It Is Hard to Think of a Clever Headline Based on “Paul”
I guess if this teaser trailer for the new Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/CG alien voiced by Seth Rogen movie was bad, I could go with “Ap-Paul-ing,” but it looks fine. Better than I suspected, but I keep forgetting this isn’t some family-friendly sub-Disney comedy-adventure about a road trip with an adorable alien. First of all, the alien isn’t particularly adorable, and second and more importantly, the script was written by Pegg and Frost, so while it probably isn’t NC-17, it should far surpass Mac and Me. Gotta remember that. (Via First Showing)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.