Carl Sagan and The Googol

The Dark Knight Returns - Trailer

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Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is a revolutionary comic book that, in combination with Batman: Year One (also by Miller), established the grisly and gloomy tone of the contemporary Batman universe back in the 1980s. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy was heavily influenced by Miller’s graphic literature, and Dark Knight Rises borrows plot elements from Miller’s tale (about Bruce Wayne resurrecting his identity as the Caped Crusader, to battle a new threat).

Miller’s troubling vision of Gotham City no longer has the ability to shock as it once did, but that might not matter, as the trailer for the first half of DC’s Dark Knight Returns feature adaptation suggests it remains as entertaining as ever (even in cleaner, hand-drawn animation form).

"Taking Flight" by Melissa van der Paardt

"Ballad of Poisonberry Pete" by Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill and Uri Lotan

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"Fear of Flying" Teaser for Short Film by Connor Finnegan

"D'une rare crudité"

Bob Ross Remix

“Otzi” By Evan Red Borja

Cartooning with Peter Emslie

"Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu" (Stewpot Rhapsody) Teaser for Short Film

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Open Your Eye

"Birdboy" by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez

"Cloud Atlas" Extended Trailer

This is the first footage from Lana and Andy Wachowski (creators of The Matrix) and Tom Tykwer’s (Run Lola Run) Cloud Atlas has premiered online. The preview alone is a massive undertaking, as it encapsulates the filmmakers’ kaleidoscopic statement about human existence in a mystifying (some might say confounding) manner. But how can you expect anything less from the combined creative force of Tykwer and the Wachowskis!

David Mitchell’s source novel (and its film adaptation) introduces a sickened clerk (Ben Whishaw) on a Polynesian sea voyage in the 19th century, scribbling his experiences down for the sake of posterity. It jumps ahead in time to the 1930s, where an aspiring composer (also Whishaw) discovers the clerk’s journal – while living alongside a deteriorating master composer (Jim Broadbent), who recognizes the tune his pupil plays... from his dreams.

The result will no doubt be an intense film experience that displays an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Gilles Roussel's Seven Deadly Sins

French comic artist Boulet animated the seven deadly sins as GIFs. Go check out Boulet’s Tumblr is also worth a visit. Via Brew.

Greed

Wrath


Pride



Lust


Sloth


Gluttony


Envy