Snacking on some lunch and checking out the latest links over at Neatorama, I stumbled across a curious little short film by the mute illusionist most folks know as the shorter half of long-time comedy/magic duo Penn and Teller. Of course anyone familiar with their cable television series Bullshit or their popular Las Vegas act knows that the man they call Teller isn’t exactly the outspoken type, so it’s just about as disconcerting to hear him talk as it is to see him taunting the living dead.
At a time when the zombie trend once again seems to have run its course (Day of the Dead remake, anyone?), perhaps this melancholy little short is a fitting epitaph for the lurching sub-genre.
The line between your computer and TV gets a whole lot blurrier today with the public launch of Hulu.com. It’s hard not to be impressed by the joint NBC/Fox venture. Full episodes of TV shows from 30 Rock to House and full-length feature films like The Usual Suspects and Ice Age are all available at no charge, streaming in high-quality. Many are even available in HD.
It’s ad-supported, and playing around a little, I saw a few different advertising models. Some movies give you the option of watching one trailer before your selection or a few commercials throughout. Others don’t give you the option and you either just watch a trailer and the movie plays without interruption or a handful of commercials play at random intervals. I also saw one not-too-intrusive overlay add at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds during one of my selections.
Bad movie lovers rejoice, because Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson is back in the game of riffing on flicks, and he’s brought a few familiar faces along for the voyage!
That’s right, the same crew who previously took on some of the most hilariously awful films ever to hit the silver screen in Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back doing what they do best in Cinematic Titanic, and the first film to hit the iceberg is Al Adamson’s abominable 1972 sci-fi schlock-fest The Oozing Skull. Original cast members Trace Beaulieu and J. Elvis Weinstein also have their own chairs on the deck, as do longtime MST3K writers and co-stars Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl.
If this preview clip is any indicator, the gang that once blasted turkeys from the deepest depths of outer space are equally comfortable carving them up while cruising the oceans here on Earth.
Instead of airing on television, each episode will be available to purchase on DVD through the show’s official website - where fans can also find out more by reading the press release and signing up for the Cinematic Titanic e-mail club.
It seems like just yesterday that Chris “Ludacris” Bridges was starring in critically acclaimed films like Hustle and Flow and Crash. But these days, he’s reduced to playing an eighth-billed elf in a movie that lost out at the box-office to the second week of Bee Movie. Perhaps if Bridges had decided to drop some lyrics on a theme song for the flick, it would’ve improved its showing. Actually, probably not, but judging by the reviews for Fred Claus, this parody music video is surely funnier than the move that inspired it. Lyrics NSFW.
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