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North Korea's Greatest Monster Movie

A giant iron-eating bull takes on an army of slave laborers in Pulgasari, the most famous North Korean movie ever. Kim Jong-Il, now the country's dictator, kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-Ok and his wife, actress Choe Un-Hee. Kim kept them prisoner in North Korea for years, and forced them to make this movie, about a monster that champions the peasants against the tyrant king. The movie attained cult status in Japan. Another clip after the jump. More »

11:20 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By charliejane
2,897 views, 14 comments

Latest by charliejane: @livinglogic: Kim Jong-Il definitely was aware of Team America World Police, because he made a big fuss about banning it in North Korea. Not sure if he watched it though. more »

cloverfield

The Only Minute Of Cloverfield Viral Video You Should Watch


The still-mysterious Cloverfield monster destroys a deep-sea oil-drilling station in a new set of promo videos. Here's the best minute, in which you actually see the chaos and the people fleeing the sinking platform. The voice-over comes from a fake newscast in Italian, shown on Italian TV. Other videos aired in Spain and Germany. We have another snippet of blurry disaster footage at sea, after the jump. More »

6:20 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By charliejane
5,231 views, 25 comments

j.j. abrams

Fox Grasps At Lost X-Files Glory

J.J. Abrams just sold a pilot script to Fox for a show that sounds almost exactly like X-Files. A young female FBI agent, faced with unexplained phenomena, must recruit the aid of a scientist who's been institutionalized for his wacky theories. Fox hopes Fringe will help it recapture the glory of its Mulder-and-Scully days. The biggest mystery, however: When does J.J. Abrams sleep? More »

11:32 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By charliejane
1,186 views, 1 comment