Son of Strelka, Son of God is an upcoming animated epic featuring narration put together from carefully edited clips of the audiobook of Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father. Judging by the rough animatic seen here the results are pretty amazing, with our Commander in Chief presenting a surprisingly jazzy, almost beatnik look at the dawn of civilization.
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We've all gotten so used to thinking of Christopher Walken as that funny old rascal with the weird accent that it's easy to forget that the man can be fantastically creepy when he wants to be.
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In this clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live, we learn about Harrison Ford's tragic falling-out with Chewbacca. (It's been a long time since I've seen Ford put this much energy into a performance!)
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Frank Sidebottom was... Well, he was a British comedian who was sort of a papier mache-headed, living cartoon. It's hard to explain Frank adequately, so perhaps I should let the clip above speak for itself.
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Prince Plutonium has been kidnapped by robot space pirates, and only two heroic little tween girls can save him! Low-budget filmmaking genius Richard Svensson returns with another backyard epic featuring his oddball wit and fantastic little stop-motion beasties. His making-of movie is almost as much fun as the actual film.
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This week I went to the San Diego Comic-Con with my girlfriend, our first time there in years. It was even more noisy and crowded and sweaty and feet-hurt-y than I remembered, but it sure is a thing to see. We met Richard Hatch (the Apollo/Tom Zarek Richard Hatch, not the naked Survivor guy Richard Hatch) and he was just as nice as could be. We also got to gawk in awe at this beauty, a gigantic inflatable display promoting the Adventure Time cartoon. If you're not watching this cartoon, you are wasting your life.
Here we have some catchy nerdrock with an adorably goofy video, casting the members of Low Water as a trio of nerdy scientists on the run from a rather listless dominatrix type and her rollerskating hench-ladies.
If some of the girls in this clip look familiar, you may remember them from Tech TV or the early days of G4 - Morgan Webb, Laura Swisher, Sarah Lane and Cat Schwartz are all on hand, circa 2004, to make you pine for the Attack of the Show and X-Play of days gone by. The clip ends with a bit too much footage of everybody just kind of hanging around having fun, but since when is watching people have fun a bad thing?
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is widely regarded as the worst of the Trek film series. But while that's arguably true (personally I much prefer it to that 2009 JJ Abrams reboot mess) there's no faulting director William Shatner for lack of ambition.
For his lone directorial effort in the Trek franchise, Shatner envisioned a grand tale of friend against friend, man against God, and Kirk against Rockman. He planned for the film to climax with Kirk's spectacular fight against five rock monsters, but they had to be cut to one Rockman for budget reasons and then the sequence ended up getting cut altogether. Too bad. As seen in the screen tests above, this had the potential to be an unforgettable sequence: two glowing eyes suddenly blink to life in the dark rock face, and then a great, jagged shape breaks free from the wall of stone and comes lumbering toward a terrified Kirk, the ground shaking with its every massive footstep. Sure, it would've been goofy as hell, but it would've been goofy in the most awesome, old school Trek way.
"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden
Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?
Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
