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Tag: Chris Hanel

Summer Shorts: Star Wars: Pink Five

Posted on Aug 13, 2010Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Trey Stokes and Amy Earhart collaborate in this parallel of the original Star Wars trilogy following Valley girl Pink Five.

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RiffTrax on TRON: It's Hard to Overstate My Satisfaction

Posted on May 22, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

RiffTrax (of MST3K fame) invited Jonathan Coulton of Portal's Still Alive to perform an iRiff on the Disney classic TRON. How does it compare to Chris Hanel's?

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Pink Five FX

Posted on Sep 5, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Over on Chris Hanel's blog is a nifty video showing before, during, after shots of one of the Star Wars fan films known as Pink Five. The montage shows what a difference a green screen and some hard work can make on independent films, and how much talent went into this particular one.

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Quarterly Review

Posted on Aug 8, 2007Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

The June/July issue of Geek Monthly has a cover story on what a great year 1982 was for geeks. We may not have noticed it at the time, but it is astonishing what a plethora of great sci-fi films came out all in that one year. Unfortunately, some of these films I did not see…

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