Exactly one month from today we'll finally get to see the Watchmen movie. And I think it's safe to say: the biggest anticipation of the past twenty years has been for how well Rorschach will translate to the big screen. Empire has the exclusive premiere of this latest video journal, which focuses on Rorschach's background and that very neat mask that he wears.And if you've read the book, perhaps it will interest you to know that this clip has a...
Friday, February 06, 2009
FANBOYS opens in limited release today
It starts playing on 44 screens. But you know what? Even if it were to open on just one screen, that would still be cause for applause and celebration. Ernie Cline has tried to make this movie since 1998 (the year the film is set in) and more than a tenacious decade later, he gets to see his hard work pay off as his tale of friends who attempt to break into Skywalker Ranch...
Where's the hope?! Obama evokes fear if "stimulus" isn't passed
Remember all that talk of "hope and change" during the past election cycle? What happened to it? Because now President Barack Obama is sounding like the dire opposite of Franklin Roosevelt, warning that if the "stimulus" bill isn't passed..."This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able...
State of Washington considers swabbing DNA from EVERYONE who gets arrested
It's like Barney Fife gone zealous with a genetics lab: legislators in the state of Washington are mulling the idea of getting DNA samples from everyone who is stopped by law enforcement for anything at all, even something so minor as a traffic infraction. And no, they don't wanna wait until a conviction in court either: everybody arrested would have to yield over their personal deoxyribonucleic acid. Although supposedly the DNA would be destroyed...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Bad WATCHMEN costumes
No wonder Alan Moore is so hesitant to see his work become major motion pictures...I agree with Matthew Federico: the guy on the right in what's supposed to be the Comedian outfit, looks more like the third Mario Brother. But that's still much better than what we're expected to believe is a convincing Ozymandias getup (left).Find this pic and those of the Rorschach, Nite...
Digital television switch moved to June 12
Those annoying "There are ## days left until digital television" bumpers that run during your favorite TV shows have suddenly vanished, and for good reason: instead of having until February 17th to make sure your television is compatible, you now have until June 12th. Both the U.S. House and Senate approved the DTV Delay Act, and President Obama has vowed to sign it once it reaches his desk.Anyhoo, you now have four more months to buy that shiny...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Bill Gates pours out plague of mosquitoes on captive audience
This has been one of the most hyperactive days for crazy news. First it was the "Klingon convenience store robberies", then the zombie street signs. Now this...At some kind of pretentious pow-wow called TED, Bill Gates spoke to the audience about the efforts his foundation is undertaking to wipe out malaria. But being not content to deliver a simple speech, Gates engaged...
Reaction to tonight's LOST: "The Little Prince"
That sound and probable accompanying seismic activity you might have sensed in the past ten minutes was millions of Lost fans bellowing out a collective "Whoa!!!"Four episodes into Season 5, and if anything Lost is gaining momentum, not losing it. I thought "The Little Prince" was even better than last week's "Jughead". It seemed perfectly balanced with everything that makes this show, perhaps the best on television right now. It had action, it...
Hacked electronic road signs warn motorists of Nazi zombies, velociraptors
High-tech practical jokers in three states have declared war on those electronic road signs that DMVs put out to relay information to drivers. Here's what one sign in Austin, Texas alerted motorists to...But these weren't ordinary zombies, mind you. They were "Nazi zombies", from which people were urged to flee toward cooler climates. While Texas and Illinois got plagued...
Klingon wannabe robs Denver 7-Elevens with real bat'leth
Just when you think there are enough aliens lurking around 7-Eleven...Police in Denver, Colorado are looking for a man who committed armed robbery at two of the convenience stores. The weapon of choice for the assailant? A "bat'leth": the customary sword of Klingon warriors in the Star Trek universe (modeled here by Worf), first forged by Kahless the Unforgettable during...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
AMC has first look at THE PRISONER remake!
I must say: this is really starting to intrigue me a lot.AMC's website has posted a video with the first sneak peak of The Prisoner: its six-hour miniseries starring Jim Caviezel (aka Jesus from The Passion of the Christ) and Sir Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf and Magneto). It's a re-imagining of the classic British television series from the late Sixties created by and starring Patrick McGoohan. I've heard that before he passed away a few weeks ago,...
Trailer for BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM (and about that review of THE DARK KNIGHT...)
It's the old joke: "The inmates have take over the asylum". But when the inmates are the rogues gallery of the Caped Crusader, turned loose inside the non-Euclidean former manse of Amadeus Arkham, and the only thing their sickened minds can fixate on is Batcave-ing in your Batskull, in a game being likened to BioShock well... that's the kind of maniacal mayhem that Batman: Arkham Asylum promises to deliver. The game's story is written by Paul...
Iran launches first satellite
Just six months after initial tests of the delivery vehicle, Iran has launched its first satellite into space. Early this morning a Safir-2 rocket lifted off from a launch facility somewhere in Iran, and shortly afterward successfully inserted the Omid satellite into low-Earth orbit.Naturally, some folks on this side of the pond are worrying about Iran using its newfound spaceborne capability to rain nuclear fire down on Washington D.C. or Tel Aviv....
Chuck Baldwin sez: Too many Christians are lazy 'cuz of prophecy
Chuck Baldwin, Baptist minister and brilliant writer, argues in his latest piece that prophecy has driven far too many Christians into a state of apathy. But where Paul wrote in humble reproval to his fellow believers at Thessalonica, Baldwin's is a thunderous condemnation (and in my opinion, rightfully so) aimed especially at those in America who profess to follow Christ. He writes...In the first place, no one knows when Christ will return, no...
Fifty years ago today...
...was "The Day the Music Died".It was on this date in 1959, just after 1 a.m., that the small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, along with their pilot Roger Peterson, crashed into a field near Clear Lake, Iowa.There were no survivo...
Monday, February 02, 2009
New Republican head Steele: GOP should embrace pro-choice views, "gay marriage"
The only reason I'm really posting this is to illustrate something that I and many others have screamed ourselves hoarse about during the past several years: that there is no damned difference at all between the Republican and the Democrat parties in the United States.In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, new Republican National Committee chairman Micheal...
More WATCHMEN photos and stuff
"So this blue guy walks into a bar..."If you've read the book, you know what the above image is about. Looks like instead of toning down the brutality - and let's face it, two decades later Watchmen is still one of the most brutal graphic novels ever - Zack Snyder is gonna ratchet it up even worse.(I'm warning y'all who aren't "in the know" here and now: if Snyder is at all...
