1. Link Blowout #76

    3 Lessons Chris Hemsworth Learned From Thor - They forgot #4: Don’t stand too close to the sun. Yuck yuck.

    Time Warner Buys Flixter, and thus Rotten Tomatoes - They intend to expand both into a ‘digital content ownership’ service. In other recent Time Warner news, NetFlix is not a threat to the current distribution model. ORLY?

    David Lynch Signature Cup Coffee - Peep the Lynch directed “commercial” for the Twin Peak creator’s own personal brand of coffee, which he sells on his website. Weirdly.

    Lando Calrissian’s Cape is Totally Lined With Dragons - Appropriately bad ass.

    The Home Alone House is For Sale - $2.4 million in a down economy? Worth every penny to trounce around yelling “This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone!”

    Meanwhile, In Trailerville…

    • Columbiana - Zoe Saldana learns to lead a film and kick-ass doing it. Also, Luc Besson.
    • Retreat - Zoe Saldana doppleganger Thandie Newton gets stuck in a post-apocalyptic virus thriller with a twist. Here’s hoping the real twist is it doesn’t suck.
    • Moby Dick - Which is more along the lines of a Korean action drama than a retelling of the classic Herman Melville book or a bad pr0n movie title pun.

    [Thor vid via @moviebrainrot]

    - James

  2. Link Blowout #73

    Stephen Hawking Warns of Hostile Alien Races - And when Stephen Hawking speaks, the world listens.

    Nightmare On Elm Street Director Refuses 3D Conversion - First the fanboy backlash, then the industry, then the general public? We can only hope.

    David Lynch’s Favorite Films & Directors - I love this man. I don’t understand him, but I love him.

    Trailers: Twilight Eclipse, The Last Airbender, Trek Nation

    Happy Happy Birthday: Jet Li, Jordanna Brewster, Tom Welling

    Lists of the Day

    [Peter Mayhew pic via gunaxin’s Tribute to Chewbacca]