Jul 9 2009 Movie Shows in Your Town This End-of-Week!
Some films open this weekend; here are some of them:
Brüno
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen; oblivious fools, many of whom will be revealed as homophobes
Good if you want to see: further Borat-like exploits, this time with a flamboyant Austrian; what people will be quoting for the next few months.
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust
Good if you want to see: A high school nerd pining over a popular girl? I don't really remember, but I did hear that Heroes' much-talked-about nude scene is from behind, so don't go in looking for boobs.
Blood: The Last Vampire (limited)
Director: Chris Nahon
Starring: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller
Good if you want to see: Blade with an Asian girl.
Humpday (limited)
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard
Good if you want to see: heterosexual best friends attempt to make a gay porn together; the "bromance" genre reach its logical conclusion.
Jun 10 2009 Exclusive: Make 'Blood: The Last Vampire' More Like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'
Blood: The Last Vampire has made the jump from anime to real-life people re-enacting an anime in a new film, so, in celebration of that, there's now a utility to let you MERGE THE TWO. At Blood Movie Manga Mash-Up, you're given clips from a train sequence, both in live-action and anime form, that can be arranged into whatever sequence you decide you'd like to make for some reason. At last, you're the editor, with the god-like power to arbitrarily make shots become animated.
Here's the scene I put together, which I'm calling "Whups, My Head Fell Apart and Anime Girl Doesn't Even Give a Shit":
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May 13 2009 This Is It. Our Last Vampire: Blood.
At first, watching this trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire, I thought it was just a Japanese schoolgirl version of Blade. She's half-vampire, samurai sword-wielding, and fighting other vampires: that's a classic Blade. But then I saw she burst through a few walls and I realized, no, she's more than Blade-like: she's a better Blade. The Japanese have done it. They've made the Better Blade:
