Archive for the 'Film Reviews' Category

Gatehouse Gazette

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

“The new steampunk & dieselpunk magazine” is here with the release of the first issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.
In this first issue, the reader with find an introduction to the genre of dieselpunk by Piecraft and Ottens, an interview with Toby Frost, author of the steampunk-in-space novel, Space Captain Smith, an article about the gentleman [...]

For Your Consideration: A Steampunk Review of Last Exile

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Before I begin my review, I should mention that I met Wil Wheaton at SuperCon on Sunday and told him about Brass Goggles. When I asked him what he thought of Steampunk, he told me to pass on to all of you that he loves it, especially the Steampunk aesthetic and the Victorian feel of [...]

Bioshock on the Silver Screen

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Bioshock – by many regarded as one of the best first person shooter games ever made, is a game available for PC and Xbox 360 which was discussed at length at the Steampunk Forum upon release. Since the story is set in an alternative 1960 in an underwater city built in 1946 it’s strictly [...]

Larklight Movie gets Director and Budget

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I’m rather a big fan of the young person’s series of Steampunk books by Messers Reeve and Wyatt, known as the Larklight trilogy, so it is with great excitement and no small amount of crossing of extremities that I hear that the filming for the first book in the series, Larklight, has been given the [...]

Wicked - Musical Steampunk Fantasy in Oz

Monday, February 25th, 2008

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I’m not dead!  I apologise for being absent so, but it’s back to pleasure as usual and I’d first like to mention that when I was in New York (for the Dances of Vice festival, more on that later) I was fortunate enough to get tickets to see the musical Wicked on broadway.  Oh, such [...]

La Mécanique du Cœur - Novel and Album

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

And novel it is indeed! La Mécanique du Cœur, by the French rock band Dionysos, is both a novel and an album of accompanying songs, telling the tale of a young boy from 19th Century Edinburgh, born with a heart so cold that his witch-midwife replaced it with a clockwork one, so that he [...]

Dr Plonk - New Australian Silent Comedy

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

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Amaya Booker wrote to point out what seems like a perfectly charming film - Dr Plonk by Rolf de Heer.  A newly made silent slapstick comedy, set in 1907 and involving a time machine (and the end of the world) it was filmed on a handcranked camera on purposely old filmstock.
The website is here, and [...]

A Steampunk Internet - A Tragi-Comedy

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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Over at the forum, the talented Mr Smaggers (you should see his Death of Rats) posted about this short video on YouTube at the moment - showing a “What might have been” if the internet had arrived somewhat earlier than it actually did.  Marvel as people make a fool of themselves on YouKinetoscope, chuckle cruelly [...]

Stardust - Lightning Harvesting Air Pirates

Monday, August 13th, 2007

While Stardust, the film, may be out in the US, I must wait a little while longer before the airship of Captain Shakespeare can brave the skies of the Atlantic and bring it to the UK shores.  However, in the meantime, I can amuse myself with the background information about the antics of the air [...]

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 [...]