I don't know what to say, but I had to write something, you know the usual sycophantic "if you see any film this year" kind of stuff. No film is perfect, but truly great films (not the artsie classics chock full of mise en scene) the kind of film everyone can watch and enjoy, you love them too much to look for fault.

Maybe this film isn't perfect, but...look any film that can essentially erase the whole canon of a much loved legendary Sci-Fi series, begin to rewrite it and not only get away with it but do it well! How is that film not amazing?

Maybe I'll do like a proper review or something later, but now I'm going to roll around on my bed like a school girl with a crush. Yup, I'm gay for Star Trek.

Sweet.

The Geek is going to love this, I'm going to love this, you will love this.

Gil Kenan has new film, the guy that brought us monster house, a film which I must say I was surprised I liked so much and was far darker than I expected. The source of the houses haunting is just evil genius.

The new project is called City of Ember, in an attempt to save humanity after some calamity or other (I love my detailing here) an underground city is built, namely Ember, duh. The catch is this city is only built to last 200 years, after that the people of the city are to open a box that tells them how to get out. The box his handed down generation after generation till it gets forgotten about and lost. dum dum duuuhh.

The look of this film, it has a real manga feel to it, the whole mish mash of industrial, archaic and sort of futuristic...erm stuff (I rule at the language today) just rocks my world. Gives me a real sense of wonder, makes the world seem alive. Anyway here is the trailer.


Sweet.

I was stumbling blindly around the web the other day in a fevered mess and I came across this.

It’s Craig Sellers website.

He’s a concept artist and illustrator. He’s currently working in the games industry. I really like his work as it really reminds me of Syd Mead's concept work for blade runner - hehe, sounds like I know what I'm talking about lol. I bloody loved that film and you can tell that Craig must have seen that film at least once, maybe twice.

I tell you what I would love to know what games he’s working on at the moment because I would definitely check it out. The only game I could think of that would have this kind of style would be Deadspace.

Here are some of my favourite pieces.







There are loads more on his site as well as contact details in case you want to commission some work off him.