Movie of His Dark Materials will start production on September 4th / November 16th 2007 release
Dakota Blue Richards will play Lyra - still hope for Nicole Kidman as Mrs Coulter
New Snakes on a Plane trailer on Yahoo Movies
Y’know, I’m beginning to think “How much more amazing would this have been if they’d gotten Delroy Lindo instead of Samuel L. Jackson?”
Kevin Smith producing a theater-only commentary track for Clerks II
Download an MP3, listen to it on your iPod while in the cinema. Neat way to encourage repeat viewings.
Tom Farrell - Funniest Irish Blogger
Now I only saw five minutes of this film but it was enough to convince me of what a desperate desperate place Seventies Britain was. Did they really queue in line for this? Maybe the commies weren’t so crazy after all, at least queuing for bread serves some sort of purpose, what’s the point of [...]
First clips from Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine” online
Looks a lot less low-budget/more high-concept than I was expecting
Balls to Google
“Hey H., you know what would be awesome? A service where you could register a group of friends’ phone numbers, then when you’re out and about, you text your location to a server and your friends could text the server and find out where all their friends are.”
“You mean like Dodgeball?”
I search for [...]
DVD Inbox
My DVD inbox - movies I haven’t seen or whose DVDs special features I haven’t watched - has grown to 60 DVDs. I figure this is a good time to take a look through the list and see what’s going on. Maybe figure out why I’m having such trouble getting through them. If you’re interested, the full list is
Amazon: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The book isn’t even published yet, but the screenplay has been bought by Brad Pitt’s production company. Still, awesome title.
Douglas Coupland’s JPod
I finished reading Douglas Coupland’s JPod last night. Here are a couple of my theories regarding this book:
Douglas Coupland is completely out of ideas and is gently strolling down the David Sedaris route of desperately presenting the most mundane situations and ideas as innovative. Not only that, but he knows it. [...]
Point - Counterpoint
Critics:
“Frighteningly bad cinema is the only thing scary about Alone in the Dark, which gives video-game movies an even worse name, if that’s possible.”
“They say that even ugly babies have faces their mothers love, but this is truly a film that not even hardcore genre fans could appreciate.”
“Saying Uwe Boll’s Alone in the Dark [...]
Awesome Pyramid Head t-shirt
Also a lot of love for the “maestro” and “weak spot” shirts
My Xbox 360 has a blog
… and it’s a total fag.
Wanna be a Freetar Hero?
Someone in work pointed me to Freetar Hero - a free PC-based replacement for Guitar Hero. Nothing really new there, there’s been a few out there already. But what sets this apart is the awesome new Freetar Editor, which allows you to create your own levels from your MP3 collection.
As this video [...]
