A common consensus among automotive analysts (and most importantly customers) is Honda’s recent styling direction have been seen as too conservative. Still regarded as a builder of mechanically sound and liveable vehicles, Honda is being affected by the same pattern that Ford Motor Company encountered in the late 1920s with the Model T. An [...]
A showcase for early computer animation in the 1980s, the movie Tron was unlike anything previously seen on the big screen. Taking audiences into a vast computer program called the Grid, the 1982 release of the motion picture not an immediate hit. However, the acceptance and admiration of Tron evolved as our virtual technology rapidly [...]
Despite the physical toll on drivers and team members, mental focus along with the obvious rush of competition, auto racing is often disregarded or completely neglected from professional sports. Some critics against the ‘sports’ classification on auto racing references car as largely responsible for the athletic aspect during an event. A sharply untrue statement, the truest most example [...]
If there’s anything I like more than cars, it’s movies about cars. I watched The Italian Job (2003) last night and this morning I woke up itching to see a few more good car flicks. So, I thought I would share some of my favorite ones with you. Here’s my top 20 (in no particular [...]
We waited on bated breath for the previews to end and the main attraction to get started. Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon was finally here. My husband, our kids, and I have been waiting to see this movie since we first heard about its release a year or so back. We have been this [...]
In the Transformers franchise, Bumblebee is an underestimated but valiantly heroic figure in the Transformers noble and human-friendly clan of Autobots. Appearing in the Michael Bay movie serial in the guise of Chevrolet products, Bumblebee infuriated the life of Sam Witwicky in the form of a 1976 Camaro as the young human search for [...]
It sounds like a movie with hit written all over it. Michael Mann, he of Miami Vice/The Insider/Heat/Crime Story/Manhunter etc., will be directing a film about the ferocious rivalry between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans race for 20th Century Fox (the studio behind Star Wars, Indiana Jones et al). The script will [...]
Many fans of the 007 franchise maintain that the original film actor, Sean Connery, is above all portrayers of the fictional British super spy James Bond. Connery conveyed through 7 movies (including Never Say Never Again which was released outside of the canonical 007 universe) a cool, sophisticated man of action image becoming an idolized persona [...]