The Stone Roses were a fairly important band in the UK, but I didn’t know much about except for hearing the song “Love Spreads” on WHFS and on 120 Minutes. I’ll admit it didn’t catch me 11 years ago, but it popped up on the radio when I was driving home in the rain late last week and I cranked up the factory stereo as loud as it would go. This was a pretty unapologetically rockin song. The first minute or so is all instrumental. Instead of lyrics, it was all a showcase for John Squire’s guitar. The lyrics have some vague biblical symbolism, but it was all filling out the structure of great music as far as I’m concerned. It seems to end and turn into a different song at least twice and keeps the listening experience fresh.
Its a shame this wasn’t a bigger hit, it would enjoy regular rotation as a classic cut on more radio stations.
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The Fellowship is everywhere! Look at the cast list for return of the king and click on any of their names. Pretty much all of them are working. In the past month I’ve seen Boromir, Frodo, and even Aragorn himself in movies. Samwise and Merry seem to be doing pretty well on TV too. And Of course demand for esteemed Gandalf and Gimli hasn’t dwindled yet either.
This is the biggest troop of actors to spill onto the silver screen from a single project since Boogie Nights when Don Cheadle, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, and John C Reilly started popping up in every goddamn movie you saw.
Now I won’t dismiss the cinematic contributions of Zoolander and Old School, lending the Wilson Brothers, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, and Ben Stiller to a seemingly endless parade of screwball comedies… but the Fellowship Of The Ring are hitting thrillers, dramas, horror, and comedy. Doesn’t Viggo have a band too? They’ll end up in musicals before long too.

Latino Review has handed down a Five Star Rating to the Halo Movie Script!
This comes directly from a critic who has not played the games, but did enough research on the back story to see if the movie fits. Obviously, it looks like we’re in for a fast paced Covenant War unlike anything we’ve ever seen in film or games if this review is to be beleived.

I’ll admit that even though I like the Halo story, its second to the action. Garland (28 Days Later) was hand picked for this project because the Covenant are religious radicals not far off in behavior from the rage zombies. And without having to factor in stuff like player difficulty and whether the processor can handle “X” many troops on screen at once, the Halo flick will likely amp up every major event from the first game. We’re even going to be given battle scene with an entire Spartan army (I’m sure we’ll all be looking for Spartan 458)! And thats the first scene in the movie!
Obviously, even though it’ll be taking the game’s story and the review only covers the first act, spoilers follow so read at your own risk.

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Congratulations, assholes.

Jodie Foster is a newly single mom trapped in a confined space trying to protect her daughter from an unseen madman.
I’m talking about Flight Plan not Panic Room! This one is totally on a plane!
It wasn’t a terrible movie, but if Foster is only going to do one script every 3 years, she could’ve picked one that wasn’t so like the last. It was worth watching for a moment when the oxygen masks dropped in the plane and a random woman screamed as she realized that the rubber band on hers was broken and she couldn’t put it on. Can’t be sure if that was funny on purpose, but I laughed hard.
I don’t think its any kind of spoiler if I say that the villain on the flight is not one of the Arabs. Honestly, Hollywood can’t make an Arab bad guy on a plane now. I was kept guessing until the story revealed itself, which I’ll give them credit for. I don’t usually figure stuff out early but given Foster was set up as delusional early on, any clues from her perspective were kinda written off as bogus.

“That indian guy looks suspiciously like Frank Stallone,” My fiance noted quite accurately upon Armand Assante’s introduction. As you can infer, he’s quite italian looking, not in the least native.
And so it was that I was witness to Prophecy, which was not The Prophecy as I’d hoped, but one of the most horribly hilarous movies I’ve ever seen.
So yeah, with the Halloween holiday coming up, I set my DVR to record a ton of classics off Turner Classic Movies, and the decidedly less prestigious AMC. As a standard of comparison, TCM was running Hitchcock’s silent film “The Lodger” while AMC ran “Species II”
Now I don’t consider “Species” to be a classic, and the sequel you can probably infer is several magnitudes worse.
Anyway, This “Prophecy” doesn’t star Christopher Walken, but instead some weird beared guy, who works as an inner city doctor. He’s then called upon to help settle land dispute between some lumberjacks and native americans. So while this is I guess supposed to be a fish out of water story, he looks more out of place in the city than in the woods because of his odd Mountain Man looks.
At about the half hour mark I finally realize that “hey, this is the wrong damn movie” but we’re too far into it to turn back now, so we kept going.
Turns out the lumber company is poisoning the water with mercury. Mercury, which doesn’t make any sense to have in the water to assist in paper production. Mercury, which causes autism in infants but apparently gigantism in tadpoles and mutant horror in bears.
Bad Movies can take it from here. You especially want to see the exploding sleeping bag.
“Prophecy” is directed by John Frankenheimer, who helmed the political classic “The Manchurian Candidate” and the Ben Affleck bomb “Reindeer Games”
I’d have to say the mutant bear ranks somewhere below Affleck.

Reports coming out of Botcon say there is a Transformers game in development to go with the movie, which is due July 4, 2007. Since this is well past the launch of the 360, PS3, or Rev, its safe to assume we’re looking at a next-gen title.
Hasbro isn’t ready to announce who is working on it, only that they are working on it. The bad news is that it won’t be done by melbourne house, who did an excellent job with Transformers on PS2 last May. The good news is, its unlikely we’ll get a repeat of the abomination
Transformers Tatakai, which only came on in Japan.
And for the un-initiated, the new movie IS based on the original Generation One characters. But if you dodged Transformers on PS2 because it features the Armada cast, you’re missing a hell of a shooter.

Special thanks to Ephrum from Xbox Live and Geezer Gamers for these glitch videos. He’s got more on the way, but any serious or amatuer Halo 2 players looking to expand into some of the crazier exploration methods in multiplayer maps (and wondering how friends and enemies end up in odd places) should watch these.