Star Wars Featurette: The Birth of the Lightsaber

Listen as George Lucas, Mark Hamill, and sound designer Ben Burtt gives us “a little backstory on the creation of the single coolest weapon in the history of the galaxy.” George Lucas recalls that Star Wars was influenced by pirate and swashbuckling films of the ’40s, which showcased the romantic side of fighting, illustrated in […]



Luc Besson’s LUCY Looks Beyond Amazing [Movie Trailer – Ft. SCARLETT JOHANSSON]

Set in a futuristic world that is run by the mob, street gangs, drug addicts and corrupted cops, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, 2069 AD, works as a drug mule for the mob. The drug she inadvertently takes goes into her system, changing her into a metahuman. She can absorb knowledge […]



Brain Falsifies Vision To Avoid Hallucinatory Effect

Two neuroscience experts say there’s a simple reason we often miss continuity bloopers in TV and movies: our brains automatically correct minor inconsistencies in what we see over time. Jason Fisher of MIT and David Whitney of the University of California, Berkeley discuss the topic in the latest edition of Nature Neuroscience. The pair were […]