I did have an entry with a trailer for the Hotel Transylvania animated comedy coming out later in the year, but they turned out not to have the rights to show it, and it got yanked. So instead, here is a different trailer for Lockout, the new Luc Besson movie coming out next weekend.
In fact, it went live this past Sunday, over at the Geek and Sundry Channel on YouTube as well as the Geek and Sundry home page. Felicity brought The Guild over for season 5 (plus the archives), and has launched a video blog. Wil will be hosting a gaming show with a lot of great guests and actual board games, playing his guests while interviewing them. Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt have brought their podcast into the video age and joined the team, and Paul and Storm bring their own brand of silliness to the mix. And that’s just the folks I was already following, there is more going on there you will want to check out.
The movie Iron Sky opens today in Finland and Norway, and tomorrow in Germany and Austria. The US release dates have apparently not yet been determined, I am sorry to say. The plot is that the German rocket program was more advanced than anyone knew at the end of WWII, and the Nazi’s populated the dark side of the moon before they were defeated. 70 years later they return to conquer Earth, with no clue what kind of technical changes civilization has evolved through while they were gone. Boy, are they in for a surprise.
This may be Abney Park’s best song to date, which is saying something considering their long line of Steampunk hits, but it is most certainly the best Steampunk music video ever put together. There is an amazing culture out there, and more of the outstanding people, groups, and projects are represented in this one than I have ever seen gathered together in one place. If you have not previously been exposed to Abney Park, this song is the opening track from their new CD coming out in June, but they have a boatload (my spellchecker didn’t like Airshipload) of previous releases you can enjoy right now. This is definitely my favorite Steampunk band, and one of my favorite band’s overall.
And a few other interesting videos used in its production, or just Steampunk oriented…
New Total Recall trailer is out! Strangely enough, I was actually considering going to a horror comedy this weekend; Detention is finally going into wide release, or at least wider than the film festival circuit it has been on for the past year. Or maybe not; some schedules have it for this week, and some for next, and next week I will definitely be at Lockout. The other main choice for this week is Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a documentary about Comic Con. For me, documentaries rarely require the big screen to tell their story, so I may wait on the DVD for that one. But I am hoping some theater is running the trailer for the new Total Recall movie, because it looks like another great Philip K. Dick roller coaster ride of a film!
The best movie this time around appears to be a documentary: Being Elmo: A Pupeteer’s Journey is a look behind the scenes at the creator of one of the worlds best loved puppets. And no, it is not Jim Henson, but someone who really wanted to work with him. The film itself racked up an impressive number of awards at festivals around the globe. Alien Opponent, on the other hand, is a bit silly but didn’t mean to be; I can not recommend it to anyone, really.
Top TV selection is Torchwood: Miracle Day, the joint project between Starz and the BBC. Actually, that is about the only live action TV selection this time around, except for re-releases.
The completely new Anime offering is Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions, a fable-like fairy tale of truly silly proportions. Not that it doesn’t have its serious side, and based on the trailer and what I have read I suspect this one will be quite good.
Two favorite series are returning with new seasons. Motto To Love Ru -Trouble, the complete collection, continue the story of our teleporting alien girl and all the craziness that comes along with her for another dozen episodes. The Polyphonica Crimson S likewise continues its storyline, of musical magic working with the police, and the missing spirit companion returning, at which point our hero discovers she is really the dreaded Crimson Annihilator. How will he survive this one? The web site is undergoing maintenance, or I would have posted a link.