Peas 196 features a Super/ Walking Dead Crossover. Can you tell I liked Super the movie?
Peas 196 Is here
Reminder I’ll be at the Tri-cities Toy and Comic Show this weekend in Gray, Tn. Ill be selling my creature paintings and doing commisions. The show benefits the Childrens Miracle Network so come say hi.
For me the Planet of the Apes originals are some of my fondest memories of movies. I’ve watched all five original films multiple times. The Tim Burton try at the series left me cold, but I wasn’t really upset like some were with it. This new take looks like it could be interesting in a Contact sci-fi sort of way.
Heres hoping James Franco doesn’t look stoned the whole movie.
Large size Hello Kitty Rampaging, Rainn Wilson’s Crimson Bolt, & a Templar knight all in creature form, now on etsy and available here .
I’m on the first flight to Philadelphia. My band is waiting for me there. I’ve got to formulate a plan, got to figure out something other than the way things are going. And I know just who to call.
“Hello.” The scratchy aged voice answers.
“Hey Will. It’s Sparrow.”
“Damn girl. Good to hear your voice. You in town?”
“Sure am Will. And I need your help.”
“Well come on over sugar, you know the place.”
I close the phone and head out into the Philadelphian maze. About an hour later I’m entering Will’s residence. Will is resting on his couch, thirty or more empty whiskey bottles are placed strategically around the floor. Like a puzzle waiting to be solved. Two guys I don’t recognize are playing cards on an overturned fish tank in the back of the room.
“Hey beautiful.” Will says smiling, showing chipped teeth. He looks older than I remember.
“Hey you.” I sit down next to him, my old friend. I tell him everything, about Tommy Lee, about the 7-11, and how I just don’t know what to do next.
And Will just puts his long slender hands on my head, pulls me close and tells me this story.
“You know about Harry Houdini? Some people think he was the greatest magician to ever live. He could escape any chain that you would place on him. Houdini, the great magician. A wizard people called him. Do you know how he died, Sparrow? Houdini was cocky, did not know when to close the curtain. One of his many claims was that he could take any hit above the waist without injury. He could escape the pain. Well all great magicians need one thing. Control of the situation. Well Houdini was at a college in Canada, when a student put this claim to a test. Houdini was relaxed posing for a portrait when the student rushed in and punched Houdini multiple times before the great magician had a chance to react. The great escape artist would die a few weeks later of a ruptured appendix. You know the one trick Houdini never mastered Sparrow?
The disappearing act.”
Pleased to say I’ve been added to next weekends Tri-cities Toy & Hobby Show in Gray, TN. I’m happy to attend this show as it benefits the Children’s Miracle Network. Other guests include, Bob McLeod, Gary Kwapisz, and Carol C. Jackson.
Ill be painting commisions all weekend, so please come by my table and say hi.
Hope to see you there.
Went to two more films during Actionfest. One was the awesome Little Big Soldier. It was Jackie Chan at his finest. Funny, yet sincere, and the epic nature of the loactions made the movie a big screen experience for sure. I’m torn about how high this ranks on Chans list of films, due to how his talent has been wasted in America and how jaded I became towards him, but its a return to fine movie making for him and it’s up in the top five for me.
Super was great. Raiin Wilson is the perfect choice for this role as he has no problem with the self deprecation. Ellen Page is amazing as the psycopath sidekick. And Nathan Fillion even makes a cameo. The film plays pretty straight and sometimes the violence can shock you, but not for long. Director James Gunn always follows something gruesome with a joke, leaving you a little desenitized to the whole thing. In the end its got the chance to be a cult favorite for a long time, but won’t bring in the bucks that Kickass did last year.
I got to see four movies in four days at this years Actionfest. Some people attending probably saw 30, but if my minor experience with the festival is any indication, this festival is great all the way around. Can’t wait for next year.
So Ive seen a movie a day during Actionfest here in Asheville. I think next year Ill definetly get a pass so I can go to all the films I want to. I plan on seeing three more films in the next two days but so far I got to these two.
Ironclad was the opening movie of the festival. Its got me hooked as it has Brian Cox in it, and he just seems to steal scenes for as long as I can remember him acting. And James Purferoy, who was very villanious in Rome, is actually pretty awesome as a Templar Knight in this. The action is well done and while I can see how the film wouldn’t play in today’s special effects wizardry, I loved it, and think if it got a wide release it would do as well as any other British war flick.
Outrage is Takeshi Kitano’s return to Gangster films that made him famous. Jess wished there had been more of a story, and less reliance on violence. There are some brutal shots in this film for sure, but I think the moments that really make the film for me, and carry the story are hidden between the random acts of death, as the yakuza are sitting around planning there next move. You can almost feel the tension that these men carry with them as they live what is sure to be a shortened life. I think Takeshi romantizes it a little bit, and wants to show that in the end, everyone goes out dead. A less competent filmaker would edit out the random shots of street scenes, or the quiet moments before the kill. Its not Takeshi’s best film, but its still a very good Yakuza film.
Work continues on my latest large painting. It should be done soon. I’ve decided to leave the creatures in the buildings transparent. I like that effect