Calculated Chaos: The Mechanics and Practical Stunts of the Live and Let Die Boat Chase
In the history of cinematic aquatic action, the boat chase in Live and Let Die (1973) stands as a massive mechanical upgrade to the daylight…
GoldenEye’s Forgotten Motorbike BASE Jump Deserves More Respect
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan as James Bond: a sheer concrete dam, a silent fall,…
Estuary Attack: Would Jaws’ Infamous Deleted Scene Ruined A Horror Classic?
Few films have achieved the level of consensus enjoyed by Jaws. It is widely regarded as the perfect blockbuster, and it may even be the…
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Tom Sims, Apocalypse Snow — and the James Bond Stunt That Transformed Snowboarding
Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A Kill, featuring James Bond shredding down a mountainside in Siberia….
How Goldfinger Predicted the Future of Laser Technology
The 1964 Bond scene that foresaw the laser’s role as a precision industrial and medical tool. When Goldfinger hit cinemas in 1964, most people had…
Stop Motion Animation: An In-Depth Look at a Magical Art Form & It’s Histort
Stop motion animation is a unique and fascinating form of filmmaking. Instead of using drawn images or computer graphics, stop motion brings still objects to…
Sorry James, A Person Painted Gold Won’t Die Of Skin Suffocation
British agent James Bond, the spy who knows almost everything on any subject does sometimes get it wrong. Or at least his screenwriter does. In…
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Bell-Textron Rocket Belt: James Bond’s Jetpack Never Quite Took Off For Military Use But Inspired The Ones That Will
In May 1964, Bill Suitor was about to become famous. Soon he’d make a legendary flight in a real-life jetpack for the latest James Bond…
Method Studios’ ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ VFX Breakdown
Method Studios did a phenomenal mix of CGI and live-action for Terminator: Dark Fate in which the heroes are pursued by the Rev-9 Terminator while stealing a…
This ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ stuntviz reel has incredible artistry
The stunt coordination and temp VFX show how to map out a scene Philip J. Silvera, the supervising stunt coordinator on Terminator: Dark Fate, shared a stuntviz…
