So before some friggin’ Horse Racing Derby Wank show premiere tonight, HBO released a new Game of Thrones trailer. Kudos to OL regular Johnny Hall for bringing it to my  attention, and tracking it  down  like an electronic hawk to a source. Here it is for you.

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Monsters kick ass.

Since the dawn of narrative itself, we have been absolutely obsessed with monsters. These grotesque aberrations of death and doom have served as metaphors, representations of the tests of will that the human spirit must endure. The talking snake in the garden paradise is actually the ever-present temptation to do wrong. The giant fire-breathing dragon is a warning against the dangers of hubris. The reanimated corpse-man is the reminder that, for better or worse, we will be remembered by our work.

Once again, monsters kick ass.

So when cinema came around, blessing us with the awe-inspiring combination of moving-pictures and sounds, it was only natural that monsters followed suit. This new medium enabled the monster-metaphors to be pushed even further, inducing more fear and provoking more thought than previously possible. The horrors were no longer confined to the breathy whispers of epic poems or the staid declarations of prose, but could now run as free as the imagination itself.

Unfettered, movies figured out the exact type of behemoth that horrifies, thrills, inspires, excites, and shocks more than any other. Ghosts and wolfmen and vampires and trolls might be scary, but they pale in comparison to the champion. `Cause at the end of the day, ain’t nothin’ better at conjuring up cold sweats and death-screams than this juggernaut:

The city-rockin’ monster.

In the nearly hundred years of cinema history we’ve accumulated, there’s been no scarcity of city-razin’ beasts. Truthfully, most of ’em turned out to be more sizzle than steak, and a select few terrified us beyond the capacity for rational thought. But two of these metropolitan menaces have stood the test of time, and as such now must battle for the title of most formidable city-rockin’ monster!

The combatants are, of course, Godzilla and King Kong.

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The WSJ is claiming that Facebook could finally go head and gets its IPO on soon. Dang soon. Wednesday soon.

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New versions of a couple of Empire scans from earlier in the week, plus a gnarly look at Nick Fury’s dumb scalp and the scarring from however he lost his eye in the movie universe’s iteration of the character.

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I’m not going to play  Street Fighter X Tekken, but if I would I’d be totally rocking out as horrible US Box Art version of Mega Man. There’s Pac-Man too, and good lord if that isn’t chock full of win.

Hit the jump for details and the intro video.

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Matthew Libatique who is oft a cinematographer for Mr. Darry Aronofsky has dropped some details regarding Noah. Shooting dates, and the villain. Which apparently isn’t God, which would have been totally cool. IMO retcon the Bible.

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Chad Blakley captured the gorgeous aurora generated from one of the Earth’s most powerful geomagnetic storms in the past decade. Taken at  Abisko National Park in Sweden, it’s a stunning wank-diddle moment for fans of all things beautiful and spacey.

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Ron English has created the greatest goddamn fan figure ever. Obama goes Hulk, smashing filibustering and finally growing some (gamma irradiated) balls.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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Happy fucking birthday, Patton. You beautiful son of a bitch.

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Last weekend, my girlfriend took part in a short film contest called Campus Movie Fest. Sounds like a gas, right? The outcome is The Physical, based on a short film I came up with about six years ago. Starring Mike Downes, Carol Finn, and me, the story revolves around a young man with hopes of immigrating to Mars to join Earth’s first colony there. But first he has to pass his physical… (dun DUN).

I won’t spoil the ending, but prepare to have your face melted off! Or not, but I hope you like it, share it, live it, love it.

PS: I’m a terrible actor and I hate being in front of a camera, so I came up with a character called Snowblind. He’s blind, so I got to keep my eyes closed. Don’t ask me why a blind man wears prescription glasses.