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This is why I love my boyfriend so much. He came home with a present the other day, knowing full well how much I would love it. He found a DVD called Drive-In Cult Classics that cost only $7 on sale at Best Buy, yet contains eight exploitation "classics" from the '70s. What amazed me about the 2-disc set was not that it even existed, but that the movies were all presented in anamorphic widescreen in transfers that didn't suck as much as I'd expected them to. Anyway, the first one I sampled was one that he recalled watching on TV as a kid. Now, I don't know how they edited this to appear on channel 5, even late at night, but it might even make the movie funnier (kind of like how hilarious the substitute curse words are in the TV version of The Breakfast Club). The film in question is called Malibu High, and it's a cautionary tale of sex, drugs and violence. So pretty much what you'd expect, right? Make the jump and find out!
A trailer is out for Gus Van Sant's biopic of openly gay politician Harvey Milk, and to be honest, it looks much better (and more upbeat) than I expected. Check out Josh Brolin as a very sinister Dan White (Milk's eventual killer).
The author of the Wanted comic (which the recent hit film was just barely based upon) has no plans to make a sequel to the graphic novel, but he will be giving input to the creators of the upcoming movie sequel.
Mark Millar says that much like the first movie, Wanted 2 will apparently draw certain elements from the comic, but ultimately bear little resemblance to his source material. However, Millar will be supplying a basic outline which the producers may or may not make use of.
"What I will be doing is providing them with a very small amount of stuff for a story, and that will be used as a basic story that they can build from" he says, "It will be a small outline that can possibly be picked apart and not used - but it will be something exclusively for the second film, and no one will ever really see it."
Millar Talks "Wanted" Sequel [Newsrama]
[via: Dark Horizons]
Pardon my nonpresence as of late...I come bearing a apologetic gift in the form of a rumor (albeit an unlikely one) related to Christopher Nolan's inevitable follow-up to The Dark Knight.
Signs seem to point toward Catwoman playing a role in the next Batman film, and earlier reports suggested that Angelina Jolie would be the one wielding the whip. But a new rumor points in a very different direction...that of Cher.
Yeah, I know. This smells fishier than Selina Kyle's breakfast...not that the aging diva would necessarily be out of her element in a leather catsuit. And one thing's for sure, it would certainly be an innovative take on the character...
EDIT: Nope.
Cher 'to play Catwoman' in next Batman film [Telegraph]
I've not seen George Lucas' new animated Star Wars feature The Clone Wars, but the reviews haven't been spectacular. It probably doesn't help that the film includes a flamboyant, purple relative of Jabba the Hutt based upon Truman Capote. No, I am not joking.
Lucas has incited controversy before by including arguably stereotype-based (not to mention unpopular) characters in the Star Wars movies, and while "Ziro the Hutt" isn't necessarily the first gay character to appear in a Star Wars movie, it might not be a particularly subtle or positive portrayal. What do you think?
A choice episode of Living Lohan aired recently, and the thing that shocks me isn't that Lindsay Lohan's sister auditioned for a remake of Troll that turned out to be produced by a guy mainly known for making porn...it's that they are making a remake of Troll.
The 1986 movie Troll has an interesting history. The main character (played by Atreyu from the first Neverending Story) is a young boy named Harry Potter Jr. who fights to protect his friends and family from an evil inhuman wizard. Sound slightly familiar? What if I threw in Sonny Bono transforming into a forest and a pretty much naked Julia Louis-Dreyfuss? Sound slightly less familiar?
The bizarre film also inspired Troll 2, considered by some to be the best worst movie ever created, despite not containing any actual trolls.
The stage adaptation of the cult classic 1980 campy disco musical Xanadu is a pretty big hit. In celebration, here's "Dancin", my favorite number from the movie, and a great blend of two contrasting musical styles.
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This will be worth watching to see how it develops.
I suppose a number of people would like to see George Lucas frozen in carbonite just to ensure a lack of any future Star Wars or Indiana Jones sequels, but those people will just have to play pretend and make do with this sculpture, photographed by Bonnie Burton of Starwars.com.
George Lucas Frozen In Carbonite [Slashfilm]
If the idea of an MTV-produced remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show churns your stomach, then I'm afraid I have some upsetting news.
Personally, I'm actually not entirely averse to the idea. It's not like the show hasn't already been reenacted by thousands of high school drama club members a million times over. And as long as MTV supplies some sort of Peter Hinwood facsimile for me to ogle, I'm good to go.
It's also been said that the remake may include some original music. Just don't turn it into a hip hopera, MTV. That's all I ask.
MTV readies 'Rocky Horror' redux [Variety]
Hollywood Insider reports that a sequel to Anchorman is looking more and more likely. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are developing the film, said to be set a decade or so after the first one. Hello, awesome 80's!
Ferrell and McKay developing 'Anchorman 2' [Hollywood Insider]
Actor/director David Wain recently revealed plans to release an anniversary edition DVD of Wet Hot American Summer. He also hinted at the possibility of a prequel movie set shortly before the original.
You should definitely watch the original WHAS if you haven't yet. It's an absurdist comedy that takes place on the last day of summer camp in the early eighties, and stars many veterans and friends of The State including Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, and Ken Marino.
Wet Hot American Prequel? [CHUD]
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It was 1980 and disco was dead, but not in the UK!
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