Vale – Joe Viskocil

Joe Viskocil - 1952-2014 — Joe Viskocil – 1952-2014

Academy Award winning Hollywood special effects artist, Joe Viskocil, has passed away.

Mr Viskocil won the Academy Award for Special Effects for 1996’s Independence Day. Among his many, many credits, include work on films as diverse as Ghostbusters, The Blob (1988), The Abyss, Toys (with Robin Williams), Johnny Mnemonic, Star Trek: Nemesis, Battlefield Earth, Panic Room, Arlington Road, and more recently on Duncan Jones’ Source Code.

Mr Viskocil passed away on August 11th, aged 62.

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Rodney Twelftree

“Some people say I like films. Those people are wrong. I *love* films.” – Me. I said this.

Rodney has been writing about films for well over two decades, appreciates a good wine, the love of his wife and kids, and the affection of his dog and cats. He has a fondness of cheesy 90’s action and classic Hollywood, hates that physical media is disappearing, and wishes somebody would make a high-budget series of The Neverending Story.

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