For the Star Wars Fan with Everything... #4

I love cosplay and I love Star Wars - so this guy gets bonus imperial credits for this one:

Roger Corman Receives Oscar!

Fans of B-movies will be pleased to learn that director/producer Roger Corman (83-years-old but still looking well!) received an Academy Award at the Oscar Governor's Ball on Saturday night for lifetime achievement. Longtime fan Quentin Tarantino gave an affectionate, charismatic speech, and Corman alumni Jonathan Demme presented the award to the influential low-budget filmmaker. Some big faces in the audience, including Steven Spielberg, George "I Devoted My Life to Star Wars" Lucas, Ron Howard and Jack Nicholson, who all in one way or another have crossed paths with Corman. The ceremony was untelevised but you can watch footage over here. Actress Lauren Bacall and cinematographer Gordon Willis also received awards.

Trailers for a few Corman titles we stock:

A Bucket of Blood (1959)


Little Shop of Horrors (1960)


Premature Burial (1962)

Superhero Trailers: Kick-Ass and Kanthaswamy

Here are two neato superhero trailers to kick-start your week. First up is Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, a forthcoming adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's comic series about amateur crimefighters. Looks like Watchmen for the Superbad set or something.



Secondly, check out the Tamil blockbuster Kanthaswamy (via Twitch) which looks like all kinds of crazy; I can't quite describe it right now but hope it comes to a theatre around here soon...


Enjoy!

2012 Floods Subway

This is a cool marketing campaign from Sony Pictures for the release of Roland Emmerich's disasterific 2012 in Brazil. The film opens here on Thursday. More 2012 reading: Making Waves.

Poker Face Walken

Hands down the best viral thing I've seen all week - Christopher Walken reading out the lyrics to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" on BBC's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. He's one of those guys who could read a phone book and still keep you enthralled. A little bit creepy (as Walken can only do in his own inimitable way) but incredibly funny stuff.

Scorsese's Top 11 Scariest Horror Films

This is a bit late, but better late than never... last week Martin Scorsese shared with The Daily Beast his Top 11 favourite horror flicks. Cool to see less-recognised titles like Dead of Night and The Entity in there with the usual suspects. Also dig his line about Psycho - "the shower... the swamp... the relationship between the mother and son" - it's a film that's so often imitated and lampooned people tend to take for granted its under-the-skin creepiness. This here is a man with taste.

Most of them are available to rent from fatso:

1. The Haunting

2. Isle of the Dead

3. The Uninvited (where's the DVD dammit!)

4. The Entity

5. Dead of Night

6. The Changeling

7. The Shining

8. The Exorcist

9. Night of the Demon

10. The Innocents

11. Psycho

Luxo Goes Nutso

This is a darkly funny parody of Pixar's logo intro from CollegeHumor where Luxo the Lamp goes homicidal. Don't think we'll be seeing this one gracing the start of any Pixar film anytime soon...