So Ben sent me this youtube the other day. For those of you who appreciate the subtle art of PG-ifying movies, who marvelled when TBS changed “hot beef injection” into “hot wild affection” in the Breakfast club, you’ll love this video.
This IS CAKE TOWN!
Delicious!

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So, there’s a few movies I’m excited to see. One of them is Stardust - at one point it was my favourite Neil Gaiman novel (although, Neverwhere has since resumed that hallowed position). Slated to come out this this August (on the 10th, to be specific), the trailer is now online. I’ll admit that the [...]

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Wow, like the guy who wrote this post on the Star Wars hotel, I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of this. The site of Luke’s childhood on Tatooine turns out to be a real place in Tunisia! These buildings are called ksars and they are carved out of sandstone - they used to be [...]

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So just found out (I know it’s old news, but I’m old too) that Hellboy 2 is now under way (thanks scifichick). Thankfully Guillermo del Toro will be heading up this one, too. I really like every movie I’ve seen by him - although I’ll have to go with Pan’s Labyrinth as the top of [...]

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I wanted to follow up my last list of 8 with another one. This time I’m going out on a limb and putting forth my 8 favourite fight scenes. There is no objective criteria for this pick, these are just scenes that I think are awesome. It is not a comment on the movie as [...]

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If you like movies and you like dvd’s, check out The Criterion Contraption. One man’s mission to watch and review each of the Criterion discs. I only have most of the Kurosawa discs in my collection, but they’re great. And this guy’s reviews are pretty serious, a ton of effort goes into it and if [...]

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Ok, I saw 300 last night. I’ve been waiting for this movie for ever, avidly following along its production blog and watching it come together. The graphic novel is one of my favourite of all times. Here’s the thing - I was so psyched to see the movie for so long that it was almost [...]

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Don’t forget it’s DST time this weekend! All my servers are already updated, suckaz.
Alright! It’s movie morning here. We’ll start with these completely awesome R2D2 mail boxes. They’re here to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars but sadly won’t be out on the streets - I guess just in the post offices themselves. I [...]

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UPDATE 2: Saw the movie! Yay for me! Check out my review of 300.
UPDATE: So, because it’s been a long time since I was this psyched for a movie, all the IMAX shows were sold out through friday at least and my wife understands these foibles of mine, I’ve got our tickets for thursday at [...]

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It’s monday, so there’s art.
Well, I’m excited to see Paprika, an upcoming movie by Satoshi Kon. I haven’t seen any of his other work, not Paranoia Agents, nor Tokyo Godfathers, nor anything. But this one looks pretty amazing and he was interviewed in the issue 46 of Giant Robot. His first words are this:
A lot [...]

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