Released Sept. 17, 2004, “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” was a romance-tinged action adventure inspired by the same 1930s serials that inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg when they made ...

What do you get when you mix the styles of Japanese animation, North African architecture and culture, steampunk, and 1970s era French comic books? The attention of a lot of geeks, especially when it ...

The tenets of dieselpunk culture can be understood as follows. Dieselpunk is not a new and spurious trend. It grew legs and walked upright as soon as the Greatest Generation returned from the front.

Everyone has heard of steampunk, the sci-fi subgenre inspired by the 19th century steam-powered machinery. Well, you can throw all that cutesy Victoriana out the window. Meet dieselpunk, the younger, ...

Released Sept. 17, 2004, “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” was a romance-tinged action adventure inspired by the same 1930s serials that inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg when they made ...

The Flint, Michigan native was not the first filmmaker to employ a “virtual backlot” to tell his stories — notwithstanding Lucas’ use of digital pre-visualization and blue screen technology to make ...

The film ultimately cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $12 million or something like that. That additional money wasn’t from me, it was making it color. Also, Paramount had a “Mission: Impossible” ...