There are many top 10 lists of Christmas movies, but this one is mine. Rather than limiting the list to Christmas-based movies, mine includes those that are set around Christmas, as well.
Movies
futurama needs you!
In case you’ve been under a rock, Futurama has been back in action for over a year — in the form of 4 direct-to-DVD movies!!
The only way Comedy Central will give them the chance to make regular seasons for TV again is if the DVD sales for the movies do well. So, it’s time to help bring back a show that should never have been canceled! Buy the DVDs!
i kick ass for the lord!
What?! No pudding?!
“If you think Lionel seems o.k., then you haven’t met his family! Mother’s boy Lionel Cosgrove is 25 and has never been kissed. Then, one fateful day in 1957, Lionel’s uneventful existence changes forever. Drawn to the lovely Paquita, a young Spanish girl fron the local corner shop, the couple plan a tryst at the nearby zoo.
Thinking themselves alone at last, the young lovers are unaware that their every move is being observed from the bushes by Lionel’s possessive Mum. Sneaking close, Mum stubles against a cage, which contains a vicious Sumatran Rat monkey, which duly sinks its toxic fangs deep into her flesh.
When the strange wound transforms into a putrefying virus, Lionel and the unwitting Paquita are sent spiralling into an endless nightmare.”
Every year, I have tried to make the effort to have a screening of the best Halloween movie of all time, Dead Alive, which was directed by Peter Jackson long before he knew he’d be a huge successful Hollywood director. It’s that time once again! I have very limited space for this event, so if you would like to attend, please let me know. Should be a gory time for all!
more on thompson
I was recently made aware of a movie that was made in 1980 called Where the Buffalo Roam, starring Bill Murray as Hunter Thompson! The review at imdb.com says, “Now the first thing that struck me, was Murray´s incredible performance: He is 100% Hunter S. Thompson, the way he moves and talks. You can actually see how much Johnny Deep copied his acting in ‘Fear and Loathing’.”
Now, I know for a fact that Depp studied Thompson directly to get ready for Fear and Loathing, but I imagine that he had seen this movie and I am very excited to see how Bill Murray does in the role. I have the movie on my Blockbuster.com list now and I will post a review after I have watched it.
johnny depp is amazing
Hunter Thompson’s book, The Rum Dairy, is being made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp, Josh Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro and Nick Nolte.
Here’s the plot summary from imdb.com:
“Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s.”
This is very exciting, but sad at the same time. I wonder how involved Hunter was with this project. The movie is supposed to come out this year.
