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Astro Boy ~ new movie trailer

Astro Boy is coming in October and here is the latest and very sharp looking trailer for it ::

posted by Tom Novak, who really likes movie companies that understand that they need to release film trailers we can embed in blog posts as part of their marketing.

Bruce Campbell is great in "My Name is Bruce" ~ on dvd

What's the best movie of 2008? Forget all those stupid lists and simpering award shows... the hands down winner is My Name is Bruce!

What does a teen age horror fanboy do when his town is being terrorized by the Chinese Demon-God he unwittingly unreashed upon it during a graveyard romp? He kidnaps boozey, bitter, B-movie actor Bruce Campbell to fight the thing - of course. What else would you do?

Campbell, emerging from the trunk of the car he'd been locked in and hearing the story told him by the yocals, thinks the whole thing is a cruelly, elaborate birthday prank - that is, until he's confronted with the too-real monster.

Directed by Bruce Campbell and filmed on location in Oregon, I think My Name is Bruce is even better than Bubba Hotep. And that is saying alot. Heck, it's even available on netflix already.

posted by Tom Novak who doesn't want to ruin it by giving away any more good lines ...

Time for a long overdue Tech Post

Remember six years ago when I used to post all the Tech news here? Yeah, yeah, yeah well this pretty much covers all of what I've not been putting up lately :

posted by Tom Novak who's been saving up to get one of these pieces of ...

My new CON shirt

posted by Tom Novak who is a bricklayer not a doctor and was sporting this very t-shirt over the weekend at Chattacon 34. Stylish huh?.

Keanu Barada Nikto ~ the making of The Day The Earth Stood Still remake

posted by Tom Novak, who still hasn't seen TDTESS2  in the theater but has seen Army of Darkness about 50 times ... close enough?

Chick Inspector

Thanks to Neil Parille for this suggestion via email ::

posted by Tom Novak, who is ROTFLHAO and saying if y'all got anymore good ideas, send them along ...

The Greatest Cartoon Opening Credits Ever

Why, Jonny Quest, of course.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who figures Bandit was a bulldog with a pug's head.

Everyone Sing Along with John Wing

posted by Tom Novak, who says, it's all in fun ... really.

Brahma the anti-hoodoo Beer

posted by Tom Novak who says Voodoo-Witches Must Pay!

Neighborhood watch German style

posted by Tom Novak, who knows all about speed bump racing

Traditional Christmas Morning

Posted by Tom Novak who almost got the trains out this year just to curse ...

Christmas Time is here (the song)

posted by Tom Novak, who says we are a little late in kicking off the Holiday Programing and Shopping Season this year.

Astro Boy Trailer

Astro Boy is back in 2009, and here is the teaser trailer ::

and here is the original ::

posted by Tom Novak, who is getting hunger pangs for Captain Crunch Cereal just watching that old trailer.

A Postum post for Dizzy Blondes

Now blondes, put down that coffee cup and remember you have to click on the picture above with the mousey-pointer thing to make it big enough to read. I'm just saying ...

postumed by Tom "Mr. Coffee Nerves" Novak for Slim The Sudden Curve's own blonde editor @ large (and sidebar and banner babe).

Will Eisner's The Spirit opens in theaters Christmas Day.

Legendary illustrator Will Eisner's long running serialized character,The Spirit, was always every bit as good as Batman at it's best. The movie looks very promising. Directed by Frank Miller. Seems to be a movie made to order for The Sudden Curve faithful. Here's the trailer, "Women of The Spirit ..."

posted by Tom Novak who ... has narrow red tie, will travel ... to see this one.

SpongeBob's Note of Death!

posted by Tom Novak, who laughed and laughed ... and then began writing.

Woody Woodpecker explains astrophysics from Destination Moon (1951)

That corporate PR Raytheon description of a hunter-killer anti- missle MKV satellite was a little too campy for me.

Now ... this from about 12 minutes into George Pal's Destination Moon is how you really explain Space stuff ::

posted by Tom Novak, who says, "gimme' Rocket Ship Galileo vs Space Nazis any time."

Tobor the Eighth Man

When I was a kid there was an early Japanese anime cartoon called Tobor the Eighth Man. The interesting thing about it is that it came on about 4, I believe, and it simply blew away all the competition. It wasn't even close. Yet, no one knows about it today.

I don't know why it was so popular, but I watched it every time it came on.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who even remembers the theme song: "Call Tobor, the Eighth Man!"

What Today's TSC Front Page Looks Like

As a Wordle Cloud :

posted by Tom Novak who is seldom at a loss for wordles.