‘TOTAL RECALL’ Teaser Trailer: Futuristic Cyberrawk
Maybe it’s the medication kicking in with its midday efficacy, but I’m digging this Total Recall teaser. Or maybe its just that I am a total floozy for anything futuristic or even quasi cyberpunk. I love the original, but if this can distance itself enough from Arnold On Mars while offering up its own futuristic swag, I’m down. Maybe.
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Dude In China Is Making HOMEMADE SUBMARINES. Safety ++
Yeah, I have no idea how anything awful can come out of this. One gentleman in China is building submarines after getting laid off. Fuck man, if I was you I’d just be sitting around all day with a bottle of Lubriderm and a smile. Making me feel lazy as shit.
NEW ‘AVENGERS’ TRAILER Is All About Black Widow. I Approve.
Here’s an Avengers trailer rocketing out of Poland that goes superhard on the Black Widow action. I may be losing my mind, but some of the footage looks like its from Iron Man 2, unless Natasha spends a lot of her time running around nondescript white hallways. None the less, I’ll take it.
WIZARD WORLD Names John Macaluso New CEO. YOU’RE NOT MY GAREB.
It was a dark day indeed last year when Gareb Shamus killed off Wizard and then not much later (especially in the galactic sense!) resigned as Chief-Something-Such and rode off into the sunset on a life-sized neon Tauntaun he himself had sold through ToyFare. Sure the dude had run Wizard into the ground and really hadn’t done anything in Gods knows how long, he was still our Dad. Now we’re going to meet the Step Dad and I say fuck him!
Paperback Orgy: Soul-Swapping, Suicide Booths, and Immortality Inc.
One of the joys of being into sci-fi is that the genre has such a rich history to draw from. Even if I quit my job, touched the monolith, took up speed, and did nothing but devour sci-fi books and movies 24/7, I’d never reach the end. It’s a beautiful and exciting thing – especially on the book shelf. You can go into any thrift store in the world and pick up a sci-fi paperback of yore for a quarter or two. That’s a cheap price to pay for a window into our beloved genre’s history. I thrift for books a couple times a month to snatch up any sci-fi paperbacks I haven’t hoarded yet. Believe me when I say that there are enough used copies of Rendezvous With Rama out there to build a bridge across the Atlantic.
Paperback Orgy will hopefully be a semi-regular column in which I discuss a choice selection from my recent booty. For our inaugural post I want to talk about a book that’s been collecting dust on my shelves for a minute now: Robert Sheckley‘s 1959 comical tale of the soul and the shittiness of rich people…Immortality Inc.
Modestep – Show Me a Sign
What if Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels made sweet love, produced an ADHD offspring addicted to filthy dubstep? The result is these 4 chicas on a mission to destroy the music industry, ala Modestep. Watch the death spawn after the jump…
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Strange Moments in Solid Movies: You Dirty Rat, The Departed
Martin Scorsese is no stranger to gangster films populated by many dishonorable characters in seedy locations, scurrying around in the dark, power-playing for any (and all) loose change and on the even looser morality of their depraved circles. Starting with 1973’s Mean Streets and later reworking the turf in the 1990s with Goodfellas and Casino, Scorsese’s examinations into the gangster lifestyle have no doubt been artistically fruitful for him, as he has been better able–or, perhaps more appropriately, more willing–to show the brutal realities perpetuated by members of the underworld. And yet, in this place of double crosses and deceptions (all for the intention of looking out for number one), as outlandish as it seems, a certain code of “noble” behavior becomes hopelessly entangled in the proceedings: that, at the very least, disreputable people ought to have the common decency to live up to that reliable classification and not turn out to be backstabbers–rats–working against fellow low lives. It’s a fascinating quandary, both absurd and unsettling to behold, and it’s one that Scorsese brings to the forefront in his (only) Oscar-winning film The Departed.
Universal buys the film rights for that Twilight fanfiction-turned-novel. Meanwhile, I weep for the gene pool.
Obviously the fact that some shitty Twilight fanfic was published and became a surprise bestseller means I should polish up all the fanfiction I wrote in high school and make bank.
I’m sure you can guess my feelings on the Twilight franchise; they’re right up there with my feelings on the MPAA. But they don’t come close to my feelings on this piece of shit story (“50 Shades of Grey”) with its atrocious writing. No, seriously, that is an actual excerpt. And just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, Universal and Focus Features bought the film rights.
Final ‘BIOSHOCK: INFINITE’ Heavy Hitter Revealed: The Siren
The final heavy hitter in BioShock: Infinite has been revealed, and it is my favorite to date. Levine and company have dropped the Siren on our asses, a enemy that’s guaranteed to turn me into a damage sponge as I try and vain to take her out.
Video: The Oatmeal and Sarah Donner Drop ‘The Motherf**king Pterodactyl’, Its Win Is Win.
I was trying to get some goddamn work done last night when my Significantly Better Half was giggling across the room. I thought maybe my balls had slipped out of their undies and were now dangling like the monsters gravity has turned them into. Not this time! She was laughing at this new video by the Oatmeal and Sarah Donner. It’s out of its heavy, and catchy to boot.
