Ferrari 412 in Daft Punk’s Electroma
The Dafts cruising through the California desert OK, we thought the movie was boring as h…, never seen that many people leave a theater before, but we stayed until the end just in case something good would happen. My favorite part turned out to be…. hold on…. the one with the Ferrari 412 that the two robots chose as their mean of transportation. Good choice, it... Read More
Iron Man first review: “Supercharged”
Here’s the very first Iron Man review, from the guys at Reelz Channel and Variety. Apparently they like it a lot and we can see our friend the Audi R8 on set. CARS+MOVIES is going to see it tonight and will share its thoughts tomorrow! For those of you who are going tonight too, enjoy the show and easy on the popcorn. Read More
Smart car to be the next A-Team van?
Yesterday, we told you about the A-Team movie, scheduled for 2009. So when we found this lovely Smart car, we thought the producers had blown a fuse. Don’t worry too much though. Turned out it’s just the job of a dedicated (and talented) fan. Look at the details: the rims, the paint (with the right black-red-grey scheme), the roof spoiler…. It’s perfect!... Read More
Across Paris in 8min: C’était un rendez-vous (1976)
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL'; Long before Fast and Furious, the Ghost Rider and other YouTube’s overabundant homemade videos of insane street driving, Oscar-winning director, Claude Lelouch, shot C’etait un rendez-vous (It Was an Appointment), a 9 min short. The only point of view is from the front bumper of a car, crossing Paris at very high speed, taking one way... Read More
Knight Rider last night
digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/02/18/knight-rider-last-night/'; NBC aired its two-hour movie “event” last night and of course we were in front of the TV. While we were pleasantly surprised by the show -which was better than we expected- it could have been much better. There’s been tons of reactions on the Internet, both by websites and their users,... Read More
Vehicles of The Golden Compass (2007)
digg_url = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/01/31/vehicles-of-the-golden-compass/\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\; Although there’s no “cars” in The Golden Compass, there is a good diversity of vehicles set in a particular parallel past/future such as the Sky Ferry, the Carriage, balloons, ships, etc. The movie Potter, Narnia, Stardust… The Golden... Read More
For 2007, the National Film Registry selects Back to the Future, Bullitt
digg_url = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/01/25/for-2007-the-national-film-registry-selects-back-to-the-future-bullitt/\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\; On December 27th 2007, the Library of Congress National Film Registry announced the 25 movies to be added to its collection for the year. Once again, this website didn’t exist at that time, so it’s no prime news,... Read More
The Van (1977)
Article first published on September 27th, 2007, on my personnal blog. Tasty…! I’ve made this one using a picture from “Barris TV and Movie Cars” published by the great MBI (Motorbooks International). Since we were talking about vans, I thought I shoud tell you about another one of these so-bad-it’s-good movies: The Van. And not the british movie... Read More
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Repost from my personal blog. First published on Spetember 18th, 2007. I was telling you about my passion for bad taste “because sometimes it’s so bad that it’s good“. Well, one of my favorite movies is a terrible one, directed by Roger Corman and of course, involves cars. We could say that Death Race 2000 is a Sci-Fi movie, since it was made... Read More
