Actor Vincent Gallo, of Buffalo 66 fame has just signed with Warp records on the merits of the score he composed for that film.
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. So, who Killed The Electric Car?
Fight of the universe, Chapter 5: Neo vs Robocop.
I’m looking forward to Ratatouille already.
Stars before they were stars. Including Belgium’s very own Jean-Claude Vandamme.
A terrifying message from Al Gore (and Bender)
Michel Gondry’s latest looks wonderfully trippy.
Seventies [kung-fu flick][1] is the inspiration for [Wu-Tang clan][2] (check the respective cast and track listings) and somehow ends up as [a real sport][3] which cites its origins as an Enki Bilal comic book. The plot thickens…
[1]: http://imdb.com/title/tt0199813/ (Ninja Checkmate (1979) [site language: English]) [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers) (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [site language: English]) [3]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=chessboxing (ESPN.com - E-Ticket: By Hook Or By Rook [site language: English])
[Chad Vader][1] – Day Shift Manager
[1]: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0 (YouTube - Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1) [site language: English])
If you haven’t seen the excellent fast-food documentary Supersize Me, now you can. The whole film can be viewed online.
Truly amazing: the oil industry pays for dumb/boring viral video smearing Al Gore. They must feel extremely threatened.
Yes, yet another star wars video: Pitching Lucas. What would the films have been like with studio executives in the mix?
James Cameron’s first foray into the world of science-fiction – a short film he made in 1978: Xenogenesis
Al Gore will be present in Brussels on October 8th to introduce his film: An inconvenient truth.
A film about the last days of the government’s utopian “administrative city” in Brussels will be [showing soon][1] at the Arenberg cinema.
[1]: http://www.arenberg.be/dev/newfilm.php?film=23 (Histoire(s) d'une utopie a vendre [site language: French])
Ever since the world ended...
Hollywood is the second largest polluter in the Los Angeles area. The full report is online. (thanks Dimitri)
Best [fight scene][1] ever…
[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY (YouTube - Best fight scene of all time (is this gay?))
John Boorman has made a film about the ugly side of ‘new Ireland’. It’s always seemed pretty obvious to me, maybe rose-tinted glasses are more common than I thought.
The American science teachers’ association has refused free copies of the film An inconvenient truth for classroom viewing as it may conflict with some of their financial supporters. One of them being Exxon.
update : and a well-deserved worst person in the world award.
French guerilla promotion for the film Fast Food Nation. The text translates as: Help yourself! You don’t usually ask yourself so many questions.
Hot Fuzz, the new film from the creators of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead.
David Lynch wants to get in your bloodstream
And here’s my christmas present to you, straight from the b-movie archives of 1964: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
And here’s my christmas Newtonmas present to you, straight from the b-movie archives of 1964: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
New Zealand has got a successor to Peter Jackson. Beware of the sheep!
New Zealand has got a successor to Peter Jackson. Beware of the sheep!
Neal Stephenson is getting the TV treatment, I hope he’s more lucky than William Gibson. The Diamond Age is a fantastic novel and doesn’t deserve to be defaced on screen.
Forget the film, watch the titles.
I don’t know what to say. Some people scare me.
Michael Crichton, the world’s most popular technophobe.
You’ve seen the iPhone TV advert, now identify the movies.
Belgian defense minister [flies in an army helicopter][1] to see Al Gore’s film. Can it get more surreal? (thanks Xavier)
[1]: http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=10&subid=90&art_id=336410 (Air Flahaut : Bierset-Evere-Hasselt (A/R) - Lalibre.be [site language: French])
Hollywood’s new hero: the environment. Ah, just bring back Toxic Avenger.
Douglas Coupland hits the big screen.
I spent many a late night laughing my head off to the MST3K team’s running commentary over old B-movies and now they’re back, selling MP3 tracks you can play back over more recent fodder like this one.
The trailer for Michel Gondry’s latest: Be Kind Rewind.
The Kingdom looks like it could be an interesting film, the opening credits are worth a watch anyway.
Troma, champions of the Z-Movie, have a channel on Joost.
I really enjoyed Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, hopefully having Gus Van Sant behind the movie will avoid yet another hopeless book adaptation.
I really enjoyed Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, hopefully having Gus Van Sant behind the movie will avoid yet another hopeless book adaptation.
The tragedy of Tarantino: he has proved his critics right.
Why does Hollywood keep making the same films?
New Tron Legacy trailer, looking forward to this.
New Tron Legacy trailer, looking forward to this.
British illustrator Richard Wilkinson creates insects based on characters like Bugs Bunny or Jason Voorhees.
Fascinating look into how sounds in film are produced. As well as a custom house built to do the work.
Some filmmakers can do action, others can do comedy. And this video shows why Jackie Chan is one of the rare people to combine them well.
Greyhound buses, emblematic of a bygone era in American travel, have left an indelible mark on the collective imagination, gracing the frames of classic films and the pages of literary works. In this article, Joanna Pocock follows in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir as she crosses the country by bus, only to encounter a transport network that's now a mere spectre of its former glory.
Reading this, I was surprised to learn that Greyhound now belongs to cheap German bus company Flixbus. That's quite a fall.
The accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of people at the top of the pyramid gradually engulfs everything.
The money produced by art has not disappeared. The issue is not that the people of the world value television less than they did in the 1990s. The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case.
