Author: Martin Archer

1800 shots for less than $12. HERE at Amazon! I still remember the intoxicating smell…

The clickbait headline above is from the worst Star Trek actor of all time – Will Wheaton. I for one cannot wait to see this new documentary which features all of the main actors, apart, sadly, from Alan Rickman. Article HERE.   

Looks to me like they got the dust wrong. Bill has talked about this matter many times. Jedediah Smith, VFX supervisor for Method Studios, describes the painstaking process visual effects artists used to create the moon and lunar rover sequence in Ad Astra. From their innovative use of infrared cameras to their deep archival research […]

a short film “Using practical models and digital versions of the tricks used in the original, with respect to Stanley K, Wally Veevers and Doug Trumbull, Ignoring 2010and 3001, sorry, A C Clarke….” 2001 A Space Odyssey, Epilogue. Featuring Frank Poole from Steve Begg on Vimeo.  

Tremendous marching band halftime show HERE.

I just discovered this excellent documentary. I think you should be able to watch it for free on the PBS.org site HERE.  What is it really like to go to war? Filled with terror, pain and grief, it also brings exhilaration, and a profound sense of purpose. In Going to War, renowned authors Karl Marlantes […]

Via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit: as Marc Cushman writes in the first volume of These Are The Voyages, his trilogy exploring the tumultuous production history of each of the series’ three seasons, whose release was authorized by Star Trek producers Gene Roddenberry and Robert Justman, made it on the air in spite of itself. Each […]

From the great American Digest blog by our very own BW.com member Gerard Vanderluen:  I’ve been trying to remember September 10 but it’s no go. I know what I must have been doing, but I don’t remember what I did. I kept no notes on that most ordinary of September days. I kept many notes […]

A brilliant piece by the great Dennis Prager. Read it HERE “…Our age loves scientific equations. Here’s one you weren’t taught at college but which affects you as much as the law of gravity:GI – W = EGood Intentions (GI) minus Wisdom (W) leads to Evil (E)…”

Here’s a star-studded short documentary on the making of Forbidden Planet and its far-reaching influence. Clearly made several years ago, as we have sadly lost many of the wonderful people contributing. 

This has to be one of the greatest tweets ever, from the greatest tweet troll of all time. Found via instapundit where there are about 600 comments in the discussion!

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Set to go on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema, the largest and widest-ranging exhibition of Harryhausen’s work ever seen. Read more about it HERE.  Marking the stop motion pioneer’s centenary, the models will join newly restored and previously unseen material from Harryhausen’s matchless collection and archive, […]

This looks [see video below] like it was a spectacular and moving experience, not least because for once it was shared in a giant outdoor audience at the National Mall. Some tremendous projection onto the Washington Monument.  From the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s YouTube channel: Over 500,000 people joined us on the National Mall this […]