Christina Aguilera Calls Bloggers 'Buttf*#k People'

I don't care why she said it, I just love that she did.  Makes me want to re-watch Guffman.


Christina Aguilera Calls Bloggers 'Buttf*#k People'



Dear fellow bloggers: You should know that Christina Aguilera hates us. Like, for real. The singer took the opportunity at yesterday's keynote question and answer session at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Conference to talk about the fact that most online writers are horrible people.

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G4 cancels the two series that more or less defined G4, Attack Of The Show and X-Play

TV: Newswire: G4 cancels the two series that more or less defined G4, Attack Of The Show and X-Play



Hoping to free up more airtime for Cops reruns, apparently, G4 has announced via press release that it will end the long-running X-Play and Attack Of The Show this year. The move comes as something of a surprise considering that Attack Of The Show in particular is seen as G4's signature series, its balancing of geeking out over technology and games with celebrity interviews, random drooling over females, and former host Olivia Munn pandering to the show's primarily male audience all but summing up the network to viewers who were only familiar with it in passing.
X-Play cornered that market even earlier, debuting in 2003 on G4's erstwhile incarnation TechTV, and setting the standard for its transformation into a zippier boys-with-toys channel with its honest reviews of video games. The farewell to both shows will be commemorated with special looks back at their most memorable moments scattered ...

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How 'The Californians' Gets the 411 on the 101

SNL's Fred Armisen: How 'The Californians' Gets the 411 on the 101



The breakout skit sends up SoCal's obsession with freeways and car culture.

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Director Of "Brave" Tells Her Own "Binders Full Of Women" Story

Director Of "Brave" Tells Her Own "Binders Full Of Women" Story



Before Brenda Chapman went on to direct "The Prince of Egypt" and "Brave," she was a CalArts grad looking for a job. At that time, she came face-to-face with the executive at Disney Animation in 1987, who hired her with those magic words every woman wants to hear from a potential employer.

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Olde-Timey Talk

Olde-Timey Talk

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have restored an 1878 recording of a political reporter reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Old Mother Hubbard.” It is the oldest recording of an American voice. The discovery has one Explainer reader wondering: How do we know how people pronounced words before the recording age?

Port of Los Angeles Scores Global Environmental Award

Port of Los Angeles Scores Global Environmental Award



The Port of Los Angeles has scored another green thumbs-up, having received an award by Containerisation International lauding the port for its environmental practices and innovation in the container industry.

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Doc of the Dead Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

<em>Doc of the Dead</em> Digs Into Zombie Culture (and Wants to Borrow Your Shovel)

The upcoming documentary from The People vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe will feature interviews with zombie experts as well as crowdsourced fan videos

Universal Studios monster movies, 1923-1955

Film: Primer: A guide to the Universal Studios monster movies, 1923-1955




Universal Monsters 101In the 1920s, Universal Studios enjoyed some of its greatest successes with movies featuring monsters, murder, and the macabre; but it was nothing like what happened in the ’30s, when Universal produced a string of horror pictures that were international hits and helped codify how some perennially popular monsters should look, sound, and behave. Take Tod Browning’s 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula: There had been film and stage adaptations of Dracula before (including F.W. Murnau’s unauthorized 1922 classic Nosferatu). But just as Stoker’s book synthesized several existing stories and pieces of historical folklore, the Carl Laemmle Jr.-produced movie Dracula took from the best of the 1927 Broadway play and the earlier films, with cameraman Karl Freund (who according to some reports directed much of the movie when Browning grew bored) using expressionistic effects to highlight the monster’s ...

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The Hobbit is the shortest Lord Of The Rings film yet, which means it's still very long

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the shortest Lord Of The Rings film yet, which means it's still very long



As part of his own continuing epic war on the dark forces of the human bladder, Peter Jackson has confirmed that his first Hobbit film will weigh in at a hefty two-hour-and-40-minute running time—or to put it in Peter Jackson terms, "Officially our shortest Middle-Earth yet." The director surprised those who are unfamiliar with Jackson's films by telling Empire that—while he had yet to add the credits, finalize all effects shots, or add at least three more scenes where the breathtaking beauty of New Zealand's rolling hills is just allowed to unfurl unimpeded for a little while as dwarves trudge across them—"It's looking like it’s going to be about ten minutes shorter than Fellowship was." Of course, Fellowship was the first of three equally lengthy films adapting a dense, 1,000-plus page novel, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first of ...

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Little Shop Of Horrors: The Director’s Cut

DVD: HomeVideo Review: Little Shop Of Horrors: The Director’s Cut



The original ending of Frank Oz’s 1986 adaptation of the off-Broadway smash Little Shop Of Horrors—in which an army of giant blood-drinking plants from outer space destroy humanity in a film-ending orgy of mindless destruction—is so well known to even casual fans of the cult musical that it hasn’t qualified as a spoiler for ages, though for decades it was unclear whether the director’s cut would ever be available in legal form. In 1998, a DVD of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s musical adaptation/parody of Roger Corman’s famously cheap and quickly filmed 1960 dark comedy was released using incomplete footage of the film’s 20-minute alternate ending, only to be recalled within days and replaced by a DVD featuring none of the intended finale. Now the original vision of Frank Oz, screenwriter/lyricist Ashman (who died in 1991), and songwriter Menken has ...

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The 10 Best Horror Comedies of All Time

Die Laughing: The 10 Best Horror Comedies of All Time

Every now and then a movie brings just the right mix of screams and laughter. The gore experts at Fangoria reveal their all-time favorites in this often-overlooked cinematic subgenre.