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Science Fiction Movie Moments that Made Us Believe In Wonder

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Science Fiction Movie Moments that Made Us Believe In Wonder This past week, we've rekindled our sense of wonder, watching Curiosity land and explore a world millions of miles away. But the best science fiction and fantasy movies have a way of rekindling that same feeling of wonder, with amazing spectacle and powerful visions.

We've rounded up our favorite goose bump-inducing moments from science fiction. The scenes that gave us all chills, opened our eyes, and made us all believe in wonder!

Wizard Of Oz
Moment of Wonder: "We're not in Kansas anymore." After a harrowing tornado made out of nylon and dust, the sudden burst of color from Munchkinland is enough to knock any moviegoer backwards.

The Abyss
Moment of Wonder: Hero Bud is all but done for in the bottom of the ocean, despite his suit of liquid oxygen. But then he was saved by beautiful bioluminescent aliens. And even though we try to blow them up, they still help out.

Sunshine
Moment of Wonder: Robert Capa meets the Sun.

Wall-E
Moment of Wonder: A broken Earth. The juxtaposition of the jaunty "Put On Your Sunday Clothes," song with the utter devastation of our planet is horrifying. And it's doubled when you realize Wall-E has been building little piles of cubes for years and years. It's enough to make a person want to recycle.

Superman
Moment of Wonder: Lois and Superman's first flight. Just an alien boy in love, flying through the atmosphere.


Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Moment of Wonder: Arthur Dent's Journey Through Creation — while the movie was so-so, this amazing universe making factory scene still makes us catch our breath.

ET
Moment of Wonder: A kind alien sails the neighborhood boys into safety.

Star Wars
Moment of Wonder: There are so many moments we could have added, but the very first viewing of our very first spaceship in a universe unfamiliar to our own is just priceless.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Moment of Wonder: The desperate chase to keep one last memory is stomped out, in a beautiful, frightening manner. The visual representation of the idea that our minds could be vast caverns of memories and emotions, and yet easily erased like the collapsing of a Montauk home, will always stick with us.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Moment of Wonder: The full circle ending.

Contact
Moment of Wonder: The long and beautiful journey to meet a life form on the other edge of the universe — who looks just like Jodie Foster's Dad.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Moment of Wonder: The great, big, terrible backyard.

Close Encounters
Moment of Wonder: The music, the lights, the journey... Steven Spielberg's entire movie culminate in this one spectacular moment, and not a single red shirt has to die to deliver this sort of mouth gaping wonder. Spielberg heralded the kind-alien movement, which makes him almost the father of wonder. Now if only he had stopped the wonder abuse in Super 8.

Planet of the Apes
Moment of Wonder: At first you think this is all just a space mission gone terrible wrong. But the whole movie gets flipped on its head the second you realize that the planet now populated by super smart apes and mute humans is future Earth. YOU MANIACS!

Blade Runner
Moment of Wonder: Future LA! The future is neon, shiny and damp and as dirty as hell. It was the first time we ever saw the future of our cities through such grime colored lenses. And it certainly wasn't the last — countless movies have just straight up copied the world that Ridley Scott created. But we will always remember our first time.

Jurassic Park
Moment of Wonder: "Welcome to Jurassic Park!"


Watch the first 10 minutes of The Awakening and witness a 1920s GHOST RAID!

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Rebecca Hall and Dominic West star in a new old-timey ghost hunting horror movie, The Awakening. Hall plays the cynic Florence Cathcart, famous ghost hunter and exposer of ghost grifters. But when West shows up with a real ghost problem, well... you know what will happen next. Watch the first 10 minutes of the movie right now!

The Awakening will be in theaters on August 17th.

Bill & Ted 3 gets the Galaxy Quest director!

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Bill & Ted 3 gets the Galaxy Quest director!We've been patiently waiting for third installment of the Bill & Ted series. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have been teasing us for years that they have a script, and now some truly excellent news pushes Bill & Ted 3 closer to a release date. The duo has nabbed a director — and not just any director, Dean Parisot from Galaxy Quest!

Vulture reports that original B&T creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson have attached Dean Parisot to direct this long-rumored script. And thankfully, instead of just rebooting the characters, the crew is actually attempting to capture where Bill and Ted are currently. They still haven't found a studio, but rumor has it they're shopping the script around, looking for co-financing alone with MGM (who still owns the rights to the characters).

This leaves only one question. What have Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esquire been up to all these years? Is Wyld Stallions even still together? God, give rock and roll to us!

First crazy trailer for the Red Dawn remake!

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First crazy trailer for the Red Dawn remake! WOLVERINES! Watch Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Adrianne Palicki take on the invading North Korean army from their mountain cabin. With a tagline like "welcome to the home of the brave," there's no doubt in our minds this remake is going full-on ridiculous. They even recreated some of the secret attacks from the original film. Fantastic.

Red Dawn hits theaters on November 21st 2012.

First look at Russell Crowe as Sexy Noah, murderer of the Unicorns

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First look at Russell Crowe as Sexy Noah, murderer of the Unicorns The very first image of Russell Crowe as Darren Aronofsky's Noah is out, and it is hilarious. Playing the beloved bible school character Noah, this furst look at Crowe in his Noah gear has us scratching our heads. We love Aronofsky, but we're not completely sure we're ready for a hot, gritty Noah with a crap load of emotional baggage and two of every animal on Earth.

Noah will be accompanied by his even hotter wife Naameh played by Jennifer Connelly and his children played by Emma Watson, Douglas Booth and Logan Lerman. I guess I always pictured Noah as a sort of skinny santa with a face like my knees after I fell down a flight of stairs. One thing we know for certain, they better have a damn good explanation for why Noah decided not to save the unicorns from their watery grave.

Noah will be in theaters March of 2014.

[via USA Today]

This Eye of Sauron cosplay will burn into your very soul

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This Eye of Sauron cosplay will burn into your very soul Gaze your eyes on this ingenious bit of Lord of the Rings cosplay — and then try think of anything else for the rest of the day.

[via Fashionable Geek]

Rebooted RoboCop script reveals Alex Murphy is now a Transformer

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Rebooted RoboCop script reveals Alex Murphy is now a Transformer We've been pretty excited for the RoboCop remake, especially with the recent casting of Michael K. Williams, who joins the already stellar cast of Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Laurie, and Jackie Earle Haley. But an early leaked script of the Jose Padilha movie has cast a very dark shadow over this production. Drew McWeeny of Hitfix tried to get through the script allegedly penned by Joshua Zetumer and Nick Schenk.

He was not impressed and took to Twitter to release his anger over turning RoboCop into "cop on steroids painted metallic blue." Oof. Here are a few of McWeeny's best online meltdowns over what he read:

I tried to read the "Robocop" remake, but 20 pages in my nose started bleeding and I forgot my name. #nobueno #reallynobueno

I'll share this one detail. In the film, when Murphy is turned into Robocop 1.0, it's described "a high-tech version of the '80s suit."

Then they show a focus group scene where criminals laugh at the design. "He looks like a toy from the '80s!"

So they redesign him to look "meaner" as Robocop 2.0, who passes focus group approval.

So they not only make sure to include the original design, they also point out it's dated and stupid. *facepalm*

Hold onto your sides for more hilarious "Robocop" details. They outsource his construction to China. #seriously

And we meet the ED-209s in the field in Iran, where they're used to subdue suicide bombers. #ineedallthedrinksnow

Ahhh… now they just dropped Robocop 3.0 onto an Al Queda training camp to see what he does.

By page 54, they are already onto Robocop 4.0, who looks like a "cop on steroids painted metallic blue."

Oh, god… oh dear god… Robocop is a Transformer. He goes from "social mode" to "combat mode" and back. Full transformation.

Someone shows Pope, head of the OCP project, some mock-ups for Robocop action figures. "Are you kidding? I wouldn't buy that for a dollar!"

I'll say this: once the script stops all the winky-winky crap and just starts telling a story, it's not terrible. But it's way too late.

So that sounds horrific. True, plenty of early scripts read like garbage and who knows what the end product will look like. But a Transformer RoboCop? Bitches leave!

[Via Bleeding Cool]

Watch what happens when J.J. Abrams turns off the world's power

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Watch what happens when J.J. Abrams turns off the world's powerWatch the first clip from the new NBC series Revolution, which depicts what happens when the lights go out for the entire planet. Cars stop, laptops shut down, babies start crying, and planes fall from the sky. This is really the first non-"swashbuckling bad guys riding around on horses" clip we've seen thus far. And frankly it might be the best bit, as it's kind of scary. Revolution will premiere on Monday, September 17.

[Via Dread Central]


The Origin Story You Won't Hear for Timothy Green's Dirt Baby

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The Origin Story You Won't Hear for Timothy Green's Dirt BabyTimothy Green isn't just a little boy who grew out of a bit of dirt in one lonely couple's backyard. Instead, the dirt baby has a secret mythological history, that no one knows about (because it wasn't included in the movie). In our exclusive interview, the director of The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Peter Hedges, reveals to us the secret origin of Timoth Green.

First up, the Green family home is also the home from Halloween 2, right?

Peter Hedges: I didn't know until we were filming, and I was having many sleepless nights. I'm channel surfing at about two in the morning, a few hours before we're shooting a big scene, and I see the house. And I go "that looks just like our house," and I was watching Halloween 2. First I got upset, and somebody said "I don't think it's the same audience." We looked everywhere for that house. And when we found it, there was no other house, it's always a scary moment when there's no other of something. We went to so many houses...I wanted a Grant Woodish, Americana feel to it.

Would you call The Odd Life of Timothy Green a modern day fairy tale?

To me, if I were to describe it, it's a human comedy with incredible amounts of drama and a touch of magic. I guess the magic that gives permission of the story is the fairy tale part of it. But also, I wanted it to feel very real and relatable. It's an interesting tone to balance. Enough magic and enough hope but also a healthy dose of reality. I'm interested in how we can find more magic in our lives. We may not have magical occurrences happen to us, but there's a kind of micro-heroism that goes on every day in people's lives. There's also a possibility for real grace. I thought maybe there's a way for the magic to get this story going, but the real magic is who and how you love.

The Origin Story You Won't Hear for Timothy Green's Dirt Baby Did you guys ever figure out the backstory of Timothy Green? Is he some sort of magical creature that comes to families in need?

I did, I wrote a whole bunch of material. I did one version where there was a history of kids that have came through time. One that was born out of fire, one that was born of water. They scared people. I tried to put it in the script, I thought it was great...

I love that idea, like ethereal spirits!

Nobody liked it. And that [these children] were misunderstood in history. I had one that came out and they scared people. The one that came out of water was sent away. The one way we've maybe progressed is that these people could come. So I did try and create a whole mythology. By the way, no one has ever asked that — I've told that to no one.

There was a point in the story where [I had to decide], is there going to be a literal truth to a story or an emotional truth to the story? I started writing much more literally. I wanted to convert those skeptics that would have their arms crossed and say this could never happen. And then I thought of all the movies I would have been deprived of and experiences in film I would have been denied, if I — for instance — said well no way is an angel going to come down and show you [what] your life [would be like] if you hadn't lived. No way could I, as a kid, wish to be big and then turn big. No way would baseball players come out of a cornfield that I built and then I get to play baseball with my Dad. None of that happens. But that's cinema at its best, because it reminds you of what matters most. And I wanted to make one of those movies that tried to do for an audience, what those films did for me.

Why did you decide to make Timothy Green not very kid-like? He doesn't throw tantrums, or cry, he's a wise adult in a little person's body?

He definitely feels emotion. I feel like he could cry, and he almost does in a key moment. I have takes where he did — I just elected to not use them, because I felt it was more emotional feeling what wasn't expressed. He's a boy who's never played a video game, eaten processed foods, he hasn't been nicked and bruised, Madison Avenue hasn't gotten its claws into him. For awhile I wondered if he was real, [or] were they just imagining him? But ultimately he manifested the qualities that they thought he would possess but in a way... is still a human being.

How do you use magic in a movie that is pretty grounded in reality, and keep it real?

Only use it when you need it, you don't overuse it. For me, the real key was the reason magic occurs for these people (even though we never explain it) is because their longing and their ache is so great. I felt that if that was planted, to overuse this metaphor, really deep in the soil... if their ache and their longing was so great they get a bit of magic... On a certain level it's a miracle any of us exist. The trick is not to rely on the magic but give it permission to allow the story to be expansive and ambitious. Ultimately it's the characters that drive where the story goes and not the magic. I think that's how most of us experience our lives, we have some control but we probably don't have as much as we think.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding

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True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingLast night True Blood pried open it's clenched fists and let the love of our lives fly away and move on to better things. It was hard, but it needed to happen. Because now there is more room in our hearts for Pam and Tara's infinite collection of matching outfits. Sigh. But let me tell it to you Pro/Con style.

Spoilers ahead...

Pro: Sookie's at her house, in her pajamas watching a very important Vampire Newscast! All the True Blood is still blowing up. But the vampires don't want the humans to know that they are behind it. This is a very good plan. Obviously.

Con: Sookie got Chinese. I should have ordered Chinese.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Con: The village coroner is a vampire! Shocker! Shocker? Shocker.

This seemed like just another opportunity to throw vampire remains at both Sookie and her garbage house. I would imagine that every single countertop and crevasse of the Stackhouse home is just covered in MRSA. Is MRSA something you would get from blood and dirt and sex secretions and vomit? OK, maybe MRSA... I just Googled "Can you get MRSA from vampire jizz?" but I couldn't get a clear answer. Sorry, guys.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Con: Why is Molly in a bra?

Con: Look, I don't have a problem with seeing Molly in a bra (you're beautiful, Tina Majorino). But this was one of the first characters that wore clothes. Like actual people clothes. Now we rip them off so we can istake her? Lame. Also, what was with all the old people throwing digs at this perfect little vampire? A member of The Authority actually says they could forcibly brainwash Molly into loving Lilith but, "None of us think you're worth the trouble." EXCUSE ME? Are they serious? She MADE the istake device you're falling all over yourselves to use. She outwitted your security. And she's rad. How is she not worth it? That is ridiculous. Everyone here is terrible at being an intelligent, centuries old creature.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: On the plus side, we got to finally see the istake in action. It didn't disappoint.

Pro: Hoyt is returning from the hospital. He and his Mama finally have the long awaited heart-to-heart in which Hoyt tells Maxine to "return your fucking mattress." *Claps*

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingCon: This creature.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Con: Nora is forcing Eric to take Lilith inside him (or whatever) by sending him on a mandatory spirit vampire trip. Together they ingest the blood of Lilith. Then the naked God appears and rips out Godric's throat. This is supposed to mean something, because Eric and Nora make this face. It doesn't because Godric is ALREADY DEAD.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: More interesting point, why is Bill filming this? Or watching from a control room? Part of me wants to believe that Bill is smarter than this, but then I remember that it's Bill.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: "What are you in the mood for?" "I was thinking Greek." Ah ha ha, I see what you did there. Russell takes Steve out to dinner, to a frat house.

Pro: Loving these two more and more every week. The fact that they are dancing around to "Teenage Dream" with bodies (young frat guy bodies) strewn everywhere is killing me. I can not breather these two are so much fun. PLEASE KISS NOW!

Con: And on that note — because I'm actually enjoying this couple, my True Blood sense is telling me that something very bad is going to happen with Steve and Russell. I can see Russell betraying Steve, or Russell getting betrayed — either way the only way I see Steve sticking around for season six is unhinged and hungry.

Pro: Something, something, everyone wants to kill Jessica. I can't pay attention because all of the action in Merlotte's is eclipsed by Lala's new casual work attire, with an "L" to accessorize.

Pro: Hoyt has called for music, and they are playing sad music. No. No. No. No. No.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: Tara and Pam are twinsies. Again. Yay!

Pro: Hoyt starts off pretty strong, informing Jess and Jason that he's leaving for Alaska. But then breaks down, and ends up firmly begging Jessica to glamour him and "make this go away." It's sad — even though Bill just tried to glamour Sookie the exact same way earlier in this season, this glamour job is infinitely more emotional. Because we loved Hoyt and Jessica. Because Hoyt and Jessica never had a dirt sex scene, or had to baby sit a man-child Vampire Viking in basketball shorts. We watched these two puppies stumble into their very first relationship, wet nose first. And like most first loves, it didn't work out. It was hard to watch, and when Jessica told Hoyt, "you're gonna make some girl the luckiest, happiest girl in the world. And she… she's going to be your first love. Not me. I'm fading away." I got choked up because I knew this was the end for Hoyt.

Con: Even though this is a beautiful scene, I'm sad to see Hoyt go. He was a really lovely character until this show decided to take a dump on him with the whole "pointing a gun at Jessica" moment. Personally, I'm just going to remember the wicked honesty these two kids delivered. From their first time, the flowers Hoyt put at Jessica's door, their breakup, make up and even the It was all very, honest. And this is a show where two ghost vampire gods just ghost killed each other. There was nowhere else for Hoyt to go, he had already bottomed out over and over again, and this was the corner he was painted into. He could come back, absolutely, and that would be wonderful. And if he does, I hope he's still wearing that shirt (the shirt he wore when he met Jessica). My only wish is that the rest of the relationships could be rooted in the same kind of reality that these two grew from.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: Jason looks up the stuffed cat's animal dress.

Gif via Sally in the sky with diamonds.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingCon: Oh right, more fairy stuff.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingPro: Lala cooks Andy and whats-her-face dinner. Adorable! Of course he can cook, is there anything Lafayette can't do!

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingPro: Vampire Face Time! Fingers crossed Bill won't rub his new suck stink all over Jessica.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: Russell is watching Steve on TV and talking to his dog, just like us!

Pro: Jason pulls over Hoyt, but he doesn't remember him. It becomes infinitely more clear why Hoyt was glamoured. True Blood wanted the audience to forgive Jason.

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire puddingPro: It works. *SOB*

Con: Bill starts to give Jessica a really boring lecture about vampire history. Because they haven't yet met their Vampire nonsense mumbojumbo quota yet.

Pro: Thankfully Jessica can smell bullshit, and tells Bill it all sounds a little too familiar. Jessica is now smarter than everyone in The Authority. Seriously when did Bill swing so wildly out of character? Between this speech and Eric's "forgiving Russell" act, I really hope these two are up to something.

Pro: Tara kills The Worst. Well done Tara! Did you notice that before Tara cuts off this terrible vampire sheriff's head he tells her to "ice her clam," like that's a thing. Ha ha, Congrats Tara!

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Con: I do not understand this Pam hair.

Pro: Emma turns into a human, Steve claps at her like she just piddled all over the carpet. Aw ha ha. If I had a kid who could also turn into the puppy, I too would prefer the puppy. I mean look at it!

True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding Pro: Russell is also frustrated with these countless vampire meetings in the vampire board room on the vampire laptops. Decides to take his fate into his own hands. Slips into his super hot ancient tongue. What were these vampire idiots thinking trying to contain all this sexy rage? Kill them all, Russell! Kill them all!

And that is where we end it. I've ignored the fact that Sookie has a blood contract to marry a vampire and Andy got a fairy pregnant for obvious reasons. I suspect this plot line will become much larger in the final episodes (holy Maenad-fisting cow, we're really close to the finale now).

Screencaps from Home of the Nutty.

The Little Mermaid goes under the knife in these Disney Princess plastic surgery ads

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The Little Mermaid goes under the knife in these Disney Princess plastic surgery ads Who needs a fairy godmother when you've got a doctor with a knife? Venezuelan ad company ZEA BBDO is ready to lure all the kiddies into the operating room with these fairy-tale-friendly, straight-up Prince Eric and Ariel rip-off ads for plastic surgery. Horrifying? Indeed!

[Via Ads of the World]

The Little Mermaid goes under the knife in these Disney Princess plastic surgery ads

The Little Mermaid goes under the knife in these Disney Princess plastic surgery ads

13 clips from Cosmopolis show Robert Pattinson's post-apocalyptic haircut

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We're intrigued by the seemingly simple plot of David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis: Robert Pattinson (playing a wealthy Wall Street heir) goes to get a haircut. But like all things Cronenberg, it's going to be infinitely more complicated than that. Just watch this massive collection of sing-song dialogue, and try and divine what's really going on:

New York City, not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer, a 28 year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a civilization ahead of this one, watches a dark shadow cast over the firmament of the Wall Street galaxy, of which he is the uncontested king. As he is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut at his father's old barber, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan's exchange rate: it is mounting against all expectations, destroying Eric's bet against it. Eric Packer is losing his empire with every tick of the clock. Meanwhile, an eruption of wild activity unfolds in the city's streets. Petrified as the threats of the real world infringe upon his cloud of virtual convictions, his paranoia intensifies during the course of his 24-hour cross-town odyssey.

Cosmopolis will have a limited release stateside on August 17.

Is The Walking Dead: The Movie in the works?

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Is The Walking Dead: The Movie in the works?Rumor now has it that AMC wants to make a movie version of Robert Kirkman's comic. They've already got a very successful television series — we can easily see how this zombie show could spark a two-hour, extra-gory flick. Bloody Disgusting reports that AMC is pursuing a Walking Dead movie, and points out that the first pitch for a Walking Dead screen adaptation was cinematic.

Bloody Disgusting further surmises that the movie would take place after the show concludes, much like Sex and the City and The Smurfs. Unlike these two films, we hope a Walking Dead movie doesn't inspire us to jam forks in our eyes.

New Looper trailer shows off the gadgets in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's futuristic gangland

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This brand new international trailer for Looper shows off the fabulous future life of a Looper. Clubs, drinks, dancing and hover bikes. In Rian Johnson's time twisty gangster movie, future mobsters send victims back in time to let the Loopers execute and dispose of the body. This is the first real look we're getting at Johnson's future, where time travel is only for criminals.

Looper hits theaters on Sept. 21.

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

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New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids! Warner Bros. has released a preview of some up-and-coming movies — which means new shots from both Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit! Check out one of the many faces of Tom Hanks, plus a brand new dwarf shot.

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!


New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

New images from Cloud Atlas and The Hobbit show off dwarves and androids!

Grimm is back with a giant Kitty Man and massive blood lust

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Grimm is back with a giant Kitty Man and massive blood lust Grimm is back! And it's bringing a brand new collection of CG-faced fairy tale creatures, out to murder the good people of Portland. The first season ended with a massive cliffhanger for our hero, Nick. A new character was introduced, Juliet was poisoned by a yellow-tongued cat, and Pilates Wolf is still in limbo about whether or not Pharmacy Fox would be givinv him a little Wesen lovin.

None of these questions were answered in the premiere, but we did meet a giant french cat-man that killed a lot — a lot! — of people. Spoilers ahead...

Oh Grimm! What are we going to do with you? We're so happy that doppelgänger Prince Eric is back with this wily gang of Wesen. But more than this episode, which felt crazy unbalanced, we look forward to the nights spent back in the arms of our beloved Pilates Wolf, talking about clock making, model trains, or whatever supercute hobby he has inexplicably taken up that night.

Alas, there's no time for that now — the premiere episode of the second season was all about Nick and his formerly presumed dead mother. Or at least some of it was: There was actually just a ton of crap going on. Snowflake-face was imprisoned and did the whole "do you know who I am" dance with Captain Renard (not enough people know who Renard is). True Blood's James Frain showed up to torture someone, there is a giant cat man on the loose who just wants to kill everyone, including a few newly introduced FBI Agents, the coins popped in for a bit, the key with the map swiftly took their place, Sgt. Wu made pithy comments about a horrible death scene... aaaaaand oh yeah, Adalind's mom went shopping to un-do the potion her daughter did at the demand of Renard. It was a lot.

Grimm is back with a giant Kitty Man and massive blood lust The kitty is actually called a Mauvais Dentes. At first we suspected he was some sort of cat Reaper (as we spent most of the first season building up a sense of wonder about these villains) but actually they're just a "killing machine." The beast is told to kill Nick, which he tries to do in this episode, with no luck. Meanwhile, Mom and Nick are kind of circling each other, trying to figure out what to do with all their emotions. Nick is surprisingly cool about his Mother letting him think she was dead all these years. Together they have tense pancakes, and his Mom tries to kill Pilates Wolf because he's one of them. Clearly it's going to be a long road for these two, if she makes it past this two-part premiere.

Meanwhile Mom spills the beans that the key Nick accidentally discovered was a map, and is actually part of a much bigger map, that leads to an ultimate weapon (please be a unicorn, please be a unicorn).

As part of this big reveal, we find out that the seven families and the Grimms used to work together. The Grimms were kind of like the kingdom cops and kept the Wesen in line. But if one of the Kings ever got ahold of this weapon (oh God can you IMAGINE if it was a unicorn) there would be no peace or something. We don't know, since the whole fairy tale ruling party has been kept in the dark for 100 episodes. I think the best part of this whole encounter is that it was prompted by the coins. The coins that brought snowflake face into town, the coins that showed that Hitler was a Wesen, and they are allegedly responsible for the death of Nick's parents (but not anymore). At his mother's request Nick gives her the coins but then they are quickly thrown away for the magical key map and even more mythological mumbo jumbo.

One thing this episode had going for it was just buckets of blood and prosthetic bits of fake humans. Not two seconds went by, without a close up on the face of a dead man with giant claw marks and sabertooth bite holes in his neck. Nice to see they're keeping the dark path this show turned in the middle of the first season.

And that's all we can really say about this episode. Not much happened. Juliette is still in a memory-erasing coma because the cure-all elixer conveniently took an entire episode to brew. Most of the time catching up with Mom was used to lay out the laws of the fairy tale world of the past. We did like the kitty. A lot. He looked pretty rad. We're excited to learn Renard's real reasons for continually tying himself to Nick, but we know that's not going to be revealed anytime soon. I guess we'll just have to wait for next week, and wish and hope that we're rewarded with an entire Pilates Wolf-centric episode very soon for our patience.

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

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Concept art from the Sandman movie that never wasMany moons ago, Neil Gaiman pitched a three-part cinematic adaptation of his comic book Sandman to Warner Bros. The project never got off the ground and was later canceled entirely. What we're now left with is this collection of stunning concept art by Sandman and Beasts of Burden illustrator Jill Thompson. Check out Morpheus breaking out of the globe, The Corinthian, The Three Witches, and a whole lot more.

This art's presently up for sale and available for ogling. Gaiman announced the release of this concept art on Twitter: "Some years ago, I had to pitch/explain SANDMAN to Warners. Jill Thompson illustrated the pitch. That art's for sale." View the entire gallery over at Cadence of Comic Art. Each image is priced from $800-$900 a pop.

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was


Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Concept art from the Sandman movie that never was

Disgusting clip from The Possession has Sam Raimi's mark all over it

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We recently learned that Sam Raimi was a producer on the "Jewish exorcist" flick The Possession, which was previously titled The Dybbuk Box. But this creepy new clip makes the horror legend's presence crystal clear. We're delighted that this spooky movie seems to be channeling the grotesque body horror from Raimi's world. The more we see from director Ole Bornedal's movie, the more excited we continue to get. Plus the main little actress, Natasha Calis, is pretty compelling. Fingers crossed for good horror!

Prometheus' list of deleted scenes reveals an ending we never saw

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Prometheus' list of deleted scenes reveals an ending we never saw The Blu-ray release of Ridley Scott's Prometheus is right around the corner — and while we can't wait to see the lovely scenes from Scott in glorious Blu-ray, we'd also like a few more answers. Thankfully a list of deleted scenes coming with the disc reveals there's a ton of extra material, that might offer up a bit of closure.

Bleeding Cool has a list of deleted scenes — get a load of the last three titles.

00:02:31:16 (ARRIVAL OF THE ENGINEERS) (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:58:05 (T'IS THE SEASON) (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:42:08 (OUR FIRST ALIEN) (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:42:14 (SKIN) (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:22:01 (WE'RE NOT ALONE ANYMORE) (DELETED SCENE)
00:02:57:01 (STRANGE BEDFELLOWS) (DELETED SCENE)
00:01:25:04 (HOLLOWAY HUNGOVER) (DELETED SCENE)
00:00:23:12 (DAVID'S OBJECTIVE) (DELETED SCENE)
00:03:27:07 (JANEK FILLS VICKERS IN) (DELETED SCENE)
00:03:40:12 (A KING HAS HIS REIGN) (DELETED SCENE)
00:02:01:24 (FITFIELD ATTACKS) (DELETED SCENE)
00:04:06:06 (THE ENGINEER SPEAKS) (DELETED SCENE)
00:05:30:04 (FINAL BATTLE) (DELETED SCENE)
00:05:05:19 (PARADISE) (DELETED SCENE)

Could Paradise be Engineer land? What about Engineer speaks? Could he have more to say besides PUNCH!? We don't know, but we guess we'll have to wait until the DVD comes out in October.

Concept Art via Steven Messing.

Sizzle reel shows hints of the gritty Daredevil movie Fox won't be making

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A few days ago a deflated director Joe Carnahan (The Grey) took to Twitter to announce that his pitch for a Serpico-styled Daredevil movie had gone up in smoke. And now he's released his exciting sizzle reel, cobbled together from Daredevil comics panels and past violent movies. Here's the bloody "NC-17" version — think of it as a mood board for the movie that we'll never see.

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