Brain Assassin

Franklyn is an upcom­ing British fan­tasy film fol­low­ing a dark and dystopian theme. The movie is set between the par­al­lel worlds of con­tem­po­rary Lon­don and the futur­is­tic faith dom­i­nated metrop­o­lis of Mean­while City. Franklyn offers a glimpse into the inner work­ings of fate and fol­lows the tales of four characters:

• Jonathan Preest (Ryan Phillippe) is a masked athe­ist detec­tive search­ing for his neme­sis, Mean­while City’s dan­ger­ous leader.
• Emilia (Eva Green) is a beau­ti­ful young art stu­dent whose con­duct­ing ever more dan­ger­ous art projects.
• Milo (Sam Riley) is a heart­bro­ken thirty-​​something yearn­ing for the purity of first love.
• Peter Esser (Bernard Hill) is a bro­ken man, search­ing des­per­ately for his miss­ing son amongst London’s homeless.

Even though the trailer isn’t a work of art, the film has caught my inter­est. Franklyn pre­miered at the 52^nd Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val on 16 Octo­ber 2008. The film will hit the­aters in the UK on 20 Feb­ru­ary 2009. A release date for the United States has yet to be set. Of course, you can also visit the offi­cial site to stay up to date.

Almost a year ago I wrote about the plot and it seems that they haven’t changed much. Now there’s a trailer online and you can look for your­self. From what I can sur­mise, this movie is even sicker than the first. Crank 2: High Volt­age has some nice scenes as evi­denced by the trailer. Have fun!

X-​​Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine Teaser Poster

Finally, the X-​​Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine trailer has arrived in glo­ri­ous quick­time. Of course, this trailer has been all over the net for ages in a crappy qual­ity. Now you can enjoy it in high def­i­n­i­tion. The film is set to be released on May 1, 2009, and I’m already look­ing for­ward to see­ing it.

This movie tells the story of Wolverine’s past and the omi­nous Weapon X pro­gram which should get inter­est­ing. Lots of other mutants will make an appear­ance, espe­cially Vic­tor Creed (Sabre­tooth). Oth­ers are Dead­pool, Beak, Gam­bit, Agent Zero, Sil­ver Fox, Cyclops, Kestrel, and a few oth­ers, I guess. To be hon­est, I didn’t like the trailer too well but they could’ve done much worse.

Dur­ing the recent work on my blog I thought that I could come up with some kind of library sec­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, that was eas­ier said than done. I tried to come up with a solu­tion to dis­play all the books I own – well, at least the Eng­lish ones – but I couldn’t fig­ure out how to make it user friendly and well arranged. So, I was brows­ing the inter­net look­ing for inspi­ra­tion when I stum­bled over an online book­shelf. Where there’s one, there are usu­ally more. A quick search ended with a few pos­si­ble solutions.

The first online book­shelf I found is called Library­Thing. I imme­di­ately signed up and tried a few things. Unfor­tu­nately, I dis­cov­ered dur­ing the reg­is­tra­tion process that you can only add up to 200 books for free. If you want more books, you have to pay $10  a year or $25 once. I gladly pay for ser­vices ren­dered but I don’t like to pay for some­thing that doesn’t suit my needs. I have to say, though, that Library­Thing is easy to use, offers lots of lan­guages and scan­ner sup­port. Yeah, well … I decided to do a lit­tle more research.

GuruLib is the next site I dis­cov­ered. After sign­ing up I found that this one offer a quite exten­sive data­base. It’s very user friendly too but it looks quite dull. Inter­est­ingly enough, GuruLib isn’s specif­i­cally for books. One can also use it to man­age movies, music, games and soft­ware. It’s nice enough and it’s free but it looks way too spar­tan to me. So, off I was to check out the next one.

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New year, new Word­Press and new episodes of my favorite TV shows. What else could I pos­si­bly need? Here’s the low­down on what to expect over the next few weeks:

First up, Scrubs returns on Jan­u­ary 6 for it’s eight sea­son. The pre­miere is titled “My Jerks” and fea­tures Courteney Cox as Dr. Mad­dox, who arrives at Sacred Heart to replace Dr. Kelso. Elliot has issues with here ego – again – and J. D. strug­gles to keep his new interns in the line.

Had your fill of Jack Bauer after 24: Redemp­tion? Guess not. Fox will bring the series back with a mas­sive four-​​hour, two-​​part sea­son pre­miere on Jan­u­ary 11. On Jan­u­ary 12, 24 will con­tinue with the sec­ond part of the sea­son pre­miere and on Jan­u­ary 19 24 will move to 9 p.m. Sweet! Cer­tainly, Jack Bauer will once again res­cue every­one but the bad guys. Sim­ply love to see this show.

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