Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has stated before that he’s a huge Star Trek fan, even hinting in a recent interview that he wants to somehow be a part of the franchise. Read the full story
It’s a risky business, coming up with alternate endings to movie classics. Even if you’re just being funny, people can and do take it personally when you f*ck with their stuff (take George Lucas, for example). A little animation group called HISHE (How It Should Have Ended) has popped up, providing some nifty alternatives for The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and even The Empire Strikes Back. Read the full story
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.
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…
The real reason you read film critics are to vehemently disagree and/or feel vindicated that you KNEW Green Lantern/the new J.Lo vehicle/yet another Kate Hudson movie was going to suck. It also clarifies the reason I don’t do many reviews, if only because a) I haven’t got enough dough to get out and see a new release (lemme know if you wanna donate cashmoneymillions to me) and b) these guys may be the best thing to happen to movie criticism since some generous soul posted outtakes of Siskel and Ebert on the web, fighting over McDonalds. Speaking of which:
Happy Friday — have a trailer for the new Conan movie…torn torsos, impalings, evisceration, and most importantly no real evidence of a story — just like the original. Now all we need is James Earl Jones and we’re gold, Jerry…Read on turks.
With filming already having commenced for The Dark Knight Rises, with the Nolans masterfully pulling their strings behind the scenes, and with Gary Oldman calling the script ‘fantastic’, we are sure the final installment will be amazing. Nonetheless, here’s some dorky requests from a fanboy that believes certain things could make said installment perfect.
5. Bad-Ass MF. I don’t think I’m the only one who’s sick of seeing congenial, venerable, bow-tie wearing Morgan Freeman. Lucius Fox has skills that would shame McGyver and yet keeps taking orders from people, even though he’s smarter than them. He should become Luscious Fox, have some girls by his side, and use those skills of his to start kicking some ass. Get angry, Mr. Freeman. The closest to a bad guy we’ve had is you in that movie with all the flooding and Christian Slater.
