Sunday, 11 May 2008

Tom Waits to tour the UK?

It seems that Mr. Tom Waits may be flying over to the UK for only his second series of gigs since 2003 in nearly 20 years! It seems that Waits has a new album coming out and is going to be travelling across Europe playing in a number of venues including some tents in Dublin! How incredible would it be to get a ticket for that show?
Anyways whilst the dates have still not been confirmed, there is a rather ingenious video of a 'press-conference' that Waits held in recognition of announcing his tour dates!
Check it out...

Saturday, 3 May 2008

New Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull trailer!

Just a mere 19 days until the brand new Indiana Jones movie hits cinemas and the buzz is finally beginning to hit me. Part of the festivities in conjunction with the release of the film include the original trilogy being shown on the BBC, Empire Online having an entire month devoted to all things Indy and even the numerous Sunday papers have been getting into the act with supplements devoted to the upcoming film.
Although I have some concerns that the film might be up there with the 'God-awful' Star Wars prequels, I have some hope that this one will be good. Firstly Harrison Ford is back (and looking pretty active for his age), there is a score from John Williams (which advance reviews say is great), Karen Allen finally returns as Marion, Cate Blanchett is looking great as a Soviet agent and finally Spielberg is there to prevent Lucas from going wild and putting in too many CGI creatures.
Not convinced? Take a look for yourselves at the brand new trailer which hit the net just a few short hours ago!

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Wesley Snipes = Bad Man


So everyone's favorite faded action star is now a jailbird!
Yes, Wesley Snipes was recently convicted of three misdemeanors and sentenced to a rather harsh three years imprisonment. (You know that things are particularly grim when even character references by morally upright friends including Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson can't even save you.)
Snipes had also been charged with a more serious charge of tax evasion, but those five counts were dropped and the three misdemeanors remained. Which, at the end of the day still results in three years for 'petty crimes'. Harsh!
Still, there is a certain part of me that wonders whether the judge gave him the prison time as a result of his recent movies.
There was of course his memorable turn as Lucky in 'Hard Luck'. (ha,ha... geddit?) Didn't see that one? Oh well, then there was also his moving turn as hitman turned target in 'The Contractor'...
I guess what i'm trying to say is, I feel sorry for Snipes. After all he provided us with some memorable turns in 'New Jack City', 'Demolition Man' and even the rather pointless 'US Marshals'. The man deserves better than a three year prison sentence and part of me wonders whether he was a suitable star to be made an example of, owing to his straight to video schlock. (Let's face it, Tom Cruise would never be jailed for a similar offense because his films are just too profitable.) And although he is probably only going to serve a short time of his sentence, a part of me will miss his crummy films with only Van Damme and Seagal left to fill the void.
Godspeed Wesley Snipes. Hope that you get out soon!