Darren Aronofsky actually adapting Robocop?!
After the trio of prestige art films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain), most people thought they had Darren Aronofsky pegged. Then this year he decided to make a film called The Wrestler, and cast seemingly washed-up actor Mickey Rourke in the title role. The film earned rave reviews at last week's Toronto International Film Festival, and won the top award at the Venice Film Festival. But turns out that was just the beginning of the surprises Aronofosky has in store for us. According to reports, Aronofsky has finished up his script for an original version of Robocop. As... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsRoald Dahl: war hero, author, sex spy
There are moments when you learn something about your heroes that forever changes the way you remember them. Be warned, dear reader, if you continue, you may never be able to look at James and the Giant Peach or The BFG without conjuring a horrible double entendre, and we won't even touch the cheap laughs promised by the titles of other books in his ouevre.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsMichael Jackson's latest inspiration: poet Robert Burns?
Michael Jackson’s career is taking yet another inexplicable turn... read more
Found in: Books, NewsDavid Cronenberg's The Fly headed for the opera
Are you ready for The Fly: The Opera?... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsMamma Mia! goes sing-along for re-release
With sales slowing and several high-grossing, summer blockbusters to contend with (most notably, The Dark Knight), Universal Pictures has resorted to an interactive gimmick in order to boost its Labor Day weekend revenue for Mamma Mia! A "Sing-Along Edition" of the movie premieres in select theaters nationwide on Friday, Aug. 29. This “unprecedented worldwide phenomenon” will feature, well, pretty much just subtitles—but also an exclamation-point-littered invitation from Universal to “sing and dance along.” ... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsTeenager leaves high school for Guitar Hero career
The band's gonna make it, Mom! I'm not going to be living in this basement forever!Guitar Hero may have the side effect of serving as a gateway drug to actual guitar playing, but everyone's favorite rock star simulator may soon be sapping the attendance rolls of high schools nationwide. Yes, in a sublime moment of life imitating art, one plucky teenager has decided to forgo the rest of his K-12 education to try his hand at the professional Guitar Hero circuit. ... read more
Found in: Games, NewsGirl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
In 1839, an American writer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens was sent to Central America to serve as Special Ambassador. He traveled around the continent during his time there, and, after happening upon Mayan ruins at Copán, visited almost 50 other such sites, gathering material for a travelogue that has long been credited with enlivening modern interest in Mayan culture. ... read more
Found in: Music, NewsQueen's Brian May finally publishes astrophysics thesis
[Above: Brian May with his Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University]Between this day and the next, an ethereal luminescence will pour down from the sky, twisting into view just after sundown in the west, before sunrise in the east. Some will imagine it a false dawn; the more paranoid will assume UFO. But astronomers now understand this nightly celestial secretion, the Zodiacal Light, to be sunlight reflected off space debris near the center of the solar system. ... read more
Found in: Books, NewsBritney Spears to star in Quentin Tarantino's Pussycat
Update: Turns out Spears won't be featured in Tarantino's film after all.--John of Patmos prophesied that Armageddon would be marked by turbulent political upheaval, mass deaths and a cornucopia of plagues visited upon the hapless people of Earth. It looks like that plagues thing might be right on target, because Britney Spears is being given another chance at a movie career. In a move that should surprise no one, the enabler of the End of Days is none other than one Quentin Tarantino.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsStephen Colbert adds spider to list of things named after him
At this point in his career, it's become pretty apparent that Stephen Colbert is a baller. The man already has an airplane, an ice cream flavor, a hockey mascot and a bald freaking eagle bearing his name. As if that wasn't enough, he can now add a spider to the list. ... read more
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