Movies & TV

A few months ago, Scott wrote an excellent article outlining the broad strokes for setting up your very own home theater system using a PC and a few inexpensive components. It seemed so easy that he got me thinking, and I started doing a bit of research. You see, I had heard about the credit card sized computer, known as RaspberryPi, quite a while ago, but at the time, I didn’t realize how perfect it would be for use as a HTPC. It’s so good, that for about $60 you’ll be able to play almost any video, music, or media you can throw at it. Excited yet?

So with that in mind, I’m about to teach you how to set up your very own HTPC using RaspberryPi, an SD Card, a USB thumb drive for increased speed (more on that later), and a free, kick ass piece of software called Raspbmc.

Sometimes children are bad people too.

This is a trailer for the upcoming assassin-child-action-adventure film Hanna, starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana. The movie centers around the life of a very special girl named Hanna. Trained by her ex-cia operative father, Hanna travels across Europe on a mission to take out a ruthless intelligence agent with secrets of her own. The trailer reminds me of a mix between Leon: The Professional, and Taken. Both films are excellent, and if you haven’t seen them, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

It’s been a long time since anyone released an Aliens movie. No, I don’t count the Aliens vs Predators films, as they were mostly trash. I mean a true Aliens film, and preferably by a talented director such as, oh… I don’t know, maybe Ridley Scott? Well, today we get our wish, kind of.

This is a poster for a new Ridley Scott directed film called Prometheus. Details are sparse, but apparently he’s been working on this for quite some time, and filming is wrapping up on his set in Iceland. The film isn’t a true Aliens movie, but it does take place before any of the Alien films, and presumably in the same universe. We also know that H.R. Giger was involved in the process, though to what extent I have no idea.

It’s been ages since John Carpenter’s original 1982 sci-fi/horror masterpiece The Thing hit theatres, and since then we’ve had two new versions of the movie. One of them is amazing, which is the one you’re about the watch, and then there’s the 2011 Hollywood remake which scored a whopping 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. Don’t bother going to see it if you haven’t already, as the one you’re about to see is so much better.

Created by a fellow named Lee Hardcastle under his “Claycat Cinema” brand, his interpretation of The Thing follows the story of the original, but with a bit of artistic license. We’ve still got the

If you were unfortunate enough to receive your high school education here in Canada, then you may remember one particularly horrible piece of required reading by our fine government: The Hobbit.

The Hobbit wasn’t the most painful novel I’ve ever read, but it certainly holds one of the top spots on my “Horrible Books to Read” list. It’s not just that the characters never stop singing and carrying on like morons, but that aside from that, nothing actually happens! Absolutely… nothing. Even worse, is that someone

I’m not really sure how I found this amazing Flikr photostream by Avanaut featuring LEGO Star Wars Hoth figures (well kinda know if you’ve been following UM lately) but this is the most amazing miniture photography I’ve ever seen. Avanaut, a Finish illustrator and designer, uses a mix of trick photography and in-camera adjustments to produce the most stunning and vivid shots.

You know, I saw this trailer posted and thought to myself, man, what a stupid looking movie. After reluctantly watching the trailer, I’m actually pretty excited to go see it. I’ve had a real craving for science fiction films lately, and MS ONE Maximum Security fits the bill for that. Not only is this science fiction, it also stars Guy Pearce (of Memento fame) and Maggie Grace, the actress best known for her bratty character on Lost, but who will forever live in my heart as the “teenager” in Taken. And speaking of Taken, guess who co-wrote MS One? That’s right, Luc Besson.