Author: Brent Lambert

It’s been (almost) confirmed that Zack Snyder will be helming the upcoming “Superman” film. Not many details are known about the project besides the fact that they need to get it going by 2012 before they lose the rights and that it will have some sort of connection to the Richard Donner “Superman” series of the past.  Heat Vision, interestingly, also hints that the villain might be none other than General Zod.  Zack won the gig by meeting with studio execs and producers Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, almost all of whom are familiar with him considering his last few…

“Hinterland Who’s Who” is best known as a series of 60-second public service announcements profiling Canadian animals and birds, produced by Environment Canada Wildlife Service and the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s.  In the original announcements, a distinctive refrain of flute music opens the ad, and is accompanied by the low-key style of the narrator, John Livingston, describing the animal over footage of it taken in the wild. These announcements became a widely recognized and often-parodied feature of Canadian pop culture. At the end of each message viewers were reminded, “For more information on the…

Fans of the now infamous 1979 BBC series “Life On Earth” (David Attenborough’s groundbreaking 1979 BBC2 series that used music, alongside Attenborough’s commentary, to convey the magic of evolution, science and life itself) can finally stop holding their breath.  After a fan stumbled upon one vinyl copy of the soundtrack in a record store (and somehow stopped short of having a cardiac arrest), the music is now available for the entire world.  There are many people who thought this day would never come.  As it turns out, composer Edward Williams revealed that 50 vinyl copies of the soundtrack were made as…

I just got out from seeing “The Social Network”, the story behind the beginnings of Facebook, and it is a remarkable piece of work.  I don’t subscribe to the group of people who instantly disparage a work of art because the subject matter is popular (or in this case beyond popular).  What I love most about David Fincher is that he’s taken a story which at first thought would have appeared banal, and he transformed it into something exemplary and borderline mythological.  Furthermore, what I love the most about Facebook the company is how its creators did what every great…

This footage was taken from the film “Adrenaline Rush: The Science Of Risk” which was released in 2002.  There’s no one on earth who’s more afraid of heights than me, so as much as I wish I could actually do this myself, I’m almost certain I would chicken out at the moment when told to jump.  The birds-eye-view cinematography is really exceptional too (it is an IMAX film after all).  The music is a Boards Of Canada remix of “Last Walk Around Mirror Lake”. Starting in 1981 and as of May 9, 2010 there have been at least 147 fatalities…

This stunning film footage which was recently made public shows the aftermath of the massive 1906 earthquake and resulting fires that struck San Francisco.  The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude of 7.9; however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. The main shock epicenter occurred offshore about 2 miles from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault both northward and southward for a total of 296 miles.  Shaking was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central…

Recently my very good friend Peter had some new neighbours move in next door.  Turns out they know almost everything about Bengal cats (Bengal cats are a relatively new hybrid breed of cat, formed by the cross of a domestic feline and an Asian Leopard Cat).  They had about seven new kittens (or “mini leopards” as I like to call them) running around their place and Peter pretty much got first dibs.  In no time at all he fell in love with the best of them all, and now he’s the proud papa of Grace Pearl Jones.  And I can…