Firstshowing.net (fast becoming my fave source of new movie stuff) has a trailer for the theatrical version of the channel 4 documentary The Men Who Stare At Goats (which I blogged about two years ago and has been removed in anticipation of the movie, I guess). This documentary blew my mind at how far psychic warfare ingratiated itself into the US military machine. The movie looks like fun!
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Buddies In Bad Blurbs
Walking by Buddies In Bad Times Theatre the other night, SharkBoy and I pause by their season calendar of new works to take a look at what’s coming. There are some interesting things on deck, like Nina Arsenault’s The Silicone Diaries. I followed her stories when I use to read “fab” magazine (the only interesting columnist they every had) and this seems like a logical extension of her life.
Scanning more, I came across this blurb for Sky Gilbert’s next play:
I guess you’ve arrived if theatre promoters are dropping your play name like gushing fanboys standing in front of Leonard Nimoy (without paying the $50 autograph fee).*
* Yeah you know where I’ll be tomorrow.
Avatar Trailer Compared to Delgo
I’m sure you’re asking yourself “What the hell was Delgo?”
Possibly the worst CGI movie of 2008, starring the voices of Freddie Prinze, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft and Chris Kattan. Yeah, that Delgo.
Nuke the Fridge has a great side-by-side image gallery of the two movies. Looks like the art director jumped from one project to the other, hoping nobody would notice.
Apparently Fox is reaching for the Imodium since fanboys around the net have been cool with their allocates towards Avatar. I get the sense that James Cameron is the new Michael Jackson, not in the decadent lifestyle choices (How about a nice picnic on the deck of The Titanic, anyone?) but in the amount of time wasted between projects. And the lackluster results…
Dances With Pocahontas Wolfy Avatar
The Teaser is up. Tomorrow you need to go to Apple to see a bit more. So far, visually stunning, but I’m not sold on the story. Floating islands? Uhm…
Peanut Butter Based Foundation
Sleazy porn workers take note…
SPLINK! Or How The Doctor Helps
I don’t know why I find this is so typically English, but I do: A PSA, an incredibly awkward memory chain and a celebrity.
Hopping on the Bandwagon
Better Trailer for AstroBoy
FirstShowing.net tips me off to a more indepth trailer for AstroBoy with voice actors added and a few choice scenes. Thusly, I weep huge tears of joy in my cube
Formative Pop – Irwin Allen pt 2
B9? Or Y-M3? Or was it Gunther? Whatever you call him, the robot from Lost In Space was pretty cool:
Formative Pop – Irwin Allen Pt 2
Uploaded by deadrobotToronto – Full seasons and entire episodes online.
FYI here’s what the B9 figure says:
First bit: Japanese (Possibly “Danger! Danger!”?)
Second line: “Warning! Warning!”
Next: “Dinosaur!” Or something in Japanese
Then: A whole thwack of Japanese
Then: “I am sorry. It does not Compute.”
Suddenly: Another thwack of mumbled Japanese
Then: The most creepiest laugh ever. I don’t ever recall B9 laughing…
The Nuttalls – Blyth Festival
My brother opens a new play up at the Blyth Festival tomorrow entitled The Nuttals. I wish his legs would break! From TheRecord.com:
The play guaranteed to stir the pot this season is award-winning Canadian playwright Michael Healey’s The Nuttalls.
It’s a coup for Blyth to commission one of the country’s most celebrated playwrights who gave Canadian theatre The Drawer Boy.
“Michael has such an extraordinary brain,” Coates observes. “No two of his plays are alike.
“I was after him for several years to do something for us and he came across with an unexpected, knockout, drag-out comedy.”
Directed by Kate Lynch, the comedy focuses on a mother and her grown son who swim in a deep pool of domestic discord.
Coates expects some degree of pushback from the community because the comedy satirizes the war in Afghanistan.
“I don’t know if everyone is ready to go where Michael takes us.”
PS: I love how the Blyth website is covered in Chickens.