5.Gabriel Byrne – End of Days
In the only good scene in the film, Satan (Gabriel Byrne) goes to pee, gets possessed by the devil, and returns to dinner – then grabs some girl’s boob, sticks his tongue down her throat, and makes the restaurant blow up behind him. Obviously he wasn’t impressed. Don’t think, it has boobs and explosions… and you’re only 5 minutes in. Movie’s over.
Ever watch movies like Night of the Living Dead and chastise the zombies for their lack of enthusiasm? Discover redemption in flicks like 28 Days Later – where the zombies have verve, pep, and really want those brains? Now you can run away from those brain-hungry bastards in the Zombie 5 K Marathon !
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For the past few months, if you tried to dig up any information on Crosses — Chino Moreno’s latest project with Far guitarist Shaun Lopez and a mysterious Clint Eastwood-type guitar-slinger named Chuck – you’d find next to nothing. There might be a reason for that: Crosses isn’t Deftones-ish at all. And it ain’t really even remotely Far-esque. It’s an unorthodox but heady mix of trip-hop, jazz, and some touches of that Northern California brand of hard rock they helped pioneer.
But days ago Chino dropped five free downloads of the Crosses project onto his Facebook page. Here’s an interview we got with the guys last month, when the album was still being mixed in Red Bull Studios.
5.The Joker vs. Mayor Garcia (Nestor Carbonell) in The Dark Knight
You take a lot of what The Joker does in The Dark Knight with a grain of salt – but it’s mostly because of Ledger’s bad-ass performance. Gotham cops in Nolan’s movies never seemed particularly bright (anyone notice the pasty white guy with the scar smile?), and here’s proof.
There’s 2 little gems in a big coal mine full of sh*t this week, movie-wise. 1. Here’s a great little game site/comedy troupe called The Game Station, who wonders: what would a Godfather sequel be like if Super Mario played the seminal Marlon Brando role, complete with drooping lower lip and nasally wheeze? Along with Nintendo mainstays Mega Man/Solid Snake/Halo Master Chief Guy among the heads of the families, trying to construct a truce? Here ya go:
Mario has apparently put aside his differences and vendettas to focus on a common enemy: the threat of Angry Birds and other unworthy iPhone games. As the patriarchs of a once-proud lineage, these classic game characters now face the threat of an unremarkable-yet-deadly enemy.
2. If you didn’t see it, Harrison Ford/ Han Solo rejected a particularly whiny Wookie on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. Read on for the clip:
The Electric Daisy Festival is quickly turning out to be the newest Coachella— a massive music extravaganza that has tapped the mainstream pulse of a nation’s youth, drawing in fans by more and more thousands each year.
But did you know it’s also likely to incite mass chaos and rioting in the streets – especially if those punk-ass raver kids ain’t happy?
Despite missing Comic-Con this year, I have experienced in an hour what many lifelong attendees won’t. Ever. For instance, if I were to tell you that at this year’s convention, every hot chick dressed as a comic book character will be doused with a Smylex-like pheromone gas that will make them instantaneously peel off their clothes, chances are you’d kill/pillage/etc. to get tickets.
Or you could have done something even better, and gone to Comic Book Vixens — the new show by the burlesque troop Devil’s Playground. Which did all that, and more. This thing couldn’t have been more perfectly tailored to any comic (especially DC!) aficionado. Naked Harley Quinn. Naked Poison Ivy. You get the picture — if not, have some…
It’s arguably the most beloved film in the entire canon of anime. It’s well-regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese animation; above Ghost in the Shell and Battle Angel Alita and even Black Butler or whatever is the latest trend in the anime world now. And Warner Brothers, the studio behind it all, has made it their mission to get it made as an American, live-action version, come hell or high water.
The problem seems obvious. As George Takai and several other Japanese Americans have pointed out
, there aren’t any Japanese actors portraying the central roles in this adaptation. Which takes place in Tokyo, has 99.9% Japanese characters, and whose identity and icon-status rests on these factors. But the guys at Warners need more of a beating from lots of loyal fans, especially those pissed over the whitewashing of what is considered an Asian cultural landmark.
About 30 years ago, an ingenious little horror flick came out. One that perfectly captured that paranoia meme in all of us: racial, social, and even that requisite cold-war kind so many sci-films had captured already — yet this one had it all, and even more so.
It was called The Thing, and marked the continued movement of John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York) into the well-deserved spotlight, and most significantly, his ascension to status of cult sci-fi/horror film Messiah (Carpenter, get it? Haha, sometimes I just nail ‘em). And alas, the man seems to have disappeared completely from sight.
And now The Thing is being re-made, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Sorry, it’s a prequel — whatever the f*ck they’re calling it. And who knows, it might be good. But the point of all this rambling is that we want you back, Mr. Carpenter, like the Jackson 5 song goes. As more than just an executive producer. We want you back, even if you’re just doing your best Asia impression and singing in your kimono.
In what has otherwise been pretty dismal vampire movie news (i.e., they keep making vampire movies), there’s two chunks of noteworthy vampire film news this week. The first of them is that a) Alicia Silverstone is planing an official return to the silver screen, and b) that she is reuniting with Clueless director Amy Heckerling. I always had a thing for Silverstone, at least enough to forgive her for Batman and Robin, at least, and the news that these two are getting back together in a possible spoof/satire of vampire flicks is reason to be happy.