If you are a cinema fan, this is Christmas come early. 40% off everything until November 24th. Mugs, poster, t-shirts, crappy copies of Michael Bay movies that no one will ever buy and even some great movies as well.

Now the only question is just how much will I buy. Hmm…

Tobias Funke - Fire Sale (actual version)

Really awful fake version

Who knew trying to rack down a simple trailer for a Kate Hudson film would be so difficult? Sure, this is pre-Almost Famous Kate Hudson, but I’m fairly confident this was still Goldie Hawn/Bill Hudson post-coitus Kate Hudson. And besides Kate Hudson, about a billion other recognizable actors were in this movie as well. Namely James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Eric Bogosian, Edward James Olmos, Joshua Jackson, and Mif.

Mif?

Who the hell is Mif?

Well to find out, you will just have to watch next week’s film, Gossip.

Gossip Trailer

P.S. - Interesting bit of meta for those of you into that sort of thing; Poe (the singer not the writer) also appears in the film. She just so happens to be the sister of Mark Z. Danielewski (the writer not the singer) who wrote Christian’s favorite book House of Leaves. You might have heard him mention it once or twice.

P.P.S. - This site is layered like an ogre, yo!

I’ve never really given much thought about what I would consider the perfect crime. I’m not exactly ambitious so it probably wouldn’t extend much further then trying to purchase comics for my collection without Anna’s knowledge. She watches the movies and the Wii games like a hawk after all, so if I want to buy something perfectly crappy without having to listen to her grumble to me about it comics are really my only legitimate avenue of deception. Hey, I already feel guilty about buying Spider-Man comics, I don’t need her adding to my own self-imposed lecture.

Now sure, I found the whole Brand New Day storyline interesting at first, as writing out Mary Jane was the kind of huge shakeup that might recover the comic from the truly terrible Civil War storylines I had previously suffered through. But the whole concept has quickly stagnated, resulting in what now appears as nothing more then a blatant attempt at erasing everything J Michael Straczynski had written over the length of his tenure.

Now I know JMS wasn’t exactly popular with the Marvel fanboys. I mean really, attempting to add more depth to a character that was over 40 years old was simply unacceptable. Marvel and its fans simply would rather have numerous Spider-Man books that follow a basic plot by numbers arc rather then suffer through something that might actually result in a new experience for both the character and the reader.

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This is going to be a quick post as my router has been incredibly passive aggressive with me all day, cutting in and out whenever it is most inconvenient, causing me to lose the hundreds, nay, thousands of hours of work I did this morning. And now as we speak the network has completely vanished, leaving me to run off the overloaded connection being dispersed by the local library.

So yes, even though it is evidently Liv Tyler week (The Incredible Hulk, The Strangers) when it comes to new DVD releases, I am going with something completely different. Primarily because The Strangers was stupid and The Incredible Hulk looks stupid. So, in honor of on screen stupidity I am picking a Paul Walker flick, The Lazarus Project. Surely it can’t be any dumber then the previous films mentioned.

As for theatrical releases, even though W is being released and Rachel Getting Married is garnering some rather surprising critical acclaim, my selection this week is The Pool. From director Chris Smith, best know for the amazing documentary American Movie, comes his first fiction film about a poor boy living in India who becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in one of the richest neighborhoods in his city.

As always trailers are after the break!

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In an effort to help boost readership I entered a blog carnival and an online writing contest this past week. As it turns out, it seems people enjoyed my submissions and Where the Long Tail Ends ended up getting selected for both. So in an effort to both pimp my own success and that of others I am providing links to both. Be sure to read the other articles and stories, there is some good stuff in there.

First up is the Movie Monday Blog Carnival for Monday September 22nd over at Observations from Missy’s Window.

Next is the WOOF Winners for September 19th.

Non-Fiction
Matthew R. Usner - Natural Selection By Beer Glass - A rather horrifying anecdote from one of the first jobs I ever had.
Matt Gamble - Cool World - A review of the Ralph Bakshi film Cool World, a film that somehow manages to do everything wrong, yet still results in a truly terrible movie.

Fiction

Penelope Anne - The Divide - When love is lost, how do you cope?

Poetry
dragon blogger - Love of a Lifetime, In a Moment, Ancient Song - There are three love poems from a guest blogger.

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And since you all are clicking these links as well as reading this blog, I figured I’d give you all a special gift. You’ve earned it.

I’m proud to announce that I am going to be covering the inaugural Flyway Film Festival in Pepin, WI. The festival takes place on October 10-12 and will feature Independent filmmakers from Wisconsin, Minnesota and across the globe. Over the next few weeks I will be posting trailers of some of the films, conduct several interviews for your reading pleasure and reviewing as many of the films as I can.

As an added bonus, I am including a link to the festival’s ticket information in the right sidebar. Anyone who mentions this site when purchasing a festival pass will receive $10 off.

Remember to keep checking in as I continue to keep you updated on this film festival!