Feb

25

81st annual Academy Awards winners already announced!

By Brendon Lindsey

Talking with a friend of mine, we learned that the winner(s) for the 2009 Oscar’s have already been determined. It’s fairly obvious looking at the list, and I feel stupid for not having figured it out several months before.  The final winners for all of the categories for the 81st annual Academy Awards are:
Best Picture: […]

Feb

17

Natalie Portman will “never marry,” but Star Wars fanboys are still crying alone

By Brendon Lindsey

According to Uberazzi, actress Natalie Portman, who became every geek’s dream girl after she let the insanely dorky and much younger Anakin Skywalker take her to his room to show her his model robot, is making a statement against the current institute of marriage by… Well, by not getting married.
“I’m into monogamy. But I’m not […]

Feb

17

Hasbro to release Cloverfield monster toy

By Brendon Lindsey

Wish you could have gotten a better glimpse at the monster in the awesome movie Cloverfield? Now you can… Sorta. Hasbro has revealed on their site that they’re going to be selling the official Cloverfield monster toy, priced at the insane price of $99 US.
The figure will stand 14″ tall, and come equipped with 70 […]

Feb

15

Five sci-fi movies to watch out for in 2008 that you might not know of

By Brendon Lindsey

I’ve always been a fan of sci-fi movies, whether they be corny, serious, satirical, or even full-out action adventure epics. With that being said, there are a lot of good sci-fi movies coming out this year. At the same time, there are a lot of good looking ones coming out which haven’t really gotten much […]

Feb

13

The best chick flicks that guys will enjoy, too

By Brendon Lindsey

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If you love watching movies like me, chances are you constantly end up dragging your girlfriend into watching something she really has no desire to. For example, Predator. To make up for that, my girlfriend and I have devised a system where I’ll pick one movie to watch, and the next […]

Feb

6

Oscar piracy stats and graphs

By Brendon Lindsey

Obviously, movies up for an Oscar are more likely to be pirated than say, oh, that Veggie Tales movie about vegetable pirates.
Over on Waxy.org, they’ve come up with two posts: the first a detailed spreadsheet of every Oscar nominated movie since 2003 including the first leak, the number/types of leaks and more; and the second […]

Feb

1

It’s only 2/1, and I’m convinced the world is ending due to what happened in January

By Brendon Lindsey

We’re one month into 2008. That’s 31 (or 32) days. Already, though, we’ve had so much stupidity and bad news around the movie industry that I would not be surprised if tomorrow, I walked outside and found the entire earth covered in flames, while demons drive by in giant, flaming cars shooting explosive fireballs at […]

Jan

30

Welcome back to FilmPLOSION!

By Brendon Lindsey

Welcome to the re-launch of Filmplosion.com! How awesome is this site? It’s the words “film” and “explosion” combined! How crazy is that!?
But seriously, this is the second time this site has gone up after the month or so of downtime. This time, no hosting on a server which also hosts illegal file sharing services. Lesson […]