Your Scene Sucks!

Everyone has heard the term "emo" but these days it seems like "scene" is the new, well...scene.

This look merges the dark clothing and fringe hairstyles with brighter colours, funky and eccentric styling and less cutting, I hope.

In any case, I stumbled across Your Scene Sucks today and it was quite interesting to take a look at. Not surprisingly I can allocate some of the styles to a few people I know. Who cares, anyway. People can wear whatever they want, as long as they are like what they look like. Nothing else matters (I guess Metallica was correct).

Am I right? Of course I am.

The non-evolution of the PS3 - lame!

So, I thought that my good deed for the year would be to kick PS3 in the nuts a little for just being so damn...Sony.

I know, it's a nightmarish world we live in but luckily the Xbox360 is there is the one true beacon of light in an otherwise murky console world.

Rumour has it that one day all Xbox360 users will be saved during Console Rapture but hey, that is if the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Cthulhu doesn't save us first.

Eisner's The Crazies - new poster!

How awesome does that look?

I am REALLY looking forward to this movie. Firstly, the original was made by George Romero who pretty much single-handedly invented the zombie movie genre. Think the original Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead. As you can imagine, he is quite fond of making loads of people die really badly. I do approve of this behaviour (cinematically, of course...*cough*) so I hope that Breck Eisner is up for the task at hand. Eisner made Sahara, and that was...okay. He does have some horror experience under his belt, like the pilot episode of Fear Itself which I really enjoyed.

That said, The Crazies sounds pretty cool and Tim Olyphant is in it, who is probably my favourite actor. Yeah yeah, Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest actor in the world but he is also the one actor in the world that loves making movies that nobody really wants to watch. Deal with it.

Anyway, back to The Crazies. The premise is quite simple. Some convenient plot twist poisons a small town's water supply and it makes them all go batshit crazy. When I say batshit crazy, I mean murderdeathkill homicidal maniac crazy...and that's just peachy.

Luckily Timmyboy is the sheriff in town, but also moonlights as the pimp from Girl Next Door and a Hitman so he should definitely be hardcore enough to make it out alive and protect some village hottie from dying. Luckily, the village hottie turns out to be Danielle Panabaker and she survived Jason in Friday the 13th so she seems qualified.

Check out the two other official movie posters below. Yeah, its awesome. Nothing screams desperation likes blood on a road sign.

Avatar Can Haz Cheeseburger?

I found this snooping around my usual internet watering holes so I thought I'd share it with the rest of you guys.

You can thank me later. I respond well to sexual favours, beer and bandwidth...or all of the above.

True Story.

Zombies! Hell yeah.

What would you do if you find yourself in an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly you are surrounded by zombies?

Actually, any zombie survivor worth his weight in headshots would already be holed up in a supermarket shagging Sarah Polley by now, but hey...who am I to judge?


If you DO find yourself in the first (less awesome) scenario then there is a way to find out. That's right: Oh No...Zombies! You guys go ahead, I'm calling Sarah.

Kick-Ass: Hit Girl Red-Band Trailer

I am really looking forward to the upcoming movie Kick-Ass, based on the graphic novel of the same name.

It follows the adventures of a few kids (and Nicholas Cage) who dream of being superheroes, so they run around in masks beating up bad guys.

The main hero is appropriately called "Kick-Ass", who teams up with a disturbingly violent 12-year old girl who calls herself "Hit Girl". I wonder if they asked her ID at Walmart when she decided that firearms is a good idea?

That all said, take a look at the teaser trailer for Hit Girl's character. This girl needs some better role-models. Believe.

Daybreakers Trailer

Here is the trailer for the upcoming movie "Daybreakers" which suspiciously looks like Gattaca. Hey look, its Ethan Hawke again! You know things are going to blow up when he is around, but slowly and dramatically.



Yeah, believe that.

In any case, hopefully this can salvage some dignity for the poor vampire nation after they were molested by the Twilight "saga". Saga. Yeah, they have the nerve to call it a "saga" where they actually mean "tea party".

Here's hoping.

Time's Top 10 Photos of 2009

So, I came across Time Magazine's "Top 10 of Everything for 2009" lists and these struck me as quite interesting - definitely a good summary of 2009's world news.

Here are my favourites from the list:

#2: Vigilant - Mark Rykoff

A U.S. Army soldier from the 10th Mountain Division surveys a road in the Tangi Valley, Afghanistan, on Sept. 4.

#3: Farewell - Mark Rykoff
Family members gather at the coffin of Senator Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 29.

#6: Armed and Dangerous - Mark Rykoff
Local drug dealers settle a score in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. In the past few years, the small West African nation has become a key transit point for drug cartels from South America.

#8: Gaza Digs Out - Mark Rykoff
A Palestinian family rests in the rubble of its home in east Jebaliya after the Israeli incursion into Gaza on Jan. 16.

#9: Parched - Mark Rykoff

A giraffe felled by drought lies dead on a road in Wajir, Kenya, on Oct. 9. The country has had virtually no rain in several years and is facing a severe water crisis.

Top 10 of Everything of 2009 - Time

Brittany Murphy 1977-2009

One of my favourite actresses passed away last (Sunday) night. I am incredibly sad face about this, very few actresses could bring so much energy and fun to the roles they play. That, and I think she was remarkably attractive, her on-screen personality having a lot to do with it as well...not that she needed the help!

She first appeared in Clueless as "Tai", but most people will remember her for movies like Don't Say A Word, 8 Mile and Sin City.

She also tried her hand at music and recorded a number with Paul Oakenfold, and who can forget her vocal performance in Happy Feet?

The silver screen now just seems a little less bright, don't you think?