Set Photos: ‘The Hobbit’ Gets Some Shire Love.
Every once in a while I remember that The Hobbit is going down. I get momentarily excited before this fact drifts deeper into my unconscious again. Today I remembered!, courtesy of some quality set photos.
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OCTOBERFEAST – Christopher Lee
Lo! The vortex on the horizon – do you see it? Surely you must! It’s a gargantuan cyclone, an indomitable mass of swirling purple and orange and black. Those protesters who’ve spent the last month screaming at the revelers, naysaying and posturing themselves above the traditions of candied-chaos? Well, they’ll be summarily swept away, fallen victim to the natural disaster that’s been summoned by the OCTOBERFEAST celebrants to end the festival most tempestuously.
It’s the Tornado of Souls.
Look closer! At the top of the soul-storm is a wicker chair, stationery despite its position. The twister slowly diminishes as makes its way towards the campgrounds, giving all present parties a better view of both the chair and the individual sitting in it. He is aged but regal. Grey-haired but black-hearted. Avuncular but assailing.
Riding into the grand finale of the OCTOBERFEAST on a goddamn tornado-chair, this is figure represents evil incarnate in a way no other ever has.
This man is Christopher Lee. And he’s responsible for more cinematic villainy than anyone else on the planet.
Video: ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’ Gets Halloween Trailer, References French Revolution.
The uncomfortably objectifying yet sadly fucking irresistible to my fat-male-brain Lollipop Chainsaw has gotten a new trailer dropped specifically for good old Halloween. It’s what you’d expect: madness, sexuality and…a French Revolution reference? Couldn’t help but laugh.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Remake Of ‘Logan’s Run’ Gets A Writer. Nice.
Nicolas Winding Refn can do whatever he wants. I’ll be there. Arms wide open. Drive was a male-ovaries swelling ballad of art house destruction and sheen, and after that flick I’m ready to pick up whatever he’s putting down. He’s involved with a Logan’s Run remake which has recently picked up a writer.
Video: Boston Dynamics Is Building A Real Cylon. We Learn *Nothing*.
The people behind the robotic Hounds of Hell are now bringing about a fucking headless robot Cylcon future-annihilator. My lord.
Hit the jump to see our destroyer.
Cepheus Flare Is Cosmic Halloween Treat.
iOS Game Helps Disabled Girl Get Operation Allowing Her To Walk. Future x Charity = Awesome.
Grace Windrum is a five-year old with cerebral palsy. Her parents needed £50,000 (I don’t know what that translates to in American Empire credits) for an operation that would allow her to walk with crutches for the first time. That’s where Big Ideas Digital came in.
Monday Morning Commute: The Eye of Samhain
Samhain is upon us! Let’s scream paeans at the top of our lungs and imbibe pumpkin-elixirs and hand out candy to the ghoulish younglings terrorizing our suburban sanctuaries! This is the day we reserve to celebrate autumnal bliss!
Unfortunately, Halloween falls on a Monday this year. Which is lame. But as always, we can ward off the malignant spirits of the workweek by paying tribute to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE – this is the weekly post where I show you what I’ll be doing to entertain myself so as to survive five days of job-related drudgery. After you check out the treats in my pillowcase, hit up the comments section and share your own!
Let’s get to two-steppin’!
THIS WEEK ON The Walking Dead: Save the Last One
We start this week’s episode with a simple scene. Shane is shaving his head like it’s his first day in Leavenworth and he wants to suck up to the white supremacists. Its short, it’s concise and it sends a clear message; “This is where the episode will end up.” Then we are greeted with another voice over. Rick is telling Lori a story about how Shane was a pimp in high school and he got all the ladies. Great, he was O’Bannon, we get it, stop with the voice overs, you’re not Michael Westin. This episode dealt with more storylines than any previous ones, so there was a lot of jumping around. Because of that, this write up will also be jumping around, try to keep up.
FBI Considers Juggalos To Be National Threat. Fascist Pigs!
The Juggalos are a beautiful national blight that I’m glad exist. A reminder of the banal hyperreality consumer driven identification scheme we all partake in. The FBI? They’re not really feeling them. At all.
