Tricks and Treats

In celebration of Halloween, here's a roundup of past photos suitable for the season of the witch. Or, you can smell our feet.

Get LOST

The finale of LOST is just around the corner, so I've photographed some iconic scenes re-enacted by Kubrick figures.

The Candidate - Locke finds C4 on the Ajira plane


Everybody Loves Hugo - Desmond runs down Locke in a flash-sideways


Sundown - Sayid tries to stab Locke


I Do - Kate and Sawyer in the cages


Orientation - Locke enters the numbers into the computer


Man of Science, Man of Faith - Locke enters the hatch

Freddy, Steady, Go!

Now in theaters. This is my tribute in toys to this movie season's A Nightmare on Elm Street, the horror reboot starring the scariest pedophile in a Christmas sweater since your creepy uncle.

I Am Iron Man, Too

In theaters Friday.

Twice the armor, twice the men.
Plus, Scarlett Johansson in a skintight catsuit.

Iron Man 2

This should be a good sequel.
This is the one where he teams up with Iron Chef BBQ.

Where the Wild Things Are

Urban Outfitters had the Where the Wild Things Are Kubrick toys for $4 so I stocked up on some of the figures while shopping for my ironic t-shirts, skinny jeans, butterfly chairs, DJ headphones and shag rugs. Before I even put on my new striped hoodie, I posed my Wild Things and photographed them in this toy tribute that recreates scenes from Spike Jonze's movie.

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze

Farewell, Patrick Swayze. Sorry, Kanye, but your scene-stealing jackassery at the MTV Video Music Awards has been upstaged by some truly sad news, and you really don't have a chance this time to interrupt it. As a tribute to the star of Dirty Dancing, Point Break, Red Dawn, Road House and To Wong Foo, I'm reposting this picture of Jenni and Steve (from one of my Valentine's posts) where they're re-enacting the famous scene from Ghost that redefined pottery as we know it.

Patrick Swayze
Actor, Dirty Dancer
August 18, 1952 - September 14, 2009

He's like the wind. Ditto.

Disney Marvel Team-Up

This morning Disney announced that it's acquiring Marvel Entertainment along with the 5,000-plus characters from its superhero universe. The implications are of hulking proportions. First, it means that Disney's Jonas Brothers will be getting some serious competition for who wears the tightest pants at the Mouse. It also means that there could be some crossovers like Howard the DuckTales, That's So Kraven or sorcerer supreme Dr. Strange visiting Waverly Place. Even Pixar could end up making a Fantastic Four movie called The Incredibles.

Here are some other ideas that could come out of the Disney-Marvel team-up:

Belle meets The Beast. Oh my stars and garters!

Namor the Sub-Mariner was also up for the lead role in The Little Merman.

I'm not sure which is worse -- this joke or my lazy Photoshop job.

"Real considerate, students. I'm in a wheelchair and can't jump.
'We're all in this together,' my ass."

Toad from the X-Men comics would've worked, too,
but his tongue-based "rides" aren't really very Disney.

You Might Have to TiVo 90210 Tonight

Season premiere tonight!

Dude, that smell totally wasn't me. I think the island had some sorta "movement."

R.I.P. Hitchcock Screenwriter Guy

John Michael Hayes
May 11, 1919 - November 19, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock screenwriter
(Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry)

The Best Robot Since "Small Wonder"

Available now on DVD.

The Quantum of Solace

In theaters today.

Here's my teeny toy tribute
to Bond, James, Bond.

Is it just me, or does Quantum of Solace sound more like the name of a Sarah McLachlan album rather than a James Bond movie? The title just sounds like some random words strung together. The Continuum of Pretension. See? I can do it, too!

Here are some other names I think might work better for the new 007 movie:

The Platitude of Ontonomy
The Resplendence of Synergy
The Velocity of Ambivalence
The Elegy of Bombast
The Paradigm of Reverie
The House of Pancakes
The Best of Foreigner
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Bourne Identity 4

Green Day

Out today on DVD.

If you've ever wondered what you'd look like big, green and constipated, you can Hulkify yourself at the official movie site. In the meantime, here's what Steve looks like when you make him angry, like when I tell him Boba Fett is a wuss or say that Hobbits don't really exist.

OMFG, Gossip Girl, WTF?

I absolutely love that The CW's current ad campaign for Gossip Girl is reveling in how morally questionable the series might be. But really, morals are like the American Gladiators -- they're meant to be challenged, slathered in baby oil and pummeled with giant Q-tips.

























Just in case The CW needs some more pull quotes to promote Gossip Girl, I've created some additional ads for them: