This Awesome Video Highlights The Best Of Tim Burton

Kees van Dijikhuizen Jr. is a 17 year old editor who makes some excellent videos highlighting the best moments of his favorite directors films. The latest one he put together celebrates the genius that is Tim Burton. It is amazing that this kid is only 17 and makes such quality cuts. Click the link here to see his other films and click after the jump for the full Burton video...

CCD Interviews The Man Behind Black Dynamite, Director Scott Sanders

So all week long I have been regaling you guys with stories about the 2010 NYC Comic Con, one of our first major events that we were granted press passes to cover. There was so much going on and we tried our best to hit up all the things that interested us. Early on in the day Friday we walked past the Ape Entertainment booth and my heart almost stopped... I was staring at a Black Dynamite comic book!!!

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Now this is something I was really happy to see. If you read this blog, you know of my fascination with Black Dynamite. I freaking love that movie... and then fresh off the announcement that there would be a Black Dynamite Cartoon (we covered that here), we would also get some further adventures of every ones favorite Super Negro... and Surviving Slave Island??? Yup, I'm in. As I began to explain how excited I was to Sam, I realized he was not as enthusiastic as me. Immediately I knew why he wasn't as excited as me: He had not seen the movie. As we broke into a classic "What? You haven't seen it? What..." conversation, a gentleman behind the Ape Entertainment table interrupt us. He said "Hi guys, I'm Brent. If you want to have him watch the movie, why don't you guys stop by our panel tomorrow night. We are showing the whole movie plus 10 minutes of the cartoon." Holy. Fucking. Shit. I wasn't missing this for the world.

The whole next day was spent anticipating the 8pm Black Dynamite panel. Brent told us there would be a special give away and appearance, and I was wondering just who would be there. Would it be Cream Corn, Bullhorn, The Fiendish Dr Wu... or BD himself, Michael Jai White? When we got downstairs, come to find out that it was going to be the creative team speaking at the panel. Director Scott Sanders, musical editor and composer Adrian Young, and soundtrack supervisor Andres Torres of Wax Poetics. Now I was really psyched, cause we were about to get some real behind the scenes info, and I couldn't wait to hear what the guys had to say. Check out our footage of the actual panel here.

Once the panel was over, they went into 10 minutes of the Black Dynamite cartoon footage, which was phenomenal. Very over the top and crazy. Then the film was shown. I thought Sam was actually gonna have a heart attack from laughing so hard. The whole room was buzzing with laughter. After the film, they announced that Scott would be sticking around to sign some limited edition black & white variant covers of the #1 issue of Black Dynamite. Sweet. We waited to the end to ask Scott some questions as only my crazy ass could think of. Check out the video:

Very cool dude... and honest as hell. The fact that he looked up Moon Cricket in the dictionary proves his dedication to the racist comedy awesomeness that is Black Dynamite. Great dude, and he was even gracious enough to inscribe my #1 variant with "I thought I told you honkies in the CIA that Black Dynamite was out the game..." So Fucking Cool!!!

Scott also signed four copies of the #1 variant preview issue for you guys... the CCD readers!!! There were only 500 of these special covers made up, and it was strictly for the NYC Comic Con. All you have to do to win one is add your favorite Black Dynamite quote in the comment section below. The 4 best quotes will get the issues... Thanks to Scott Sanders for making such a great movie and being so cool to a couple of dudes with a small time (but up and coming!!!) blog and thanks to Brent and the whole Ape Entertainment team for the extra books and tickets to the screening. I can't wait till the BD cartoon and comic book come out!!! 



Film Posters From Around The World: The Texas Chainsaw Masscre (1974)

Forget all the remakes, sequels, prequels, and whatever else there was ever made... there is only one Texas Chainsaw Masscre. It's Toby Hooper's 1974 masterpiece, and despite the fact that its over 35 years old, it still sends shivers down my spine. My step mom even told me that after seeing the movie in a double feature after Night of the Living she could not LOOK (not eat, look!!!) at chopmeat for over 2 months!!!!! You are not a horror head if this isnt in your top 10, and if you want a break from all the PG-13 horror of new Hollywood then give this one a shot. Enjoy the posters...

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Reasons I Love Movies: Robberies Gone Wrong

I absolutely love movies, so I have decided to highlight certain aspects from films that I am fond of in order to bring some of my favorite silver screen moments to you. Today we will look at two different robberies that did not work out the way they were intended to. I tried to find the best clips I could, and I will tell you when during the clip the scene takes place. Let the laughs begin.

Mr. Deeds - 2002

Great staged mugging scene in order to bring recent billionaire Mr. Deeds in contact with reporter Babe Bennet. Poor Allen Covert takes a beating at around the 7:35 mark in this clip.



Coming To America - 1988

Honestly, everytime I see Samuel L. Jackson in ANYTHING I automatically think back to this botched robbery of McDowells from the Eddie Murphy classic film. Just one of many funny parts in the movie... honetly, Sam Jackson just catches a bad decision on this one.

Film Posters From Around The World #6- Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

This one of my childhood favorites.... a true classic. These are the kind of results that you get when you give a genius like Sam Raimi enough money to fund his vision. I love Evil Dead I, but Evil Dead 2 is better because they had better funding to get it done. Enjoy!!!

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I Wish I Lived In Cali Right Now...

Thanks to the guys over at /film, I am able to see the 7 different Tron: Legacy billboards that have been put up over the past 6 months at the intersection of Santa Monica and Westwood Boulevards in Los Angeles... despite that fact that I am over 3,000 miles away. Apparently Disney rented the billboard for 1 whole year, starting in December of 2009. That will lead right up to the December 2010 release of the long awaited sequel. This was one of my all time favorite movies of my childhood, and I can not f'n wait to see this movie with  my son Mikey. So far there have been 7 banners, and since they have changed the banners roughly every 5 weeks we should be seeing a lot more. Here you go... are you guys excited for this movie even though its been 25+ years in the making??? Do you not even know what Tron is??? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.

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"Fucking Quintana... That Creep Can Roll Man..." - The Dude

One of the best scenes from one of the best movies ever... god damn these guys are hilarious. John Turturro is just simple phenomenal. The Dude abides... Plus a great rendition of "Hotel California" by The Gypsy Kings in espanol. The true definition of a perfect scene.

Film Posters From Around The World Volume #2- A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is the classic 1971 film adaption of Anthony Burgess's novel of the same name by Stanley Kubrick. Everybody who reads CCD or knows me knows just how much I love Kubrick... I feel like he is the greatest director of all time. So I chose A Clockwork Orange for these weeks edition of Foreign Movie posters. Hope you guys enjoy the 5 subjects this week, and put some suggestions for future movie choices in the comments below. 

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The Best Movies Of All Time: There's A Chart For That

Enjoy this chart courtesy of ritholtz.com and artist David Honnorat. Click to enlarge.