Who doesn’t like Conan the Barbarian? You don’t?! Okay then, I will fight you later. In the mean time cast your soon to be blackened eye over this musical version of the 1982 cult classic.
Actually now that I think about it if Conan were to sing at you, his vocal chords would probably be so muscular he’d sing your head right off your puny little shoulders.
A Bill Hicks documentary? About time is what I say to that.
It’s that time of year again - when a little daily chocolate helps us count down the days. I’ve been waiting months to upload this gem - a seriously good piece of work by the guys at Ruby Dog Movies.
{…..large rant about the BNP being dicks has been deleted;….}
….’Fuck you guys’ was the short of it….
We are all human. Even the mildly brown looking humans. Even the those humans who look like they’ve been on holiday for a long time. Even them Browny-Brown ones from that magic place where the special horses have long necks… How many idiots does it take before we realise that we are all just idiots humans?
Humans = Everyone on earth.
Now that problem is over, let’s go to space…
It seems despite booming ticket sales, the film industry has run out of imagination; nothing but prequels, sequels, remakes and adaptations. But here’s one ‘remake’ that gives me hope. As if being directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nic Cage aren’t both signs of cult classic status, lines like “What are these fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?” seem like a hallmark of pure quotable gold. I admit I haven’t seen the 1992 Abel Ferrara original but Herzog claims he hasn’t either.
A lot of people have predicted disaster for this project, but I’m hoping this is the start of a Herzog-style shake-up of Hollywood, to be followed by My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010).
There have been too many happy happy penguin films of late. And the March of the Penguins in particular was interpreted some right-wingers to suggest that penguins and, by extension, humans are naturally socially cohesive, monogamous and loving parents. Now, I have nothing against these values, I wish it were true but it seems that penguins may actually be little more like Gordon Ramsay and Chris Tarrant (only less fishy). For an an extremely funny if disturbing critique try to find Stewart Lee’s diatribe, ‘March of the Mallards’ (until 25 April on BBC i-player: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle ep 2, 15 minutes in).
Now witness this clip from lovably bonkers film genius Werner Herzog’s awesome new documentary Encounters at the End of the World .
I could go on and on about Herzog and his manifesto. But I won’t. I’m not saying Herzog here isn’t as equally biassed and non-scientific. Just indulge in the contrast with some of the sentimental pap we are served up on a regular basis. Go see it.
And why the hell not?
Well done Terry.
It’s not that I didn’t like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I loathed it. As I walked out of the cinema I needed my wife to comfort me. From somewhere primal, deep down inside I abhorred that movie. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. But then I noticed some parallels…
I noticed that I hated IJatKotCS in the way some Star Wars fans hated The Phantom Menace. Which got me to thinking because I didn’t hate Episode I (or II or III), I actually really liked them and found them mostly in keeping with the tone of the original trilogy. I was a little too young for Star Wars, only discovering them as a teenager in 1995, four years before the new ones kicked off. Really they were all new to me - I wasn’t having to accept follow ups to films I’d formed my identity around so I was able to see things a bit more clearly. Not so with Indy.
Dr. Henry Jones Jr. is my childhood hero. The first film I remember going to see as a family was Last Crusade when I was 7 years old. My love of movies, history and notions of male identity (I’m not kidding!) all stem from that film. We got all the movies on video and I watched them to death. When I was 10 I wrote my own Indiana Jones Adventure book (including the ‘words’ to the theme tune: Dun-du-dun-dun-dun-da-dun!)! I grew up but always returned to Indy. After a ten year break I watched them all again and terrified I’d hate them I found I loved them just as much. And so I looked forward to a new film with the same fervour my elder Star Wars brethren looked to TPM with. Read the rest of this entry »
MontM friend Jordan pointed out this piece of genius; a reconstruction of Noah’s Ark which you can go on board and look at stuff on. It looks like a really great technical acheivement and a beautiful work of love. The only thing is that it looks a little small to hold all animals ever. Still fecking awesome though.
Random religious arguments our friend Jordan is involved with here. Dive in.
