I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve rewatched the Transformers 2 trailer a few times:
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I liked the part where the humans died.
There are reasonable odds that the trailer, by virtue of its awesomeness and brevity, will be better than the actual movie — as if Michael …
There is a press blackout on reviewing the Watchmen movie until March 6. However, I’ve seen the movie, and I’m not press. Don’t worry, I’m not going to write a review of Watchmen. What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME
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It is the the purpose of a virus to possess its host, then force that host to in turn create copies of the virus. This the viral videos below have done to me.
1. Robot Chicken‘s opera version of The Wrath of Khan:
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It’s funny because the special effects in operas …
I am an unabashed Neil Gaiman partisan, and so I bring with me a deep affection to any adaptation of his books. (Instead of rose-colored glasses, perhaps I see Neil’s work through sewn-on button eyes.) I have every expectation that Neal Jordan’s Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will be a classic. I do so want someone to make
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I somehow missed it when they posted a teaser-trailer for a sequel to Donnie Darko called S. Darko:
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It’s not clear to me from this what connection if any Richard Kelly, who created Donnie Darko, has with this. …
Another year, another Super Bowl not watched. I know lots of nerds are actually into watching the Super Bowl. I could never get behind watching a game I don’t play, played by people with whom I don’t have very much in common. I suppose there are passionate regional loyalties in play, plus genuinely interesting strategic calculations. …
There’s a Web video pilot making the rounds called The Remnants, about a bunch of nerdy people who band together in the wake of a near-species-ending catastrophe and scavenge through suburban homes in search of leftover Pringles and video game consoles and such. It’s here.
(It’s a Vimeo video, which means I can’t embed it here because …
I’m almost ready to forgive the Internet for Twitter, on account of you can watch the whole season premiere of Flight of the Conchords on it for free. It’s funny because they talk funny!
This, too, is true. Your cast includes Jaden Smith — son of Will — as the eponymous Kid, and no less a personage than Jackie Chan as the aging master Mr. Miyagi. Behind the camera: one Harald Zwart, the cinematic legend behind One Night at McCool’s and Pink Panther 2. It’s nice to know the cultural treasures of my childhood are in good …
(WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS RATED “M” FOR MAWKISH)
Looking for a hardcore dose of un-ironic Star Wars nostalgia? Want to remember what young-you felt for Star Wars, before Jar Jar, Jango and Jedi Younglings? Before the 800 million billion Star Wars parodies where the only joke was that something not Star Wars said something …
Another omnibus post, brought to you by my short attention span:
— Mickey Rourke will apparently appear as a villain in Iron Man 2. Nice to see that the success of The Wrestler is getting him work. I guess he’s well and truly out of career hypersleep. Favreau must be fond of resuscitated actors, given that Downey had a similar career …
It’s been bouncing around the Net in shaky-cam amateur-vision, but now the Quicktime version is up. It’s here.
I can’t decide if galloping Liev Schreiber is funny or scary. But seeing Emma Frost shift into diamond form is probably worth the price of admission all on its own.
