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Watch a Stop-Motion Lego Homage to ‘Dr. Strangelove’

By Caroline Stanley on

If you’re one of the rabid Kubrick fans lurking in our audience, then drop what you’re doing immediately, and watch this stop-motion version of Dr. Strangelove that YouTube user XXxOPRIMExXX lovingly crafted out of Lego pieces. Why the urgency? As Dangerous Minds points out, these videos were first uploaded back in 2010, but were quickly taken down due to copyright issues, so there’s no telling how long they’ll be up. “I had to take out the famous scene of Slim Pickens riding the bomb and the nuclear holocaust credits to have this video viewable because those scenes were taken directly from the movie,” the filmmaker writes. “I was hoping to have the Slim Pickens scene done in Lego by now but I just never had enough time or effort to do it, maybe some time in the future.” While you wait, enjoy the two sequences that we’ve posted after the jump! … Read More

Pop Culture

10 of the Greatest ‘Simpsons’ Movie References

By Matthew Bower on

Whether through homage or satire, there’s a rich tradition in cinema — fueled by the likes of cinephile filmmakers such as Godard and Tarantino — of making inside references to other filmmakers. But perhaps even more than the directors enjoy making movie references, audiences love picking up on them. It makes us feel like we have a specialized, albeit useless, expertise. Apparently the writers of The Simpsons have indulged in their share of cinephilia over the years as well, and the Movie Simpsons Tumblr — which launched earlier this year — has been posting animated gifs of famous movie scenes reconstructed, referenced, or otherwise alluded to on the show. We’ve put together ten of our favorites here. … Read More

Film

10 Movies You Didn’t Realize Were Based on Books

By Emily Temple on

With the reboot of Total Recall hitting theaters this week, and Cloud Atlas on the horizon we’ve been thinking a lot about the way films are adapted from books, and how often people totally miss the books in favor of the movies that spring from them — including us.  With film adaptations of Philip K. Dick stories like Total Recall, which tend to veer so wildly that you might not recognize even if you had read the source material, we understand. But as it turns out, there are a lot more movies that we didn’t realize were based on books — until now. Click through to see our list, and let us know which movies surprised you (or which ones you totally knew about, smarty pantses) in the comments. … Read More