I watched this over the weekend and discovered that is was also online yesterday. It’s a half-hour special about Ken Burns’ upcoming 6-part documentary series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, which is about 6-7 years in the making. He and his filmmakers visited 53 of the 58 national parks in the United States during various seasons to film them in all their glory and will also tell the story of those people (some known and others unknown) behind their creation. The entire documentary series will air from Sunday, September 27th - Friday, October 2nd. Check you local listings for specific air times.
For more info, visit:
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/
TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2 will be receiving a limited theatrical re-release on Friday, Oct. 2nd. Only this time, it will be a double feature and be presented in Digital 3D! A full-length trailer for next summer’s TOY STORY 3 is also expected to be shown. Whoopee!
THE PACIFIC is a World War II television drama miniseries, produced by HBO, which is currently in production. It is similar, although unrelated, to BAND OF BROTHERS. Whereas BAND OF BROTHERS focused on United States Army’s involvement in the European Theater of Operations, the new series will be about the United States Marine Corps’s actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations. It is currently set to premiere on HBO in March 2010.
Click the photo to watch a new teaser trailer.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacific_%28miniseries%29
This looks like a lot of fun!
This is the story of 1970’s action legend Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
http://www.blackdynamitemovie.com/
“Mrs. Cold” is one of the new singles from the upcoming album Declaration of Dependence from the Norwegian indie folk duo Kings of Convenience. If you like what you hear, I highly recommend their previous albums Quiet is the New Loud and Riot on an Empty Street.
More of their tunes can be heard here:
http://www.myspace.com/kingsofconvenience
I found out about this indie pop album via David Dye’s “World Cafe” email newsletter earlier this week. I downloaded the soundtrack to the planned film on iTunes last night and it’s the goods!
The nerdy guy in the video is 29-year-old Mayer Hawthorne, who was raised in Ann Arbor, MI (near Detroit). Influenced by the Motown sound from a young age, he is slowly carving out a career with music that hearkens back to that era. With no formal vo…cal training and having played all the instruments on two songs he’d recorded, he was signed to the Stones Throw label by its founder, who admitted he’d never signed anyone based on the merit of just two songs. If you’re a fan of the music of Motown, old-school soul/R&B or retro music contemporaries Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings & Raphael Saddiq, you should definitely check out Mayer’s debut album, which will be released in stores and online on September 8th.
To hear samples from the upcoming album, see here:
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mayerhawthorne/a-strange-arrangement
Also, he’ll be touring around the U.S. beginning on September 5th, so check out his MySpace page for the calendar:
http://www.myspace.com/mayerhawthorne
This is a trailer for the new Coen Bros. dramedy. It takes place in the 1960s and features a mostly unknown cast of actors and looks a bit nutty.
Here’s a trailer for FANTASTIC MR. FOX, a stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl book by Wes Anderson. It features voice work by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, as well as Anderson film alums Angelica Huston, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson and Brian Cox and looks to be a whole lot of fun.
A good friend of mine shared this commercial with me. He said it used to air on local TV in Mississippi when he was growing up.
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Hello and welcome to my linkin' blog. I tried the actual blog thing w/o much success, as I could never seem to commit enough time to getting one up and running and those suckers take a lot of time to update too!Since I was already in the habit of emailing a lot of you with nuggets of the web, this format allows me to do just that. Read it or not, there's always gonna be something here that piques my interest that I felt was worth sharing with y'all.
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