OnelargeprawnCreated by Jake Armstrong as his thesis film at the School of Visual Arts, The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! is a brilliantly-told sci-fi-noir of a bounty hunter who seeks a monster that has become a plague to a tiny planet.
All is not as it seems though as the bounty hunter faces off against the terrible thing. I don’t want to give it away, so check it out below.
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We’ve featured a couple of Star Wars mashups on the blog, most notably Han Solo, P.I. We haven’t really covered much in the way of Star Trek aside from mentioning that smut magazine Hustler have made a XXX parody called This Ain’t Star Trek.
And we’d like to take a step in correcting the imbalance by showing you this – a movie mashup of the funniest Monty Python song, “Knights of the Round Table”, performed by the cast of Star Trek. Check it out below.
[Thanks Lucy!]
Ah so much nostalgia. Sitting round the TV on wintry Saturday afternoons eating Corn Curls, drinking Sparletta Cherry Plum and watching David Carradine in Kung Fu and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Those were the days man. Needless to say I was very sad to hear that David Carradine famous for playing Kwai Chang Caine and Bill in Kill Bill had topped himself in a hotel room in Bangkok. There is much speculation as to whether like INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence, David Carradine didn’t actually mean to hang himself, but rather died as the result of a (solo?) sex act gone wrong.
Whatever happened, I think David Carradine was a fantastic actor and had a certain charisma about him that made even corny kung fu TV shows seem special.
Goodbye Grasshopper and good luck for whatever comes next.
Sacha Baron Cohen never fails to amuse me. The star of the upcoming movie Brüno made a hilarious entrance in the MTV Movie Awards. As he soared into the auditorium with wings strapped on his back, he seemed to hit the rigging, strained his sugar lumps, and splashed down on top of unwitting rapper Eminem. I don’t know if this was ‘planned’ not but Bruno landed face down with his balls in Eminem’s face! Epic win!
Watch the video below. If it gets removed due to copyright infringements, you can try HERE or HERE.
Brüno’s delivered the best male performance ever, but Eminem didn’t take the joke too well and left the stage disgusted. He obviously didn’t get the memo.
BONUS: The 2009 MTV Movie Award winners can be found at Channel 24.
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A little over a week ago, we posted about Reach, an endearing short had been shortlisted in the the National Film Board of Canada’s online competition at this year’s Cannes Short Film Corner. Reach was up against nine other finalists with internet votes deciding the winner. And the Internet has spoken – after more than 170,000 views and nearly 8,000 votes from all over the globe, the winning film has been announced.
Taking first prize is Sebastian’s Voodoo directed by Paraguayan-born Joaquin Baldwin. The animated drama tells the story of a voodoo doll that must save its friends from being pinned to death. Check it out below or watch it in high quality at YouTube.
What did you think? Drop us a comment and let us know.
I like Guy Ritchie, he’s made some stonking flicks. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are two of my favourite; Swept Away, on the other hand was one film I wish I had never seen, kinda like that red rash on my testicles. In any case, Mr Ritchie seems to be back on wining ways with his reinvention of the enigmatic English detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been happy to see on-and-off drug addict Robert Downey Jr playing the pipe-smoking character and nanny-bonking Jude Law playing Holmes’ assistant, Dr Watson. Check out the trailer below or go to Trailer Addict.
I was expecting a dour mystery set in the foggy alleyways of London, but this seems as action-filled as any James Bond flick. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising considering Holmes is a masterful singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman. The movie is due out in December 2009.
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In 2005, you followed the antics of an endearing bunch of New York City zoo animals who journeyed from captivity from to the jungles of Madagascar. Now roll on the sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, where it is time for Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) to leave Madagascar and head back home to New York. The self-engrossed lemur King Julien XIII (Sacha Baron Cohen) and trusted advisor Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) tag along as well. They’ll be flying aboard the rickety Air Penguin airline, where safety comes last. Piloted by always entertaining Skipper (Tom McGrath) and his fellow penguins, the airplane experiences trouble mid-flight, and crash-lands in the wilds of Africa.
More about the African safari after the jump.
I was speaking to a bunch of friends last night and none of them had heard of District 9. That was not the answer I was looking for, considering I didn’t know what the frack it was either. Until now.
Produced by Peter Jackson, District 9 is the directorial debut of Jackson’s protege and South African born Neill Blomkamp. In this mysterious sci-fi flick, it seems that Johannesburg, South Africa has become a haven for refugees, both human and extraterrestrial.
Shot in a faux-documentary style, District 9 is slated for release August 14th, 2009. Check out the uncensored trailer below or watch it in HD at Apple.com.
From the teaser, I assume that the big-ass alien ship has run out of petrol and can’t leave the earth, so it begs the question – why would the visitors from outer space be forced to live in a shantytown when they could stay aboard their ship? There must be more to this and I’m very interested to find out.
The official website d-9.com with its media-rich interface allows you to either enter the human side or non-human side and provides a lot of information, most of which I don’t understand or know what to do with. I chose the non-human side and entered an obviously false alien ID. Alarm bells started ringing, things were scanned, I was told my connection was being monitored, and got redirected to some company called Multi-National United. The plot thickens…
[via Digital Citizen]
Whether you like him or not, Quentin Tarantino has made some knockout movies. And Brooklyn-based video group Eclectic Method has created a 7-minute mashup of your favourite Tarantino flicks. It’s a melting pot of extreme violence, gun play, retro dancing, and the sweet sight of blood spliced together and accompanied by a mix of different tracks featured in his films. The words you’re looking for are “fucking awesome!”
Check it out below or watch it in HD at Vimeo.
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Somewhere out there, a person’s (wet) dream has just been realized. Hustler is due to release a Star Trek porno a few days after the new film drops.
Hustler will boldly go where many had gone before, and their much-anticipated magnum opus entitled This Ain’t Star Trek XXX and will be available for download on May 12th. Check out the trailer [SFW].
Incidentally, of the more than 100 offenders the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit arrested between 2001 and 2005, all but one had been a hard-core Trekkie. It doesn’t mean that watching Star Trek makes you a paedophile; it does mean that if you’re a pedophile, odds are you’ve watched a lot of Star Trek :silly:
[via The Daily What]