This weeks top choice for Horror/Spoof goes to Transylmania, college kids doing a semester in Romania with the wrong kind of night “life”. This comedy will probably only be in theaters for a short time, but it is also the only new genre live action I could see being released this week.
December looks to start off as a slow movie month, but Avatar comes along on the 18th, and xmas brings both The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Sherlock Holmes to the big screen.
If you are a Red Dwarf fan, be sure to read Prelude to Nanarchy, the online comic book that connects the events of series 5, 6 and 7.
Appearing in next weeks Big Bang Theory is Wil Wheaton. I haven’t actually watched that show, but based on this trailer I guess I am going to check it out.
I can’t watch the video on the Dr Hoo YouTube Page, probably because I am not in the UK. But I can watch the short promo on their Facebook page, which gave me the link to the home page on Virgin where I also can’t watch anything. But that’s OK, because it was announced at MIPCOM today that IODA cut a deal to distribute it worldwide, so it should be available on ITunes and Amazon soon. Thanks to Marketwire for the details on that one. The first trailer is out for Splice, a movie about genetically engineering a new organism into existence with a few surprises for the scientists.
Once more, the team from the Annals of Improbable Research have handed out another year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. From the Gas Mask Bra to Tequila Diamonds, this years winners share a trait in common with each other and all previous winners. First they make you laugh… and then they make you think (mostly about how gullible some grant organizations may be, but every so often about the real-world problem that inspired the research in the first place). Some of the winners are just plain silly, and some, like the financial and mathematical winners, are very scary, but the fact that real scientists do this kind of thing gives me hope for the world. And then there is why people explore other worlds… one of my favorite SG1 moments starring Adam Baldwin, this video embed was inspired by SciFi Fangirl’s posting last night.
If you haven’t seen this, here is Steven Spielberg giving the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award to George Lucas. And my two favorite bits from the presentation: William Shatner sings (sort of) to George, and Carrie Fisher roasts him a little.