Film Play Angry Birds — with ‘Real’ Birds; What Indiana Jones Originally Looked Like; And Clive Barker’s Aborted Hellraiser Designs

September 9, 2011 - 10:30 am

China has made Angry Birds into a real-life attraction. Meaning goodbye petty video game, hello huge Communist theme park with 15 foot tall catapult and other set pieces the government spared no expense in building — so now you can catapult those little f*ckers just as far as you’d like, if you happen to be in China.

Though if anybody noticed, there’s a crucial element missing from the game. Those set pieces really are cheap– and the giant blocks are apparently welded into the stage so that you can’t really knock anything down.


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Film Fridays Clive Barker: Whatever Happened to The Scariest Man in Cinema?

June 3, 2011 - 5:41 pm

Clive Barker

In a cinema dominated by Saw remakes and plain un-scary haunted house films, consider this a personal plea to what was once cinema’s most promising force in horror — a man that now seems to have completely vanished from a genre he once seemed on the verge of re-inventing, and still in dire need of some innovation.

Quentin Tarantino once commented, “Nobody knows how to get under the skin like Clive Barker.” This was after Stephen King had proclaimed that he’d “witnessed the future of horror, and his name is Clive Barker,” something that remained the unofficial Barker movie tagline for many moons. So where in hell has cinema’s horror Jesus gone?

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