Jul 18, 2023
Why would a director decide to use 70mm film in this day and age? Well Christopher Nolan did it! The result? For one, the prints span over 11 miles of film stock, weigh some 600 pounds and run through film projectors horizontally. You can see the movie in IMAX with...
Jul 12, 2023
You might know the movies but do you know the book…In 1964, Roald Dahl wrote “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, then in 1971 he wrote the sequel “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”.These in turns inspired three movies: Willy Wonka...
Jul 7, 2023
In the latest Indiana Jones, the “Dial Of Destiny”, Indy is chasing a device called the Antikythera.As it turns out, fiction is inpired by reality…The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known...
Jun 23, 2023
You probably know James Cameron as the movie director of Terminator 1&2, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic and more recently Avatar. What you might not know is that he has explored the depth of the sea and got a world record doing so.Of course, being the director behind...
