http://www.movieposterbid.com/

http://www.emovieposter.com/

The guys at this forum seem to know what they are talking about too:

http://www.movieposterforum.com/

This site is pretty helpful in explaining the ins and out of the hobby. And by "ins and outs" I mean, "talk you out of spending hundreds of dollars on some shit you don't need":

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/

*Okay, maybe not "fuck Ebay," I have an Australian poster for The Last Dragon (kiss my converse bitches) on the way courtesy of an Ebay auction. That is the epitome of awesome.

More on this to follow at some point. No promises.

Been M.I.A. the past couple of weeks due to work. I will try to step up a little bit.

Poster for What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?

On a side note, this movie was originally rated X. Now it's easily available online for anybody to see. MAN times have changed.

Check it out on our Movie of the Week page.

Cover Art for Dee Snider's "Strangeland"

Ummmm.... what? Jackie Chan is a goofball, Jaden Smith is 11, they are calling it Kung Fu Kid for some stupid reason (at least according to the article linked to above), and the director is responsible for crap like One Night at McCool's. This doesn't add up. At last check, The Karate Kid was a commercial successful ($90,815,558), Oscar nominated (Pat Morita, Best Supporting Actor, 1984) classic that spawned a 4 film franchise. Doesn't it deserve a little more respect than a name change and a shitty director?

I am not thrilled.

1. Bruno $30.4M
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $28.5M
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $24.2M
4. Public Enemies $14.1M
5. The Proposal $10.5M
6. The Hangover $9.9M
7. I Love You, Beth Cooper $5.0M
8. Up $4.6M
9. My Sister's Keeper $4.1M
10. The Taking of Pelham 123 $1.6M

Not really a surprise considering how wildly popular Borat was, however it's reign at the top will be short due to Harry Potter coming out this week. Speaking of which...

Out This Week:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• (500) Days of Summer (limited)
• Homecoming (limited)
• A Woman in Berlin (limited)

Smart move on the part of all studios not called Warner Bros. refraining from releasing anything this week. Personally, despite the fact I know it's going to be terrible and that an endorsement of it pretty much means I can be ridiculed for having terrible taste, I am interested in seeing Homecoming more than anything else this week, although A Woman in Berlin is probably the honest-to-goodness best release of the week. But all that aside, Harry Potter 6 will probably make $150 million over the weekend.

What exactly is the GREATEST MIXTAPE EVER MADE you ask? Why it would be Bad Boy Volume 3, Mixed by Stretch Armstrong and hosted by Puff Daddy releaseed circa 1995

Cover art for the mixtape

Check out the tracklisting:

Side A:

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1. The Lox & The Notorious B.I.G. - You'll See
2. Nas, Kamikaze & Cormega - On The Real
3. Das EFX & Mobb Deep - Microphone Master (Remix)
4. M.O.P. - Raise Hell
5. The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
6. Redman - Funkorama
7. Blahzay Blah - Danger Part II
8. Jay-Z - Dead Presidents
9. AZ - Freestyle
10. Jay-Z - Freestyle
11. Foxy Brown - Freestyle
12. The Fab 5 (OGC & Heltah Skeltah) - Lefleur Leflah Eskoshka
13. Big Noyd & Prodigy - Recognize & Realize
14. LL Cool J - Doin It

Side B:

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1. Puff Daddy - Intro
2. Total - Someone Like You
3. D'Angelo & AZ - Lady (DJ Premier Remix)
4. The Lost Boyz - Renee (Remix)
5. R. Kelly & The Notorious B.I.G. - Be Happy
6. Total, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim & Da Brat - No One Else (Remix)
7. Redman - Freestyle
8. Busta Rhymes - Freestyle
9. Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah
10. Wu Tang Clan - Winter Warz
11. Mobb Deep - Still Shinin
12. Ghostface - Motherless Child
13. Erick Sermon - Maintain
14. OC - Love & Affection

Look at that line up and tell me it gets much more classic than that. It's an amazing mix of NYC superstars at various stages of their career, but all are arguably either in or heading into their prime. It's got underground classics that you just cannot find anywhere ("You'll See," "Raise Hell," the "Microphone Master" remix, "Love and Affection.") It's got Puffy making a prophetic statement about Lauryn Hill ("Honey right there is hot!" - remember "Fu-Gee-La" was the single BEFORE "Killing Me Softly" made The Score sell a billion records or whatever the final total was.)

It's just an amazing mixtape, free from the constraints of the modern mixtape that requires 20 tracks of "freestyles" from terrible one-hit-wonder-at-best emcees dissing some no count. There are exceptions to the rule: 50 Cent's I'm Rising to the Top is the shit, the Little Brother and Clipse mixtapes might as well be albums, and Rhymefest's Man in the Mirror is a masterpiece. But for the most part, the term "modern mixtape" is synonymous with "garbage."

Bad Boy Volume 3 brings back many, many, many fond memories, so enjoy. Shouts to http://djsoulnyc.blogspot.com/. I must have downloaded this from them back in the day, as it's credited in the meta data on the mp3. I wish I could take credit for the rip, but I popped my tape a loooooong time ago.

A couple of months ago, the indie only subscription base download service got into bed with Sony, and consequently the pricing structures changed. This caused a bit of a controversy amongst the eMusic faithful, and in fact almost pushed me into canceling my subscription as well (until I downloaded Howard Tate's Reaction and remembered why I loved eMusic in the first place.)

So I was just about to cancel it again, more because of financial reasons than anything else ($15 bucks a month buys a reasonable amount of diapers after all,) but eMusic caught me something ferocious on the way out of the door, with a 25 song booster pack with no strings attached and a slew of recommendations, a bunch of which came from the new Sony "Classics" (translated: anything over two years old) additions to the catalogue.

So... ummm... yeah... I am sticking with eMusic, fuck it. I just downloaded Nas' Illmatic and Mobb Deep's The Infamous, two albums I have either wore out (tape) or lost/broke/scratched (cd) and bought about six times each. An now I own them DRM free and can download them again freely onto any computer/music player I own. So a drop in the amount of downloads per month be damned.. eMusic is still the shit. 3 albums a month for 15 dollars is still a damn good price, and their writers are very on point with their recommendations. I will not be jumping ship.

Download audio file (Nas-Illmatic--MemoryLane.mp3)

All I can say is... wow...

Poster Art for Brad Anderson's ghost story/psychological thriller/underrated opus

Brad Anderson's genuinely scary film about strange happenings in an abandoned, asbestos-filled psychiatric ward is an obscure, shot on DV horror film starring David Caruso and Josh Lucas (amongst others) and is worth a watch. Jaded horror fans will be pleasantly surprised by the unforced scares and creepiness prevalent throughout, although gorehounds will be disappointed. My favorite aspects of the whole thing are the story itself and how the asylum is used as an actual character as opposed to just spooky backdrop. I highly recommend this.