http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Me_to_Hell
I saw the trailer tonight pitching it as written/directed by Sam Raimi (a lot of potential in that) and so scary you'll crap yourself inside out (I was less convinced about that - it looked like bits of a few other films thrown together). Being...
The CFZ have done a couple of blog posts on some reports that a lizardman has been sighted in Northumberland:
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2009 ... ordie.html
Jon Downes did a follow-up suggesting there is enough to merit further investigation and has put out a call for other similar...
Sounds suitably Fortean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_%282007_film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/
Just out on general release in the US and Canada (although with no clear date here) - anyone seen it?
Starts next Saturday 21.00 on BBC1:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0497298/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_%28TV_serial%29
Mark Gatiss plays RLS - the boy is doing well ;)
Tha Gaurdian have a piece on the original:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments ... 17,00.html
I just started a thread on Gallowwalker but thought we might as wel have a thread on the Weird Western:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West
I'm just finishing off Iron Council and picked up Mad Amos cheap second hand.
Desparadoes and Jonah Hex are classics (even if the weirdest Hex...
We've previously looked at Kill Bill and if it is sexist/mysogynistic:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14062
Now there is a long piece in the Garudian looking at the issue of expicit violence against women revolving around the release of Grindhouse...
I stumbled across Confessions of a Trickbaby on TV last night. Suitably unpleasnt with odd Fortean angles to it (UFO abductions, Hansel and Gretel and did I see a woman with chicken legs at one point?):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_II ... _Trickbaby
And the director seems quite the...
With video:
ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=6404199
Link is dead. No archived version found.
kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_0419 ... 05f12.html
Link is dead. No archived version found.
Wikipedia has this section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April#Trag ... h_of_April
The Jones report currently has this at the top of their page:
www.jonesreport.com
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Main threads (so we don't cover the same ground):
Virginia Tech...
Trailer looks slick enough:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/lin ... d769424029
A bit like Reeker with the Alien in.
Hat tip
www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009719.html
I can imagine the pitch: Cube mets Hell Raiser meets Hostel meets... some other random stuff. Sounds interesting though. Featured a lot at Twitch one of which reposts the general summary (or what looks to be the plot):
www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009375.html...
Film version of Neil Gaiman's novel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486655/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_%282007_film%29
There has been a bit of hoo ha over a leaked fan trailer.
The official one is:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/stardust.html
www.imdb.com/title/tt0860835/
A few trailers knocking around
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009458.html
Theya re really missing out on some good taglines:
Don't go in the closet?
Come out fo the closet
Tartan will be releasing this film over here:
www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009474.html
Interestingly another film based on an urban myth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchisake-onna
Not the dirty variety although things might go that way:
www.twitchfilm.net/archives/009477.html
The first trailer is better than the second which probably shows it up for what it is. Pretty bad.
Looks like it also wanders into Nasty Clown film territory too.
Just heard a review of it and it sounds interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus
Anyone seen it?
Another in the Fortean Traveller series of threads:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16008
Time window sin the Ozarks:
www.ufoarea.com/paranormal_windows.html
Claims for a secret ET base in Jefferson City:
http://from-the-shadows.blogspot.com/20 ... erson.html...
Moose are often suggested as possible explanations for Bigfoot sightings but now we have a weird moose who, interestingly has some characteristiocs of the weirder Bigfoot reports:
www.sunjournal.com/story/199521-3/Lewis ... the_loose/
Seems to have got a good reception. Anyone seen it? Trailers are running here in the UK as it is out on the 2nd of March:
www.theillusionist.com
www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_illusionist
Odd coincidence:
Gobekli Tepe undermines the notion that the building of large stone temples requires agriculture as part of the infrastructure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
It is featured in the current FT.
More:
www.dailygrail.com/node/4051
Japanese inventor and winner of an IgNobel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiro_Nakamatsu
and so so much more:
www.brainsturbator.com/index.php/brains ... alute_you/
Voted one of the 10 strangest people in the world:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28487
Inventor of...
www.philipcoppens.com/mirindajo.html
You can now see the act on YouTube but be warned it is not for the weak of trouser:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqOoWQVk6-k
How is it done? My best... stab woud be that it relies on the same principle that help some people survive being accidentally run...
Kind of the Ring meets 28 Days Later:
www.twitchfilm.net/archives/008824.html
Weird that this has popped up at the same time as Exodus 20:13 (Hell the trailers could be interchangeable except The Signals is slicker):
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28883
A post-Katrina...
PBS pilot documentary on cutting edge or near future science with a touch of transhumanism.
You can watch it online and give your feedback on whether it shoul go on to be a full series. Possibly if they get rid of the virtual hosts ;)
www.pbs.org/22ndcentury/
Well at least one person picked it as book they'd want to see adapated:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 464#306464
Now it is:
www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.ht ... id=14&cs=1
Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire
The book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
which deals with a postcyberpunk world gone Neo-Victorian, is up for a 6 part mini-series adaptation produced by George Clooney:
www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39447...
Ads running on TV at the moment:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0433442/
Watch out it gives away the twist (if it is a twist):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(2006_film)
We have a thread on the lifestyle:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28607
but not one on the actual films, TV comics, etc.
Sooooooooo here it is.
My opinion:
1 - great
2 - shitola
3 - can't think I've seen it
4 - so so
TV series - watched some and it was...
So I was perusing Plastic and Rubber Weekly and stumbled across this:
www.prw.com/homePBP_NADetail_UP.aspx?ID ... &curpage=0
OK it was featued on the Beeb and sounded very impressive. At least as long as the oil lasts to make the plastic from I suppose.
See previous threads...
A film I keep stumbling over and then forgetting about (happens a lot to me but it is great to refind them again ;) ) and as it is cheap as chips at the moment I have summoned it forth.
Anyone seen it? Opinions?
Plot:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto
New from the Beeb.
www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=conspiracy_files
The first one (about Diana) was on the 15th - anyone see it?
Not sure when the others are on presumably after the festive period.
Episodes:
Diana:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6159583.stm
911...
It has been mentioned before in passing:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=87479
but following up on a tip off we can now don our policeman's helmets and investigate the strange case of the missing rollneck of Christ:
Wikipedia entry...
There have been previous endeavours:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 141#550141
but that has 'gone down' and this looks like being 'The Big One':
www.globalorgasm.org
http://globalo.blogspot.com
A 'tongue in cheek' piece in the Garudian...
As it came up here:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28386
I thought it might be worth a thread to itself.
I did hear of this many moons ago (and wasn't sure if I'd started a thread on it then) but it had a troubled production history
It certainly sounds interesting...
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