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| Friday, June 17, 2011 12:10 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Empire Online lists the 22 most bad-ass beards in cinema. Nice picks!
- That is one fine teacup. Ia! Ia!
- Know those decals some people have in their car windows, featuring a cartoon depiction of each member of the family? Kinda cheesy, right? Here's a funnier, less cheesy spin on it.
- Mr. Dan Hipp celebrates the Green Lantern, and other green heroes and villains from throughout pop culture history. Speaking of Green Lantern, here's the Onion A.V. Club review of the new animated movie, and Ebert's review of the new live-action movie. Sounds like neither movie is all that great, but I still might have to watch them eventually, just because.
- Loving this Godzilla animated gif. (Via)
- Quentin Tarantino's western, Django Unchained, has a release date! It's December 25, 2012. Merry Christmas!
- The Academy is changing the Best Picture nomination process yet again so that there can now be anywhere from 5 to 10 nominees each year, depending on how many movies receive first place votes on 5 percent of total ballots cast. Wha? Why don't we just go back to 5, guys? That was working fine for a long time.
- Check out Sam Bosma's site - he's been doing sketches of characters from the Song of Ice and Fire books lately.
- This ad for the new Legend of Zelda game featuring Robin Williams and his daughter Zelda (who apparently was actually named after the princess) is pretty darn cute.
- A Pontiac built with an entirely transparent, Plexiglass exterior for the 1939 New York World's Fair is going up for auction and has been appraised at a price between $275,000 and $475,000. Click through for some awesome pictures.
- I'm mostly over impressive replicas of things in cake form, but this Millennium Falcon cake has working lights!!
- The Wolverine has a new director and it is James "Not Darren Aronofsky" Mangold. Hmm. I've seen a handful of Mangold's films. Of those, Cop Land was the only really good one. Identity and 3:10 to Yuma were both well done but had disappointing endings. So I guess we'll see!
- Watch the red band trailer for Attack the Block, which is a sci-fi/action/comedy featuring Nick Frost and South London hoodlums versus aliens. Fun! (Via Blastr, a site that cleverly got the movie's title wrong in its headline. Sigh.)
- The most bad-ass way to chop lettuce ever.
- The rotary mechanical smartphone.
- Another fun Super Punch image roundup. My favorite is the hipster Jesus sign. The whale shark thing is just horrifying.
- Amazing photograph of an Irish castle.
- In case you missed it when I posted it to Twitter, a gallery of amazing illustrations by Blade Runner concept artist Syd Mead. (Via)
- So what's all this Pottermore stuff about? It appears to be official, from J.K. Rowling herself, and the obvious implication is that we can expect more Harry Potter. Possibly it's just referring to an encyclopedia, which isn't all that exciting. But still... squee? Anyway, while we're talking Harry Potter, check out the latest trailer for the last movie. It is mighty exciting, and the emotional opening nearly made me break down at my desk here.
- I enjoyed this latest post from the mostly-quiet-lately defective yeti.
- Hee hee. More amusing (and not-so-safe-for-work) sketches from the mighty Kate Beaton.
- Did you see that Comic Twart is doing Princess Bride? Anybody want a peanut?
- Ooh, they've cast Bard and Smaug in The Hobbit! Benedict Cumberbatch, who made a very fine Sherlock Holmes in the recent BBC TV series, will play the part of the dragon. I'm not familiar with the dude playing Bard (Luke Evans), but he certainly looks the part.
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| Monday, February 28, 2011 10:18 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- You can stream The Mountain Goats' new album, All Eternals Deck, in its entirety on NPR. Good stuff, but occasionally just depressing. So yeah, standard Mountain Goats.
- Another new preview for Game of Thrones. Longer! Still looking good!
- A very serious, dramatic, and action-packed ad for the new Thundercats show.
- A look at the swords of The Legend of Zelda.
- I've been trying to avoid posting casting rumors anymore, because they so often turn out to be BS, but man, I'd love to see Viggo Mortensen as General Zod.
- Here's a trailer for a Spanish film supposedly inspired by Lovecraft, although the only obviously Lovecraftian thing in it (and, coincidentally, the only interesting thing in it) is Cthulhu, who shows up at the end.
- Super Punch gives us a fun image roundup.
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is a pretty intriguing-looking iPad game. For those of you with iPads. *sob*
- Alex Robinson draws Frank Miller's Batman from The Dark Knight Returns.
- Game|Life interprets the visual warnings in the instruction manual for Nintendo's new 3DS.
- Cinematical/Moviefone runs down the winners of the Razzies and the Oscars. I'm glad to see The Last Airbender (my review) was roundly excoriated, and that one of the few Best Picture nominees that I actually saw (and enjoyed very much) won the award (The King's Speech). I don't usually enjoy Natalie Portman's performances, but I have to admit she was really good in Black Swan and probably deserves her statue. Toy Story 3 (my review) was obviously going to win Best Animated Feature Film, but again, well deserved. I also love that Trent Reznor has an Oscar now (and for one of my favorite albums of 2010, no less!). Who would have guessed that was going to happen back in the '90s, huh?
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| Tuesday, February 2, 2010 09:50 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Above is a fun new trailer for Clash of the Titans. Interestingly, it looks like they're shaping the story around an underlying conflict between the Gods and humanity. (Via)
- There's going to be a new movie based on The Shadow, and Sam Raimi will produce and possibly direct. Can't say I'm all that pleased by this news. I realize I'm nearly alone in saying this, but I think Raimi only made one or two good movies in his entire career, and those were many years ago. Plus, I really liked the previous Shadow film, starring Alec Baldwin.
- Apparently Syfy's Tin Man and Alice both did well in the ratings, so the station will follow those up with five more classic fairy tale updates, including Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, and Beauty and the Beat. (Via)
- I'm not quite sure how I feel about the President's proposed changes to the space program. But I do like the idea of focusing on R&D, and on going to Mars and other, more distant planets, instead of returning to the moon. Because seriously people, we're going to have to find another planet to live on relatively soon.
- Interesting details from director Joe Johnston on what the Captain America movie will be like: "The film will begin 'in 1942, 1943' during World War II. 'The stuff in the '60s and '70s [comic books] we're sort of avoiding. We're going back to the '40s, and then forward to what they're doing with Captain America now.'"
- I'm not a big papercraft guy, but this recreation of the iPad presentation is pretty great.
- AT-AT racing!
- A new trailer for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4.
- Zachary Quinto may play George Gershwin in a biopic directed by Steven Spielberg.
- For some reason, despite the fact that I love martial arts films, I have yet to see any of the Ong Bak films. I really have to correct that one of these days. Anyway, here's the trailer for Ong Bak 3. Looks like Ong's Back... with a vengeance!! Boom! There's your catchphrase. You can have that one for free. Actually, it looks like dude is some kind of violent Jesus. Fun! I wish they'd up their sound effects budget, though. I think they used just the one hitting sound effect over and over and over again in that trailer.
- The Oscar nominations have been announced. I've seen only a small fraction of the Best Picture nominees, but of those, I definitely support The Hurt Locker for the win. And hey, Coraline got nominated for Best Animated Feature Film! Cool. But I really kind of can't believe Sandra Bullock got nominated for Best Actress. Guh.
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by Hulk
