries
After a weekend report that one of the most famous stop-motion animation houses in the world—Aardman, the team behind Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and more—was on the verge of running out of the unique clay they use to craft their creations went viral, the studio has now spoken out to assuage fan… Read more...
Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s passionate, unruly ode to Leonard Bernstein
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is an inspired ode to the late, great Leonard Bernstein. It’s also a thorny deconstruction of the man-as-tortured-genius trope, replete with a compassionate focus on his put-upon wife and the bond the two shared for close to three decades. Ambitious in scope and featuring two powerhouse… Read more...
Oh No, Is Squid Game: The Challenge … Good?
Vulture,
The adaptation of Netflix’s capitalism-skewering phenomenon is so openly venal it might just reinvent reality TV.
Aardman Animations Is Running Out of Its Iconic Clay
Aardman Animations has been defined by its clay animation techniques. Known as Newplast plasticine, it’s been used since the studio’s inception back in 1972, in all its productions, from the Wallace & Gromit shorts to more recent fare like Star Wars Visions and Shaun the Sheep. You know you’re watching an Aardman… Read more...