The summer 2009 movie season is shaping up to kick us all in collective teeth with it's mighty awesomeness. I'm suspecting 2010 will be even better (what with Iron Man 2 and Thor slated for that summer) But here's a look of things to come.
April: Crank: High Voltage
May: X-Men Origins: Wolverine Star Trek Bruno Terminator Salvation Drag Me to Hell Up
June: Land of the Lost The Year One Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
July: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Funny People
August: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
I'm pretty sure It'll be impossible to get out there and see all these, but Hell's yes. Awesome summer is afoot.
I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time — he's now 18 — he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'
What the conference footage above lets you know is some background on the issue.
However, from Reuters:
One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.
However, Beardy Man isn't deterred:
Biscardi said the DNA samples may not have been taken correctly and may have been contaminated, and that he would proceed with an autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently in a freezer at an undisclosed location.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Is this just a big promotion for The Watchmen? Maybe Men in Black 3? The Article even includes this handy photo:
I loves these two sketches from Saturday Night Live. Jon Lovitz is awesome as a dandy.
Sadly, the better "A Wench, A Wife, and the Traveling Bootblack" hasn't made it or stayed on the internet. I do have a few pics to share with you though.
Alan Ball mad us all love him with American Beauty, then he lovingly broke our hearts with Six Feet Under, his adaptation of "Towelhead" is waiting in the wings and now he hits us with a new HBO series "True Blood". Alan Ball + Vampires = Awesome TV. I can't wait.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK IS A GOLDEN GOD. I swear, he could put a fountain pen in his dick hole, do a little dance over some paper, and it would be awesome. Also: WHAT IS THAT SONG IN THE TRAILER?!?!
Sasha Baron Cohen is giving me a wonderful birthday present next year, even if it is a day late. "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt" will be released May 15th, 2009. Again my prediction will be: I will love it, almost everyone else will hate it. People will say he's gone too far. Then again, by that time Who in the hell knows what America will be like? I didn't think I'd be playing 4 bucks a gallon and seeing California allow Gay marriage so what do I know?
So, I was talking with someone the other day about moments in film that just make your skin crawl. I was referring to their as "Unholy".
The Prophecy
It took a long time to find this first clip, as it is one of my favorites. Please go watch this whole movie as it will rock your socks off. Forgotten masterpiece.
The Prophecy is full of great scenes, like Viggo Mortenson as Satan, the Devil, a former Lucifer, well, you get the idea.
Also: I couldn't find a clip, but here's another great mini-speach from Walken as the angel Gabriel:
"I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why. "
Wishmaster
You may disagree, but Wishmaster 1, 2, and 4 ROCK. Well, 1 & 2 Rock, 4 is just mearly OK. One contained nods to other horror greats. Robert Englund (Freddie), Kane Hodder (Jason), Ted Raimi (sam's brother), Angus Scrimm (Tall Man from Phantasm), and in this scene Tony Todd (Candyman).
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
An oldie, but a goodie: Leatherface presumably needs to make hu-burgers so, here it is, the meathook scene.
Quick question hot shot: did you see the hook go in her back?
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Pinhead goes to church but I don't think he's in the mood to hear preaching. This one pretty much takes the cake.
While I'm not going to include any clips, any 30 seconds from part of the "August Underground" Trilogy counts as unholy. Go look it up for yourself.
Who will build our monsters now? Cancer took him away. Let's take a little look at the great man's work, shall we? First a clip, it's just a slide show of a lot of his effects work. Plus, it's got "Nightwish" as the background music.
Next I want to show a piece of cinema history. This is a rare 1990 Teaser shot by Stan Winston with Arnold on an off Kindergarten Cop day. I remember this clip getting me all insane over T2. Even though, when I watched the first Terminator as a kid I got scared and ran and hid in my uncle's lap.
Lastly, we look at a project Winston directed and created effects for: "A Gnome Named Gnorm". This mind sticks out most in my mind because if the proclivity for references to boobs, butts, and hitting people in the testicles.
David Fincher & Brad Pitt back together again. I'm with you, I totally hate the music in this trailer too. But trust me. It'd gonna be an art film you can stomach. SEEK IT OUT. SEE IT.
This photo released yesterday depicts members of a tribe in the Amazon rain forest firing arrows at an airplane. Apparently, the tribe has never had any contact with humans outside of their own group. And there are likely many other "uncontacted" tribes in the region too.
Take that people who say there's no big foot. There's a hell of a lot we don't know about earth.
Marvel released this as a three part webisode series to help promote comic books to kids. The resulting computer animated crossover is actually very cool.
Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not "sick" and had no desire to change his ways. "I'm a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what's in my heart and I have no desire to change."
“As far as Spider-man 4, it’s really up to Sony, it’s up to them, most likely scenario is 2010 or 2011 but we can’t speak for them and I think, that we don’t know. They have given us their re-up payment for that film so you know they’re going to make it within a reasonable time frame. Sony may be looking at some issues with the cast and so on, I think they have to make some decisions.”
“We had to get Soundwave in there,” Orci told IGN. “You know, we had Ravage in an early draft of the first movie and Soundwave, and we couldn’t do it right and I think this time hopefully we’ll have the ability to do it.”
Apparently in the film, William Hurt’s General Thunderbolt Ross tells Tim Roth’s Emil Blonsky about a weapons program initiated during World War II to create a “super soldier” before giving him the injection.
Here's the news, in case you didn't hear about it, like 4 years ago.
Leno leaves next year. Conan will take his place. Jimmy Fallon will take Conan's place. I theorize at some point after this Letterman will quit. Late night is going to get weird. People are going to be competing with the Daily Show & Colbert, they're also going to try to "keep up the late night dynasty". Late night is gonna get weird, damnit. I'm just scared for Conan. So my personal thoughts to Conan? If you're gonna get canceled: GO NUTS. Walk out on stage, take a shit, punch a camera, and then scream for 45 mins while running around in the audience. YOU WILL MELT MINDS.
Judge’s third live-action feature film Extract will explore “what it’s like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you.” Jason Bateman has signed on to star, Judge’s new shingle Ternion Prods.
Like many of Welles' personally-funded films, the project was filmed and re-edited on and off for several years - work on the script started in the late 1960s, in 1972 Welles said that filming was "96% complete", and by 1976 it was on the brink of completion. Serious financial problems dogged the project, and Welles's use of funds from the brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran came back to haunt him after the Shah was overthrown in 1979. A complex, decades-long legal battle over the ownership of the film ensued, with the original negative remaining in a vault in Paris. By 1998 all legal matters had been resolved and the Showtime cable network had guaranteed end money to complete the film, when a new lawsuit by Welles' daughter Beatrice was filed, causing Showtime to withdraw its funding. As of late 2007, an new agreement had been reached with Showtime, and editing of the film was currently in progress.
So, a lost Welles film is on par with say, a lost Shakespeare script. Check out a leaked clip of the soon-to-be restored film.
“Right now he’s putting the two films together with an intermission with an added anime sequence he had already written,” said Thurman. “So additional stories are in there, in animation.” She adds, “his anime stuff is strong.”
The last time [Ridley and I] saw each other we talked about it. The character is still interesting [and] I’d love to work with Ridley again,” Weaver said. “But Fox has effectively killed it because of ‘Alien vs. Predator.’ What else can you do with the creature? You can take the situation, you can go back to where they came from. …To play someone who ages a couple hundred years was fascinating. [But] let [Ripley] rest.
Actor Jason Beghe was best man at the wedding of "X-Files" star David Duchovny (his childhood pal) and actress Tea Leoni. In 1998, he starred as Demi Moore’s love interest in "G.I. Jane." He’s been featured in numerous TV dramas such as "Criminal Minds," "Numb3rs" and "CSI."
With the writer's strike on full blast, entertainment is hard to come by. But thankfully, you're friends with me and I'm here to help. GET TO DOWNLOADING.
Dexter Get the jump on CBS who will start airing the Showtime series Feb 13th. Micheal C. Hall (of "Six Feet Under" fame) plays a serial killer who is also a forensic pathologist (murder scene blood work). They've already pumped out two seasons worth of this crime drama meets avenger story. It's darkly witty and I can't get enough of it.
Breaking Bad The dad from "Malcolm in the Middle" is a high school chemistry teacher.He finds out that under the best circumstances he'll die in two years from cancer. He promtly looses his shit and starts cooking meth to make money. The first tv series I've ever seen with a black comedy streak so deep it borders on reality. only two episodes out right now, so get hooked before everyone else.
American Idol Some people live and die by this shit, but let's be honest, the auditions are the best. It's so simple and straight to the point. People come in three flavors: Awesome, bland, and horrible. I wish they would only do auditions or do an "American Rejects" show. Auditions are almost over, so get on it.
A Daily Show Without it's writers, Jon Stewart is still shining, although without the bite is admittedly diminished.
Colbert Report Same goes here, only I kinda like Stephen more.
Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job IF YOU DON NOT LIKE THIS SHOW YOU CANNOT BE MY FRIEND ANY MORE.
Mythbusters I don't even think this show needs writers, so it plows on.
Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe: Man, host, badass, possible sex symbol for our times. This show could be more entertaining unless Dog the Bounty hunter was shooting people in the background while every stripper in America danced around.
Reno 911 Somehow it gets better every year. New episodes airing now.
Celebrity Apprentice I never really cared for the show, but after I heard Gene Simmons was on, I was on. And now, even though Gene's gone, I still like the show. I also think I nursing some illegal feelings for Trump's daughter.
So, that's how I'm making it. 'course watching some older stuff and netflix hasn't been hurting either. Feel free to leave comments about how you're surviving.
I've been hoping to see a new Chris Rock special soon, somebody's gotta fill that void after Dave Chapelle left, and frankly, I just don't think Carlos Mancia is the man for that job. He's funny, but, he's just not Dave. Click though for a complete list, but here's some highlights:
On Bush: "He just doesn't give a fuck about you. In the history of not giving a fuck no one has ever given less of a fuck."
On Giuliani: "He's kind of like a pit bull. Great if you have burglars but if you don't, he'll probably eat your kids."
"People say he was great on 9/11, but what about 9/10, 5/21, 12/13, hell, pick a date, any date, the guy wasn't shit."