So I know we had a little bit of a discussion about this song on yesterday’s Jason Yang post, but Flynn pointed me in the direction of this video by Malukah. It’s The Rains of Castamere, but one made before Game of Thrones did their own version of it. Meaning she invented the music from the words of the books alone, which is pretty impressive.

I actually like hers better than the official version I linked to yesterday. I’m hoping they’ll use a version closer to this one when the Castemere-titled episode finally airs this season in a few weeks. And I won’t say any more than that…

I don’t believe I ever thought the strangling death of Jabba the Hutt would ever be classified as “adorable,” yet here we are.

The art is from Oliver Akuinand he’s made the scene practically something out of an animated kids’ book. It would be a little morbid if that were actually the face, especially since Jabba the Hutt looks more like a cute frog than a wretched, bloated slug here.

Check out more of Akuin’s work here.

It’s not very often I take to this column to debate one very specific plot point in a movie, but with everyone and their mother seeing Iron Man 3 over the past week or so, I figure it’s a topic that more than a few people might be curious to talk about.

I had an overall positive experience with Iron Man 3, and I can see how it can be called the best movie of the three (though I won’t say I enjoyed it more than The Avengers). But one aspect of the movie has troubled me during and since, and I figured I’d discuss it here. It’s how The Mandarin was handled.

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Yesterday we showed you Hyung’s take on college student Disney Princesses, but it soon came to light that he did another half of the series for the Princes as well. That doesn’t usually happen, so I’m going to take full advantage of his gender equality and post the others here.

Sure, most Disney princes outside Tarzan or Aladdin aren’t super memorable, but this gallery should jog your memory of all the male love interests across all those Disney over the years. I like skateboarding Tarzan above, but really all of them are pretty game. Between all the boarding and surfing, I think we’re assuming California schools here.

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There are a trillion violinists on YouTube trying to rack up views and likes on the site, but few stick out in my mind like Jason Yang. The guy’s got talent, and it’s no surprise to me he keeps popping up in “you gotta listen to this” music videos.

Above he’s crafted a combination piece that uses music from The Dark Knight, Game of Thrones and The Hobbit. It’s a freaking fantastic piece of music, employing the best moments from all three tracks.

After this, the most requested song for him to do is Game of Thrones’ Rains of Castamere. You may not know what that is yet, but you should by the end of the season. Is there even actual….music to that yet? Isn’t just a song written out with words in the book? Errr nevermind, they did it for the ending of ‘Blackwater’ in season two. That’s pretty awesome, and yes, Yang should do that immediately.

I’m really not sure how many makeovers and re-renderings Disney Princesses can have at this point, but it seems like every week there’s a new one I’m simply compelled to post.

This week, the girls are taking a page from the monsters of Monsters University and heading back to college. I don’t think any of these girls lived in an era were women actually went to college, but what if they did? Artist Hyung86 decided to find out.

The result is a rather fantastic collection of art that you should check out below. I’ve known more than a few of these archetypes during my time at school, and I’m sure you have too.

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There’s nothing wrong with being a superfan. I get that collecting shit and having pointless debates can be a lot of fun, and I do it myself (for a living, practically). I even understand the urge to get a tattoo of a pop culture franchise you hold dear, and have nothing against the practice.

But for the love of God, please make sure it’s a good one.

Thousands of people have gotten star Wars tattoos over the last thirty years or more, and there are some really badass ones out there. That will likely be a separate post however, as I wanted to start with ones that make my skin crawl just looking at them. Some are truly terrible, others merely perplexing and most are just a bit…off. See for yourself below. Continue Reading »

Here’s the thing about Hugo Weaving. He’s number one on the list. Yeah, that list. You know the one. Anyone who knows me will attest to the fickleness of my celebrity crushes, so depending on what time period of my life we’re dealing with, there are certain groups who will swear by my unimpeachable love of some actor or other, and none of them will be incorrect. But for all the number ones, only Hugo Weaving has come back around, time and time again, into the topmost of my good graces.

I’ve often been described as a girl who has “weird taste” when it comes to the physical attractiveness of men—”weird” mostly being used to qualify my complete lack of any rules of facial or body structure. There aren’t many who can predict a Sara Clemens crush. Here’s the rub, as Hamlet would say: it’s not about some quantifiable hair/eye/rugged-good-looking-ness that groups my man-crushes together—it’s mostly about talent.

A talented man is the man for me. That’s why Peter Dinklage exists on the same plane as Alan Rickman, why Damian Lewis (Homeland) is just as doable as Robert Webb (Peep Show). Continue Reading »

I’ve been strategizing in my mind about if my fiancee and I could possibly do a Wreck-it Ralph and Vanellope costume for Halloween these year, but I dismissed it as I’d need to gain about 200 pounds to do so.

But there’s another couple from that film that makes for a hell of a couples costume. That would be Calhoun and Felix, Sam and Peter Pan above. On first glance I thought that she was yet another female Commander Shepard, but then I figured out what was going on.

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“Nothing’s been the same since New York.”

It’s true not only for the fictional America we find in Marvel’s movies, that tends to happens when aliens attack a major city, but it’s true for the movies themselves. How do you go about making new films in the universe after the spectacle that was The Avengers?

Iron Man 3 is the first experiment in doing so, and by all accounts, it’s a success.

If we’re being honest here, the Iron Main strain of films is really the only reason The Avengers exists in the first place. Favreau’s first film was a wonderful surprise, and blew everyone’s expectations away despite being about hero relatively few used to care about. If it hadn’t been such a smash hit, it’s unlikely The Avengers would have ever assembled as quickly as they did. Continue Reading »

Sequels are a fact of life these days. If a movie does well, there’ll be another one to follow it up. Or fill us in on what came before it. Or maybe they’ll just reboot it and pretend it’s a sequel. There’s a lot of options, and some days it seems a full half (or more) of the movies these days have titles ending in a number.

And yet, I notice that they can’t even make sequels to the right things! Sure, there’s successes like Iron Man 3 and interesting projects like Oz: The Great and Powerful, but they’re also making sequels to things like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Me, I’d much rather have another go at flicks like…

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