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Tuesday Tease: WHITEOUT …uh …erm …Well it has Kate Beckinsale

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Movies, Trailers on September 8, 2009

We can’t say the WHITEOUT trailer gave rise to a mad need to see the movie. Kate Beckinsale as the lead stirred some interest(yeah, that’s what we’re calling it) but not $10 worth of interest. Learning that it is based off the Oni Press limited series of the same name and created by writer Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber did raise an eyebrow. So we acquired the series and set out to have it finished by the movie’s air date. The series remains unread.

The film we had in Groonkly cross-hairs was 9. A movie based off the short film first covered here back in February 2009 (watch the short film here:ANIMATED WIN: 9).

But we can’t(see: won’t) see 9 on opening day of 9-9-09, because our married friends decided 9-14-09 should be “guys night out” wherein DISTRICT 9 or 9 would be on the menu. Seeing a film twice in this economy is risky on our bank account. Thus Beskinsale wins this week’s Tease.

Our life is sorted in a boring geek kind of way.

UPDATE: The @ruckawriter himself shares a WHITEOUT movie review of interest. Those of you interested in the book can read the first issue for free on Lieber’s site.

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ANIMATED WIN: 9

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Just Freaking Neat, Movies on February 20, 2009

The silence of the work week is here. We sit here and ponder what is fun in life. What is worthy of sharing over the bliss of weekend? Animation, we think. Animation will soothe your savage week.

9 is a film by Shane Acker. It is dialogue free and was finished way back in 2005. The simplicity of it is what blew us away. Recent viewers of CORALINE my recognize the name and style from the trailer of 9 that you were shown before hand. That version has dialogue and the requisite amount of middle to high range celebrities adding their voices to the characters.

After viewing the initial version of 9, we aren’t sure if adding voice to what was already perfection in animation storytelling was the best idea. We *are* willing to give it the chance it deserves on 09-09-09.

(via medicmike, a film byshane acker)

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