Hollywood’s gotten a little ironic as of late. With throwbacks to the cheese of yesteryear – The Expendibles, Piranha 3D and Predators, just in the past two months – the studios have been willing to play with low-brow entertainment while winking at the audience. But like Snakes on a Plane proved, making a bad movie good isn’t as easy as it seems, and those aforementioned aforementioned movies worked to varying degrees (godsend Piranha 3D aside).

So how does Machete, a movie with the unpublicized catchphrase “You just fucked with the wrong Mexican,” fulfill fanboy dreams of silly cinema? Pretty well, it turns out.
Read the rest of this entry »

Romantic comedies are far from my favorite genre. The cream of the crop are passable at best, and for the rest, well, just take a look at Kate Hudson’s filmography sometime. Perhaps it’s because the bar is set so low that Going the Distance finds a way to be a halfway decent, and at times even funny, entry into the genre.

The story focuses on the burgeoning relationship between low-level record company exec Garret (Justin Long) and waitress Erin (Drew Barrymore) which is put on indefinite hold when Erin’s internship working for a major metropolitan newspaper ends and she leaves New York for San Fransisco.

Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, I’m tempted to pick up one of these collectible boxes of Stay Puft marshmallows.

A couple things you should know:

Each box includes 24 marshmallows

Each marshmallow contains more than 100mg of caffeine

Each box costs $19.99

And…it’s a freakin’ collector box full of Stay Puft marshmallows! What more do you want?

Turns out the students of UCSC Engineering found a noble purpose for 6400 post-it notes; very nicely done!

[via Walyou]

I must say I really dig these three 8.5×11 prints Andy Helms has done for the original Star Wars trilogy. They’ll run you $15 a piece, or you can grab all three for $40.

From director Wu Ershan comes this tale of three men, The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman, connected by a single weapon – a cleaver forged from the swords of the world’s top martial artists. The film, described as an action-comedy despite the serious tone of the trailer, is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in a couple of weeks.

The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman Trailer

I’m all for any list that includes the Brain from Pinky and the Brain, Doc Brown, and Tony Stark. Gizmodo has a fun list of The 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors of All Time that’s worth a quick look.

Well, duh! It’s about time somebody noticed. We finally learn the truth about what’s going on under Daredevil’s mask and, sigh, let’s just say it could have been handled better. As I had feared, it turns out the entire struggle of Matt Murdock’s control of the Hand is moot since he’s no longer in control of his actions. Oh, and Bullseye’s on his way back far faster than most readers not a carrot chompin’ super-hero reviewer thought. Sure, this Hand demon gives our heroes a big bad villain to fight, but it also undercuts the only real dramatic thread the mini-series had going for it. Nice to see Elektra finally show up, though. Hit-and-Miss.

[Marvel $3.99]

I always thought Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket could have used a little more Donald Duck.

Full Metal Disney

“Classy and stylish, Eau Lando Cologne by Genki Wear is a potent mix of mandarin warmed with incense and lotus flower, exotic woods, dark violet and sensuous musk.” And you know it just drives the women wild.

Ladies, we haven’t forgotten you. There’s also Slave Leia perfume guaranteed to drive you scoundrel wild (or possibly trap him in carbonite).