Here are a few more pictures of Heath Ledger (I'm Not There, 2007) as the Joker in The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight is directed by Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, 2006) and stars Christian Bale (I'm Not There, 2007) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Stranger Than Fiction, 2006). The Dark Knight is to be released on 18 July, 2008 by Warner Bros.
I have a soundtrack to my life. A collection of songs that explains a moment in time. Those songs that clearly articulated what I was feeling or expressed a thought that I couldn't. A collection of songs that take me back , whether good or not so good, and help me see how far I've come. Sometimes a song resurfaces and is relevant in my life again. Sometimes, it like a wave on the shore; with you for a brief moment and then gone and yet always there because it is a part of something larger. I've had a lot happen in this past year that I won't go into, but this song has been a recent addition to the soundtrack of my life. It sums up my life these past several months and I'm speaking lyrically, not the subject of the video.
Gentle Readers, firstly, let me extend my thanks to those of you who are reading my blog. I honestly thought that my friends and I would be the only ones. Secondly, I'm going to be taking a bit of a hiatus. I'm in the process of moving away from London, Ontario, so, once I'm in my new digs and a bit settled, I shall return. So, check back in about a week.
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Stephen Sandvoss
This is a photo from Universal Pictures' The Wolf Man. Directed by Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo, 2002), The Wolf Man tells the story of Lawrence Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales from the United States and is bitten by a werewolf, thus becoming one himself.
The Wolf Man (2009) is a remake of the 1941 film of the same name that starred Lon Chaney Jr. (The Ghost of Frankenstein, 1942) and Claude Rains (The Invisible Man, 1933). The remake stars Benicio del Toro (Things We Lost In The Fire, 2007) as Lawrence Talbot and Anthony Hopkins (Beowulf, 2007).
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 and his partner, Agent 99, working for CONTROL, fight to keep the world safe from the agents of KAOS in the 2008 Warner Bros. release, Get Smart.
He's definitely older and grayer, but he's still Indiana Jones. Some new pictures have surfaced from the new Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (such an awkward title) and I thought that I would share them with you, Gentle Readers.
ars after the last installment of the series. However, as more information and photos are leaked, I have to admit my interest and excitement are rising. This could actually be an awesome movie. My fingers are crossed anyway.
Britain's Empire magazine has released the cover of their January 2008 issue and oh man is it sweet. As you can see, the cover features Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, 2005) as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight. The Joker looks so maniacally cool in this shot and I am now officially stoked about this movie. The January 2008 issue of Empire should be hitting newsstands in the next couple of weeks.
This is a cool clip from 3:10 to Yuma. It is near the beginning of the film when the outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) is first introduced. Wade and his gang are responsible for a string of stage coach robberies and this one is the latest. Russell Crowe is such a great actor and so watchable. I really like what's going on behind his eyes in this scene.
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This is the only photograph in existence of Henry, Lord Spebbington. Lord Spebbington was one of the great explorers of the Victorian age who unfortunately arrived 2 weeks after most discoveries were made. This photograph was taken in 1845, just days before his expedition to Tibet. It was on this journey that Lord Spebbington, close to bankruptcy, returned to England with his discovery of the Tibetan "finger-quotes." Lord Spebbington retired comfortably on the royalties.
The Invisible Man was written by H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds) in 1897. The story had been serialised in Pearson's Magazine and was published as a novel in the same year. The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin. Griffin theorises that by changing a person's reflective index to that of air, then their body would not absorb nor reflect light. This would render the person invisible. Griffin carries out his experiment with success but can not reverse the process which sends him into madness.
e. It is considered one of the classic "monster movies" of Universal Pictures.
James Paul Marsden
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.
) and Stephen J. Cannell (The Rockford Files), The A-Team starred George Peppard as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, Dwight Shultz as Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock, Dirk Benedict as Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck and Mr. T as Sgt. Bosco B.A. "Bad Attitude" Baracus. The show itself was a kind of a hybrid of The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen and it is remembered largely for it's over-the-top violence and the way each week "the Team" came up with some elaborate weapon or machine put together during a musical montage.
I would like to share with you, Gentle Readers, my adoration of the band Great Big Sea. As I mentioned in an earlier post, they are indeed my favourite band. I got interested in Great Big Sea after I picked up their second album , Up in 1995. It wasn't long after that that I saw them play a set on Parliament Hill for Canada Day and with that performance, I was totally hooked. These guys are awesome live.
unding members Alan Doyle (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, also quite cute), Sean McCann (vocals, bodhran, guitar, tin whistle) and Bob Hallett (vocals, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, concertina, bouzouki, bagpipes). Newer members Kris McFarlane (drums, accordion, guitar, backing vocals) and Murray Foster (bass, backing vocals) round out the group.Great Big Sea has been described as a band you experience, rather than listen to and anyone who has seen their live show would probably agree. They've just been one of those bands that picks me up when I'm down and are just a lot of fun to listen to.
This video is from GBS's 1995 release Up. Enjoy!
Timothy David Olyphant
This movie, Gentle Reader, I am so looking forward to seeing. Directed by the master, Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on the Stephen Sondheim musical that first appeared on Broadway from 1979 to 1980. However, the origins of the character go back farther than that. Sweeney Todd and his murderous tale first appeared in the Victorian era, in an 1846 edition of the penny dreadful, The People's Periodical. There are some scholars and historians that claim the stories of Sweeney Todd were based on fact, although there has been little in the way of evidence to support these claims. 
d opens a barber shop above the shop of Mrs. Lovett who sells, "the worst meat pies in London." Todd rather gruesomely begins dispatching all of those whom he believes did him wrong, with Mrs. Lovett getting rid of the bodies. You can imagine how she manages that, owning a meat pie shop and all. Todd's madness has method to it as he hopes to be reunited with his daughter who is now the ward of the judge that wrongly sent him to Australia.
Yes, Gentle Reader, it is time once again for another Charlie Cox posting. I can't help it, I just find him crazy adorable.
Samuel (Sam) Stewart Witwer
I know what you will say, Gentle Reader, "Two Kenneth Branagh posts in one day? C'mon." It's true, but I just had to write about this DVD. As my very good friend Lana and I were wandering about, sipping Starbucks' peppermint hot chocolate (Lana) and Cinnamon Dolce Latte (yours truly) and seeing what Chapters (kind of like Barnes and Noble for our American readers) had to offer, I came across the 1996 version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.
nd Michael Caine. This film is more of a re-imagining.
Well, Gentle Readers, we once again open the animation mine and pull out a gold nugget of a show from my youth that I was crazy about. Sometimes, I can't believe that I write things like that last sentence. Anyway, the programme (Canadian spelling for the American readers) in question is the second animated series by Rankin/Bass, Tales of the Wizard of Oz.
Well, gentle readers, here is an item that raised my eyebrow. This looks like it could be interesting and while I'm not yet in, "Man, I gotta see this," mode, I am intrigued by the possibility of it. If they do it right - fingers crossed.
sign takes it's name from the constellation Sagittarius and is the ninth sign of the zodiac. The Zodiac is an annual cycle with 12 equal divisions that represents the apparent path of the sun through the sky. The constellations have been used to mark the seasons as far back as 5000 BC. There is a belief among astrologers that the stars and plants and their movements affect human activity, therefore, the twelve signs of the zodiac also represent 12 basic types of personality. Sagittarius, represented by the archer, is a positive sign as they tend to be more outgoing and sociable. Sagittarius' opposite sign is Gemini.
geable and philosophic and seek truth. The Sagittarius is broad-minded and generous, possesses a good sense of humour and is sexual. The Sagittarius likes having an active partner and feeling trusted but dislikes conventional romances, having to explain themselves or being forced into making promises. The Sagittarius can also be a blundering, know-it-all, who is restless and impatient.
Now, this has not been confirmed by anyone connected with the movie, however, Ain't It Cool News is claiming that their sources are sound on this one. According to the formerly mentioned Ain't It Cool News, Christian Bale (3:10 to Yuma) has been cast in Warner Bros. summer 2009 release, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins in the role of John Connor. Again, I stress, that this is just a rumour at this point, but if it is true
, then mark me down as officially looking forward to this movie.
Yes folks, it's time for another Charlie Cox post. You may be getting the idea that I'm kinda into this actor. Here he is at the Stardust premiere.
Now this show, you have to see. The show in question is Dexter. This is a smart, well written, excellently acted thriller of a crime drama. It's full of the moral ambiguity that I'm so crazy about and it is so addictive. It's like CSI Miami on crack.
"act" and is wary of him. Dexter is played with charming, creepy perfection by Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under and could quite possibly be one of the top 3 actors on television right now. And yeah, yeah, he's incredibly hot too, which is always a bonus. Hall portrays Dexter as the cold blooded, vacant eyed killer that he is and yet, you're so drawn to him through Hall's subtle performance that you can't help but cheer for him.
Brendan Fraser and Luke Ford in a scene from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor opening 1 August 2008. I can not tell you how stoked I am for this movie.
The Tudors focuses on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII. The ten one-hour episodes take a look at the often overlooked, early political relationships as well as Henry's marriage to Katherine of Aragon and his trysts with such notable women as Anne Boleyn. This is a sexy, well-written and well-acted series. A number of liberties have been taken with the historical record, but who cares? Starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Mission: Impossible 3), Sam Neil (Jurassic Park) and number of younger and older British character actors, The Tudors is full of lust and intrigue and is just plain fun to watch.
rently in production and should premiere on Showtime in the U.S. in March.Born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich, Henry was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
Following the death of his elder brother, Henry became next in line to be King. His father died in 1509 and Henry took the throne just before his 18th birthday.Henry was described by contemporaries as vigorous and handsome and considered a great athlete and loved jousting and hunting. In addition, Henry was considered to be very clever and could speak Latin well and was adept at maths, astronomy, cosmology and music.
Well, here we are with Part 4 in my 158,000 part series about my trips down memory lane. Today, I take a little change of pace from the old CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) stuff to bring you some classic animation from my childhood. The New Adventures of Pinocchio was created in 1960 by the Rankin/Bass company. Rankin/Bass will probably be familiar to a lot of people through their holiday specials, most notably, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) the Little Drummer Boy (1968) and Frosty the Snowman (1969). Rankin/Bass also produced a number of feature films and television series. The New Adventures of Pinocchio was one of Rankin/Bass' first projects and was created through a stop motion process the company called 'Animagic." The process had been used previously in the programmes, Gumby and Davey and Goliath which were not Rankin/Bass productions, but the stop motion technique soon became equated with Rankin/Bass animation.
Now, I am crazy about Sean Connery. He's a movie God and one of my personal favourites but what the hell was he thinking when he agreed to star in John Boorman's Zardoz? I mean, how did this movie even look good enough on paper that Connery would say, "Yes. I want to be a part of that."? They put 007 in go-go boots and red nappies for Christ's sake.
