Short pass – from short stories to films with Roller Ball Murder

Inspired by Mark Kermode’s video blog post Do Short Stories Make Great Films?* I tracked down ‘Roller Ball Murder‘ by William Harrison, the short story that inspired the film Rollerball. It’s pretty nifty. Interesting to see how much of it made it to the film.

And here’s the trailer, a reminder that I need to re-watch the film again real soon. Jon-na-than! Jon-na-than!

wobble wobble wobble

I like the bass, genius Masterchef remix

Frenzy Mackenzie

RIP John Mackenzie, scottish director who was probably best known for the classic British gangster thriller The Long Good Friday. He also directed A Sense Of Freedom (The Jimmy Boyle Story) and Just A Boy’s Game, The Elephant’s Graveyard and Just Another Saturday among others for Play For Today.

ZombieMidlands

Dear Leicester City Council, Can you please let us know what provisions you have in place in the event of a zombie invasion?

Still in love with Judas

Lady Judas – Lady Gaga vs Judas Priest from Wax Audio

TOO MUCH FRESHNESS WILL EXPLODE THE BRAIN

Yes ninjas, it’s that time of the year again! It’s the Insane Clown Posse’s 2011 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial! All 27 minutes and 3 seconds of it! Staring Vanilla Ice as Vanilla Zerg! (or something – there’s a sci-fi theme) Whoop! Whoop! NSFW

Kitchen Nightmare

A trailer for a British rom-com Love’s Kitchen (previously known as No Ordinary Trifle ) recently appeared, notable for a cameo by chef Gordon Ramsay playing himself. The reaction was somewhat negative. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the trailer was taken down and replaced with a slightly improved version…

…but handily the original had been reposted here.

George Lucas Strikes Back

The true story of the prequals

SAN loss

Yog-Blogsoth This blog will be an attempt to draw all the creatures Lovecraft ever wrote about or mentioned. (Poss NSFW – drawn nudity, Def NSFSanity)