Category Archives: Movies and Television

Weekend Roundup

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This weekend we start with a little cooking and alcohol to prepare us for some movie news. Yet another reason to cut the cable/satellite cord and hope therein for cooking show junkies is the Youtube sensation, My Drunk Kitchen above.

In media news, Sherlock Holmes has been released and abridged into graphic novel form, review over at Boing Boing.  My dad’s compendium of Sherlock Holmes stories was one of the first things I read and this looks well done.

William Gibson’s Neuromancer is in pre-production to be made into a film.  I’m not sure if it’s going to translate and expectations have to be really high.  I hope they can pull it off though.

“There can be only one!” Highlander is getting financing for a remake.  The original came out in 1986 but I didn’t happen upon it until the last week of my senior year in high school in 1988.  Our last physics class our teacher let us pick and watch a movie.  One of the girls in the class brought in the movie their brother had rented the night before on video cassette. I had never even heard of Highlander before but was immediately enthralled with the Highlander world.  Seriously though, who are you going to find that can replace Christopher Lambert?

Early May Roundup

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Lots of great stuff out there that deserves an honorable mention rounded up from the first few weeks in May:

  • In music we have news from Ars about the Library of Congress’s new National Jukebox and also the announcement of yet another collection of Pink Floyd music I will be forced to purchase (can’t wait for Wish You Were Here in 5.1).
  • In Chicago media news Alton Brown has called an end to ‘Good Eats’ to work on a new project.  The tv series The Chicago Code has been cancelled much to the chagrin of the wife and I.
  • In science fiction and fantasy news the 2011 Hugo finalists have been announced.  Here are some very cool (ok, epic) science fiction artists and some of there latest work.  Also, LOTR/Weta fans may want to act fast to get their own signed print of ‘Disturber of the Peace.’
  • From the LOL files, we have a special book for frustrated parents, Go the Fuck to Sleep, and even though I’m not a Red Wings fan, this video of a Red Wings assistant coach owning a Sharks fan deserves a standing golf clap.
  • And last but not least from the Shit Just Got Real file, sitting down is killing you, here’s how to track how much bandwidth you’re using now that AT&T is metering your internet (log in using your ATT credentials).  And if you haven’t read and been enraged yet by the financial mess this country is in, the most recent article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, The People vs. Goldman Sachs, is a great place to start and a must read.

Mopar

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Don’t look now but it’s been nearly 20 years since Mopar: Alone Against the Twelve Dread Hyenas in the Land of the Dead.  This seminal Sword and Sorcery romp was almost watched by someone who had a friend that knew someone who was the secretary for someone else that once worked as a seat filler at the Oscars.  Despite the age the story, Mopar still holds up today and provides a timeless message:  Don’t hesitate to resort to physical violence and coercion to rule the world (or watch out for sock dragons).

To celebrate, the Acitonsuit Alert blog is offering a free digital copy for everyone signing up for the Actionsuit Alert blog.  Send me an email at standishb@gmail.com for the link to download (warning: it’s a 1.5gb file).  In the near future we will also be releasing installments on Youtube.  Unfortunately their are some quality issues with the digital version we still have to work out because the only copy we had was taken from a DVD burned directly from a VCR tape but worry not, we have our top Actionsuit Alert video editing staff on the case.

The only question that remains is where the fuck is Gary Kramer?

Update:  Here’s the first 11 minutes; video starts at :37.

Update II: Split into 10 segments for Youtube, can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Actionsuit

You did what to my favorite Sci-Fi movie?

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A couple of interesting movie reinterpretations to pass along. First we start with ‘Existential Star Wars’ posted by OneMinuteGalactica on Youtube:

The poor rebel defenders last words nearly made me do a spit take with my coffee!

Here’s a group that call themselves Huskey Jackal in Nashville, TN who are making a stage a stage production of Terminator 2 (titled Terminator the Second) strictly in the Shakespeare idiom.  Here’s the link to check it out (embedded video not working from this site).  Road trip to Nashville this summer?

Beware, Skynet Becomes Self-Aware Tonight

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You may want to start your 4/20 celcbrations a day early.  Skynet officially goes online at 20:11 tonight.  Of course if John and Sarah Connor (and Myles Dyson) were successful in their destruction of Cyberdyne back in 1995 we have a reprieve on Judgement Day until April 21st.  Too bad Judgement Day couldn’t come before they made the 3rd movie!