Snark, Critic and Pop!

Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining the cast of the forthcoming “The Tomb” with Sylvester Stallone.  The film which is slated to be released in 2013 and is directed by Mikael Håfström (A Cowardly Swede) is a prison break flick in which Arnold plays an inmate joining Stallone in an attempt to break out of a prison Stallone designed himself!  The tension is brought about by the fact that any prison designed by Stallone should be easy to break out of because he is so dumb, but he is leading the group trying to break out and he might just be too dumb to do it!

Actor/Comedian Billy Connolly has joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s forthcoming The Hobbit as the dwarven warrior Dain Ironfoot.  Dain becomes King Under the Mountain upon the death of Thorin Oakenshield.  The 69 year old comedian was in the news last week after walking off stage and ending one of his shows early in response to hecklers in the audience.  Aside from his comedy, he has had a successful acting career… he was a late series call up in “Head of the Class” which got him his own spin-off “Billy”.  He also had roles in “Muppet Treasure Island” and “The Last Samuri”.

John Goodman (the wealthy 48 year old polo club founder, not the legendary actor) has legally adoptedhis long time girlfirend Heather Laruso Hutchins, 42.  She is a lucky woman, as Goodman is a class act.  On February 12th, 2010 he ran a stop sign in his Bently and smashed into a car killing Scott Patrick Wilson.  He failed to call the police or an ambulance while leaving the scene on foot.  When the police found and tested him his blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit.  Wilson’s family has filed a civil suit against Goodman which goes to trial next month, however a judge has ruled that money in trust for his children is protected from any potential settlement.  I’m not saying this is a move to use this ruling to protect his assets, but this is a move to use the ruling to protect his assets.  What gets me is this: I would be willing to make the assumption tht after dating for such a long period of time, the couple are having intimate relations.  He has now adopted her, so any action he gets is now incest which I have to believe is illegal.  None of the articles I have read regarding this have even hit at this angle, so perhaps there is something I am missing, but this is all kinds of wrong.

The Asylum’s upcoming releases, or as we at Snark Critic Pop like to call it movie night: (continue reading…)

The Back Alley Film Series in Charlotte continues this week with the Brazillian film ”Elite Squad – The Enemy Within“, directed by José Padilha.  The film will be showing on Thursday, February 9th at 7:30pm at Crownpoint Stadium 12.  Tickets are $5 for CFS members and $8 for the general public.  BAFS describes the film as:

After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

I never liked eating veggies, only meat.  But now that I have seen this I want to eat them.  Does this make me a bad person?

Actor Nicol Williamson has died at the age of 75 from esophageal cancer (he actually died back in December, but his family has just released the statement).  A two time Tony award winner, he was also known for having played many famous characters on the big screen such as the wizard Merlin in Excalibur and Hamlet opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Marianne Faithful.  But his greatest roll was undoubtedly that of Badger in Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.  In one of the greatest things I have ever seen on IMDB, his first film roll is listed as “Man lighting Major Lockwood’s distorted cigarette (uncredited)” in The Iron Petticoat.

Researchers at the University of Wyoming needed spider silk for their research.  When they tried to set up spider farms, the spiders, who are very territorial set about killing each other.  Being scientists they decided to try again, this time keeping the spiders separate from each other, wait what?  They didn’t?  Instead they decided to put spider genes into goats who now produce spider web milk?  Scientists claim that other than the extra protein in their milk the goats are completely normal.  The Asylum is currently working a film about the experiments called “Spidergoat Nightmare”.

As Norm MacDonald once said… wait, what?

For shame Daniel, for shame.

There is a lawyer somewhere who has a client, and the two of them think that it is a good idea to sue the family of a dead teen whose body was ripped into pieces when he was hit by a train.  Why you might ask?  Do these people not have any compassion for the grieving family?  No.  You see, one of his body parts flew on to the platform and hit her, breaking her leg and wrist and injuring her shoulder.  So of course she is entitled to a large cash settlement, right?  A state appeals court 

found that it was reasonably foreseeable’ that the high-speed train would kill the college hopeful and fling his body toward a platform where people were waiting. 

Seriously.  And if that wasn’t bad enough (continue reading…)

A 62 foot high statue of Jesus signalling a touchdown has burned to the ground after being struck by lightning.  The fire also burned down the amphitheater at the Solid Rock church.  Luckily noone was injured as the strike occurred late at night, however the insurance companies have determined the culprit.  It was God.  Yes, the insurance company has deemed it an act of God which leaves one free to speculate on what Jesus could have possibly done to elicit such a harsh punishment from his father.  Just remember kids, when your dad sends you to you room, well… you got off easy.  The church is planning to rebuild (they may have, this fire occurred in 2011) however this time they plan to use fire resistant material.