(h/t Everything You Love to Hate)
This Matrix/Big Lebowski mash-up should win an Oscar. (h/t Steve Barker) Also, on a semi-related note, here’s the very-well-done Arrested Development action movie trailer from a while back that I forgot to post. The best part is obviously the Tobias chair kick at 0:54.
This is pretty much the best idea going. The Alamo Drafthouse (along with jeans-maker Levi’s) is showing nine different classic flicks in (or around) the locations where they take place. Some settings are more spot on than others — Jackie Brown in LA’s Del Amo Fashion Mall is perfection — but the whole concept is just fantastic. […]
Jul21
Dog Sings About Bats
This theme music sung by a dog comes from the cartoon show, but Batman was a movie, too, right? Whatever. This is too good not to post even if it’s not particularly film-related. I mean, even Christian Bale couldn’t yell at this adorable pup. (via Warming Glow)
This graphical breakdown of career director arcs over on Into the Abyss is pretty damn fantastic. What author Todd Miro did was compile all the Rotten Tomatoes scores for all the movies made by a director and then chart those critical rankings on a line graph to show how well each director’s flicks were received over time. […]
It’s a simple equation. Also, Marsellus Wallace finds your lack of faith disturbing, Brett. (via Samblr)
It’s synonymous, you see. (via Fukung.net) Relatedly, Violent J Is John Goodman is apparently (and sadly) no longer being updated, but it’s still pretty great if you have not yet had the pleasure. I, too, dabbled in pacifism once … not in ‘Nam, of course.
Jun29
Airplane! Turns 30
On Friday, July 2, Airplane! will celebrate its 30th anniversary. I personally — slightly — prefer Anchorman, but despite my modern leanings, Airplane! is easily the finest comedy ever made. Its gags, puns and sequencing are all perfectly done, sure, but what really sets it apart is that, unlike many of the other comedies that come off […]
Looks like a bunch of divers have achieved something that women’s suffrage, Civil Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act and, most recently, a bunch of racist lawmakers in Arizona could never do: find diversity. A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area […]
Jun25
Post Many Bills
Especially Clinton, Murray, Gates and Cosby. (via Urban Raccoons and Elephants and Blow-Up Elephants)