30 Seconds To Mars’ New “Up In The Air” Video Is Pretty, Pretentious
Yeah, don’t inhale that.
The last line at the end of 30 Seconds to Mars’ new video for “Up In The Air” is “Find The Argus Apocrophex”. I don’t know what this means, but it sounds like an invitation to some kind of band-centric metagame. I don’t know, after spending eight minutes watching the music video for the song, I don’t think I want to go.
‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 15 “The Merch”
Pensive Abby is pensive.
Oh, this challenge was so much fun. The Strip Search contestants are locked in a basement (okay, it’s not locked) around some folding tables to build Con displays. If you’ve never been to a Con before, it’ll all make sense super quick as each artist must assemble a bunch of Penny Arcade merchandise (normally, their own), price it and present it – and themselves! – with authority.
M83’s ‘Oblivion’ Soundtrack Review: Almost Magical
It’s M83-like, but c’mon now.
When Universal announced that M83 was attached to produce the score for Oblivion, I was on cloud nine. A friend introduced me to Gonzalez’s work during Before the Dawn Heals Us and I was hooked, working backwards through to their self-titled debut, then forward to Saturdays = Youth and beyond. Weird, right? Apparently director Joseph Kosinski was listening to M83 while writing the film and had to bring him on. It makes sense! M83 should be doing a lot more work! Unfortunately, I feel a little shorted by the final product.
‘R.I.P.D.’ Is ‘Men In Black’, Let’s Not Kid Ourselves Here
“Wait until we erase your fingerprints, you’ll love that.” Agent K, R.I.P.D.
Look guys, I loved Men in Black. Loved it. Sequels not so much, the original, loved. Now, it’s disenfranchising to totally knock R.I.P.D. – or, Rest In Peace Department – as a knock-off when it’s based on its own comic book, but c’mon, you can’t watch this trailer (that I’m providing below) and tell me. Just look at it.
Amazon Is Doing This ‘Original Content’ Thing All Wrong
Seems like a lot of these Amazon series are also DOA.
There’s a reason why Ted Sarandos is getting all kinds of attention: as Netflix’s Chief Content Officer, he’s bringing some really good original content to the company. House of Cards could’ve swept any awards show, but as a web-exclusive series (for now), it doesn’t qualify for any of them. Beloved comedy series Arrested Development is right around the corner has the collective interest of millions of original fans, plus many others that picked up the show after it was cancelled. So what is Amazon doing to create a robust portfolio of exclusive shows? Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Here’s 8 Minutes Of Patton Oswalt Filibustering About ‘Star Wars’
Oswalt is pro-Abrams!
Tonight’s Parks & Recreation features a concerned citizen, namely, Patton Oswalt, filibustering the city council vote and making Amy Poehler look visibly disgusted. So what does he do for eight minutes? He talks about the new Star Wars film.
As ‘Oblivion’ Looms, I Wonder Why People Hate Tom Cruise So Much
Tom Cruise’s face is like a falcon, ready to rip you up!
We’re mere hours from the American launch of Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi flick Oblivion and already I’m seeing this bizarre comment: I’d check it out, but Tom Cruise is in it. Hm? I heard the same thing when I told friends I went to see Jack Reacher – a film I wouldn’t personally recommend for its own set of problems – but I guess it’s something that goes back years, decades even. Cruise has conjured plenty of reasons to dislike him, but… why so serious?
How Do They Design Transformers Toys? With Lots Of Pens And Markers
Rooms with lots of drawings are still pretty common.
I must’ve been born a year or two too late for Transformers to be a formative part of my youth (then again, I played with G.I. Joes and don’t quite understand the lore behind that, either), but there was always something so fascinating about watching mundane objects mechanically change into action-ready robots. How they do it, nearly thirty years after Hasbro brought the Transformers toys Stateside? With lots of drawings.
Twitter Launches #Music Service, Still Too Early To Be Useful
What can I say? I’m hard to please.
Finding new music is a pain in the butt, especially with my particular tastes. Pandora works fine to the extent that you have skips available or it’s not playing all those same tracks again. There are even multiple Spotify apps that try to help, but it’s just not enough. Today, Twitter unveiled their own music service, designed to tackle specifically that. How well does it work? Uh…
So, About That ‘Zombieland’ TV Series… Let’s Not Get Our Hopes Up
Nothing about this feels quite right.
Remember when we told you about that Zombieland series that Amazon was producing? Don’t you remember our cautious optimism? The sliver of hope that it would turn out decently? Well, the trailer has ‘leaked’ out to the internet and it’s probably messier than the zombies.
