New Godzilla Trailer

by on February 25, 2014 at 12:19 pm
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I confess my childhood interest in Godzilla is mixed. I don’t think I could call myself a fan. For various reasons including my mostly limiting my television viewing to PBS and a general wimpiness when it came to horror films I didn’t even SEE a Godzilla film until I was fifteen. But despite not watching the movies I had read all of the books about them, so my knowledge was actually good regarding most of the Showa Era. So me and my friends would create our own adventures of Godzilla which had little to do with the actual movies.

Since then I’ve been catching up. Most of them are fun romps though few capture the power of the original film. My favorites include Godzilla, Mothra and King  Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack   and Godzilla: Final Wars There were a few outright bombs which unfortunatly includes the utterly painful American remake.

So when I heard about a new American Godzilla film I assumed the worst but thankfully what I heard about the director, Gareth Edwards’ enthusiasm about the project and seeing the teaser and first trailer I started to get my hopes up. Now I realize that trailers have become an art form unto themselves so a good trailer no longer means a good movie. But now that I have seen the second trailer… I think I will be an optimist now.

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Shakespeare and Lovecraft Kickstarter Campaign

by on February 20, 2014 at 9:30 am
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My good friends Aron Tarbuck and J Kovach have a Kickstarter Campaign this month for their project “Prospero’s Price” all about The Tempest, the Cthulhu Mythos and… Well, I’ll let Aron explain it himself:

I am very proud to announce the project that J Kovach and myself have been working on! We have launched a Kickstarter for this, and if you are interested; please follow the link below: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569820395/prosperos-price-a-lovecraft-and-shakespeare-tale
We did not simply wish to retell any existing story, but create something new that builds upon to both the works of HPL & the Great Bard. The Tempest is not simply one of Shakespeare’s finest works, but also ladened with a great many elements that have long been unexplored. There is also a great deal of symmetry between many of the Lovecraftian concepts and this specific tale. I hope to provide a very unique tale that is not at all pedestrian and quite unusual ….


As a long time fan of the Bard I like all the questions that occur to me when this idea comes up.. Just what was the book Prospero buried? Just who was Sycorax? the list goes on.

Anyway I have the banner ad on the right sidebar for this campaign and I’ll have it  it up for as long as they need it. Show them some love.

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Wednesday Double Feature

by on February 19, 2014 at 10:05 am
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heavens-gate-dvd-cover primerimagesThis weeks’ double feature is just a little short because… okay I confess I was weak. I could not watch the first film in this week’s selection, Heaven’s Gate in its entirety. I toughed out the first hour and a half and had to take a break. Then when I told my friends I was watching it I kept getting pitying looks and questions about why I was doing this to myself… and then I started reading old reviews calling it one of the worst films in history… and killing the Western as a viable genre… So rather than tough it out I gave in to peer pressure and gave up.

I won’t say it was utterly terrible the world building of the period was good and none of the performing was bad but… it was all the little things but mostly the pacing. I know what they say about the modern American having the attention span of a gnat but it took them an hour to tell us what the plot was!

Anyway after watching an incredibly bad expensive film I finished my double feature with a very good and VERY cheap film, Primer.

Primer is probably one of the smartest and complex time travel movies you are ever going to see.

There are two things I like about it.

The first is it doesn’t talk down to you. The technobable is grade A backed with real physics, it assumes you are smart and does not wait for you to keep up. You have to watch it more then once to catch everything that’s going goes on.

The second is how they portray scientists. As the son of an academic I get REALLY tired of all of the portrayal of scientists in media from absent minded flakes, idealists who ignore evidence that doesn’t fit their world view, arrogant hubristic elitists, or even incompetents. Our two heroes whatever else their faults (and they had plenty) were careful professionals who used the scientific method and checked their work.

I was amazed by how they were able to do so much with so little and enjoyed it, so I guess for this weeks viewing, one success out of two isn’t all-bad.

http://youtu.be/4CC60HJvZRE

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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by on February 18, 2014 at 8:10 am
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Today’s Rhapsody is some Jazz-Fusion from 1978 with Chick Corea and his title piece from the album of the same name…  The Mad Hatter Rhapsody!

As you can probably guess, the track names and the title come from by Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and I am told in good authority that sounds best if you crank up the volume so enjoy!

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