Movies
9 Podcasts for 2009
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Although these all like to the iTunes Store, they shouldn’t be hard at all to find them on other Podcasting services by entering the same name.
Scene Unseen Movie Reviews is a new podcast that offers a unique spin on the movie review process. The catch? Every week one of our reviews sees a new release… the other does not. Also featured - “Letterboxing” banter, DVD picks and special guest appearances from professionals in the film industry.
Vancouver’s top comedy podcast? Hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shmka, with weekly guests. Hilarious weekly guests? Yup.
EPIC FU is what happens when tech and culture get it on. It’s your weekly geek-out to the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. Subscribe to get a fresh new episode each week!
Mars Hill Church: Mark Driscoll -
Mars Hill Church in Seattle lives, breathes and is generally OCD about Jesus. Pastor Mark Driscoll is the lead preaching pastor for Mars Hill and regularly distribures video content via this channel, including sermons, event teaching and the occasional one-off video created for our internet audience. You can find more content like this by visiting our web site at www.marshillchurch.org
By Tech Fans, For Tech Fan! Product reviews, tech tips, viewer questions, gaming and great guests, all brought to you by Robert Heron and the DL.TV crew. We go live every Thursday, then we encode and make available for download.
Diggnation is a weekly tech/ web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
The Totally Rad Show is the summer blockbuster of geek news shows. Every week, hosts Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata rip into the world of movies, video games, tv, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad.
Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla cew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from Ipod to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.
The Hour with George Stroumboulopolous
Want a different look at the news? Watch to The Hour. The Hour isnt your average newscast, its more lik hanging out with someone whos really interested in the world. The Hour - a current affairs show hosted by George Stroumnoulopoulos. Watch new video clipos every weekday.
AI: Artifically Intelligent
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In the wake of my fanfic-esque piece the other day, I thought I should go watch a good ol sci-fi again. At first, I saw none at the rental store, but low and behold, AI was there. Yipee!
Have asked me yesterday and I would have sworn I actually saw the entire movie before. I liked it and it was great. But take note of my strategic use of past-tenses in that sentence.
This thing is horrible.
The first bit was really cute, with the kid and his ‘mother’ and all that jazz. When the real son came back alive I was as surprised as when my poo this morning fell into the toilet, and didn’t actually bypass all laws of physics and start to fly and talk and write Shakespeare in 10 minutes. That is where it really went downhill. I though it was all sad and crap when she dropped her kid off in the forest with the creepy Teddy bear.
And then he met this damn… robot American Gladiator/ Mad Max crap-fest.
And then some retarded step-brother of Blade Runner up until he meets his ‘father’ and he gets mad and jumps out the building and gets pulled up the the Gigolo fucker.
And then when the dudes try to pick em up, they forget that David is a robot as well and magnets don’t effect him.
So he goes and drives his sub to the ‘Blue Fairy’ and sits there for 2000 years. And after 2000 years no building has been destroyed. Look at any of the shit from Ancient Greece and shit, that is a bit less than perfect condition, and only a bit more than 2000 years.
So these alien robot things revive his mom from a 2000 year old lock of hair that a creepy robot-teddy bear was carrying around.
I was actually yelling and swearing and mocking the movies sexuality, to the point that I decided, rather explicitly, why DVDs have holes in them.
It would seem that I am not the only one of this mentality. Although half the people I whined about this movie to called me an idiot and it was above my level of apparent intelligence, the other half (duh) agreed with me whole heatedly. Of that latter portion, David Schwartz (of Heckler Spray fame) actually had AI in his list of ‘The Eight Dullest Movies Of All TIme‘.
“This film was so mind-numbingly bad, we’ve spent the last 10 hours gnawing at my own hand to distract from the pain.”
And that makes me feel good, because the opinion of Internet polls is more important than those IRL chumps…
Comic-Con 2008 - “The Golden Age of Superhero Movies”
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If Jesus, Odin, Zeus and the Dhali Llama all took a poo in a cup, had Hitler swirl it all around in his mouth, throw it up, let it harden and then Bruce Willis took an Uzi to it… it would still not suffice to the amount of “Holy crap” that was uttered in this first day of the SDCC. Nor would, in the case of another carefully crafted pun, be as “Holy [a] crap” as that seen today in San Diego. Some say E3 died, at least the E3 I grew up with. No, it did not, it split itself into two beings; the keynote’s were trimmed into the new ‘E3′. Wherein the energy and vigeur once wetting the floors of the Los Angeles Convention Centre has been moved to the San Diego Convention Centre. That is where nerds Hulk it out, hXc.
The Wiggity-Wackness
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I am so amazingly excited for this movie, starring Josh Peck, of old Drake and Josh fame. That is, to say, before he lost a trillion pounds. First of all, look at the date here, you know what July 8 means? It means 10 days before July 18. You know what July 18 means? Friggin’ Batman: The Dark Knight. Batman is the movie I am more excited for than I ever have before. Batman is the movie that is making me not give a crap about any movie coming out now. Hell, I was rather indifferent about Wall-E, even.
But you know what? As said before, I am so amazingly excited for this movie. Even with Batman coming out in a week and a half, I am unexplainably still excited for Josh Peck to grow up. The Wackness is a ‘coming-of-age’ story based in the 1990s starring Josh Peck who’s career is now ‘coming-of-age’, co-starring the king-awesome Ben Kingsley. I am so jealous of the weight Josh lost, and in the most heterosexual way possible, he looks awesome in this movie. Just that look he gives in some of his profiles looks like he has a crap-load going to happen to him.
This trailer, more than anything, is what excites me about this movie. I was not quite there in the 90s… but do I ever love the time that I missed. The music is fantastic in this, the acting looks fantastic, the lines he spits out sound fantastic. In an interview, Josh admitted actually spending a long time ‘training’ himself to speak 90s-ish. This looks like the Marvel 1602 of… well, North America 1994.
Someone in the local paper asked, “how old does it have to be before its ‘old school’ (or something to that extent). With the semi-exception of the SNL movie, Kickin It Old Skool, the 90s have not really been talked about. The answer my paper was looking for, judging by the release date of the movie, is roughly 10 years.
I have recently gotten into Hip-Hop, and by Wikipedia’ing the Wu-Tang Clan, they are most indefinately from the 90s. Not this crappy new stuff. And that is how this movie is premised;
Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994–a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, The Wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.
These were great years; Kurt Cobain is dead and Tupac is not. Music is awesome and women fall for lines like “I got mad love for you, shorty” - and that is awesome.
I don’t even have a lot to say about this movie, as I have not actually seen it. This is about the trailer and how awesome it looks, how excited I am and how damn tall I am…
I am 6′9″
jus’ sayin’
Hancock, the antithesis of the Wonder Twins
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Do you remember the days where a movie was actually released the day it was advertised to? At least the more popular movies, with higher licensed characters, this is most def’ the case. I saw Transformers, Spider-man 3 and now Hancock a day early. I must say, William Smith surprised me with this.
As for the Wonder Twins and their anti-thesising?
Their powers were activated when the twins touched each other and spoke the words "Wonder Twin powers, activate!". (In the comics, it was revealed that this phrase was unnecessary, just a habit of theirs.)
The biggest surprise in this movie was the relation between Hancock and his PR’s wife. She was always suspicious of Hancock, but in the end we find they are actually married, just not in the conventional sense. They are of a few thousand year old ‘race’ of superhuman’s. During their time on Earth, they were considered gods. The part I am not entirely a fan of, is how, when in contact, their powers the two negate each other’s powers. I fount it an odd idea, but that is how Hancock and Mary Embery became the last of their kind.
John Hancock named himself thusly when, in a hospital 80 years ago, he was asked for his ‘John Hancock’. What really surprised me was how serious the movie got near the end. I was a real fan of the drunkard-Hancock we started out with, but he became a standard superhero far too easily. That Bateman did a real find job, it seems. Another beef I had was a lack of a real super-villain. I mean, he had a villain, some half-assed bad guy, an apparent "criminal mastermind" but it felt nothing but a filler-criminal, someone who’s bank heist was to appear right after the intro credits.
I wish this movie to have been longer, if not only to show more of the characters. The idea was really cool, Will definitely got ‘Jiggy’-wit it (nana na na nanaa). It is also a good movie to watch if you are waiting for TDK as ravenously as I am.
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