Hitler speaks out about Michael Jackson's Death
Everything about this is offensive and wrong and brilliant. Check out the re-subtitled clip from the stunningly brilliant and disturbing film Downfall below, tweaked to your fancy for more Michael Jackson related news.
Grace (2009)
Official selection for numerous film fests Grace is one of a growing new crop of promising horror films about children (Orphan and The Children being two more on my must see list) I'm still hesitant of the It's Alive remake-to which Grace bares a passing similarity, though Grace seems far more unsettling to me personally. Check out Grace below, but be warned this will not be a film for the squeamish or the easily disturbed. I was describing it recently to three film buff friends who alternated between heartbreak and revulsion at the storyline:
After 2 miscarriages a young couple is eager for the arrival of their daughter Grace, but a tragic accident kills the unborn Grace her mother makes a difficult and controversial decision to carry the infant to term a few more weeks. Much to everyone's shock after the birth Grace is revived. When signs begin showing that the miracle baby has a few problems Grace's mother makes the unthinkable choice to keep her daughter alive and healthy the only way she can... See for yourself if you can stomach it in, Grace.
Antony covers Beyoncé
Antony and the Metrople Orkestra cover Beyoncé's Crazy in Love.
Also a brilliant rendition of one of my favorite songs of all time The Cripple and the Starfish
Oh Canada! NEW! Peaches and Gentleman Reg
Two of my favorite Canadian-based acts have new videos out this week WOOHOO! First up is Gentleman Reg with This Is How We Exit my husband's favorite track off his new album Jet Black. It's a super sweet stop-motion-esque video
Next up is Lose You by Peaches from her amazing new album I Feel Cream. This video is epic! THIS is how you tell someone you love them! Genius.
(anyones else notice a very Strangers with Candy, Jerri Blank vibe in this?)
Immersion:Porn by Robbie Cooper
Film maker Robbie Cooper has created an 18 minute film for Wallpaper's July 2009 SEX issue. It is brilliant and mesmerizing confessional of porn aficionados inter-cut with facial close-ups during their own intimate personal pleasure. It's shocking and honest and absolutely brilliant. Watch the film Below!
9 a short film by Shane Acker
I've written before about the upcoming film "9" directed by animator-director Shane Acker who's original short of the same name took home the Academy award and inspired Tim Burton and Timur Bekmembetov to produce this feature length film set in 9's apocalyptic landscape. Take a look at the original Oscar winning short below.
Oh Fuck You, Michael Bay.
I watched Transformers and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen the only two films of Michael Bay's long career that I could even set through fully. As a child of the 70s and 80s I love me some toy-tie in cartoons (Transformers , He-man, Thundercats) and I enjoyed the Transformers live-action films as exactly what they were expensive toy-tie ins. Good pop corn fun with (sometimes too much) product placement and likable stars. Megan Fox has been criticized by Bay for being perfectly honest that being in Michael Bay film isn't exactly about acting but was quick to say she was privileged to be in the films as it gave her her career. But the following quote from Bay sparked my post title, which I'll say again "Oh FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY. "
It's easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France,” he said. “But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers.
As an independent film maker I know better than Bay does how incredibly difficult it is to "shoot an art movie." With his 200 million plus budgets and a near army of crew he has less to do on a set than most, there are unpaid PA and interns working harder on a Michael Bay film than Michael Bay. Also not to be a semantic nerd but Art Film, not Art Movie. Michael Bay makes movies , a term I designate for those great messy explosion filled usually mindless summer time wasters that we all (myself totally included) get pumped to pack ourselves in the airconditioned dark for year after year. Films I'd reserve for those (non-technical effects) oscar winning works of passion from writer directors or literary adaptations that speak to the human condition in bold and profound ways, not with two offensive jive-talking Robots and half-naked girls with robot tongues.
Rob Zombie's Halloween 2
I unabashedly loved Rob Zombie's re-envisioned Halloween a few years back and am excited to see his follow-up sequal this fall. Check out the second trailer below. I think Zombie is highly underrated as a director and really respect his vision of Halloween, as it is perhaps the only "remake" of a horror classic we've seen lately that I felt stood on it's own. It was well aware it would never be the classic genius of the original John Carpenter film, a small indie that launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis and practically invented the slasher sub-genre. It was however a compelling, graphically violent and fairly mesmerizing study of madness, family ties and the legacy of violence. Sheri Moon Zombie was genuinely heartbreaking as a mother desperately trying to understand her murderous institutionalized young son, loving her son even after he'd slaughtered his older sister and mother's no-good boyfriend in the films extended back story. I'm keen on the changes Zombie is making to keep this new version fresh and honest. It will , like the original sequel pick up moments after the first film ends and our poor heroine Laurie Strode's night of terror continues but as the first Zombie helmed Halloween had it's own back story this one will recount the events of Halloween 2 (1981) and then jump 2 years finding Laurie a disturbed traumatized young woman acting out her issues and Annie (a survivor of the first superbly played by Halloween franchise veteran Danielle Harris) an agoraphobic mental patient. While this doesn't exactly look like the joy ride kinda horror of Sam Rami's over looked but critically beloved Drag Me To Hell I do look for to spending 2 very long dark and twisted hours in the dark with this vision of uniquely American horror.
Buffy Versus Twilight
God bless this marriage of cheap iMovie edits and fan fiction. I love this hilarious altranarrative in which lame vamp Edward Cullen goes to Sunnydale High and meets our intrepid Chosen One, Buffy Summers (circa Season 3 I believe).
Michael Jackson's Face (for Matthew)
This is fairly self-explanatory, but here goes- Checkout the late Michael Jackson's many looks from cradle to the grave below. Chilling. You are welcome Matthew!
Sarah Palin- Press conference
WOW! Listen to her bullshit press conference, soo delusional.
(Via DailyKOS)
GOOD-RIDDANCE SARAH PALIN
Sarah "Maverick" Palin the governor of Alaska, imbecilic crook and vice-presidential loser is stepping down later this month as Alaska's governor and will not be seeking re-election in 2010, though rumor has it she plans an (ill-advised) White House bid in 2012.
Sarah, Honey. Let's talk,
I just have a hard time with this I mean if you fuck up this badly as governor and ruin the lives of sooo many (your own children included) and now removing yourself from the governmental spotlight HOW do you plan on running for the highest office in the nation? It's a farce . STOP IT! ugh!
What you need to focus on is getting and education for yourself and your children. You made a laughing stock out of Alaskans on the national stage as well as set the women's movement back with your neoconservative agenda. Have you no shame? No decency? No clue? You pimped out a mentally retarded baby for photo-ops in the arms of you second youngest child and thrust your pregnant teenage daughter and her then boyfriend into the spotlight, making a mockery of sex education programs nation wide. Go away. We don't need you. Ou are making a fool out of yourself and us and it's not fun to watch anymore. It's embarrassing.
Gene Simmons - Kiss THIS!
Gene Simmons of KISS has been struggling for a foot hold into sustained cultural relevancy for sometime now. He "stars" in a repulsive reality series called Gene Simmons' Family Jewels where he and his pampered family tool around their mansion mom and dad get plastic surgery together and the kids spend lavish amounts of cash. KISS were never a favorite of mine, i found their theatrics entertaining enough but there really just a pop act with a gimmick that has past it's prime in my humble opinion. Their recent appearance on American Idol was rather tuneless affair and they were paired with vocal powerhouse and glam rocker Adam Lambert. HE recently appeared on a LA Fox News morning show to plug every single venture he had a tie to , which was sickeningly tacky but then talk turned to the aforementioned Adam Lambert where he said:
"Mostly he should shut up about his sexual preferences. We, America, the rest of the world, really don’t care. I mean, if the story becomes ‘I prefer farm animals to,’ you know, who cares? Be quiet about what it is you do indoors and go out there and sing."
Weeeeell, that didn't set too well with a lot of people and Gene's response was this:
I don't think I've been talking smack at all. In fact, if anything, I've been soft-peddling. He's enormously talented, best talent 'American Idol' has had, but I think he killed his career because now the conversation is not about his talent but about his sexual preference. He's done. You're forcing people to deal with issues they may not be interested in. Life is unfair, and the masses don't all live in L.A. They live in Wisconsin and Nebraska, and you're on crack if you think the same rules apply there. My advice is still the same, shut the f*** up, just sing and let people say whatever they want. But I do wish him the best because he's got all the talent in the world. If only the world was not homophobic, but it is. I would be the first one to vote for equal rights for gay women and men, and get the church and the state to stop telling everybody how to lead their lives, but do I think he's killed his career? Oh, in an instant. I hope I'm completely wrong. I hope he becomes the next Beatles and proves me wrong."
Adam hasn't even released an album yet and his career has been killed? I think Gene Simmons is so misguided and comes off as a closet homophobe, which is ridiculous coming from an old man who makes a living pimping out his family on basic cable and dressing up in clown make-up and fake armor to play "rock" songs.
It's Whitney BItch!
America's favorite former superstar-turned-crachead has returned (or is about to rather). Whitney Houston's voice has mature raspier quality (ie ravaged my years of drugs) but it sorta works on this, not that I'm a big fan of it, but it surprises me that it exists at all. Check it out before Sony yanks it down again and let me know your thoughts.
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