 | ||||||||
roboFILM support us by shopping... |
|
roboBLOG 2003 : September & October 0310.31 : Behold the revamped Hellboy movie website, which
relaunched today just in time for Halloween. (Kudos to the gang at Division 13.) 0310.30 : The new (11/3) issue of The New Yorker has a thoroughly excellent
(and excellently thorough; 4,762-word!) profile of
Tina Fey. All hail Tina! 0310.29 : Happy Birthday, Noni. 0310.28 : The third season of 24 premieres tonight on Fox (9pm/8C). This, in my opinion, is
currently the single best show on television. 0310.26 : I'm back... but have the flu. Bad.
In a NyQuil-induced haze, I now find myself powerless to do anything but
watch inordinate amounts of the highly addictive I Love The 80s Strikes Back on VH1... and fall more and more deeply in
love with Rachael
Harris. 0310.20 : FYI, I'm headed out of town this
week on business, but will catch up on updates upon my return this
coming weekend. In the meantime, here are some links. 0310.13 : Meanwhile, New Scientist reports from Tokyo
on
Martial Arts Robots demoed at CEATEC, including one
developed by the Chiba
Institute of Technology in Japan. (I kid you not!) I'm tellin' ya,
it's only a matter of time before we have armies of kung-fu robots
controlled by monkeys. The end is nigh. 0310.13 : From today's Washington Post...
Monkeys Control Robotic Arm With Brain Implants. (This article
is profoundly disturbing on oh so many levels.) 0310.11 : Hellboy.com tipped me off to this
awesome animation
test (1MB QuickTime).
Pretty damn cool. (More info here.) 0310.09 : Sugoi! Check out some screenshots from
Bandai's impending Neon Genesis Evangelion
PS2 game (to be released next month in Japan). 0310.08 : Yesterday in Tokyo, Sony officially introduced the PSX -- a sleek sort of super-PS2 that adds a TV tuner, high-capacity
(160GB or 250GB) DVR (sadly not TiVo),
a DVD recorder and more. It'll be released in Japan in time for the
holidays (priced at 80K & 100K yen, or approx. $700 & $900), and in the
US sometime early next year (price tba). News.com.com has more
details. 0310.08 : There are some really great photos of
James Marsters, the cast of
Farscape, and many
others on photographer Mark Robert
Halper's website. 0310.07 : Holy mother of crap... California
has a Kaiser. 0310.07 : Behold the retro TV bliss of Predicta! (Thanks,
Harry.) 0310.07 : Once again, the Austin Film Fest
doesn't have Robert Rodriguez, Rick Linklater, Tim McCanlies, Mike
Judge, Harry Knowles, or even the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on board
(hmmm, I wonder why?)... but this year they do have Disney's new
English-language dub of Miyazaki's
exhilarating animated masterpiece PORCO ROSSO
(Kurenai No Buta; next Tuesday, 10/14). 0310.06 : So Quentin Tarantino is telling the
New York Daily News that
someday he wants to remake CASINO ROYALE with Pierce Brosnan as 007 "and do it
right". And I seem to recall Brosnan once saying in an interview that
his dream Bond project would be a remake of ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET
SERVICE. (Both are films I'd pay to see.) 0310.04 : Warren Ellis is a bloody
genius. 0310.03 : Neiman-Marcus has posted their
2003
Christmas Book online. And in case you're wondering, I'd like the $550K 500hp Dodge Tomahawk V-10 Motorcycle, thank you
very much. 0310.02 : Do you remember all that kooky-crazy
ACME stuff from the classic Warner Bros. cartoons? Did you ever wonder
exactly how much ACME stuff those folks came up with? Don't you wish
that someone would catalog all of them? Someone did.
(How cool is that?) Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet, there's
actually a real 007
Digital Spy Camera/Lighter. 0310.01 : Retrocrush has a pretty groovy vintage
Halloween costume gallery. 0309.30 : Freaky retro-cool clocks! And freaky retro-cool
ray-guns! 0309.29 : THE
RETURN OF THE KING - in 79 days! 0309.29 : So someone actually thought,
"Hmmm... What if I could have Bugs or Daffy sit atop
my computer monitor, and have them dictate whatever my IM buddies happen
to write like a possessed little stuffed demon?"
Crackheads... 0309.28 : Remember Psygnosis? Then you'll appreciate
Jason Scott's ode on Boing Boing today. 0309.24 : "Dreams of Space"
vintage illustration gallery. Very cool stuff. 0309.19 : Secondhand Lions opens
today, which I'm enormously proud of (I assisted writer-director Tim
McCanlies), and strongly encourage you all to see. It's a very special
movie that audiences seem to really love. Some reviews...
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Stephen
Hunter (New York Times), Paul Clinton (CNN), and Harry Knowles
(AICN). 0309.19 : Oh, and the new (Fall) issue of PoV is out today (my
second as editor-at-large). Look for it around Austin, or in your
mailbox next week (it should be available for download later
today). 0309.18 : The stars of Secondhand Lions
(Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment) are on Charlie Rose tonight
(along with, separately, Sofia Coppola). And Lions writer-director
Tim McCanlies is the guest on this week's Texas Monthly
Talks. 0309.14 : Tonight is the Austin Premiere
of Secondhand
Lions. 0309.11 : The Austin American-Statesman has a
great cover story (by Chris
Garcia) on writer-director Tim McCanlies and Secondhand Lions today,
along with a separate article that reveals The Big Secret About
'Smallville'. 0309.01 : Greg offers an alternative
interview with Sofia today. (And there's
yet another
one at lost-in-translation.com
well worth reading.) 0307-0308 : Click here for July and August, 2003. 0305-0306 : Click here for May and June, 2003. 0303-0304 : Click here for March and April, 2003. 0301-0302 : Click here for January and February, 2003.
 (c) 1999-2004 perchance / made with mac / hosted by pair |
|
roboLINKS     | ||||
