Just recently the new movie a href=”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990314/”>Robot and Frank was at Sundance, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. It is something of a buddy film, with Frank Langella and his robot sidekick as the buddies. Until someone picks it up for distribution, you can catch it on the film festival circuit.
This one cracked me up; the advertising agency promo about how they got the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012 to have their brand awareness outshine the Egyptians. The internet continues to be a wonderful place, which is totally due to the creativity of the folks that live there, which in this case means Buzzman.
There are several tasty Korean bands I would like to mention today, the first one being Girl’s Generation. They are more of a pop group than a rock group, but they have worked long and hard at creating a following, as you can tell from their song Run Devil Run. The next track to mention is the band 4Minute doing their hit Heart 2 Heart, and then the song I have been waiting for: I Go Crazy Because Of You by T-Ara. As I said, more pop than rock, but a bit of good music even so. Unfortunately, every one of them was removed from YouTube, so I have removed the videos here as well, in case they were taken down because of copyright issues.
While there is nothing major being released nationally this week, there are a few films worth your attention getting limited engagements. Unicorn City is the story of an out of work gamer who decides to prove himself to his potential employer by founding a utopian society comprised of his LARPing collective. As you might expect, things don’t go quite as he planned, especially when his nemesis shows up to challenge him for leadership and the girl. This one has won a bunch of awards on the film fest circuit. Also out, The Fairy (Le Fee) tells the tale of a man who searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who granted him two wishes and disappeared, taking his heart with her. Both of these are comedies, whatever else they might be.
It is kind of sad when the only live action genre movie for the week has a title like Bong Of The Dead, but it did win some awards, including Cannes, and the zombies are the ones being hunted for their brains in this horror comedy. In animated movies we have Puss in Boots, both as a stand alone and bundled with Puss In Boots: The Three Diablos. Staring Antonio Banderas, this Shrek spin off has all the humor associated with that series.
The genre TV series this week is The Fades: Season One, fresh from its run on BBC America. This one is a bit more horror than I prefer, and without the humor, but it is exceedingly well done.
In Anime Strike Witches Season 2 continues the story of propeller booted aerial combat during WWII. Also being released, Broken Blade – Complete Collection is a giant mecha combat set.
Yep, Stan the Man finally has his own personal web site for all the true comic fans: The Real Stan Lee went online a week or two back. It has all the usual; news, forum, social networking interface, multimedia, and so forth. And to get it launched properly, he sat down with the ever delectable Alison Haislip to do a TV style interview. I should warn you, if you had ever assumed that Stan was in any way shy about promoting himself, or perhaps even humble, this video segment should put paid to your illusions.