The “Alien” Prequel Suddenly Seems Less Ridiculous

When I first heard of FOX’s plans to resurrect the “Alien” franchise, I would have to admit that I was pretty dubious.  I mean, for starters, they’re FOX.  Secondly, though, the idea of a remake or prequel to “Alien” just seems to be needless, let’s face it, the whole thing didn’t work out all that [...]

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Not Sure What To Make of “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”

I’m generally a drinker of the haterade when it comes to the animated movies.   I don’t really watch the Pixar stuff, I just don’t get it, and you can just forget about the rest of them.  However, when the director is Wes Anderson and the talent involved is the likes of George Clooney, Jason [...]

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Vernon Forrest: 1971 – 2009

Apologies, as I’m shamefully late to get this up.  Sadly, tragedy has continued to plague the boxing world as two-time champion Vernon “The Viper” Forrest was shot to death in Atlanta over the weekend.  The reports say that he was shot in the back after what appears to have been an attempted robbery.  He was [...]

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William Shatner Does a Pretty Good Sarah Palin

If this isn’t one of the funnier things you’ve seen today, then I just don’t know what to tell you.  Last night William Shatner went on Conan and performed a reading of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech– naturally, it’s pretty damn funny.  And it actually got my mind wandering on what it would be like if [...]

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Thanks To Andres Amador, “The Guardian” Is Covered In Sand

If you head over to The Guardian you will find a great little series of photos depicting the work from artist Andres Amador.  Amador, who is based out of San Francisco, does a lot of landscape art or earthscape art.  For the purpose of The Guardian photo spread this translates into massive and intricate designs [...]

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Hide Your Pitbulls, Michael Vick Is Back

The juiciest news of the day is probably that Michael Vick has been granted a conditional reinstatement by the NFL, with the possibility to receive a full reinstatement by week six of the upcoming 2009-2010 season.  So despite engaging in the most infamous dog fighting this side of Amores Perros it would appear that Mike [...]

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IN REVIEW: Florence & the Machine “Lungs”

The Florence & the Machine (aka Florence + the Machine, aka Florence Welch and company) moniker already produced one very solid EP this year in the form of A Lot of Love.  A Lot of Blood.  But what’s a girl and her machine to do for an encore?  Well, the hope is that they’ll release [...]

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Gin Wigmore “These Roses”

Why does it seem like all of the best solo female vocalists are coming from overseas these days?  I am about six months late to the game on this one (even Perez Hilton beat me to it.  Perez Hilton! For shame!).  However, I wanted to pass-along this video from 21 year old New Zealander Gin [...]

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D.J. Caruso and Electronic Arts Approach “Deadspace” Sans Irony

In what truly must be the first documented case of “film-imitates-game-imitates-film-imitates-art” Variety is reporting that D.J. Caruso and  Electronic Arts announced at Comic-Con that they’re planning on developing a feature film adaptation of EA’s survival-horror game Deadspace.  If you’ve heard Caruso’s name before it’s most likely because he has helmed a few high profile features, [...]

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Skip Gates, Cambridge Police, and the Real Problem

This little editorial about the Skip Gates situation was put up on The Atlantic website yesterday, and for whatever reason I forgot to post it, but I intend to make up for the mistake now. The piece comes from Marc Ambinder who spent three years covering the police beat during his time at Harvard.  For [...]

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