Cinema Diabolico

How do you make B-Movies more awesome? Mexican movie posters!

One of my favs – La Amenzana de Otro Mundo

Hollywood adaptations I didn’t expect to see

Part one: Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz is adapting the BBC comedy The Thick of It for a US audience, with Armando Ianucci as executive producer.

Part two: Acclaimed indie director Wes Anderson, best known for quirky films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, has chosen his next project – an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.

They’re not all Brokeback Mountain parodies, either

The Trailer Mash collects together all your favourite trailer mashups on one site. A common theme is converting musicals into horro movies (check out Liesl’s scary zombie eyes from The Sound of Music), but my favourite is this A-Team/Lost mashup.

Raging Boll

Back in June Uwe Boll, the German director of some of the worst films known to man, invited film critics to come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.

The first fight was on September 6th, when Boll won his fight with Carlos Palencia Jimenez-Arguello of Spanish website CineCutre. He’s now moved on to Vancouver, where he punched out critics including Jeff Sneider of Ain’t It Cool News and Something Awful’s Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka. Boll is apparently a decent boxer, and the fights will appear in his latest film, Postal. Which, let’s face it, can’t be any worse than Alone in the Dark.

Peter Jackson’s next movie

An exciting tip courtesy of our Copenhagen correspondent:

Peter Jackson options Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series:

“‘Temeraire’ is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love — fantasy and historical epic,” Jackson said. “I can’t wait to see Napoleonic battles fought with a squadron of dragons. That’s what I go to the movies for.”

Lost in Translation

As TNH says, here are thirteen movie posters redone in the style of Russian Medieval manuscripts. Some questions: what’s the deal with the cup and the fish in #4? What movies do #s 5, 9, 10, 11, and 12 represent? And in #9, where is that guy taking his USB key from?

Lego Star Wars II

It’s coming.

Keanu CAN act, he had just chosen not to!

Each ending is more twisty than the last!

Serpentes on a Shippe!

From Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog, and worth reading the whole (spoiler-ridden) thing:

Then ther was a crashinge grete and terribil, and the sound of the sayles droppinge on to the decke. In the winde the ship did founder. Vp staires, Sir Sean did checke wyth the mariners and finde hem all y-slawe by the snakes, and the snakes had occupyed the wheel of the shippe and the mappe of navigacioun. And Sir Sean cam doun and toold Sir Neville and Sir Neville was passinge wroth and seyde, ‘That ys ynogh. I haue hadde it wyth thes cursed by Seynt George snakes on this cursed by Seynt George shippe!’

The Second And Last Snakes On A Plane Post

Kim Newman’s verdict:

Okay, but not as likeable as, say, Piranha, Tremors, Slither, Anaconda, Eight-Legged Freaks or the 1973 TV movie Horror at 37,000 Feet.

So now you know.