Another year, another Glen Brogan Show. We love this guy's work. We're assuming, other than online, you'll be able to grab his stuff at WonderCon, later this month.
Sexy pin-up ladies with childhood nostalgia could be Glen's medium. But, it's expanded to fandom of sexy ladies today also.
We wish Hero Complex Gallery had some opening event for this, but no physical store no more...sigh.
Scream 7 could have had a great boost with some marketing push from 7-Eleven. I mean we reported last year on Jurassic Rebirth at 7-Eleven. It was great marketing...but, a terrible movie.
We saw Scream 7 on Thursday night. Not sure, what people were thinking it be, but we can tell you the audience and us enjoyed it. And, loved worrying who would be killed and warned people to not do dumb things. Like every fun slasher movie.
The only thing to nitpick was maybe a lack of meta-commentary on horror. But eh, another fun slasher movie. That builds off of the other films in the series if you know them.
However, if you do see it, you might get your first chance to see the trailer for Scary Movie 6, which seems to be tied to it, since they're both from Paramount.
C'mon, Metro, really? Ahh, it's why we love you guys. The very real, Ride The D shirts are avaible now from the LA Metro with the announcement that the D line will be finished this year, May 8th.
If you're not getting the joke it's a double entendre. Ride the D is another way of saying Riding D*CK. But, it works fine here too on Riding the new D line.
"Service along the 3.9-mile Section 1 corridor includes three new stations: Wilshire/La Brea and Wilshire/Fairfax — which bookend Los Angeles’ famed Miracle Mile — and Wilshire/La Cienega in Beverly Hills. Each station will have a landscaped plaza at street level, elevators and escalators, wide platforms and are fully ADA accessible. There will be bike parking and easy connections to local bus lines." more info check out The Source, LA Metro's Blog.
Talking about subways, gotta go over the funniest sight of Hebrew we've seen ever, where it might be written in blood. Just released to streaming and on Netflix is South Korea's Ghost Train. An anthology horror movie set around a spooky subway station. Towards the end, we nearly started laughing at the site of Hebrew depicted as demonic or some sort of spooky lettering.
It's sort of a inverse of how we use Asian movies and their written languages, as something foreign to be spooky. Since, we're assuming, Judaism and Hebrew aren't very prevalent there, it might seem like mystical writing.
There's also no context for it being there, like there's not curse relating to Hebrew or the Bible or anyone whose Jewish or was practicing Judaism or really any Western beliefs.
From an attempt with Google Translate it might just be passages just taken from the Bible.
We hope someone on the production staff thought it looked cool. It looks like Hebrew School to us, totally took us out of the already kind of underwhelming horror film. So close to being good, but then you added Hebrew making it better. Hire a real Jewish writer next time, it'll improve your movie. L'Chaim!
There's a huge group show of art happening right next to Museum Row. Check out a store's worth of different artist, with some tributes to the defunct 99 Cent store chain.
From VernissageTV's video above- "Artist Barry McGee, in collaboration with galleries Jeffrey Deitch and The Hole, has curated an exhibition showcasing work by over 100 artists: paintings, sculptures, illustrations, and performances. Held in conjunction with Frieze Week Los Angeles, the exhibition displays over 4,000 works from floor to ceiling of the former 99-cent store, preserving the character of the space with its cash registers, refrigerators, and merchandise shelves.
The 99Cent exhibition presents Barry McGee originals, artworks from his personal collection and contributions from over 100 artists, including KATSU, Chito, Ruben Preciado, Gary Baseman, Tom Franco, Lauren Halsey and many more. The show runs until March 1, 2026."
KPop Demon Hunters won best feature at the Annie Awards and in 9 other categories this year. You might recall the Anni Awards is like the Oscars of the animation industry. We've covered it over the years for how...fun and strange the ceremony was. However, Covid caused it to become an online event, which was in no way as as fun as seeing animators and voice actors come out in person to compaling and pick up awards. We're glad it's back.
To see the full list check out The Hollywood Reporter's Coverage.
Another win for KPop Demon Hunters is the news it'll becoming part of the vaunted Criterion Collection. As we were explaining to friends, any movie selected for the Criterion Collection makes it a big deal. Criterion prides itself at being the best release of the film quality wise with the best features like commentary and special extras, like hot it was made or behind the scenes footage.
Just being part of the collection is kind of an honor to any filmmaker.
The new Evangelion anime series teaser PV aired on Japan's TBS channel today, and here's English subs for the trailer!
Evas back, back again? What was pretty much a wrap-up with the last film has not stopped the Evangelion franchise from stopping. Now we're getting a new anime from some of the people who made the NieR game. Yeesh, this is gonna be dark, but probably with some crazy good mech battle animation, let's see where it goes.
People are excited for the Gun Nose Kickstarter. They're digging those old-fashioned noir detective vibes only robots can provide
Once Upon a KATAMARI - Miso Bowl and Spoon is the funniest product for a video game for some time. Modeled on the cousin who literally has a head of miso soup for a head. It's available for purchase this March.
In other video game soup related news. Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against ramen maker Nissin. Or at least it did in the marketing for the new game Resident Evil Requiem. Check out the commercial and more info here.
Collecting the videogame crossover artwork of two tintanic franchises: Marvel and Capcom, in a new updated and upgraded edition! Read more about it here and check out the commercial.
New updated & upgraded hardcover edition, with over 140 new pages!
Ohhh, we're excited for this one; Backrooms released a teaser trailer and it's a mindf*ck. Based on a series of random internet videos and lore from the net comes a new creepy horror movie.
From different stuff we've been reading online, you can best think of the Backrooms as a place making bad copies of itself. As you see in the trailer, the copies get worse and worse of the same room like a fading memory.
Apparently the trailer is all CGI too.
Going off of more modern days fears, you sort of enter the Backrooms like clipping through reality like in a video game.
The below graphic best explains it as another A24 release.
Jeez, we utterly hate the name, but love the camera or as it's awfully called the instax mini Evo Cinema. Fujufilm marketing department you nailed it...into the ground. We hate you on par with StudioCanal's handling of the Fackham Hall movie. Jesus, guys, who thought that was a good name? It flows like a turd clinging to a bowl.
Anyway, name forgotten, this is the coolest camera ever because of the "Gen Dial" or "Jidai Dial" on the Japanese one. It's a literal dial that changes how your photo looks like from every decade starting in the 1930's till now. So you can shoot it like the camera is from the 1950's or the 1990's and all the other decades within that time-frame.
See, in Japan they have a Jidai festival and at it have plays from different eras and a large historical reenactment parade so they named it after that. Here, in English speaking countries they went with Gen, not Decade Dial or something more clever related to a time travel movie.
Same thing with the camera, like a Jules Verne camera or clock camera. Instax mini Evo Cinema is not gonna be a common term, ughhh.
It also prints out tiny photos and you can choose if you want to put a QR code on them so people can download the photo or clip. I mean, it's just perfect for parties or any occasion.
Do we wish the name wasn't pure Engrish garbage or the camera came in some other colors than black? Oh, yeah.