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The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tomoyasu Hotei is best known in America as the guitarist playing "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" ("Shin jingi-naki tatakai" - originally used in the 2000 film Another Battle ) in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill . Here he is performing it live at, where else?, Budokan. "Budokan," by the way, was built in 1964 for the Olympic judo competition and it's name translates literally as "Martial...
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PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | yesterday
I recently flew Frontier, a lovely airline with friendly staff and little maps of our progression across the USA! USA! USA! I wqs impressed with their safety guide, which was rendered in lovely gradients, as opposed to the simpler fills used by the printers of other airline safety guides: And their use of celebrities, as illustrated by this image of Quentin Tarantino donning an oxygen...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | yesterday
... all, despite a brief, implausible moment of pop-cultural cool in the wake of the breakthrough of Quentin Tarantino (former employee of ), that chic half-second only seemed to highlight one of the essential problems with the video shop - its reality as somewhere that usually managed to be both oppressively sterile and depressingly grubby. If the notional ideal was an exhaustive treasure...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... sigh.* at Connectedness Index: 513 Everywhere you look, a douche. at Hey, Penn. Repeat after me: Quentin Tarantino is not a style icon. at Julia Roberts was coming up behind him and he was asceeered. at There is actually a photog in his hair. at It's really strange how all the similar cameras are grouped together. They look like a bunch of CGI photographers. No wonder Sean is looking...
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Madonna's Filth and Wisdom will have its North American premiere at the 10th annual Provincetown Film Festival , Variety reports. The decade-old event will also honor a number of high-profile filmmakers at the tip of the cape: "Thesps Gael Garcia Bernal and Jane Lynch will be feted along with multihyphenate Quentin Tarantino, for the Filmmaker on the Edge award. Clark Gregg's 'Choke'...
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I-Am-Bored.com Latest Links (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Brilliant construction by young guy who built this coffee table that is also a giant NES game controller. Genius. Ouch! Poor kid--if having this awful moment in his life taped, the crowd reaction really had to make him feel stupid. By Quentin Tarantino. Designer Aaron Koblin composited a day`s worth of FAA data to make some pretty fascinating animation. Happy Mother`s Day all you moms...
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I-Am-Bored.com Latest Links (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Brilliant construction by young guy who built this coffee table that is also a giant NES game controller. Genius. Ouch! Poor kid--if having this awful moment in his life taped, the crowd reaction really had to make him feel stupid. By Quentin Tarantino. Designer Aaron Koblin composited a day`s worth of FAA data to make some pretty fascinating animation. Happy Mother`s Day all you moms...
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... reference as it happens, and a commentary by Wright, Pegg, Hynes, and celeb-hipster buddies Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Bill Hader, Matt Stone, Patton Oswalt, and Diablo Cody. Meanwhile, McG Gets De-Spaced......and if you're a fan of Spaced, Edgar Wright, and Simon Pegg, then perhaps you'll be happy to hear that the planned American remake of the show is now D.O.A., . Why is that...
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MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Quentin Tarantino explains that Top Gun is really about gay pilots along with movie clips to back it up.
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Listening Post (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... are better than you might imagine. Forbidden Ensemble describes it as "like a combination of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof and the Emanuelle sequels of adult movies," and they're not far off. It's highly listenable stuff, evoking a tawdry mood indicative of its inspiration. But regardless of how this compilation was made, it's an entertaining listen. You can preview all eleven tracks...
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/Film (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... Spaced, it finally comes to DVD in the states on July 22nd featuring new Exclusive Commentary By Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Bill Hader, Matt Stone, Patton Oswalt and Diablo Cody. Fox has picked up JJ Abrams ’s Fringe , which follows a young female FBI agent who tackle cases involving unexplained medical and scientific phenomena. Abrams’ Bad Robot produced a two-hour pilot which...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... title refers to a Samuel L. Jackson biblical-inspired speech in Pulp Fiction. And like director Quentin Tarantino, the Heavy's front man, Kevin Swaby, has a fetish for early 1970s black pop culture, from gangster movies to music.On the downside, that can make Great Vengeance seems like nothing more than a slavish pastiche. It samples the voices of Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino, and...
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LibrariAnne (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
spaced050608.jpg So Spaced is finally going to be released on region 1 DVD this summer, and there will be mondo extras including commentary from "Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) and guests Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Bill Hader, Matt Stone, Patton Oswalt and Diablo Cody." Friggin' woot! We already own the original UK release (hooray for region free DVD players)...
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Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... commentary with director Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), and guests Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Bill Hader, Matt Stone, Patton Oswalt and Diablo Cody, an exclusive Spaced On Stage reunion Q&A recorded at the National Film Theatre, London in October 2007, and “Skip to the End,” an exclusive feature length documentary. There’ll also be outtakes, deleted...
