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October 18, 2009 - October 24, 2009 Archives

  • October 23, 2009
    Making the sad transition from an easy girl to a less desirable outright hooker, Hulu may begin to charge for content as early as next year: Hulu has struggled to make money despite its popularity as an ad-supported site. News Corp., which co-owns the site with NBC Universal, ... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    Johnny Legal Department doesn't want us to have this until next week, but, thanks to bootleggers, the new trailer for a certain highly-anticipated sci-fi adventure involving blue cat people is on internet. Hurry, before it's not!... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    Black Fang and White Fang are grunting in sorrow today. Soupy Sales, the '60s kids' show icon who would go on to appear on nearly all of those '70s semi-celebrity game shows you see on Game Show Network, died yesterday in a Bronx hospital. He was 83. Though his shows were off ... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    So will every movie adaptation of a '70s/'80s campy action show take place in the same high-contrast, extremely overexposed world as Charlie's Angels? I'm fine with that; I only worry I may be blind by the time we get to Magnum P.I. (Bigger version at /Film.)... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    Continuing the recent trend of airbrushed-on-the-back-of-a-jacket poster design, Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela + rugby film now has an official poster on Yahoo. I'm hoping this style eventually evolves into more of an embroidered-on-a-jacket look, so that I can have a good pa... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    Remember liking District 9? Prepare to probably like something again! Media Rights Capital has signed writer/director Neill Blomkamp for a new sci-fi film on which he'll have the creative freedom to make something hopefully awesome. From Variety: “MRC is letting me make the fi... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    A witch, a mutilated monk, and Nicolas Cage demanding Ron Perlman cut someone's head off? What more do you want from a film, Foreign Press???... / Continue →
  • October 23, 2009
    Uncertainty! It's like Sliding Doors, except instead of seeing a closing train door determine Gwyneth Paltrow's life with two different guys, you see a coin flip decide if Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in an boring indie melodrama or a ridiculous, cell-phone-based thriller (à ... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    Some sort of hole, eh? And one with visible depth, no less? Color me intrigued! This is totally going to be the best hole-themed hole kids' movie since Holes. (Thanks to Tom for alerting me to this glorious film about a vague hole, and for sharing his enjoyment of Haley Bennet... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    This poster is definitely the closest we'll ever see to Michael Cera in Lolita. Because clearly it's impossible for Michael Cera to star as an older man, because he's a perpetual teenager, forever. Behold our most nebbish immortal and feel his sorrow as he watches his mortal, ... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    Basically. Pounding another nail into Blockbuster's already-impenetrable coffin, Disney today announced plans to follow through with entertainment's inevitable transition to the internet. The company is currently researching a technology they've dubbed Keychest, which would al... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    Looking for a way to break up your weekend of binge drinking away your sadness? See one of these new releases: Saw VI Director: Kevin Greutert Starring: Saw, some people Saw will make chop of their foot or some garbage Good if you want to see: Jesus, another fucking Saw movie?... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    No, probably not. But, in a recent Q&A following a screening of Trick 'r Treat, the Spider-Man actor did reveal that he will be reprising the role of Curt Connors--the one-armed scientist who would one day become the reptilian villain The Lizard--in Spider-Man 4: Baker said th... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    Joe Carnahan's A-Team is currently shooting in Vancouver, and, for some reason, the sociomutants at Entertainment Tonight were allowed on set for a first look at the film. In this video, see: "Rampage" Jackson as Baracus! "Rampage" Jackson attempting to act! Bradley Cooper maki... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    Despite being met by reactions ranging from apathy to disgust, it looks like the Mel Gibson-less Mad Max film is still moving steadily but slowly forward. E! has reportedly heard from multiple sources that, though director George Miller has been incredibly secretive about plot ... / Continue →
  • October 22, 2009
    These are all real: Alien encounter of the fifth kind LIGHT PETTING Alien encounter of the sixth kind "HEY, IT'S ME... OH, SORRY. I THOUGHT YOU WERE THIS ALIEN I KNEW." Alien encounter of the seventh kind MAKING A NICE DINNER TOGETHER Alien encounter of the eighth kind EXCLUSI... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    Going against all good sense that would logically keep William Shatner from reprising the role of Kirk in a new Star Trek sequel, director J.J. Abrams, speaking to reporters in Australia, revealed that he's still trying to figure out a way to pander to fans by working out some ... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    No more choosing between watching a movie about a man or a movie about a wolf. Thanks to modern technology machines, enjoy both fantastic genres with The Wolfman:... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    If you're still looking for a Halloween costume idea, how about Viggo Mortensen in The Road? It would be pretty easy to put together, plus you could probably use it again next year as a mountain-climbing-hobo-assassin costume. That's capital-V Value. New Poster for The Road [C... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    Feeding the Internetbeast's insatiable desire for movie trailers re-edited to look like different movie trailers, here's a trailer for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler made to look like a grindhouse film. It's pretty good. Hopefully good enough to settle the Internetbeast, conte... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    The Weather Channel has announced they'll be adding movies to their schedule at the end of the month. About fucking time, Weather Channel: For the first time in its 27-year history, The Weather Channel® (TWC) will add movies to its programming schedule with “The Weather Channe... / Continue →
  • October 21, 2009
    Just when you thought we'd completely run the well dry of options for horror movie variations, now there's this: TWO werewolves... and also a horribly disfigured seeing-eye dog trainer? Says ShockTillYouDrop: Shane West is the first to join the cast of Two Wolves, the werewolf... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    The Waitresses can expect their royalty checks soon. New Line has announced plans to make a What Women Want-style mind-reading comedy wherein "women" is replaced by "boys" and "Mel Gibson" is replaced with "some girl from the Disney Channel": New Line's decided to find out "Wh... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    Since the advent of the internet, finding homoerotic fan fiction has become a breeze for all interested in homoerotic fan fiction (little known fact: the first information sent over a modem was a short story about Kirk and Spock falling in love). But official homoerotic fiction... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    We already knew he was a nuisance at awards shows (remember when that thing happened???); now this Spike Jonze short demonstrates how Kanye West is also a terrible guest at night clubs. Turns out the guy will get soused and makes a huge mess in your bathroom:... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    Dude! Last night, during the ball game, when you went to pick up more Milwaukee's Best Old BrewDog Lites, you fuckin' missed this new Sherlock Holmes trailer! You gotta see this shit! Iron Man is all like BOOSH punchin' these goddammers! S'all good, though; I internet taped it ... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    You think being a spy is hard, Jackie Chan? Try supervising three children! And a PIG! (Cue record screech):... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    Rock of Ages, the Tony Awards-nominated Broadway musical known for combining live theater with frat boy karaoke--and, locally, for having this really, really obnoxious guy in the commercials (above)--is getting the ol' movie treatment. Variety reports Adam Shankman (Hairspray) ... / Continue →
  • October 20, 2009
    Because you've always wanted a Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Christmas Special mixed with Meet the Parents and a digital camera commercial, here's the poster for Everybody's Fine. Also, I'd just like to note that everybody is clearly not fine. Robert De Niro's face, his hypot... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Yeah, funny... Except EVERYONE knows the Death Star's compactors are insulated with a special alloy of Nabooan materials chosen specifically for their sound dampening qualities!!! This video is NOT canon. (Thanks, Ray.)... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Almost too real. You can't un-imagine Luxo, Jr. being sodomized.... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Watch out Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and both Street Figher movies: there's a new contender looking to become king of dismal fighting game adaptations. And how does King of Fighters plan to steal the oft-contested crown? By taking this fight to Tournament World... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Two things that have always bothered me about the Scary Movie franchise: 1) Why aren't there more of them? 2) Why is there so much consistency and continuity in the series? Those issues will plague me no longer: CinemaBlend has heard from trusted sources that the Weinstein C... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Your weekend box office top five, friends: 1. Where the Wild Things Are - $32.5 million. Man, did this thing ever take me back to childhood. Particularly the parts of my childhood that involved crying and breaking things. 2. Law Abiding Citizen - $21.3 million. Is support for... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    This video took me forever to watch. I felt an uncontrollable desire to pause after each entrance to hoot and applaud.... / Continue →
  • October 19, 2009
    Hey, remember that depressing news from a year ago that the director of xXx was going to remake the 1980s' second or third best kids-go-on-a-fantasy-adventure film, Monster Squad? Well, I have absolutely no update on that. However, there is this news on another in-development M... / Continue →