Friday, 18 February 2011

New Thor Trailer! (say that 3 times fast!)


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
By all the gods! Words cannot express how excited I am for this movie!

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Hanna (or another film about a little girl being a highly skilled killer)


From the IMDB page 
Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

It seems that Saoirse Ronan is starting her Atonment for the piece of crap that was The Lovely Bones (if you liked that you're either a little girl or a pedophile, and that's science) and is also rumored to be playing an elven warrior in the Hobbit adaptation, and that i can dig. I for one will be waiting for this movie, how about you?

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Noise du Jour: Coil - Main Title (Unreleased Hellraiser Theme)


While Clive Barker was writing the story "The Hellbound Heart" that would eventually become Hellraiser, he visited his acquaintances in the experimental music group Coil. Barker was a fan -- he once described Coil as "the only group I've heard on disc, whose records I've taken off because they made my bowels churn." And yes, that was a compliment. The story goes that Coil loaned Barker a stack of extreme bodypiercing magazines that inspired the birth of, you guessed it, Pinhead. Barker later invited Coil to compose the soundtrack for the Hellraiser film. Coil did their magic on the score but, ultimately, the Hollywood studio went with the safe (and far less sinister) sounds of Christopher Young. Of course, Young did a respectable job but, well, it isn't Coil. Here is a taste of what could have been. Tracks from that project appear on the Coil collection "Unnatural History II" and the very limited "Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser" cassette, vinyl, or CD. (Rest in peace, Sleazy and John.) 

Little Gamers + Dead Space 2 = Been There!

System requirements - Diapers (click to enbiggen)

Be sure to check more Little Gamers comics at their site

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Monday, 7 February 2011

I for one welcome our mecha ridinn' hamster overlords


Via CrabFu ArtWorks:
The hamster powered? that's just stupid, which is the exact reason why I did it. It's different, hasn't been done before, yet it's in so many what's-under-the-hood jokes. It also had a high likelyhood of working, so I had to attempt it. Only problem: I don't have a hamster, I don't want a hamster for a pet, and I don't know what sort of power and weight a little critter like that has. All I know is that I've seen them go ballistic on the hamster wheel, and so they must have great weight to power ratio. 
It's a mixture of cute and creepy. Yeah, creepy the legs on the mecha are pretty disconcerting to me. Anyhow, love to have one of those.

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Neil Gaiman’s 1994 safe sex PSA starring Death from Sandman and John Constantine

Via io9:
In 1994, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean of Sandman created this HIV awareness PSA comic designed for a high school readership. The comic starred everyone's favorite goth anthropomorphic depiction of Death, an abashed John Constantine, and a banana.
Sadly, this comic didn't spur a series of Vertigo-themed PSAs. I would've liked to have seen the Spider Jerusalem anti-drug, booze, and prolapse-inducing firearm ad. After all, his get-out-the-vote commercial was priceless.
[Via Icon_UK on Scans Daily]
Now imagine this with Keanu Reeves' Constantine....