Live Free or.....

I've always been a fan of the Die Hard movies. The first one with Alan Rickman was a movie classic.

I remember being really excited when I was in New York back in '94 and saw trailers and props being set up around Central Park for Die Hard with a Vengeance. Didn't see any filming though, but there were lots of cut up taxi cabs (back of cabs with cameras in the front, and front of cabs with cameras in the back). I guess it was for one of the chase sequences.

There's a new trailer out for the fourth Die Hard movie - Live Free or Die Hard. Looks pretty good, although like most blockbuster trailers you end up seeing most of the set pieces in the trailer. John McClane may be a little paunchy now, but he can still mix it with the bad guys, from the look of things.

Check out the trailer here. As the line says - No Mask. No Cape. No Problem.

Hedwig, and stuff

For those who have heard of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but have yet to see any of it, there are some great clips of it up on YouTube.

And if you like it, buy the DVD and the CD!

Here are my faves:

Tear Me Down

Angry Inch

Wig in a Box

Midnight Radio

Origin of Love

Crumbling cavern perils

Stumbled upon this site today. It's a Fundamentalist Christian movie review website. Now if you thought Mark Kermode was opinionated, these guys take the biscuit (or wafer).

They certainly take the Fun out of Fundamentalist (but leave the Mental)

Basically they judge movies against a set of criteria based on the Bible such as Wanton Violence, Drugs/Alcohol, Sex/Homosexuality etc etc. This is much more than the ''Contains mild fantasy peril'' that we seem to get warned about on regular movie posters.

Lord of the Rings got quite a pasting over its use of magic and witchcraft, on the side of Good. Amongst the perils of watching this movie are:

• Unholy control of the elements to fight evil
• crumbling cavern perils
• Long sequence of dire urgency with explosive sound
• Many threats by unholy things
• Smoking, repeatedly
• Drinking, repeatedly

Smoking and Drinking?? - those bastardly hobbits... Maybe Sauron should have smited the bastards.

But if you want a real laugh, see the review of South Park: The Movie. The poor chap nearly explodes with moral outrage....

And Life of Brian isn't even on the site. I don't think they could bring themselves to buy a ticket.