I thought long and hard as to what song to use to wish Mr. Irving Berlin a happy birthday. Yeah, he’s been dead for two decades, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve a little extra love on his special day. Seeing how the man was one of the most proficient songwriters of his era it was no easy task to choose a single song. However the clip below combines one of Berlin’s most famous songs with one of my favorite comedies, Young Frankenstein, making it the obvious choice to share. Enjoy “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”
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As seen in “The Impractical Joker” from the Batman TV-series. Yes, it really does have everything.
Check out the trailer for Gamer which looks like someone rewrote The Running Man as a MMO (and threw in a bit of Sly Stallone’s Lock Up, just for kicks). Gerard Butler stars as an imprisoned star player of a ridiculously popular massive-scale multi-player online game. Not sure about the concept, but it’s got Dexter’s Michael C. Hall as the film’s baddie. Brought to you by the writing/directing tag-team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Crank: High Voltage).
You don’t suppose Bruce Wayne is… Nah!
Let’s get one thing straight, this ain’t your daddy’s Star Trek. J.J. Abrams and his team have successfully relaunched a franchise with 2009’s Star Trek. What we’re given us a fun summer popcorn flick with characters that resemble those from the classic TV-show. However, the film isn’t perfect and makes a few too many changes to Trek continuity for my tastes (not all of which can be argued away by the plot’s time travel plot). Is it a good Star Trek film? Yes, it’s by far the best one the franchise has put out since Star Trek: First Contact. Is it a great Star Trek film? Well…
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As you might have noticed we’ve had our share of technical glitches over the past 24-hours, but, as Gomez Addams would say, we’re feeling much better now. Getting back to content here’s a little list to wind up the Star Trek mania which has griped the site over the past fortnight.
Ah Star Trek the franchise that’s given us Tribbles, Klingons, and a ship named Enterprise. The new relaunch of the series, Star Trek, is the twelfth official film of the franchise which has had it’s share of ups and downs. Let’s take a look at the seven best films which taught us that space really is the finally frontier. We begin with…
7. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
McCoy: “Spock, you haven’t changed a bit. You’re just as warm and sociable as ever.”
Spock: “Nor have you, doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.”
Say what you want about the first film it has its heart in the right place. Yes it’s overlong, it has too many characters, and the reveal of the identity of V’ger at the end is more than a little anti-climatic. Even with these flaws to the film’s plot it gets the characters right and gives us many fine moments in the return of a franchise.
Seeing how I just posted an ape video, and we’ve also been throwing up quite a few Star Trek posts over the past week or so, I thought it might be a good opportunity to revisit one of my old ‘buddha favorites which melds the two in a way only an ape in love with William Shatner could.
Here’s Shatner telling the story of what happened when he met Koko the Gorrilla.
I could try to explain this, but I’m not sure it would make any since to anyone who hasn’t seen The Mighty Boosh. Instead I’ll just offer you a piece of advice, sit back and enjoy the zaniness.
