Christopher Walken roasts a chicken
Only Christopher Walken can take something sissy-ish like roasting a chicken and make it look menacing.
New business idea
A couple of weeks ago, I said I was thinking of getting rid of my DVD collection. I mentioned this to a couple of friends over dinner at the weekend, and we hit on another way to make money from them.
A new project was born:
Filmwad - Watchmen Cast Revealed!
Billy Crudup aside, I think the best casting a bunch of (relative) unknowns is the best thing that could have happened to this movie. Although I would have liked to see Neil McDonagh as Ozymandias - he’s particularly good at playing loathesome cunts.
Writer and director of Disturbia doing film of Y: The Last Man?
Despite some huge faults, I really enjoyed Disturbia, so the movie would be in good hands. And I have my fingers crossed they can bring Shia LeBeouf in to play Yorick.
Trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie "The Darjeeling Limited"
The template is getting a little stale now. I still think Rushmore is the best thing he’s done.
Summer Reading
I finished reading the new Harry Potter yesterday. The last 200 pages were read by the pool while working on my tan. And it’s made me think - of all the books I’ve read in the last few years, my favourites have all been the ones that I’ve read while sunbathing. [...]
Summer is here
Well, summer has certainly begun here. And it’s almost making me wish we’d been sent to Addis Ababa instead. There, it’s a relatively cool 20°C. That’s not so different from Dublin. Except for the slightly increased risk of malaria.
Artist’s impression of me, today:
Trailer for the movie "The Last Legion"
Is this a joke? I honestly can’t tell. And take a look at the cast list - did every British actor suddenly decide to take a pay day? Christ.
They eat horses, don’t they?
Nike+
For all the marketing fuckery, the Nike+ is a nice piece of kit. After my 60GB iPod died, I bought a refurbished iPod Nano and figured while I was at it, I may as well spring the extra $30 for the Nike+ pack (for the record, you don’t need Nike trainers to use [...]
Quicktime Tips
If your quicktime gets its knickers in a twist and starts taking forever to open files, it’s probably a busted codec. You could spend hours installing and reinstalling the various bits and pieces, or you could just do the smart thing and install Perian.
Very useful, strangely undocumented feature: If your movie is too quiet, [...]
NEVER FORGET
Princess Bride actors: 20 years later
Warning: depressing as hell.
Xbox 360 in Transformers
Is Michael Bay on Microsoft’s payroll?
I counted no fewer than three Microsoft references in The Island.
And now, in Transformers, there’s another one. This really is a case of blink-and-you-miss it. When we went to see the movie last week, I spotted it, but H. didn’t. In the movie, Shia LeBouf [...]
George Lucas wearing a ‘Han shot first’ t-shirt
This is why I respect George Lucas - he’s never afraid to fuck with the minds of rabid Star Wars fans.
Simplify Media - Connect Your iTunes
Replacing lost functionality in iTunes: the ability to share your library over the internet. Hooray!
Trailer for "Get Smart"
There’s some inspired casting here - Steve Carrell as Maxwell Smart, Ann Hathaway as Agent 99, Alan Arkin as the Chief.
Edge’s 100 Greatest Videogames
Edge Magazine (still the best videogame magazine out there) recently published its top 100 videogames of all time. It’s pretty interesting reading and, being Edge, there are a few questionable decisions. But this is what I love about Edge - they occasionally do some wild stuff, but always back it up with [...]
Secret of the Incas
I don’t think anyone actually understands how psyched I am for the release of the new Indiana Jones film next year. When I was younger and my age was still in single digits, I used to wake up extra early so I could go downstairs and watch all of Indiana Jones and the [...]
Sony Confirms PS3 Price Cut (1up.com)
Now the bellyachers have one less thing to uh… bellyache about. No idea how long this will take to trickle down to Europe though.
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