Now that we’re safely almost ten days into 2012, I’m ready to make a Best Of list. I figured what would be the point back in December if the second the calendar went to 2012, fascists kicked down our doors and stole our computers and demons came out of hell and we all went into detainment centers as we started the long trek towards the end of days. Since none of that happened and we’re still around to read lists like this, I guess I’ll make a list. Read more »
Nicolas Cage in Trespass. I bet he handpicked that outfit.
Ever since I heard about Nicolas Cage’s real life home invasion (he woke up in the middle of the night to find a naked man in a leather jacket holding a Fudgsicle standing in his bedroom), I’ve wanted to see Trespass. In fact, I was shocked that this anecdote that he dropped at TIFF, while promoting the movie, was the first I’d heard about it. I mean jesus christ, it combines two of my favorite things of all time. Nicolas Cage and home invasion movies. How had Trespass slipped under my radar?
And then how did it just show up on Netflix instant watch with zero fanfare? I thought my Facebook news feed was full of Cage devotees but I didn’t hear BOO about Trespass until a friend told me about it in person, the old fashioned way. I was like, “No WAY this thing is on Netflix and I didn’t know about it.” But it was, and I watched it last night and it was so disappointing that I decided to blog for the first time in months. Read more »
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David Dvorchak tracked down this 16mm print of “Night of the Living Dead” just in time for Halloween. Dvorchak has taken care restoring the aged reel to bring it to the community next Thursday, October 27, at 7:30pm at the Knight Memorial Library (275 Elmwood Avenue, Providence RI 02905). It’s rare, it’s the perfect trick-or-treat, and it’s just the sort of D.I.Y. creepy vision that we love to see in Rhode Island.
The Phoenix recently ran an article detailing Dvorchak’s quest for the film (which began after finding out that the Rhode Island Library Film Cooperative had once owned a copy). Check out the article here, as well as Dvorchak’s plans for future film series, or visit Providence Community Library for more information.
It’s probably one of the creepiest Facebook apps ever, and it taps into the paranoia that most of us have (or should have, when you stop and think about it), about what we post online. Today a website (www.takethislollipop.com) launched that requests permission to access your Facebook. When you grant it permission you get a video of a sweating, leering tweaker in front of a computer. And he’s looking at your Facebook page. And next thing you know, he’s google mapping directions to your house. Read more »
Tommy Iommi confirmed today to Birmingham Mail that himself, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward have all reunited to give the original incarnation of Black Sabbath one more go. The reunion has been kept mum, but in the works for awhile — Iommi and Osbourne spent June writing material for a record to be released in 2012. Tour rehearsals are already in the works. The only concern that Iommi seemed to think foreseeable is the health of Bill Ward, who he admitted is not currently at 100%.
Whatever it was that possessed men in their 60s to get the idea into their head to say, “Hey! Let’s get the old band back together!” well, sweet christ, we’re glad it’s happening.
UPDATE, 8/16/11 at 17:45: Blabbermouth is now reporting a statement by Tommy Iommi where he says that there has been NO official confirmation; that essentially the Birmingham Mail journalist spoke out of turn. Read more at their site.
Saturday night, a 19-year-old D-bag was arrested in Galveston, Texas after he broke into a lady’s house and bit her neck. When the woman got away and called the police, the Vampire Dude – Lyle Monroe Bensley – told police he had to be restrained. Because he was a 500-year-old vampire who needed to feed.
My mind just goes right to Nicolas Cage running down the street, wailing, “I’m a vampire… I’m a vampire!” Read more »
What AMC does if you breathe a word of the firing...
So I was looking at Shock Til You Drop, as I do every day and I saw this beauty! Way to go AMC! So let’s see, a show blows away the ratings right out of the gate, one of the best writer/directors in Hollywood, awesome cast, tax breaks, and god knows what else. Yeah let’s get rid him and treat everyone like shit. Someone needs to grow a set and tell AMC to screw…take the Walking Dead to Starz…go for the uncut gold!
