New superheroine cosplay stuff with Jessica is imminent…like early next week imminent…so in anticipation of this, there’s another set of hers on the donor-only page, consisting of early, not-really cosplay stuff that never made it on up on the site, before.
Sony just released the first trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution, and i’m ever so enamored with it, as it appears the series’ streak of paying off on ridiculously insurmountable cliffhangers from the previous film is unbroken, and i love the outfit they’ve got Milla Jovovich’s Alice wearing.
Okay, it’s now four movies this year i’ll buy proper tickets for: this, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, and Moonrise Kingdom. But barring anything new from David Lynch or Darren Aronofsky, that’s it.
First trailer for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom was released last week, and while it will do nothing to persuade the unconverted, i can say with no hyperbole that it changed my life.
While i didn’t black my site out yesterday (who the fuck would notice?) over SOPA/PIPA, i am a couple weeks into my semi-boycott of the theaters. As of now, there are only 3 movies this year where i’ll willingly submit my ticket monies to the studio-theatrical complex (probably multiple times, each, though): this, The Dark Knight Rises, and Skyfall. Everything else i go see in a theater (like Haywire, later tonight) will involve a $10 handshake with the ticket taker…i get to see a movie without enabling the assholes, and the theater worker doubles his salary that hour. Everyone benefits.
Hot Toys announced today on their facebook page that they have the license for Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, and will be selling new action figures this year. I quiver at the prospect of having super-articulated, photorealistic depictions of the Michelle Pfeiffer and Anne Hathaway Catwomen on my desk at some point in the next 11 months.
As someone who considers Batman Returns the greatest work of cinematic art ever shot, and has waited like 20 years for a Max Shreck action figure, i am completely overwhelmed.
I wasn’t going to do this, because the film industry can kinda go eat its own dick while it’s pushing hitler-riffic legislation like SOPA and PIPA, as far as i’m concerned. But then i saw Quentin Tarantino’s best of the year list, which included Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers, so i was kinda elated to know i’m not the only person in that camp. Also, i felt compelled to put mine out as nobody else seems to have included Bunraku or Sucker Punch, and i loved those movies.
And yeah, David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is #1, my favorite of the year, which may very well invalidate the entire list for you, thereby saving you the time of clicking through to read the rest. (The image above is by Lee Bermejo, the cover for a new series of Vertigo graphic novels adapting Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy…seems a bit off, trying to go all trans-media on a closed loop story by a dead author, but that does nothing to diminish Bermejo’s gorgeous art.)
i’m kind of in awe that this exists, and what it may portend. 2 weirdly fetishized corporate mascots colliding in a fan-fiction fueled sexplosion of capitalism.
If this becomes a thing, and T-Mobile ever does this ad, i will switch to them near instantaneously…
Hope your 2012 is off to a solid start. I have a story to tell about mine, but first things first…new superheroine cosplay pics, featuring Kat and Marnie in the first part of a set inspired by the enigmatic new Batman nemesis, White Rabbit.
Kinda interesting that we were first screwing around with this cosplay back in July (as seen in the pics with Kat in
whiteface), based on a black and white drawing of some obscure Spider-Man villainess from an old Marvel role-playing game book i’d picked up on ebay.
2 weeks later some comic sites ran the first pics of a different White Rabbit, this one a brand new super villainess set to debut in the new 52 Batman: The Dark Knight comic series. Crazy shid…guess lagamorph-based thrill-seeking megalomaniac furries were niche zeitgeisting at the time.
More pics post-jump, click through to see them. Or you could make far better use of your time by clicking here.
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I’m kinda of torn about paying to see, much less raving about and promoting, any movie at the moment, given that the MPAA – the studios’ lobbying arm, is actively pushing mongoloid-minded bullshit legislation like SOPA and PIPA. It’s a testament to the overwhelming artistic merits of David Fincher’s brilliantly mental The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that i’m able to temporarily sidestep that moral quandry. This isn’t just the best movie of 2011, with the most visually astounding title sequence i’ve ever seen (a version of it embedded above), it also pwns Fight Club and Zodiac to seize the title of best movie David Fincher ever made.
Sadly, nobody seems to be going, making it unlikely Fincher will adapt the rest of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, but that does nothing to diminish its standing as an utter masterwork. A++++++, will do business with again.
Just a note to any studio types who might somehow stumble on this: how many people paid to see stuff like Drive or Hanna at all, nevermind 4+ times each, dragging people along each time. Can you afford to lose a customer like me, when your business is in the toilet? Yeah, there are movies i can’t not see the second they’re released: I would trade a kidney and toes to see The Dark Knight Rises as early as possible. Only slightly less enthusiastic about Skyfall. And nothing’s going to keep me away from Prometheus, The Great Gatsby, and G.I. Joe 2. You can count on getting my ticket monies for those…but otherwise, fuck it, i can wait. There’s all kinds of other stuff i’d normally see early and often, like The Avengers, Ghost Rider 2, the new Underworld, The Hunger Games, and John Carter, but i really don’t need to see those in a theater. I’ve managed to skip Young Adult, and the new Sherlock Holmes and Chipmunks movies, and haven’t even really noticed.
Drop the horrid, internet-lobotomizing legislation, or between the myriad alternatives including gaming, netflix streaming, networked media servers, and redbox, i kinda won’t miss you.
Merry Christmas! Hope Santa was generous. Ummm…something came up last week, can’t run the pics i wanted to. Long story, but hope we can put them up later this week. In the meantime, here’s the second part of a Harley Quinn-inspired alt cosplay set featuring Kat.
Since the first part of this went up, i’ve caught up on the new Suicide Squad series, and am enjoying it. Liking Harley’s redesign (more visually exciting than both Arkham video game looks), her sexual tension with Deadshot, the Machiavellian tone, and the art. Waiting on Mattel or DC Direct to do figures.
More pics after the jump. Jesus there are a lot of them, and they’re not particularly work safe, so if you’d prefer more chaste entertainment, click here.
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When it comes to this site, i have lots of resolutions for next year: actually meet self-imposed deadlines, suck less, etc…but the one resolution i’m actually confident i can do is shoot more polaroids. Started doing them over the summer as part of the Kickstarter project, and love the format. Yes the film has been off the market for years and is now pricey on ebay, and yes, all of the film that remains has already hit its expiration date, meaning there’s always a risk that it’s damaged, or completely unusable (which i sadly found out first-hand. Twice.) But when it works, the end product is ever so worth it: an image unlike any other print, in that there can be only one distinct original.
No idea if there’s any demand for this, but on the off chance anyone a.) has access to polaroid film, and b.) actually wants to own some of my stupid images, figured i’d make this offer: you send me a film pack, i’ll send you back half of the images it yields (ie: for a standard 10 shot pack, you’ll be getting back 5 pics.) No guarantees as to quality or content beyond each pic will feature at least one girl. I get free practice, you get one-of-a-kind geek pr0n: mutual exploitation achievement unlocked.
And to test one of my other resolutions: someone new will be making their cosplay debut tomorrow, and final details on the book by Christmas.
