watch it: “peanut butter kitty time”
It’s cat-video Friday! This one is just plain weird. But it gets funnier the longer it goes on:
Year: 2009
May 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you dread heading to the multplex in case it’s clogged with people in Spock ears and Klingon foreheads, and anyway, Mom won’t want to beam up to the Enterprise for Mother’s Day. But you can have … more…
trailer break: ‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… As long as Steve Coogan and Owen Wilson are back, I’m there. Oh, they are back? Excellent. Ooo, and Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart? Cool. Hank Azaria as an Egyptian pharaoh? Nice. In fact, let’s keep all the neat-o museum people played by hilarious and charismatic actors … more…
question of the day: What do you think about the alternative ‘Wolverine’ easter eggs being shown around the planet?
[warning: contains spoilers for the post-credit sequences of Wolverine… but you can read half this post before you encounter the spoilers, before which there’s another warning] I first learned about the alternative easter eggs for X-Men Origins: Wolverine in a post by Ryan Gilbey at the Guardian Film blog, which bears this headline: Why does … more…
Star Trek (review)
Oh, J.J. Abrams! Dude! You sneak, you! Can I have your geek babies?
watch it: “Amazing balance – Eskil – biking on the edge of Trollveggen”
Norwegian stuntman/crazy person Eskil Rønningsbakken is completely nuts: You can watch more of his balancing acts on his YouTube channel. And he’s got a Web site, too, of course. via Very Short List
U.K. box office: ‘Wolverine’ geekifies Britain, too
Everyone loves a kick-ass mutant: 1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: £6.7 million (NEW) 2. Hannah Montana: The Movie: £2 million (NEW) 3. State of Play: £.982 million (2nd week; drops 35%) 4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: £.977 million (NEW) 5. 17 Again: £.53 (4th week; drops 48%) (actual numbers, not estimates) It’s the biggest opening of … more…
trailer break: ‘Land of the Lost’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Ah, I see that no nods will be given to the earnestness of the original show. This makes me sad: This show warped my tiny brain as a child with its talk of time warps and intelligent dinosaurs and such, and it would have been nice to … more…
question of the day: What do filmmakers owe the fans of favorite universes?
J.J. Abrams is telling diehard Trekkies to avoid his new Star Trek reboot: “Don’t see the movie,” he has said. “You’ll just get angry. It is not Shatner playing Kirk, so I do apologize.” (I think he’s wrong about how serious fans will react, but I’ll get to that in my review, which I’ll post … more…
watch it: “Keys Stab Kids Brain”
This is one of the most fascinating aspects of YouTube to me: Ordinary people are creating their own shows. This guy, a young Canadian man who calls himself FLuffee, has posted 153 videos on his channel, FLuffeeTalks, and is selling FLuffeeTalks merchandise. He’s got almost 97,000 subscribers and his channel has gotten more than 1.7 … more…
