2012-máj-28

May 25th, 2012. I had to arrive at 10:00 am in a beautiful part of London called Kensington. As I did not want to be late, not for here, I can tell you, I was roaming the neighboring streets at 9 o’clock in the morning; well one thing’s for sure: it was not a slum I sat down for a while in a nearby park to calm down (I was a wee bit nervous to say the...

2012-okt-23

It has been an old dream of mine to write an illustrated BTS article about one of my favourite size-shift movies: Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989). Although I did post a couple of cool shots here a while ago (of oversized props), I still wanted to show some of the stop motion work – the only problem was that it had been impossible to find any behind the...

2012-máj-31

Egy tizenöt perces hírnévnél mindenképpen többet ér egy három napig tartó csoda. Egy darabig azt hittem, a Rondo Hatton díjammal is valami hasonló fog történni: egy-két (három) napig csodásíthatom magam, aztán az élet úgyis vissza fog zökkenni a “rendes” (az én esetemben sajnos sárral és lószarral teli) kerékvágásba. Nem...

2012-márc-25

Do you like robots? Giant robots with human control in the inside, fighting each other? Then Robot Jox, a movie made with the help of Dave Allen’s effects crew is just for you. Even my Hungarian readers must be interested, as the famed science-fiction author Joe Haldeman (The Forever War) wrote the screenplay for the film and co-wrote the story with...

2012-márc-19

It’s always a pleasure for me to discover movie treasures I haven’t seen before. I watched The Day Time Ended (an independent science fiction film released in 1980) a few weeks ago and despite it is listed as a bad low-budget movie at a lot of places, the superb special effects work, the great creature design, the fluid animation (done by Randy Cook and the...

2012-márc-05

Benevolent Monster Productions is proud to announce the upcoming release of BEAST WISHES – the Fantastic World of Bob and Kathy Burns. Produced and directed by Trish Geiger and Frank Dietz, this feature-length documentary chronicles the story of how Bob and Kathy became the goodwill ambassadors of sci-fi and horror film fandom. Married for over five...

2011-dec-31

I think hardcore fans all know about Ray Harryhausen’s cameo appearances in several movies, like Spies Like Us, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Burke & Hare or the remake of Mighty Joe Young. The other day I wrote a book review about Dinosaur Summer, in which Ray is one of the leading characters. Now Chelloveck proudly presents a few pages from two graphic novels...

2011-dec-29

Actually, the Hungarian Harryhausen-biography (Master of The Puppets) is still in the making – due to lack of time, mainly, not to lack of enthusiasm. In the past year I got a lot of help, so the longer the book takes to be written, the better it’s going to be. Of course, Uncle Ray’s life cannot be told without photographs, however, I’m...