Special effects wizards Industrial Light & Magic have posted a new video to their YouTube channel detailing the elaborate process that went into digitally re-creating the late Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Check out the video here… SEE ALSO: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story video breaks down ILM’s Oscar-nominated […]
Digital Damnation, or Denying Dignity to the Dead with Computer Generated Doppelgangers
Anghus Houvouras on digital resurrection… No. Hell no. This needs to stop and needs to be stopped in its infancy. Snuffed out before this demon baby matures into a fully grown ideological hellspawn that feasts on our cinematic souls. I might be one of the few people who was genuinely irked at seeing the late, […]
ILM’s John Knoll on digitally recreating a key character for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
One of the big talking points coming out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the return of Grand Moff Tarkin, with Industrial Light & Magic digitally recreating the likeness of Peter Cushing, some 22 years after his death. Given Tarkin’s ties to the Death Star, it was perhaps inevitable that the character would […]
Blu-ray Review – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, André Morell, John Le Mesurier, Helen Goss, David Oxley, Marla Landi, Francis de Wolff and Miles Malleson. SYNOPSIS: Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are called upon to investigate the Baskerville family curse as the aire to the estate […]
