I gotta hand it to The Onion for creating this video. It’s not like the works of Lars Von Trier are that well known by your average mainstream audience member. But I am glad they made this excellent video poking fun at the “artistic” styles of Von Trier mixed with tourism commercials.

Lars Von Trier is known around the film world for such works as Antichrist, Dancer in the Dark, and Europa, to name a few.

Check out the humorous video in the full post.

I won’t be putting Tekken on my high priority list of movies to see, but being that it’s a movie based off a video game, I feel as if I have an obligation to see it. My guess is that the movie is gonna be crap, but I do appreciate that the movie actually takes premise from the video game instead of just borrowing the game title and some principle characters while totally making up its own bullshit story, like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Mario Bros. Plus, it’s a movie about a fighting tournament with contenders who possess supernatural fighting skills (at times), so that should make for some interesting action scenes if executed properly.

While on the subject of the action scenes, why don’t you take a look at a set of behind the scenes clips of the stunt men in Tekken. I always like seeing how much effort goes into cool fight scenes. Sometimes months of training converts into a quarter minute of screen time, but damn, it’s worth it!

I have included clips, movie trailer, and a few movie stills in the full post. Check it!

It’s not often that you hear anything but plugs from Hollywood directors for their upcoming movies. And when you do hear something other than a plug, it’s usually just some sort of circle jerk talk that includes name dropping and discussion on previous movie works of their own.

So it brings me great joy to hear such an amazing speech from a director that not only doesn’t aim to plug his movie, but really gets the mental gears moving and has me thinking about what he said for hours on end.

The speech I am talking about is this TEDx (an annual multidisciplinary conference) video featuring District 9 director, Neill Blomkamp in which he discusses his theories on alien life forms across the various surrounding galaxies, evolution of planets and life forms, and the growth of technology. That might sound like a lot of different topics to talk about, but they all correlate with one another. Just watch and you will see. It’s pretty mind blowing to think about what Neill has to say. Check it out in the full post.

We all know that movie pirating will never stop no matter how many walls the movie industry puts up to stop it.  Just like humans, the pirating culture will evolve to overcome all obstacles that stand in its way. James Cameron’s Avatar is no exception. With the moving being completely 3D, it’s near impossible for bootleggers to try pirating the movie.

The question is, who can overcome the obstacle of bootlegging a 3D movie and deliver the ultimate camcorder viewing experience to the masses? The answer is this man:

I am gonna take a minute here to discuss something that is not movie related. It’s TV related. Yes, we do that here sometimes. We’re professional like that.

So Christmas came and went. Santa gave me a few good presents, but today I learned that the best present has yet to come. This present is a new season of the popular Adult Swim show, The Boondocks. A western anime stylized show based on the popular Aaron McGruder comic strip that satires issues in America and racial and pop culture stereotypes.

The Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder “tweeted” the following on December 24th:

Finally got an airdate for Season 3. Not sure if I’m allowed to put it out yet, so I’ll just say you got about three months! Merry Xmas!!
~twitter.com/AaronMcGruder

The Boondocks has aired two seasons so far on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming slot. It was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 37th NAACP Image Awards. The show has a large following and, to this day, is still brought up between me and some of my friends as we joke about different episodes and how we can relate them to real life events and people we see.

As far as TV shows go, it’s one of my favorites. If you have not seen The Boondocks yet, you need to get your ass to Best Buy or FYE and pick up a season.

I posted a couple clips from the show in the full post. Did I mention the show has one of the coolest opening songs?

Also, if you want to see some sneak peak screens of the upcoming Season 3, head on over to Aaron’s twitter and check his tweet history for image links.

District 9 is out today, and yet I have not gone out to buy it. Shame on me! And shame on you if you have not gotten the movie yet either. That is, unless you are expecting to get it for Christmas, then your lack of District 9 on DVD is forgiven.

Another clip was released today showcasing the process of adding all the cool alien makeup effects to the main character, Wikus.

Wanna know where you can go to see that clip? IN DA FULL POST, YA’LL!

District 9 comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray today! A movie that is on my personal Top 10 movies of 2009 list, so you know I recommend you check it out if you have not already.

/Film got a hold of a behind the scenes clip showcasing the creative process behind creating the unique alien weaponry in District 9. It’s a rather interesting clip, so check it out.