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Some pictures of the Criterion Collection 4K blu-ray set and its contents for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999) starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This was the director’s last project and he passed away shortly before the film’s release.
Although my memory of the actual experience is rather murky because it was a lifetime ago, Eyes Wide Shut is a rather special movie to me because it was my first ever theatrical cinematic experience in the US, where I watched the film in Los Angeles...

Japanese illustrator Morinaga Yo (モリナガ・ヨウ) is an artist whose work I consistently follow ever since my discovery of his delightful art book The Tank Primer, a collection of whimsical watercolor illustrations detailing the history and inner workings of...

World building for fantasy and sci-fi films is an extremely challenging endeavor; requiring not just considerable technical and artistic skills to competently craft imagery that would awe and captivate audiences, but also because the concept art created...

There has been so much exciting news about the Ghost In The Shell anime/manga franchise for the past week or so, but certainly high on the list is the release of the teaser trailer for the upcoming anime series by animation studio Science Saru ( PingPong...