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May 31, 2013
My Favourite Things: May 2013
MAY
I’m writing this on a train. The future is now, kids!
1) Commander Chris Hadfield
The video has had (at last count) 15 million views so the chances of this being new to your are slim-to-none but Commander Hadfield has been such an endless delight online since he started his mission on the International Space Station that I would be remiss in celebrating his return to Earth and sharing his wonderful music video. He has inspired a new generation of kids to explore space via his Twitter and YouTube accounts, and quite a number of adults too.
It is, to my mind, the only music video made in space. That’s pretty damn cool. We salute you, sir!
2) Speed Kills
What happens when you let a homicidal maniac go speed dating? Why, this short film by Alan Rogers, of course! It’s based on an Irish comic written by Derrick Domican. I’ve worked with Alan before and he’s a great talent so it’s well worth a watch, but be warned; some NSFW images.
3) Will Smith attempts to break the internet
Will Smith and his son recently guested on The Graham Norton Show in the UK. The last time he featured on the show we performed his Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme which got 8 million views. Will, as always, wanted to outperform himself so decides to take it up a notch. The man doesn’t do things by half…
(At last check, this has gotten 14 million views)
4) 8-Bit Iron Man
I won’t talk about Iron Man 3 as I did enough of that elsewhere but I will share this rather delightful video that Norwood Cheek and David Dutton made which is an 8-Bit video game version of the first Iron Man film. It was made for the Cinefix’s 60 second(ish) challenge which gets film-makers to create minute long remix’s of some famous films.
5) Doctors
This month saw the season finale of Doctor Who air but not without a hitch. The BBC accidentally shipped over 200 blu-ray copies of the final episode early to people who had pre-ordered them. Worried that they might leak the details of the episode online, Steven Moffat said that if everyone kept the secret he would release an exclusive video of Matt Smith and David Tennant as a reward. Wonderfully everyone kept quiet and you can watch that video HERE.
So I shall leave you with this image from it.
Roll on the 50th Anniversary special.
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And that’s it! My favourite things of the last month.
– Aaron Fever is the creator of the velcro bra. He is also more accurately an internet whore and rarely leaves the house. If you like what you read here check out his blog http://www.aaronfever.com
Weekend Shopping Guide 5/31/13: Beetlejuice
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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Episodes have been teased on prior DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Tim Burton’s original feature, but it took the fine folks at Shout Factory to deliver the complete four season run of the animated Saturday morning spin-off of Beetlejuice (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$99.99 SRP). What surprising is that the adventures of the titular ghoul and sidekick Lydia Deetz actually work a charm, as it’s a fun romp that’s a precursor to the kind of manic cartoons that would come to define the likes of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in the 90’s.
In a gadget-filled life, things break. What makes repairing them awkward is that many companies have gone with proprietary fastening solutions for their gadgets and gizmos. However, Thinkgeek has got that covered with the ultimate gadget-fixer’s dream – the iFixit 54 Bit Driver Kit ($29.99). With hex, pentalobe, square, torx, tri-wing, and more, it’s got the bits you need to make your repairs.
If you’re too impatient to wait for the complete season set later in the year (and really, who isn’t?), then you can get up to date on the adventures of the Doctor with Doctor Who: The Snowmen (BBC, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$19.98 SRP) and Doctor Who: Series Seven Part Two (BBC, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$29.98 SRP). Both releases sport bonus shorts that fill out the stories, and will help keep the DTs away until the 50th anniversary special on November 23rd.
Comedy releases this week? How about the CD/DVD combos Kevin Nealon: Whelmed… But Not Overly and Josh Blue: Sticky Change (Comedy Central, Not Rated, CD/DVD-$11.99 SRP each). Get them. Both.
Fans of historical trivia will have a lot to get exited about in The Ultimate Guide To The Presidents (History Channel, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), which journeys through the US Chief Executives and tells the untold stories of all 43, From Washington to Obama.
I’m actually quite delighted that major studios have begun licensing some of their catalogue titles to other companies, including Fox’s recent pact with Anchor Bay that brings high definition releases of Airheads, The Newton Boys, Bedazzled, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Anchor Bay, Blu-Ray-$17.99 SRP each). But of all the titles they’re releasing in this bare bone format, the one I unashamedly like the most and was most looking forward to is Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Anchor Bay, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$17.99 SRP)… Yes, the Whoopi Goldberg espionage comedy from the mid-80’s.
Robert Taylor stars as the titular mystery-solving western sheriff in Longmire (Warner Bros., Not Rated, DVD-$39.98 SRP). Aided by a new deputy (Katee Sackhoff) and an old friend (Lou Diamond Phillips), he runs up against dark secrets and murky relationships. Bonus materials include a pair of behind-the-scenes featurettes.
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
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May 29, 2013
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Taran Killam
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In this episode, Ken Plume chats with actor Taran Killam about SNL, Heat, improv, family, not walking, 19th century Mokiki, and happenstance.
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May 25, 2013
May 24, 2013
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Hal Lublin
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In this episode, Ken Plume chats with actor Hal Lublin about Thrilling Adventure, Topper Penny, Captain Lou, Slapback McGee, Terry Gosling, and Charo.
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A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Jackson Publick 2
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In this episode, Ken Plume has another chat with Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick, about muumuus, shirts, George Lucas, interns, arcs, and founding fathers.
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A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Rhys Thomas 3
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In this episode, I have another chat with hyphenate Rhys Thomas, about Doctor Who, Tom Baker, Swiss Toni, and Queen. WARNING: Game Of Thrones Spoilers.
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Weekend Shopping Guide 5/24/13: Holiday Road
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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Two things to ponder – National Lampoon’s Vacation (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$19.98 SRP) is 30 years old, and could probably not get made today. While the sequels hewed close to PG-13 sensibilities, the original westward adventure of the Griswold clan was an unapologetic, and genuinely funny, R. The new 30th anniversary Blu-Ray cleans up the picture and sound a bit, adds a new 90-minute retrospective documentary, and carries over the original DVD’s audio commentary and introduction.
While not in an accurate 1/4-scale, it’s still nice to be able to add NECA’s Smeagol Action Figure ($29.99) to the shelf, courtesy of the fine folks at Thinkgeek. Featuring a spot-on sculpt of the nicer side of Gollum with a lovely paint job (and even hair!) for such a low price point, this is a Lord Of The Rings figure worth adding to your collection.
A few years back, we were gifted with the first batch of high definition releases from the fine folks at Studio Ghibli. And then? A long, long, terribly long, wait. But rejoice! Two of director Hayao Miyazaki’s best are finally here – Howl’s Moving Castle & My Neighbor Totoro (Walt Disney, Rated PG/G, Blu-Ray-$39.99 SRP each) – both looking and sounding a charm, and porting over all of the wonderful features from the previous DVD special editions.
Mel Brooks is an institution. And he also happens to be an institution in the midst of a well-deserved renaissance that includes the brilliant American Masters documentary Mel Brooks: Make A Noise (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$19.97 SRP). Featuring insight from the likes of Carl Reiner, Cloris Leachman, Nathan Lane, and more, give it a spin. Bonus materials include deleted segments.
The brilliant Ben Kingsley is not just on the big screen with Iron Man this week, but also starring in the taught thriller A Common Man (Anchor Bay, Rated PG-13, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP), as a man who plants five bombs around a major metropolis and makes a single demand – that the government release a clutch of terrorists from prison. What follows is a cat-and-mouse chase with plenty of surprises.
So far, all of the LEGO movies have been fun, but with LEGO Batman The Movie: DC Superheroes Unite (Warner Bros., Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$24.98 SRP), they’ve managed to make a movie that captures the essence of the DC superhero universe better than the overwrought and grim live action films Warners has been cranking out in recent years. All of which is to say do watch this, and here’s hoping it’s the first of many. Bonus materials include a featurette and bonus cartoons.
For more years than I can recall, the amiable scholars at Twomorrows have been publishing a wide range of magazine and books chronicling every nook and cranny of the comics, creators, characters, and companies fans know and love. A few months back, they took that love and scholarly approach to the next logical step, by launching a must-have document of four-color history in the American Comic Book Chronicles (Twomorrows, $41.95 SRP), which will eventually chart from 1940 to today. The debut volume covered the 1960’s from 1960-1964, but the second release jumps ahead to the 1980’s, covering from 1980-1989 – a decade full of Crises, mutants, the direct market, and the rise of grim and gritty. Get this book, as well as the previous volume, and then start setting aside shelf space for the rest – which can’t come fast enough.
Oh, and while you’re at it, be sure to pick up another new magazine from the folks at Twomorrows – Comic Book Creator (Twomorrows, $8.95), featuring spotlights on Jack Kirby, Alex Ross, Frank Robbins, Kurt Busiek, and Todd McFarlane.
Events have escalated in True Blood: Season 5 (HBO, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$79.98 SRP) as the fate of humanity now lies in the balance, just as Sookie is trying to deal with her erratic faerie powers and Bill & Eric are called into action by the Vampire Authority. Bonus materials include audio commentaries, featurettes, Authority Confessionals, and more.
Get all high and mighty with The BBC’s Royal Collection (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), which contains 4 different documentaries focusing on the British monarchy through the years – Queen Victoria’s Children, King George & Queen Mary, The Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II, and How To Be A Prince. Also included is a bonus reproduction of a vintage booklet from the Queen’s coronation day.
I’ll say this for Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Side Effects (Universal, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$34.98 SRP) – I don’t think I ever knew where it was going. For the most part, in a good way, as its tale of an anxiety-suffering woman is prescribed an experimental medication with deadly side effects mostly keeps to a successful high wire act. Bonus materials include featurettes and faux commercials.
Granted, it’s no sophomore effort like Jason Bateman’s, but the complete second season of MTV’s Teen Wolf (MGM, Not Rated, DVD-$39.98 SRP) finds the much darker and angstier take on the tribulations of a teenage werewolf expanding its mythos as the war between hunters and werewolves heats up. Bonus materials include audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and a gag reel.
For the show’s sixth season, they decided to move Laverne & Shirley (Paramount, Not Rated, DVD-$39.98 SRP) out of Milwaukee, and set in motion a decline that would see the once strong comedy limp to an awkward end minus Penny Williams. Still, this sunnyside season does feature one episode I still recall from my childhood, in which the dynamic duo experience their first earthquake in pure slapstick fashion. Bonus materials include episodic promos and a gag reel.
This week’s indie cinema spotlight falls on a pair of dramas – the pitch black comedy Charlie Casanova (Brink, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP) and the 70’s-evocative road comedy Robert Mitchum Is Dead (Brink, Not Rated, DVD-$19.95 SRP). Both are worth a spin, and sport a clutch of bonus materials including deleted scenes and featurettes.
If you’re ready for another quirky procedural, try the complete first season of Perception (ABC Studios, Not Rated, DVD-$29.99 SRP), starring Eric McCormack as a neuroscience professor with visions who’s recruited by the FBI to help solve cases. Got that?
Hey hey, film music fans! It’s another soundtrack round-up, this week featuring Eric Neveux’s score to Tom Fontana’s Borgia: Season II (Silva Screen Records, $16.42 SRP), James Newton Howard’s After Earth (Sony Masterworks, $10.79 SRP), Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott’s Stuck In Love ($9.99, Varese Sarabande), Haiam Mazar’s The Iceman (Relativity Music, $9.49 SRP), Bear McCreary’s Da Vinci’s Demons (Sparks & Shadows, $9.99 SRP), and Music From The Films of Ridley Scott (BSX Records, $8.99 SRP).
How the mighty have fallen. Were you even aware that Arnold Schwarzenegger releases a new film? You wouldn’t be the only one that didn’t know about The Last Stand (Lionsgate, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$39.99 SRP), which finds Arnie the sheriff of a sleepy town who must stop an escaped drug cartel kingpin who wanders into his jurisdiction. Bonus materials include featurettes and deleted/extended scenes.
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
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May 21, 2013
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For NERF foam blasting fun in low-light conditions, elite power is in the palm of your hand with the precision light-beam-enabled NERF N-STRIKE ELITE FIRESTRIKE blaster! Activate the built-in red light targeting beam with an independent trigger to lock in on your target up to 15 feet away. This front-loading foam blaster shoots up to an impressive 75 feet and has built-in storage for two additional darts. The blaster comes complete with 3 N-STRIKE ELITE darts. Requires 2 “AAA” batteries, not included. Available at most major retailers nationwide and HasbroToyShop.com.
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Win CHARLIE CASANOVA on DVD!
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Win ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD on DVD!
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Win MONSUNO: POWER on DVD!
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Win PERCEPTION: SEASON 1 on DVD!
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Win HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE on Blu-Ray!
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Win MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO on Blu-Ray!
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Win THE GREAT GATSBY: MIDNIGHT IN MANHATTAN on DVD!
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Win TOP GEAR 19 on DVD!
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Win DOCTOR WHO: THE VISITATION on DVD!
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May 20, 2013
Win AQUABATS: SEASON 1 on DVD!
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May 17, 2013
Weekend Shopping Guide 5/17/13: Just Visiting
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the FRED Weekend Shopping Guide – your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
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As nearly every extant Doctor Who story has made its way onto DVD, the BBC has decided to dip back into their original DVD releases and remaster/expand them into special editions, the latest of which is a story from Peter Davison’s 5th Doctor era – Doctor Who: The Visitation (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$34.98 SRP), as the Doctor faces down an alien menace in the time of the Great Plague. Bonus materials include an audio commentary, featurettes, film trims, and a lovely spotlight on the Doctor’s adventures in audio.
The fine folks at Thinkgeek know you can never have too many figural representations of Doctor Who‘s faithful robotic canine companion, so they’re offering an exclusive Mego-scale K-9 action figure ($9.59), a companion piece to Bif Bang Pow’s line of classic Who figures. It’s not articulated, but at such a large scale and accurate sculpt for such a low price point, is it a nifty display piece? Affirmative.
Now that the announcement has come down, the 7th season of Dexter (Paramount, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$65.99 SRP) is the serial killer drama’s penultimate, as the titular sociopath finally comes clean to his sister as the police close in on solving the Bay Harbor Butcher killings.
Oh, Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros., Rated R, Blu-Ray-$35.99 SRP) – you are a big, crazy bloated, James A Michener-esque epic of love and loss across the modern and future history of Earth, and for the life of me I still don’t know if I either understand or like you, but good on you for being you. Give it a spin and see if you can figure it out, or at the very least keep a straight face through Tom Hanks’ various accents. Bonus materials include a clutch of featurettes that try to explain it all.
I don’t watch it as religiously as I once did, but when the trio of Clarkson, May, & Hammond are on their game, as they are through most of Top Gear 19 (BBC, Not Rated, DVD-$24.98 SRP), it blows away anything being done by the middling (and unnecessary) American version. Just check out the epic Africa special on this set to see why.
If you want to see Charlie Sheen have a quirky meltdown in a film that feels like a pale Wes Anderson flick, look no further than the second directorial turn from Anderson’s frequent co-writer Roman Coppola, A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III (Lionsgate, Rated R, Blu-Ray-$24.99 SRP). At least it manages to squeeze enjoyable moments from Bill Murray and Aubrey Plaza, so hey – there’s that. Bonus materials include an audio commentary and featurettes.
The folks at Scholastic continue to put out brilliant little animated adaptations of charming children’s books with their Scholastic Storybook Treasures line, the latest installment of which is Bink & Gollie …and More Stories About Friendship (Scholastic, Not Rated, DVD-$14.95 SRP).
This week’s kid-friendly release is a brand new volume of Nick, Jr.’s Team Umizoomi, Animal Heroes (Nickelodeon, Not Rated, DVD-$14.98 SRP), featuring a quartet of animal-centric tales with monkey, dogs, bears, and more.
So there you have it… my humble suggestions for what to watch, listen to, play with, or waste money on this coming weekend. See ya next week…
-Ken Plume
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May 16, 2013
A Bit Of A Chat with Ken Plume & Mike Phirman 5
I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have another chat with musical genius Mike Phirman, about Balaban encounters, Jor-El challenges, earwax hoverboards, and SimCreation.
You can pick up his album at www.MikePhirman.com
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