If Star Wars episodes can keep coming, you’d better brace for the very same for lucrative toy licenses. And so, in eager of anticipation of the upcoming episode VII, and in revamp of the 400% Bearbricks released in June 2011, now comes Medicom Toys’ huge 1000% Bearbrick Stormtrooper. The stormtrooper measures just under 28 inches, and if […]

Digital concept artist in the world of film, video games and comics, Dan LuVisi has put together a brilliant series of digital art that is part parody, part sociopathy and part ghoulish horror… and all blended with the cartoon favorites of your youth. Want to keep up with the narratives behind the likes of Homer Simpsons’ […]

Peter Ware, UK freelance-designer and film buff, is the man behind the movie-inspired prints at 17th and Oak . If there’s a film out there with any sort of cinephile appeal, then there’s probably a poster put up on his Etsy store. Available in six different sizes, starting from  a pocket filling 4.1″ x 5.8″ to […]

Mondo (the gallery/shop based in Austin, TX dedicated to posters, prints and nerd-worshipping tchotchkes like this) have joined up with Retroband Toys to put out the first-ever limited-edition action figure of the overlord of zombie films, George Romero. By no coincidence, the figure was created in time with the Texas Frightmare Weekend‘s screening of Dawn of the Dead this past weekend, […]

If you’re not amped enough about the opening of The Amazing Spiderman 2 this weekend, you should probably start collecting action figures — stat. Perhaps you should also cut some popcorn holes into the face of your Spidey suit for when you go to the premiere — sans any self-respecting date. Well, maybe you think that you don’t […]

It’s been a minute since Richard Linklater melted our brains with Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly. The Austin director has embarked us upon many a film journey, although with the likes of Dazed and Confused, Slacker and the Before Sunrise trilogy, there comes an association of his work as having a capacity for what he has termed the “youth rebellion […]

A crucial piece of film history, 2001: A Space Odyssey has been noted for its great strides in special effects, remarkable approach to storytelling, and commentary on human evolution. To honor this indelible sic-fi classic, Taschen has compiled The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey box set, a completely thorough study into every cranny of the film’s creation. […]

If you watch basketball, then it’s probably safe to say you’re an Allen Iverson fan. While never discussed in the general Greatest Of All Time conversations — along with the Jordans, Birds, Magics, Wilts, Russells & Jabbars of the world — Iverson was a player who, at his peak, had no peer. Remember when Iverson broke […]