Is Cillian Murphy the new "That Guy" of Geekdom?

Tron.
Inception.
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
28 Days Later.

What's the connecting factor there?

Cillian Murphy was in all these movies.

Two of the biggest sci-fi movies of the last 5 years (aside from Avatar, of course, which was huge), the best Superhero movies, and the definitive zombie movie of our generation, Cillian Murphy has really made a case to be the new "it" guy for sci-fi awesomeness.

Plus, as my friend Keith puts it, "And he's dreamy."

Seriously, does he just have the best agent in the biz? He's landed some pretty choice roles in the geek film world.

Or maybe he's just a nerd himself. I read once that Christian Slater was a huge Star Trek fan, that he crossed studio lots to get a small cameo in "Star Trek VI", so I suppose it's possible. It's not like his parts in The Dark Knight and Tron were huge, but he was in them none the less.

Looking at his IMDB profile, he's got a few more sci-fi themed flicks on their way to the silver screen. A world where no one ages, A world decimated by disease, and a playwright whose work comes to life.

Sure, he's not Tron or Batman, but Cillian Murphy really is getting his geek on.

Quick Links - January 10th

• An insanely detailed listing of all the Batmobiles. All of them.

• A group of renegade cops in Milwaukee have decided that they're the Punishers, and are now vigilaties of the scariest variety.

• Robot 6 presents their "Top 50 Covers" of 2010.

• IDW comics is running a company crossover event called "Infestation". This event sounds so ridiculous, you won't even believe me. It is a crossover between "G.I.Joe", "Transformers" (been done before, sure), "Star Trek" (what?) and "Ghostbusters" (what what?). It is also about a trans-dimensional zombie plague. Yup. Zombies.

A New Look

To celebrate the new year, and to kick off the 5th year of this blog, I've decided to redesign the whole look of the blog.

I think it's a sleeker look, a bit sexier, and after 4 years, it was time for a bit of a refresh around these parts, don't you think?

How the site looked in 2007

Thank you to everyone who kicks around reading these posts. May the New Year bring you joy and serenity.

On to 2011!

One Reason of Many

One of the many reason's I love my gal.

She's been under the weather this week. This is a photo of her nightstand:


Stuff to make her feel better.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Death and Cancer?

Looking at the New York Times today, I stumbled across this article on Archie Comics.

I was like, "Sweet, comics news. Archie is always good for a smile."

This is an except:

"In issue No. 6 of “Life With Archie,” which will go on sale Dec. 29, Archie Andrews, the famous redhead from Riverdale, will deal with a death in the extended family. Geraldine Grundy, one of the gang’s high school teachers, will lose her battle with cancer."

Yeah.

They killed Miss Grundy. With Cancer.

Yay fun Archie.

If you want to read about the sad and painful death of a beloved high school teacher, "Life with Archie #6" is on sale now.

Casting rumours: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Access Hollywood has published an article where Glee's Heather Morris says she's being considered for the role of Buffy Summers.


Here's an excerpt:

“They’re considering me! I found out and I almost peed my pants ‘cause I was so excited!”

“If they make [‘Buffy’] when [‘Glee’] is on hiatus, I don’t even care what I do,” Heather laughed. “I can just run through the shot and do nothing – even if I’m not Buffy!”

I'm not a huge fan of Glee, but from the few episodes I've seen, Morris is easily my favorite part of it. She's odd, and her comic timing is really sharp. He character is dim, so I'll be interested to see if she can get Buffy's Spider-Man-esque witty banter down, but I'd be okay with her as the Slayer.

Honestly, I'm more concerned about the casting of the rest of the Scooby gang than anything else.

Bacon in the Helfire Club

Quoted from the Philadelphia Style :

In X-Men: First Class, slated to open in early June, Bacon plays mutant villain Sebastian Shaw. Although it’s his first major action role (the only thing that comes close, he says, is 2000’s Hollow Man), it’s not a particularly demanding part physically. “I’ll let the younger actors do that,” he laughs. “I’m more one of those sit-in-my-chair-and-destroy-the-world type of guys.”

Kevin Bacon is Sebastian Shaw.

That is...weird.

I really don't have more to say than that. It just seems so very odd.