September 28 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 12:05 pm
What’s a “backdoor pilot” anyway? I mean, I know Knightrider was high camp, but really. News is that Doug Liman is to produce a Transformers-inspired two hour pilot, remaking the show for TV once more. Could be cool, but who can fill the Hoff’s shoes? Keep up to date at Knightrideronline, a website that’s been keeping the faith for ten years now…
Non stop movies: This weekend the Hollywood Cinema in Avondale, Auckland, plays host to the annual V 24 Hour Movie Marathon. The super secret squirrel lineup starts at 4pm on Saturday and includes horrors, thrillers, and trashy action films. Registration closed this morning, but the website moviemarathon.co.nz says “Otherwise just turn up and take your chances on Saturday”. Tickets are $45 and it’s limited to 250 punters…
My Sweet George: Martin Scorsese is to direct a documentary about George Harrison, with a focus on his search for spiritual meaning…
That’s gotta hurt: Mafia hits, electric chairs, decapitations and disembowelments — all part of the fun at the Moviedeaths blog (warning: graphic violence)…
Cash for chaos: The Sex Pistols have re-recorded their classic song “Anarchy in the U.K.” for the upcoming video game “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock”. It’s the first time the punkers have been in the studio together since the late 1970s…
In defence of the Doors: This guy reckons there’s more to the Doors than leather pants and “Roadhouse Blues”. (Try telling that to the holidaying surfies at the Papamoa Tavern this Christmas…)
Midnight at the Oasis: Sounding like he’s promoting another album, Noel Gallagher says his newborn son will be “legendary”… newspapers must have edited out the Mancunian’s fave cuss word, “fooking”…
Video parody: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right — Reservoir Dads…
Here we go: Garageland returns to play Auckland’s Kings Arms, November 10…
Trailer: The John Cusack-produced new Iraq war satire, War Inc. was hugely influenced by Naomi Klein’s article “Baghdad Year Zero”, a prelude to her new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism… “War Inc. is one of those rare satires with the danger left in,” Klein tells The Huffington Post. “It cranks up the dial on the state of privatized war just enough that we can finally see our present clearly.” The Huffington Post also has video of a conversation between Klein and Cusack. Watch the trailer for War Inc., scheduled for a 2008 release, below.