The Somewhat Ambitious

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Childs Play (the Citizen Kane of shitty doll-related horror films), a bevy* of people dressed as the veritably Shakespearian antagonist wandered around times square for a promotional photoshoot/pranky funtime. My main issue with this is that if I got a bunch of friends to dress up as Orson Welles’ [...]

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DONALD LaFONTAINE, THE VOICE OF GOD.
26-8-1940 - 1-9-2008
Don LaFontaine, the husky-voiced guy who started trailers off with “in a land… before time” or “on the run… from himself”, has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 68. He had recorded over 5000 film trailers, television commercials, network and video game ads, and I’m [...]

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If you recall, a few weeks back I basically blew my load on the Breakfast Show over the Back to the Future car, which was for sale at the time. In what may be an equally awesome piece of nerddom come to life, the intrepid Daniel Deutsch has MADE LUKE SKYWALKER’S LANDSPEEDER. It has a [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- The moustache pint glass, and how using one to conceal a real moustache is a true mind fuck.
- How the invisibility cloak will revolutionise mischievious seamstresses, as further proof that when Lindsay sets me homework, I do it.
- The new earth-bound Borg Sphere, which is less a [...]

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If there was ever an overwhelming commitment to a fictional universe, this is it. Star Trek by its very nature covers a lot of geographical ground, but a listener to Nerds of a Feather drew to my attention this map of the entire Star Trek galaxy. Holy shit. I’d peg this as excessive, but to [...]

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Let it never be said that fanboys/girls aren’t capable of flagrant douchebaggery. At a recent taping of Catherine Tates new show Under a Blue Sky, a clatch of Doctor Who fans noticed David Tennant in the audience. During the interval, he made small talk with them and was apparently very charming. The fans were quite [...]

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Whether you’re a Harry Potter fan or a mysterious seamstress*, there’s no doubt you’ve been praying for this invention. The innovation which allowed this to happen is a material which can bend light in three dimensions. For the time being, the actual invisibility part takes place on a scale of mere billionths of a metre, [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- How a Japanese man faked a kidnapping to get a Nintendo Wii, and the possibility that Japanese appliances don’t actually talk, but are accompanied by prankster ventriloquists.
- The viability of the first impending commercial jetpack, and why jumping out of trees with umbrellas doesn’t work.
- The new [...]

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Hi everyone, many apologies for my absence, It’s been a crazy few days! I have, however, just been to a preview screening of the new Clone Wars animated feature, and have a pre-release rundown for all you Star Wars fans.
After attending the preview screening of The Clone Wars, I can honestly say that when the [...]

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The title is inspired by the depressingly imminent arrival of the new Friedberg/Seltzer masterpiece ‘Disaster Movie’. Words can barely describe how bone-crunchingly awful the preview for this ‘film’ is, so I can only implore you to watch it and share in our cultural slide toward apocalypse. One would think that acting in a film like [...]

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