"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

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RT @justinvincent Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness - Short Version: Movies are turning into 2 colors: Fleshtones and their compliment -

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  Twitter Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:01:33
RT @johnmoe "As always, this year's dance theme is 'A Complete Waste of Time / Go Urinate Now'."

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Film Noir Tribute: - The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir - (YouTube)

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6 Zatoichi movies free on Hulu _The Blind Swordsman_ #thatflywillneverreproduce

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  Who's The Cat That Won't Cop Out When There's Danger All About ?

Even the camera angles are vintage blaxploitation.

"When The Man murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, BLACK DYNAMITE is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight) stars as BLACK DYNAMITE, a gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother. Written and directed by Scott Sanders (Thick as Thieves), BLACK DYNAMITE also stars Tommy Davidson, Nicole Sullivan, Bokeem Woodbine, Arsenio Hall and John Salley. Black Dynamite in theaters on Oct. 16th. "

Thick as Thieves was good; a smart, understated crime movie.

Black Dynamite (Official Movie Trailer) (YouTube)

Black Dynamite Official Site



  Movie Tidbits
  • Disney has announced Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides.

    The good news: The movie almost certainly has some connection to the excellent Tim Powers novel and this hopefully means Disney is throwing large chedder in Mr. Power's direction. Now if only someone will make a movie out of Declare.

    The bad news: Keira Knightley's mouth will only be making a guest appearance.

  • Shooter is pretty good, but the novel is better. Danny Glover always makes a great villian.
  • Blade III is a great case study of a bad movie that should have been much better.

    Short reason: No Guillermo Del Toro, not enough Dracula (What a waste of Dominic Purcell) , too cute dialogue, and my own personal shark-jump: making a big point of how Jessica Biel's character wears her Ipod into combat-which is just dumb.



  Bollywood

Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai w/ English Subs
Via Bruce Sterling

  Appearing in Secret

"...a French cinema historian and two US crime-writers almost simultaneously happened on the same bizarre discovery - that Raymond Chandler, uncredited and previously unnoticed, has a tiny cameo in Double Indemnity. On 14 January, the American mystery writer Mark Coggins, tipped off by another writer, John Billheimer, posted the news on his website, Riordan's desk (tinyurl.com/raymondchandler), while the French journalist Olivier Eyquem, wrote about on his blog (tinyurl.com/chandlerfrench) on March 30."

Chandler's double identity
Via baileycoybooks



  Shatner Zen

Star Trek Khan Clip (YouTube)
Via kottke.org



  Never Trust a Corpse
I Sell The Dead Trailer!
Via The Percy Trout Hour

  Eyebrows of Death
The World of 千葉 真一Sonny Chiba (Full Screen)
Via AltJapan

  Rinji News O Moshiagemasu!
Making of the Godzilla Suit!
Via Undead Backbrain

  I Miss the Sixties

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo!



  Suds Warrior
A post apocalyptic world without gasoline is one thing...
But imagine a world where beer is scarce and only those with most brutal pedal powered machines can attain it...

Road Warrior Remake
Via Laughing Squid

  Cloverfield Clues
Cloverfield Despoiler Wiki

  Actor, Director, Hambone

10 Classic Death Scenes of Su Chen Ping
Via VideoSift

  Cloverfield
J. J. Abram's new movie is due 1-18-08. There have been developments.

  Great Flick
Overlooked Movie: Point Blank
Search Results "Marvin Boorman" (YouTube)
The real thing: Marvin and Point Blank

  Dare I Say "PKDickian"?
Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko) new film, Southland Tales, will finally be released on November 9, 2007. The trailer looks interesting. And I think it's nice to see Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) doing something that isn't a shoot-em-up or sports-related.
Via Fimoculous

  "Would it Surprise You, Sir..."
Walter Jon Williams considers The Maltese Falcon:
"Spade is described as looking like a "genial Satan." He's sleeping with his partner Archer's wife, he's not terribly put out by Archer's death, he doesn't seem interested in vengeance or justice at all. He treats women badly. He keeps telling people that all he really cares about is the money, and you have no data to indicate otherwise. To all appearances, Spade is a heel.

If you were reading this book fresh in 1930, and hadn't seen the movie and knew nothing other than what the book told you, you wouldn't know that Sam Spade is the good guy--- not until the last scene, when he sends Brigid up the river for murdering Archer. That reversal would have come as a complete surprise, and a revelation. Hammett succeeded in hiding that particular football right up to the book's climax.

Now suppose're in a theater in 1941 to watch the Huston film adaptation. You haven't seen the earlier adaptation with Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels, and you haven't seen the comic adaptation with Bette Davis, and you haven't read the book. And there you are watching Humphrey Bogart play Sam Spade.

You've seen Bogart before, and you know he isn't a leading man. Up to this point, Bogart has always played the heavy. He's the gangster, the gunman, the crooked lawyer, the criminal kingpin. You have no idea that this is the breakout role that makes him a huge star.

If you're watching the film in 1941 with no prior knowledge of the story, you would have had no idea that Bogart was the good guy. In that final scene, you would have been just as poleaxed as the first readers of the book in 1930."

Thin Man, Thick Plot

  A God Among Men
Peter O'Toole is 75.
"I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another."

Amen, brother

Via No Smoking in the Skull Cave

  Ooh ooh ooh
From Wikipedia
"Cloverfield is the working title or codename of a science fiction film set for release in 2008 produced by J. J. Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves, and written by Drew Goddard."
More Cloverfield Mysteries
"Untitled J.J. Abrams Project" at IMDB
"Ethan Haas" at YouTube
Ethan Haas Was Right RPG Spoilers

Via Ectoplasmosis

  Was You Ever Stung By a Dead Bee?
Stinking Badges (Wikipedia)
Via Bifurcated Rivets

  Why "Pirates of the Caribbean III" might not suck
chow yun fat in Pirates of the Caribbean 3
It has Chow Yun fat

  Another Time, Another Place
Teleport City serves up a great indepth look at Walter Hill's Streets of Fire

  Wait A Minute
So I rented Underworld: Evolution and found it acceptable, if not exceptional. It's got loads of the old ultra-violence, Derek Jacobi lending an air of dignity, and of course, Kate Beckinsale in very tight rubber pants. But they just about lost me when the villain grabs a cable and pulls a flying helicopter down. If you can't figure out why this won't work, no matter how strong you are, do some chin-ups and think about it.

  You Should Go
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  Whatever You Say

dune poster
"In film, the Duke Leto (father of Paul) would be a man castrated in a ritual combat in the arenas during a bullfight (emblem of the Atreides house being a crowned bull...) Jessica - nun of the Bene Gesserit -, sent as concubine at the Duke to create a girl which would be the mother of a Messiah, becomes so in love with Leto that she decides to jump a chain link and to create a son, Kwisatz Haderach, the saviour. By using her capacities of Bene Gesserit - once that the Duke, insanely in love with her, entrusts her with his sad secret - Jessica is inseminated by a drop of blood of this sterile man... The camera followed (in script) the red drop through the ovaries of the woman and sees its meeting with the ovule where, by a miraculous explosion, it fertilises it. Paul had been born from a virgin; and not of the sperm of his father but of his blood...
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In my version of Dune, the Emperor of the galaxy is insane. He lives on an artificial gold planet, in a gold palace built according to not-laws of antilogical. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him. The resemblance is so perfect that the citizens never know if they are opposite the man or the machine...

In my version, the spice is a blue drug with spongy consistency filled with a vegetable-animal life endowed with consciousness, the highest level of consciousness. It does not stop taking all kinds of forms, while stirring up unceasingly. The spice continuously produces the creation of the innumerable universes."
Go, Baby, Go! Somebody needs to hook Alejandro up with a renegade Korean anime house and enigmatic swiss venture capital financing. He tried to get Dali to play the Emperor. I don't know who is crazier.
Jodorowsky's Dune
Via mike.whybark.com

  All Hail Broog
"In this instance, however, the storyteller so skillfully enfolds the roots of Wonka?s pleasingly Dahl-esque misery in further and more ludicrous mysteries and greater oddness that there is no sense of the magician revealing his tricks ? rather, the audience is invited to scrutinise his top hat for concealed rabbits and finds instead a four-storey hotel populated entirely by Latvian mango farmers."
Broog, Alien Film Critic


  Hard Boiled

San Francisco locations from "Bullitt," then and now. Via Incoming Signals