Film

Robert Pattinson re-enacts Scanners, Dead Ringers and Videodrome

11 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Obviously, Robert Pattinson is best known for the Twilight movies – although he did a Dennis Wheatley thing on BBC4 a while back before he was famous. But he’s about to appear in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, which looks set to be as joyously weird as the majority of previous David Cronenberg movies.

To celebrate this fact, he’s gone and recreated a few classic Cronenberg movies for a film shoot, namely Videodrome, Dead Ringers (which, of course, I can’t have in my DVD collection) and Scanners. Having a video slot in your stomach is probably going a bit far, though, Robert, although at least you held off at exploding heads.

Robert Pattinson in Videodrome

Robert Pattinson in Dead Ringers

Robert Pattinson in Scanners

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Film

2D, 3D, IMAX or IMAX 3D? A quick comparison test using Avengers Assemble and a re-review of the Odeon Gallery

11 May 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Avengers Assemble

So, as has been pointed out elsewhere, Avengers Assemble is quite good. So quite good is it, in fact, that my wife and various members of her/our family have gone to see it maybe one or two more times since. However, just for laughs, we’ve gone to see it in a different format each time.

So the first time we went we saw it in 2D. Then we saw it in 3D. Then we saw it in IMAX 3D. Handily, this gives us a quick, empirical chance to rate these formats in terms of quality since we can control for other variables such as post-production process, etc, thus settling an age-old* debate.

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (week 19, 2012)

11 May 2012 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Hebbie's Sitting Tennant

Shilohforever's Sitting Tennant

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Toby's Sitting Tennant

I think David’s so bored, he’s going to watch television this weekend. Are you or are you going to switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

  1. Shilohforever, Sister Chastity: 20
  2. Hebbie, Toby: 10

Sitting Board of Winners 2012
January
Heb]bie, Sister Chastity

February
Sister Chastity

March
Sister Chastity

April
Sister Chastity, Shillohforever

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable and doesn’t obviously infringe copyright, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Tuesday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

Each month, I’ll name the best picture provider and then at the end of the year, the overall champion will be announced for 2012!