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Reel Critics: First-rate visuals in animated 'Rango'
Gore Verbinski directed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise. The special effects expertise of Industrial Light and Magic were a key to his success. Their pedigree goes all the way back to the "Star Wars" series. Their skills were sharpened on the...Tags: Inception (movie), Anthony Mackie, Harry Potter (fictional character), The Adjustment Bureau (movie), New York City
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Book review: 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland' by Patton Oswalt
![Full disclosure: Comedian Patton Oswalt, author of a new book of personal essays and other flights of whimsy called "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland," once invited me to his birthday party at the Lot, the former Warner Bros. studio in West Hollywood.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/59146151-31165158.jpg "Full disclosure: Comedian Patton Oswalt, author of a new book of personal essays and other flights of whimsy called "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland,\" once invited me to his birthday party at the Lot, the former Warner Bros. studio in West Hollywood.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFull disclosure: Comedian Patton Oswalt, author of a new book of personal essays and other flights of whimsy called "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland," once invited me to his birthday party at the Lot, the former Warner Bros. studio in West Hollywood. Oswalt...Tags: West Hollywood, Book, Washington, DC, Patton Oswalt, New York City
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Book review: 'The Science of Kissing' by Sheril Kirshenbaum
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's late at night and you're finishing a truly golden date. You drank Manhattans and discovered that you both geek out about B-horror films and the collected works of Philip K. Dick. To top it off, you can't stop staring into each other's eyes. When...Tags: Book, Human Body, Skin, Science and Technology, Henry Miller
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'The Adjustment Bureau'
![Short stories by sci-fi icon Philip K. Dick have fueled such movies as "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report," and another is the source of this intriguing fantasy-adventure starring Matt Damon as a rising politician whose love life becomes a concern of others.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/61696167-06120343.jpg "Short stories by sci-fi icon Philip K. Dick have fueled such movies as "Blade Runner\" and \"Minority Report,\" and another is the source of this intriguing fantasy-adventure starring Matt Damon as a rising politician whose love life becomes a concern of others.")
Zap2ItShort stories by sci-fi icon Philip K. Dick have fueled such movies as "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report," and another is the source of this intriguing fantasy-adventure starring Matt Damon as a rising politician whose love life becomes a concern of...Tags: Matt Damon, Documentary (genre), John Slattery, The Adjustment Bureau (movie), Movies
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Film Review: It could use very few adjustments
Brand XAfter roughly a dozen feature adaptations, Hollywood hasn't come close to exhausting the work of Philip K. Dick. The latest mutant offspring from the seminal author is writer/director George Nolfi's exciting and deftly constructed “The Adjustment... -
‘Blade Runner’ sequels, prequel? Alcon buys the rights
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelWednesday afternoon I was chatting with Rutger Hauer just as the news was breaking that Alcon had acquired the rights to “Blade Runner,” the Philip K. Dick story and the 1982 Ridley Scott film, with an eye toward making prequels and sequels to... -
Reviews, ‘Rango’ tilting positive, ‘Beastly’ ‘Adjustment’ middling, ‘Take Me Home’ weak
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelSkipping past the “nerd curve” that weights the tomatometer heavily toward fanboy friendly fare, metacritic's breakdown of reviews for the weekend's movies is a fun read. Roger Ebert and that fellow over in St. Pete are skewing Gore... -
Movie Projector: 'Rango' expected to shoot down the competition [Updated]
Company TownThere will be a shootout at the box office this weekend, but Paramount Pictures' first self-produced big-budget computer-animated film "Rango" should be the one left standing. The western, which stars a chameleon voiced by actor Johnny Depp and cost... -
Artificial intelligence researcher from Harvard wins Turing Award, considered the Nobel of computing
L.A. Times Tech BlogA Harvard University professor whose artificial intelligence work has helped the advent of “thinking machines” has won what is regarded in computing circles as the equivalent of the Nobel prize for technology research. Leslie G. Valiant, who... -
The hierarchy of hats: A Q&A with 'The Adjustment Bureau' costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone
All The RageAs costume designer of the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt sci-fi romance thriller "The Adjustment Bureau," (which opened this past Friday) Kasia Walicka Maimone was the one charged with creating the retro-tinged contemporary look of the well-dressed, fedora-... -
What's not Dick-ish about 'The Adjustment Bureau'?
Jacket CopyThe Adjustment Bureau is something like the 1954 Philip K. Dick story on which it was based - with a new heaping of romance.... -
Bryan Cranston cast as villain in 'Total Recall' reboot
Ministry of GossipBryan Cranston, the Emmy-winning chemistry teacher of "Breaking Bad," has been cast as a villain in the remake of Len Wesman's "Total Recall" along with Colin Farrell....
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