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Sunday 31 July 2011
Saturday 30 July 2011
I've been a fan of Andrew Niccol's since Gattica. His new movie, In Time, sounds good. I'm hoping it is.
"Writen & Directed by Andrew Niccol 'In Time' is set in a futuristic society in which aging can be stopped/controlled. As a result, time becomes the preferred form of currency."
Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids for the Post-Apocalyptic Future?
0 comments Posted by VA at 13:22I haven't stopped laughing yet! Awesome!
Looks kind of fun. But I think I need more than racing and crashing.
This is pretty sweet. Very ambitious.
Here's a nifty little alien invasion movie from YouTube.
Friday 29 July 2011
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--- Super Grouper - Of all the things in the world for me not to go nuts about and rush to watch it seems insane that the teaser for The Avengers, which is online now, would fall amongst them. Yet I haven't watched it yet. I am losing my mind! Oh well. I lose a little more every day. Have you watched it yet? or perhaps you saw it attached to Captain America? My screening didn't have it, the bastards. Anyway yadda yadda it is there to view if you're so inclined. io9 also took some screencaps, saving me the effort. Obviously I'm just a big fat ball of sloth today. But look at Hemsworth's bicep there - is he even bigger? He looks enormous, good grief.--- Live Longer Than Prosper - It is straight up ridiculous that they haven't even finished a script for a second Star Trek movie, ain't it? There's taking your time to come up with a good idea and then there's just being lazy. LAZY! I know lazy, after all. AICN has a little word on where things are right now and it's not gonna be until at least Summer of 2013 they're guessing. Quinto needs the work, JJ!
--- Baby Mice - If you've noted the Donnie Darko banner this week with a smile - it brings me one every time I load the page - then you'll want to note this as well - there's gonna be a Richard Kelly blogathon! Hosted by Jaime at Exodus 8:2 it'll go from August 15th through the 21st! I was just thinking about Kelly the other day and wondering when we'd get more news on what he's up to - he's supposedly working on a "more straight-forward" thriller called Corpus Christi (yeah, The Box was supposed to be more straight-forward) but I haven't heard anything for awhile. Anyway there's loads to cull from his filmography for a post for this blogathon so it should be good stuff!--- Call Him Tarry - Terry Gilliam is working on an adaptation of Paul Auster's book Mr. Vertigo
. I have never read this book, but I like to hear that Terry Gilliam is working on something. Maybe he'll even get to turn his ideas into a movie for once! Imagine that.
. I have never read this book, but I like to hear that Terry Gilliam is working on something. Maybe he'll even get to turn his ideas into a movie for once! Imagine that.
--- Man On Milo - Via BD comes that delightfully homoerotic shot of Milo Ventimiglia hovering at the backside of another attractive looking dude in Xavier Gens' next horror flick called The Divide. Gens made his name off of Frontier(s), which rode the French horror bloodbath wave a couple years back. Anyway sweat and tank-tops and evil thoughts in close proximity, I'm there..
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Our Brit brethren probably know Mr. Kazinsky from a hole in the ground, unlike me who only became aware of him this morning when I saw he'd been cast in Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim (as has Willem Dafoe!) fighting giant monsters and robots opposite Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba - Kazinsky is straight outta Brighton and was on EastEnders for awhile. Recently he got cast in The Hobbit as one of the thirteen hundred dwarfs, but had to back out for ominous sounding "medical reasons." Hopefully he's alright - must be, since he's signed on for Pacific Rim now. The first thing I stumbled upon when looking him up was this:
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Obviously it snowballed from there. Pacific Rim is just gonna be bursting with eye candy! Hit the jump to see a dozen or so more pictures of Rob and his sexy little furry ginger self.
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Morning pictures are piling up! I'd already planned to post the pictures I posted of furry Mads yesterday so these pictures of Eddie lounging around had to wait until today. These pictures make me mad anyway, they're way too teasingly covered up.
Move your damn hands, man! There are a lot more at JJ but they're all the same, and not a hint of his ass anywhere to be seen. When I ask for Eddie Cibiran I've got one thing on my mind, people! God, it's not rocket science. There's a behind-the-scenes video at Towleroad as well if you wanna see him in motion.
Thursday 28 July 2011
I don't know what to think about this. I know Cameron slammed it, but he should know you can't make an original story blockbuster unless you're James Cameron. So marketing ties aside, it looks kind of fun.
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A couple of months ago a friend turned me on to a new comic called Headache. He knew how to sell me on it - he said it was by a Pushing Daisies writer and shared some ass-kicking DNA with Buffy. Indeed it does - here's how Kickstart's website sells it:"Sarah is an 18-year-old girl who also happens to be the Greek Goddess, Athena. She must embrace her destiny and take on her own family, the gods, in order to stop them from destroying mankind."
It's a terrific read - if you like Joss Whedon this'll very much be your bag - and now I want more. More! You can buy it over here, or via the link above. But my friend wasn't done there - he got to chat with Headache's writer Lisa Joy recently and was kind enough to share said chat with us exclusively.
Like I said up top Joy was a writer on Pushing Daisies, and now she writes and produces Burn Notice. She's married to Jonathan "brother of Christopher" Nolan, who famously wrote the short story Memento was based on (not to mention something called The Dark Knight). Headache is Joy's first foray into comics but we doubt it'll be our last. At least I hope not - I want more Headaches!What’s the one thing you’d tell someone who think comics aren’t cool?Lisa Joy: BAM! POW! SHAZAM! How ya like 'em now f@ck$rs!Growing up, Marvel or DC?Joy: Neither. I'm a late bloomer. Didn't have my comic book awakening until my mid-20s.Which superhero is the biggest douchebag?
Joy: The Comedian. No means no, douchebag.In an all-companies crossover, can you assemble your ultimate five-hero team?Joy: Catwoman, Buffy, Jean Grey, She-Hulk, and my gal Sarah Pallas (aka Athena). They'd kick ass and get along like a house on fire. And once a month there'd be peace on earth - bad guys would know better than to mess with super women with synced up cycles.Who’s got the stupidest costume of any hero or villain?Joy: For women, Wonder Woman. Anyone who's ever rocked a bustier knows they're asphyxiating torture devices. And nip slips would be a real problem when fighting crime.For men, Ant-Man - He has a helmet that controls ants. 'Nuf said.Have you ever had a story or character rejected by an editor? What/who was it?Joy: Right now, I'm batting 1,000. But "Headache" was my virgin attempt. So there's plenty of time to fail.Which are the best and worst comicbook movie adaptations?Joy: For best - "Dark Knight" and not just because I'm hitched to the writer. For worst - whaddya take me for - someone who never wants to work in this town again?
What's the project you're most excited about right now?Joy: My USA pilot "Mind Fields" and some very cool stuff in the works for "Headache".What would be your dream project to work on?Joy: Ant-Man. The musical.What’s been your strangest Comic Con/convention experience?Joy: Looking out over a sea of cylons, caped crusaders, and storm troopers and realizing - I'm home!
If you were going to do Cosplay, who would you dress up as?Joy: Wonder Woman with an Ant-Man helmet.
What do you read for fun?Joy: Lots of explosives and ballistics research for "Burn Notice" which probably has me on a government watch list.Who is your favorite writer?Joy: The one I married.What do you do for fun?Joy: Chew Nicorette and kick ass. But I'm almost out of Nicorette.
(interview by Savas Abadsidis; photo credit: John Chapple)
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