Professional skeptic and media rabblerouser, Bill Maher, willfully engaged the taboo this week when he expressed his doubts about the Swine Flu vaccine. Not surprisingly, his panelists reacted as if he suggested they eat a small child, live on set.
Yes, the repeated use of iconic movie scenes makes this piece a shoe-in for massive internet appeal, but the execution (especially in the first half) is good enough to fully commandeer the pop-culture brain of virtually every 18-40 year old in proximity.
In promotion of Cusack’s new movie, 2012, Columbia pictures reportedly executed the “largest American media roadblock ever,” by showing 2 minutes of this trailer on over 450 stations.
And frankly, who are we to stop them? The full-clip involves a statewide Schwarzenegger reassurance immediately followed by the apocalypse. Good times.
Looking for a way to perk up your work week? Why not update yourself on the impending enviropocalypse?
According to an exhaustive study by the Global Footprint Network, September 25th was the day that the planet used all of the available planetary resources that it could replenish in a year (otherwise known as Earth Overshoot Day). For the rest of the year, we’ll be culling, reaping, and utilizing that which won’t grow back.
This is a tough one to bear. Above, is a picture of nutbar Mel Gibson wielding a beaver puppet. Allegedly, this is all for an upcoming Jodie Foster directed film entitled, “The Beaver.”
A hidden treasure on Google Video makes available a 35 minute short shot by Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian, during the filming of The Shining. The piece gives us a sense of the process of one of the most legendary filmmakers of all time.
Scientists have recently discovered that mastodons once excreted what has become our canon of elite cinema. This may have prompted Mep Reporter Russ Gooberman to declare the recently-released film “The Time Traveler’s Wife” a “steaming pile of mastodon dung“.