Life After Lost

It hasn't been easy the last few months, following the finale of the dearly departed LOST, but I've been coping fairly okay... until now. A bunch of Lost-related news have surfaced to remind us fans that yes, it's really over folks, and we need to move on:

If you're a memorabilia collector type, and want to have a physical piece of the show hanging/sitting in your living/bedroom, you'll have the chance now to bid on all sorts of stuff at the Official Show Auction of Lost. Like for instance, a piece of Oceanic 815:

And the Dharma Van, Locke's Wheelchair, Juliet's Jumpsuit, Dharma Beer, Sawyer's Beach Camp Chair, you name it - it's probably there. Good news for non-US fans is that you can also join the bidding online through liveauctioneers.com.

That's all relatively normal compared to Pitchfork's report today that a photo of Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley, will grace the cover of nerd-rockers Weezer's next album. Naturally, the album will be called Hurley...


For those who missed the finale on TV, Season 6 is due to come out in October and you can add it your queue here. Here's a teaser of the very last footage of Lost we'll ever see, a 12-minute epilogue called The New Man in Charge that'll appear as an extra on the release:



After watching that, I'm craving for some sort of spin-off action. But for now, goodnight Lost.

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Trailers: Jackass 3-D + Unstoppable

Good morning, two new trailers to kick off Monday for you. First up, Jackass 3-D: it was bound to happen sooner or later, and the trailer promises more of their wildly irresponsible stunts and antics. Some of it looks pretty amusing, but I also can't help but feel a little meh - like the novelty's worn off. For example, the bit where the gorilla enters the living room of Bam Margera's long-suffering parents' house... look at his mum's reaction... the surprise on her face doesn't even look convincing anymore, and almost feigned.



Secondly, 20th Century Fox's Unstoppable, another Tony Scott/Denzel Washington collab, and the 2nd train movie they've done together following last year's mediocre remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. I'm more excited about this one, I'm getting a real Runaway Train vibe from the trailer (though perhaps minus the existentialist stuff). I doubt it'll be as great, but it'll be entertaining at very least. Star Trek's Chris Pine also stars.

Siskel & Ebert Play a Video Game

Film critics Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel challenging each other in a Sega motion-controlled boxing video game. Amazingly, this was back in 1993 - not 1986, which it looks like. Hilarious and bizarre.

In Cinemas This Week

Step Up 3D - Another 3D dance movie in as many months? I'm sure there's an audience for this kind of thing, but I think this might be overkill. It remains to be seen how many of the standard genre plot cliches get reused in this one. This won't be no Flashdance, so best to give this one a miss unless you like watching sweaty 20-somethings bumpin' & grindin' to the latest hip-hop.

Skin - Feature debut from director Anthony Fabian about Sandra Laing, an African girl born to an Afrikaner family who are unaware of their black ancestry. She grows up blissfully unaware of the apartheid around her, but disquiet sets in in later life. Featuring Sam Neill, Alice Krige and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) as the older Sophie. Has divided many critics, but looks to be an insightful slice-of-life family drama tackling difficult issues in a unique way.

Soul Kitchen - Hipster foodie comedy by director Faith Akin (The Edge of Heaven, Head-On) tells the story of a young restauranteur who is facing a crisis with falling patrons, a distant girlfriend and a bad back. Fortunes pick up when he discovers a new culinary sensation, but again turns disastrous when he leaves it in the hands of his crooked ex-con brother. Could be a great mouth-watering pre-dinner aperitif. Or it could be just another insipid Euro-comedy. Go see it and make up your own mind.

Tinker Bell & The Great Fairy Rescue - Is it still the school holidays? I would have thought this would have been released to get the best of the bums-on-seats for the primary school set to get mums and their pre-teen daughters bonding? Nonetheless, this looks like a fun wee addition to the "Tink" franchise. Lots of familiar voice talent and some bright nicely realised animation. Get the fairy in your household out of you hair for an afternoon!

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Our resident Star Wars nerd, Joel, came in sporting this awesome little number this morning, knitted for him by a lovely lady from the USA. We all gasped in collective fan jealousy!

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