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This post will showcase two very elegant visual effects shots/sequences in the movie The Bourne Identity (2002) . Sadly none of the cas...

When researching my posts on "Do Mysterious Booms Indicate a Secret Aerospace Project?" for this blog, I started to delve into t...

Its easy to look at the surface of Los Angeles and miss a lot of, indeed, most of, its nuance and subtlety. To understand this city, you...

All too often visual effects is called upon to create the illusion of something "real" in a literal sense of that overused word....

[Note: Tom Duff points out that methane is odourless, and that I probably smelt sulfur dioxide around the museum.  So I have changed this p...

Predicting the future can be straightforward if you follow certain rules.   They are more guidelines than rules, actually, as I will expoun...

You will have noticed by now that I am fond of run-on sentences and use them all the time, often with a sense of barely repressed glee. ...

[Updated 3/6/2013   I am now quite sure that other companies also did TRW commercials, I remember explicitly one that Digital Productions wo...

When Star Wars / George Lucas started to explain the force by inventing the back story of the Midi Chlorians, a microscopic life form that...

[This post was modified and extended on 9/23/2012] In the Firesign Theatre's radio play, "I Think we Are All Bozo's on this ...

With this post we now broach a topic of central importance to all of us: the role of ambiguity in cinematic Space Opera. Near the end of...