Gerardo Moreno’s New Expendables Art
SZoner, Gerardo Moreno is back with his new Barney Ross Expendables piece. I’ve always enjoyed Gerardo’s Stallone art, and know that I can see more of his art here.
Category: Celebs
Kyle Holtz Gets Carter, Too!
When I learned that Kyle Holtz was taking on some mail order commissions, I just knew I had to try to get on his list. I was able to and Kyle agreed to give me his take on Sly as Jack Carter.
The first piece that Kyle created can be seen here. I think Kyle did an amazing job on it. Unfortunately, it was lost in the mail. I have hope that it will eventually turn up. Thankfully, Kyle sent a scan before mailing the art. When Kyle learned that the piece never arrived, he agreed to redo it.
Knowing how much artists hate to redraw something, and because I thought Kyle totally nailed it, I asked if I could upgrade to a larger piece. Kyle agreed. So Kyle created the Jack Carter drawing posted today. I absolutely love it.
If you’d like to see more of Kyle’s art, click on over to his Facebook page. I give Kyle the highest recommendation to folks that collect commissions.
Christopher Moloney’s FILMography is Awesome
Christopher Moloney is the talent behind FILMography — “…an ongoing art project… that matches scenes from movies with their real-life, present-day locations” in photographs taken by Moloney.
Here are three examples…
First up we have John Travolta (above) in Staying Alive.
Next we have Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis from Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Finally, we have Sylvester Stallone and Jack Lemon from The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Thanks to Mark Evanier for his post pointing me in the right direction.
“Black Cross” Should be a TV Series
That’s Chris Warner’s character Black Cross who appeared in Dark Horse Presents #1 (the very first comic published by Dark Horse).
Black Cross took place in a violent future where the United States had become a battle ground and areas outside of safe zones were similar to the wild west.
Black Cross was popular enough to spin-off into a mini-series, a couple of stand alone short comic stories and a one-shot. At one point, Black Cross was close to becoming a big screen feature with Howie Long in the title role. At about the same time another Black Cross mini-series was in the works called “My War.” Neither it or the movie ever happened.
Dark Horse should create a nice hardcover compilation of all the Black Cross material that they’ve published over the years. In the mean time, someone should option the character for a tv series. That might inspire Chris Warner to come back and create more Black Cross comics.
Mike Torrance’s Balboa Card
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his last (for a while) Rocky card.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Mike Torrance’s Next Rocky Card
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his next Rocky card.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Smokey, Daryl and “Sara Smile”
How do you take Sara Smile, which is one of my favorite Hall & Oates songs, and update it so that it still sounds great?
Simple.
Get Smokey Robinson to join Daryl Hall on the vocals.
I give you Sara Smile by Smokey Robinson and Daryl Hall.
A big smile to Bits and Pieces for the post.
“Fast & Furious 6” Featurette
I’m a fan of the original Fast & Furious. I thought Fast 5 was even better.
So I was pretty excited to hear that they were bringing back the whole team for Fast & Furious 6. Yep, they even brought back The Rock and Michelle Rodriguez. I guess the only thing that I’d have liked better is if Fast & Furious 6 had a Stallone cameo and room for Rosario Dawson.
Below is the just released featurette for Fast & Furious 6. Be advised that there are minor spoilers.
Z-View: “Sharkey’s Machine”
The Movie: Sharkey’s Machine
The Pitch: “Dirty Harry goes to Atlanta.”
The Tagline: “Burt is Sharky. Nobody leans on Sharky’s Machine!”
The Story: Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop demoted to vice after a botched drug bust results in a citizen being shot. Sharkey discovers a plot involving murders and a high level politician being manipulated by a crime boss. Sharkey pulls together a team of quirky cops, but as the bodies pile up find they are in over their heads.
The Screenplay: Gerald DiPego from the novel by William Diehl
The Director: Burt Reynolds
The Cast: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Bernie Casey, Henry Silva, Richard Libertini, Rachael Ward,Suzee Pai, Dan Inosanto .
The Good: The cast. The action. The soundtrack is awesome. Rachael Ward in her breakout role. Reynolds has the right balance of action/violence/humor. The shootout at the start and end of the movie.
The Bad: Henry Silva is a coked-up psycho hitman and that’s good. What happens to Reynolds when he crosses some Yakuza.
The Ugly: The torture scene on the boat.
The Rating: B
Mike Torrance C’s Rocky
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his next Rocky card.
You can “C” more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Sly Stallone Tweets: New Director for Expendables 3
Last night Sly sent out a series of tweets (seen above) that puts to rest the speculation on Mel Gibson (or John Woo) as the director of Expendables 3.
According to Sly, he found an EXCITING director… a young lion who Sly believes can help make Expendables 3 top Rambo as a pure action film.
Awesome. Can’t wait to hear who it is.
All Roads Lead to the Rock in Fast & Furious 6
This is the first poster for Fast & Furious 6 that I’ve liked. It looks even better bigger thanks to IMPAwards.
Mike Torrance and Rocky, Too
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd returns with his Rocky 2 card.
You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Can Tonto Save the New Lone Ranger?
Although I like this character poster of Johnny Depp as Tonto, I wonder how the movie, The Lone Ranger is going to do at the box office. My guess is it will either do really well or bomb.
In other words, I have no clue.
Fans of the traditional Lone Ranger (you know, folks old enough to remember the Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels Lone Ranger from the 50s tv series) will probably stay away. Of course if you’re old enough to remember the tv series, you’re probably not the demographic the movie is aiming for.
The question then becomes will Depp’s Pirate of the Caribbean fans show up?
But wait… is Johnny Depp the only selling point to this movie? What about Armie Hammer who is starring as The Lone Ranger?
Let me put it to you like this, I don’t think it’s Hammer Time.
If Depp’s fans don’t show up, the box office for The Lone Ranger will limp off in a cloud of dust with a weak, “Hi – No Silver, the Box Office It Got AWAY!”
Roger Ebert Had Jokes, er… Cartoons
Roger Ebert, was one of the most popular movie reviewers of our time, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize, and a fan of cartoons.
Mr. Ebert was a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption contest and had even won the contest on at least one occasion. Robert Mankoff takes a look at some of Roger Ebert’s Final Cartoon Captions at The New Yorker.
The cartoon that is posted above features one of Ebert’s captions, but it wasn’t the one that got him the win (“I’m not going to say the word I’m thinking of.”) or even the one that I thought was the funniest (“Now watch how I lift my tray table to it’s original and upright position.”). We’ll save those for folks that click over to the original New Yorker piece.
