I just stumbled across this website–which also has a very interesting film. The filmmaker, Alom Shaha, is a teacher; here’s what he says about the project:
“I’ve started this film and blog project in which I want to ask the question “why is science important?” to people who feel the importance of science so deeply that [...]
CicadiaMania alerted me to the strange pleasure that is Cicada Man, or Semi Ningen.
Semi Ningen (Cicada-Human) is a character from a very odd 1966 Japanese TV series, Ultra Q. SN is sent to earth (disguised as a human man) by evil alien Cicadas. He is instructed to use the monster Garamon to create havoc [...]
So, the Amityville Horror was a bad book, a crappy movie, and all around bullshit.
But…some days at the Bug House, I can totally relate to the scene with the flies (video here; start at 3.00).
When we go out to get our mail right now, there are hundreds of cluster flies all over the front steps [...]
Check out this nifty film of painted lady emergence from pupae:
It’s particularly interesting to see these color changes as the butterflies develop–and then they suddenly turn a milky color. What’s happening?
In preparation for shedding a skin, an insect secretes moulting fluid. This liquid separates the old skin from the new one [...]
(I didn’t think of that post title myself, unfortunately. I stole it from this review.)
I have no idea why Hollywood keeps redoing–and utterly ruining–good old movies. The original is a wonderful Cold War classic from 1951, if you haven’t seen it.
Apparently I will have to rent this one when it’s on DVD, though–there’s an entomological [...]
A slightly off-topic topic–at least the spam I’m getting lately is more creative. There seems to be a movie theme this week:
Sperms of Endearment
Good Will Humping
You’ve Got Male
Shaving Ryan’s Privates
This reminded me of some other funny movie titles for Pr0n movies:
Star Whores
Buffy the Vampire Layer
Free My Willy
A Midsummer’s Night Cream
Indiana Jones and the Temple of [...]
Yep, Cronenberg has made his film into an Opera.
“The libretto by David Henry Hwang (”M. Butterfly”) has all the elements needed for good opera: a love story, a transformation, tragedy and death, not to mention a large dose of melodrama…. As Brundle, bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch has the unenviable task of performing arias in his birthday [...]
I got a tip that Colony Collapse Disorder is a part of the plot of M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, The Happening. Unfortunately, it seems to be another not-so-good film from Mr. Shyamalan, and has been mercilessly panned by critics. Bare bones plot:
“a deadly airborne toxin descends on north-east America from Massachusetts to Maryland. [...]
I used to teach a Freshman Seminar about Skepticism and science, and one of the classes that always blew the kids away was a discussion of how much of what was on TV as nature/science was actually staged BS.
CBC recently ran an expose on this, in which the first half was devoted to showing examples [...]
Coming in, um, like 2 years?
Yep, thanks to my close Hollywood contacts, I have a tip on a new insect movie!
Apparently there is an Ant Man comic, and like many other comics, it will be repackaged as a movie.
The plot:
Biochemist Dr. Hank Pym uses his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create a [...]
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