What you may need to ask
1. Isn’t the title an oxymoron?
Release date: March
Category Archives: Video
Zefrank will now enlighten you with a series of facts about everybody’s favourite psychopath-faced arboreal mammal.
Previously: Things You Didn’t Know About Baby Echidnas
What you may need to know:
1. This is the SECOND trailer in a week for the new Trek flick.
2. This one’s less Cumberbatch-centric, minus the Inception horns, and even
more kick-ass.
3. British actress Alice Eve plays Doctor Carol Marcus. Look, it means
something to Trekkies, all right?
4. All right, Cumberbatch might be playing Khan.
Release Date: May 2013
Lee Armstrong of planefinder.net put together this video of all the planes flying over Europe this month. Their app had its best day of sales after the Daily Mail claimed it was an ‘aid to terrorists’.
[via Baz Scott]
A YouTuber going by the name ‘James Bond’ has stitched together pieces from all 22 films to create one meta film showing how formulaic the stories are but also how they have influenced the super-spy genre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY
What you may need to know:
1. Judge Dredd is a character from classic Brit sci-fi comic 2000AD. Sly Stallone starred as Dredd back in 1995. It didn’t go well.
2. This second bash is more faithful to the original comics. Dredd don’t take his helmet off for no-one.
3. Behind the helmet? Kiwi bad-ass Karl Urban, AKA Éomer from Lord Of The Rings and Bones McCoy from the Star Trek re-boot.
4. The bad guy is played by Lena Headey with some heavy scarring make up so you may not realise she also plays Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones.
5. It’s written by Alex Garland, and directed by Pete Travis, who did Omagh.
6. Irish connection: hot ginger Domhnall Gleeson is in it somewhere.
7.. Looks like: a dystopian version of The Raid (2011), minus the cool martial arts bits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z_ZePEVFDI
Superman vs The Elite is the latest DC animated movie and features a character called Manchester Black. In the grand tradition of not understanding UK swearwords, he manages to get Superman to say…well you’ll see.
Thanks Dermot!
