Kevin Muldoon

Over the last few days I have watched all the films in the Alien series: Alien 1-4 and Aliens vs Predator 1 and 2.

In my opinion the firm film Alien remains the best in the series, with Alien Resurrection (Alien 4) a close second. Though, despite the mixed reviews, I quite enjoyed the first Aliens VS Predator. It was certainly better than average at best Aliens, the poor Alien 3 and the absolutely awful Aliens VS Predator Requiem.

The second Aliens VS Predator had a smaller budget though I think the main reason it sucked was the combination of a poor screenplay and being directed by two guys who were essentially special effects artists rather than directors.

The new Predator film is called Predators. Unlike the AVP films, the new Predator has a decent cast including Lawrence Fishburne and Adrien Brody. More importantly, it was written and produced by Desperado and Sin City Director Robert Rodriguez, so it should be a much better film.

The original Predator remains one of my favourite films so I hope they don’t mess this up. Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to be in Aliens VS Predator but couldn’t do it because of his Governing duties but apparently they are writing a cameo in for him in this one too, but nothing has been confirmed.

Here’s an outline of the plot from Wikipedia:

According to an early script review by LatinoReview.com, the plot of the film follows a man named Royce who is abducted by alien creatures known as the Predators. He is released onto the Predators home planet—which acts as a game reserve—along with seven other humans, where they are hunted by creatures known as “Black Super Predators”. While battling to survive against these creatures, they also stumble across an American soldier known as Noland who was brought to the planet years ago as game, but has managed to survive by hiding from the Predators in a cave. Noland reveals that the Predators have been hunting humans by dropping them on this planet for many years.

Apparently they want to go back and recreate the atmosphere from the first film so I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s due to be released near the start of July this year (07/07/2010).

Here’s the trailer from the original 1987 film. It’s got 80s cheesiness ripping out of it!

I came across this video on youtube of a street drummer. I’m surprised this guy isn’t in a band!

Some classic clips between Jack and Victor and Boaby from Still Game, probably the last decent comedy to come out of Scotland.

I watched an abscure film tonight by David Dobkin called Clay Pigeons. This was the Wedding Crashers directors first film.

I was reading about the film was it’s a real low budget affair but it was produced by Ridley Scott and starred Vince Vaughan and Joaquin Phoenix. So I was reading about the Phoenix and came across an incident last February on David Letterman. You can check it out below. Apparently he was fine during the daytime but as you can see from this video, he was really out of it during the interview.

My fellow Modern Warfare 2 junkies will enjoy this

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Episode 2:

Growing up one of my favourite shows was Harry Enfield in lads. Later Paul Whitehouse, one of the stars of the Harry Enfield show, was involved in a classic sketch show called The Fast Show. Some of the sketches missed the mark but there were loads of fantastic clips too.

Here are some of my favourites. I’ve missed out some popular characters as I couldn’t find some good clips of them on youtube. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the ones I have listed though

Didn’t mean to say that!

The Long Big Punch Up

Competitive Dad Playing Cricket

Johnny Depps Appearance

Billy Bleach -1- Fruit machines

Billy Bleach -2- Lottery Numbers

Billy Bleach -3- Loose Change

Billy Bleach 4 Relationship Advice

Indecisive Dave

Animation Today

Colin Hunt

Unlucky Alf

Fat Sweaty Coppers Drug Bust

It’s almost a week since I’ve been playing Modern Warfare 2. Up until I got the game I played it’s predecessor Call of Duty 4 (Modern Warfare 1) every week. I got that game 2 years ago but the follow up, Call of Duty 5: World at War, wasn’t as good. It was ok and I did play it but it was disappointing in many aspects.

Modern Warfare 2 is certainly not a disappointment. They have managed to fix all the little problems that the original had and make arguably the best first person shooter game ever made. I pre ordered the game from play so paid £45 but my friends waited til release day and managed to get it for £26, Though I’m not too bothered about it because of how good the game is.

Have a look at this game winning knife throw. The guy who did it said that he meant it but I’m not so sure. Nevertheless, it’s an unbelievable way to win a match. It’s like getting a hole in one in golf!

7 mins of David Caruso one liners. Amazing!

He’s become a bit of a cliche but you gotta love it. Jim Carrey does a great impression of him, check it out below.

And they say video games are addictive!! Note to self, never cancel someones World of Warcraft account!

Great stuff from Peter Serafinowicz.