Archive for the 'Film Reviews' Category

Edgar and the Voyagers! Steampunk Cartoons.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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Mr Hayden – thank you so much!  I do indeed like all things Steampunk and this set of two animation shorts is really rather good silly Steampunk fun.  Edgar and the Voyagers was apparently a cartoon done for a contest, but I’ve yet to find out any more about it so far.  There’s two episodes [...]

Stardust Film – Updated Site

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Just a quick post to let anyone interested know that the Stardust movie official site has been updated, and now has a few more videos, wallpapers, a rather poor game, and images to take a look at, mostly about the village called Wall.  There’s very little airship action to be seen, but you will get [...]

Steam Trek: The Moving Picture!

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

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This is rather amusing indeed! While it has apparently been around the conventions, it was new to me so may still be new to some others – it’s a reimagining of Star Trek, named Steam Trek, as if created by someone much like Georges Méliès in 1902 and deeply Steampunk. Glorious paper spaceships [...]

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

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So, I’m *ahem* only 53 years late in watching this, one of the most iconic of Steampunk movies, though the majority of those years I hope I’d be forgiven for. But yes – I’ve finally watched the Disney movie, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (Amazon UK/US).  It was fantastic, even after over half a [...]

The Golden Compass – New Trailer

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

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We posted the previous trailer, but this one has a bit more content to it – and any day with an airship is a good day, in my opinion.   The film (of the book) The Golden Compass, is set to be released almost worldwide between the 5th and 7th of December, and I must [...]

Iyasakado – Steel Fantasia (Animations)

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Oh now – these are wonderful and a perfect example of all that is good about Flash based animation!  Mr Sandorm sends word of a Japanese site called Iyasakado that has a large section called “Steel Fantasia”.  Featured there are no less than five wonderfully Steampunk flash animations:

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Stardust – Film

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

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I post this trailer, because it’s on YouTube and thus fits nicely in the post, but really – you want to see the one at the official Stardust movie site – it’s much lovelier! And if that’s not quite enough for you, then there’s an alternative trailer at Yahoo. So perfectly amazing looking [...]

Nikola Tesla – Documentary and Articles

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Tesla’s been getting a lot more publicity recently, and that makes me smile.  A wonderful, unappreciated inventor of so many things, and inadvertantly probably the greatest force in ending the steam-centric age and ushering in electricity!  A world treasure, and just an all round facinating character – Fortean Times did an article on him only [...]

Magnificent Machine – Short Animation

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

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Crabfu (yes, he of amazing steambots fame) wrote to point out this lovely little animation from Mr Gavin McCarthy. Seems to be the first major move into Steampunk from what I can see of his online portfolio, but the animation is both lovely and very brief – a tireless tinkerer tries to fix a [...]

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne – Film

Monday, February 26th, 2007

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