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Archive for May, 2011

 

“Doodlebug” by Christopher Nolan (yes, THAT one)

With the next Batman film in production now, and people already getting whipped into viral frenzies over it, I thought I’d point you guys towards a Christopher Nolan film that you probably haven’t seen — “Doodlebug” is a creepy short film made by Nolan while a student at university. I’m not sure you can call it a student film if the filmmaker wasn’t a film student, but whatever you call it, it’s very well done for such a small film. “Doodlebug” stars Jeremy Theobald, who also starred in Nolan’s debut feature, Following (which is worth seeing, if you’re a fan of Nolan’s).

(Thanks for the heads up, James Mclaughlin!)

Trailer Watch: Green Lantern

Courtesy of Yahoo! Movies comes a new trailer for Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush and Michael Clarke Duncan — this time featuring some narration by Rush (as Green Lantern Tomar-Re).

The costumes and the CG still don’t feel quite right to me, but it feels suitably… well… epic. It looks good, anyway, and I’ll definitely be there on June 17th. What do you think?

“I Met the Walrus” by Josh Raskin

This Oscar-nominated animated short from Josh Raskin takes a half-hour 1969 interview with John Lennon conducted by the 14 year old Jerry Levitan, distills it to 5 minutes, and crazies the heck out of it. The animation illustrators and even expands on Lennon’s words delightfully, making it an absolute joy to watch.

The pen illustrations were by James Braithwaite and the computer illustration by Alex Kurina.

Rhyme Bandits T-shirt now available for PRE-ORDER

Although you couldn’t see it in the current strip (#590), I showed an image of Dub’s T-shirt over on Facebook: it’s a royal blue shirt sporting a “Rhyme Bandits” logo, parodying the Time Bandits logo, of course. People seemed to like it, and although readers always lie and say they would totally buy stuff and don’t once it’s actually available, I figure *I* would love to have one of these, so why not?

And so, the Rhyme Bandits T-shirt is now available for pre-order from the Multiplex Store. It is $18.99 for standard sizes, and (as always), I have to say, if you are a woman and like wearing Ladies’ style shirts, or you wear especially large (2XL+) or small sizes of even Men’s shirts, you should definitely consider pre-ordering if you like this design. At conventions, I sell basically two sizes: Mediums and Larges. I can’t afford to keep extras of every size, unfortunately.

I’ll keep orders open for three weeks (through June 10th), and if I’ve made 15 orders, I’ll print them up. If not, I won’t, and everyone will get their money refunded and be sad.