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MP3: Brother Ali – “Us (Video Edit)”

From Us, due out September 22 via Rhymesayers.

The Uptown Theatre will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters this Saturday night, with both the Ghostbusters of Minneapolis and Ghostbustin’ 911 joining in the festivities. There will even be not one, but two Ecto-1s in attendance!

Ghostbusters
Saturday, Aug. 1
Uptown Theatre
11:45 PM l $9

Ghostbusters – 1954 Trailer

Hmm . . . that dub . . . I don’t know . . .

Ponyo opens August 14.

Off of Swoon, out now.

Jimmy “Dutch” Gaines is leaving his current home at Secrets of the City and putting Dude Weather on hiatus. We at Switchblade Comb wish Dutch a happy vacation and hope he can find a new home for Dude Weather sooner rather than later.

Few films are closer to my heart than Alien. I recall, as a wee child, my parents bringing me over to watch a clip of the film, the chestburster scene, just to see how hilarious a child would react to that. While scarring me for life, it’s why I love my parents . . . they didn’t give into the bullshit that children can’t handle much, because children can handle anything.

And now Ridley Scott, director of Alien, is making a prequel. In an old interview, he said he wanted to return, “to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created.” What does this mean for supposed quality? Nothing.

But it’ll make me go and watch Alien and Aliens on VHS again, and that’s enough.

Alien – Trailer

Angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, look to get rid of their opponent and his family.

Director: Wes Anderson

Starring: George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston

Release Date: November 13

Trailer

On Thursday, August 13th, the Riverview Theater will present the annual Can’t Stop The Serenity event, with all proceeds going to Equality Now, Joss Whedon’s favorite charity. In addition to Serenity, Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog will also be screened beforehand. All seats are $10, and tickets can be purchased HERE.

7:30 PM – Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
9:00 PM – Announcements, prize drawings & auctions
9:30 PM – Serenity

Additional screenings of Serenity will take place on the following Friday and Saturday nights at 11:30pm, with admission being $5.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – Act I, Part I

What an awesome trailer.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife makes new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

Directors: The Coen Brothers

Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari lennick, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Jessica McManus

Release Date: October 2 in Minneapolis at the Uptown Theatre

Trailer

Brought to you by the directors of Feast, The Collector is being championed as a great new horror film. Unfortunately, it’s being dumped with a mere limited release tomorrow in Minneapolis. These are the theaters I’ve hunted it down in;

Kerasotes Block E 15
Theatres Mall of America
AMC Eden Prairie Mall 18
Regal Brooklyn Center Stadium 20
Carmike 15 – Apple Valley
Carmike Wynnsong 15 – Mounds View

The Collector – Trailer

Repost!

I’m drunk and it’s 4 am so let’s watch one of the quintessential drinking songs of recent memory together. Here is Booker T & The Mg’s doing “Hip Hug-Her” which was used in the opening credits of the greatest drinking movie ever made, Barfly, live in New York from 1991.