I am right now (in between other, more decisively-deadlined jobs) hard at work on the next episode of "The Game OverThinker." It MIGHT take a little longer than I wanted it to take, read below to learn why...Every episode of "Game OverThinker" from the beginning until right now have been made entirely using two programs - one for manipulating images, one for arranging and editing video files - made by the same Very Famous Software Company. I won't use their name here because it's still slightly plausible that the problem might be my doing...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Friday, 28 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
I keep wanting to make the usual joke about whose blood Alicia Silverstone has been bathing in to still look exactly like she did over a decade ago today, and then I remember she actually is playing a vampire in this movie... which I can't make up my mind about: Does this look terrible or weirdly go...
I'm a "South Park" fan, but everyone could use a little dressing down now and then.Honestly, I whipped this up one night awhile ago and never put it on The Tubes because I didn't think it came out AS cutting or funny as I wanted it to be, overall. But the music I found makes it work out better, I think... but maybe I'm wrong. You tell me...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Bullied, overweight kid in Seattle is rescued from suicide by a sketchy slacker, who then decides they should form a punk band. Matthew Lillard directs.I get the sense that this will be a teenage movie I will actually like. I'm getting the sense that Lillard is turning into an interesting talent aga...
Monday, 24 September 2012
"Crave" is the feature directing debut of Charlie de Lauzirika, who's been one of the top-tier DVD producers for years now. The film was just awarded the Best Director (Next Wave) prize at Fantastic Fest.Big fan of his work, never met him personally (in reality, anyway, we'd had some friendly interactions on a long-gone movie chat outlet maybe ten years ago) but he's always struck me as one of the good ones. Good to see him make ...
Sunday, 23 September 2012
You may have heard that Badass Digest helmer Devin Faraci and "mumblecore" darling Joe Swanberg participated in one of Fantastic Fest's infamous "debates" over the weekend. If you're not familiar with the format, FF lets participants lay into eachother verbally in a conventional debate... then the opponents put on boxing gloves and settle up for real.Swanberg won the physical matchup rather definitively (you can see the footage after the jump) - he's a big guy with almost a foot on his opponent, and in Devin's own words he got "the piss beaten...
I'm being told on good authority that a Chinese film called "Lee's Adventure," billed as the big breakout vehicle for Jackie Chan's son and just screened at Fantastic Fest, is the next great "movie about video games." Based on an animated short, plot concerns a teenager with a bizarre mental affliction attempting to complete a game which he believes will allow him access to time-travel. Trailer below the ju...
Something fun, for your Sunday.I think "Muppet Babies" might be (by default) the closest to "overrated" any of the mainline Muppet productions ever got, mostly because it was probably a certain generation of kids first exposure to the characters. Absolutely not a BAD show, by any means, but watching it again now it's kind of unnavoidable that the ratio of preschool-moralizing to actual humor is a bit lopsided in the not-as-funny direction (also, yes... having all the character voices pitched so high starts to grate after a bit.)But, fond memories...
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Everyone else is running this, so I figure I might as well get my clicks while I can.In one of those developments that I'm sure I'll be hearing about as the "symbolic death of film journalism" at the next critic's meetup; major movie news has once again been (potentially) made by the release of a toy company's product schedule: LEGO has been giving retailers the heads-up as to their 2013 licensed products, and references therein seem to have let some possible-surprises slip a little early.One of them isn't all that much of a surprise (pretty...
Friday, 21 September 2012
Below, the trailer for "42," a biopic of Jackie Robinson (why haven't there been at least sixty of these by now??) with newcomer Chadwick Boseman in the lead and Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey. It looks good. The only thing worrying is the April release date - the pedigree (biopic, issue-oriented, aging legend playing historical figure in showy supporting part) practically screams "Oscar movie!!!;" so why is it opening after this years show and so long before next years.In any case, the film is due in April and they're already running trailers...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
I'm inclined to believe (at least partially) Clint Eastwood when he says that his surreal performance at the Republican Convention was mostly him fucking around at the expense of both the President and the people "dumb enough" to invite him to their convention. Okay, fine.That said, his "Invisible Obama" sketch has, intentionally or not, given Republicans a new racist effigy it can use to get it's point across i.e. rage at the Scary Black...
Our newest episode is now showing for all audiences on The Other Site and also on ScrewAttack!In EPISODE 75: "EASY DOES IT", we examine the modern controversy over "Easy Modes": do they really - as the lead designer of "Assassin's Creed III" recently claimed - "ruin games," or is there a vital place for them? In addition, we proudly announce that the next episode will be "Ask Ivan!" - wherein Ivan the Intern will answer questions to posted to the comments sections under the video itself or to this blog post (see...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
Another vid from The Escapist Expo, this was a straight-up Q&A panel featuring myself, "Miracle of Sound's" Gavin, LRR's Graham & Paul, Jim Sterling, Yahtzee, Dr. Mark Kline, "Critical Miss" artist Cory Rydell and Chris Pranger. There was actually another of these, not sure when that's going up.The Escapist : Escapist Expo : Q&A With The EscapistsFor the record: Here's the way that schticky "local sports humor" bit is supposed to work: 1.) Learn whatever the main "historic local sports rivalry" is. 2.) Do shout-outs to BOTH...
It's fittingly humbling that the first panel (that I know of) from the now-concluded Escapist Expo to hit in full-length video is "The Hour of Love;" which is one of the BEST panels (the premise: me, Yahtzee and Jim Sterling are forbidden from saying anything negative about anything the audience brings up, with Dr. Mark Kline onhand to keep us in line) but also about the least "professional" I managed to come off during the entire show.Despite what certain seemingly-incriminating photos may have suggested, my...
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Hey, remember when we saw "Green Lantern's" horrible costume for the first time and people said "uh-oh, this is a sign that the movie is going to suck?" And then other people said "No, wait and see, you can't extrapolate a terrible movie from a terrible design choice for the main character?" Yeah... "other people" turned out to be WRONG.Supposedly, THIS is the new Robocop. Presumably it's not a "complete" version of the costume (it comes without...
Friday, 14 September 2012
Hellooooooo potential worst film of the year!"Intermission" is about "Man of Steel."P.S. Apologies for not getting this up later - Escapist Expo is in full swing: 3 Panels today (Jim Sterling and Yahtzee Croshaw are, indeed, seriously cool cats in real life) plus hosting a live-screening (with "riff" commentary by yours truly) of "Flash Gordon" at night. Pretty damn awesome day, but also completely wiped out.The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Bran...
Close your eyes. Imagine what a trailer for a movie about Abraham Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg would look like, sound like, be paced like. I'll wait....Now, watch this trailer, and tell me this isn't EXACTLY what you pictured - right down to the soaring-on-cue score, large groups of people staring up in awe, slow fades to black as Very Serious Men turn toward or away from the came...
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Trailer #2 for "Wreck-It Ralph" gives us a bigger view of the plot and the characters (John C. Reilly seems to be hitting this out of the park voice-wise) and doubles down on the video-game references: Alongside previously-glimpsed Bowser, Zangief, Robotnik and Q*Bert you can now see Dig-Dug, Tapper, Sonic The Hedgehog and what some people are saying is an Arwing are popping up as well:People are saying they saw Yoshi in there, too, but I'm not seeing him. Even setting aside the cameos, there's just SO MUCH potential in this premise. And Jane Lynch...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
So... today is 9/11. I'm wondering when it will no longer feel "necessary" for my generation (or the generation right behind mine, for whom this is one of their first truly dark memories) to have some kind of "personal eulogy" for the day. Maybe never. Maybe the 24/7 news cycle and the internet have made that kind of "oh, right - that's today" reaction obsolete.I lost the last of my grandparents a few months ago. I wonder, now, if this is how they felt during the annual "oh, right..." moments of Pearl Harbor. I wish I'd thought to ask one...
Monday, 10 September 2012
Sunday, 9 September 2012
There are two types of people in the world: Thinkers and Believers.To my overseas readers: If you're ever struggling to understand why Americans behave like we do, it's primarily because our national psyche is fundamentally schizophrenic - we're a nation born in bottom-against-top revolution, and we still haven't quite figured out how to reconcile our self-image ("scrappy underdog") with our post-WWII "Superpower" status. You can see this divided-mindset in the platform of the Republican Party as embodied (this week, anyway) by Mitt Romney; which...
Friday, 7 September 2012
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Huh. Y'know, I kinda thought this project was over and done with when the first one bombed - I mean... The Market had spoken, no?In any case, they seem to have aquired a whole new cast, and it looks like the low budget is going to be even more apparent now that the bigger scifi stuff starts showing up in the story. For those of you only tangentially familiar with the material - no, believe it or not The MacGuffin seen in this trailer is not a new addition to the story: The supposed "Right-Wing Bible" of American political philosophy really does...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Barack Obama... strikes me as a nice guy. Certainly the best viable option to be President, heart in the right place on most things, decent politician, guy I'm almost-definitely going to vote for.That said, as anyone who watched the DNC tonight can attest... there's still only one King.(image inspired by tweet from @MichaelKuzmanov)...
So... Devin Faraci is getting torn-apart on Twitter and on his own website for posting (well, more for posting and being enthusiastic about it) a "no texting during the movie" bumper from FrightFest (horror movie festival) that is, to put it mildly, pitch-dark stuff. I'm not going to embed it here - not because I believe in "censorship" necessarily but because I DO take things like "Trigger Warnings" seriously and I'm not comfortable putting it up where someone might click it without wanting to. But, this IS one of "the" movie-geek discussions...
20 years ago today, EVERYTHING changed. September 5th, 1992 was one of the most quietly-epic days in the history of not only animation and comics but of the modern-day Geek Culture: the television debut of "Batman: The Animated Series." It was a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of good fortune: Warner Bros. was so eager to get ANY Batman-related toon onto afternoon TV to drive the brand in-between the movies, the production team on this series got an unprecedented level of creative freedom for such an important project... and the results...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
There will come a day when even I am finally tired of "Movies that sounds like parodies but played totally straight so that fellow prospective audience-members who aren't in on the irony are part of the joke" filmmaking. But it is not this day...Y'know what I love most about this trailer? More than HALF of it seems to be shots of weapons being opened, loaded, unfolded, cocked, drawn or assembled. Remember when the joke was that people in action movies never reloaded their guns, and now there's more reloading than shooti...
Monday, 3 September 2012
Has-been B-movie fixture and Total Gym spokesperson Chuck Norris (and the missus) have hit the web once more with a bizzare video message urging Evangelical Christians to turn out on election day and stop Barack Obama (whose name Mrs. Norris intones in the manner of a dismayed peasant maiden lamenting a long-problematic dragon in a fantasy novel) from being re-elected. If their efforts fail, we are informed, America faces "A Thousand Years of Darkness."So, hey - good job, willing patrons of "The Expendables 2," in kicking a few more coins toward...
I've been waiting on "The Comedy," which now has a proper teaser-trailer, for awhile now - pretty much ever since it caused a storm of walk-outs and furious rebukes at Sundance. I've heard it described as an anti-mumblecore mumblecore movie, in that it's another "observational comedy" about priviliged white male hipsters... where the principal "observation" is that priviliged white male hipsters are frequently such terrible fucking people: The film stars comedian and certified secret-badass Tim Heidecker of "Tim &...
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