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The best criminal defense money can buy! This coming Sunday is the premiere date for the Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul. It revolves around Walter White’s cheesy, sleazy, yet competent attorney Saul Goodman, as portrayed by Bob Odenkirk. It’s been a couple of years since Breaking Bad ended, so let’s review what we know of the character’s persona with a supercut of some Saul’s best one-liners, courtesy of Robert Jones of Tastefully Offensive. Oh, and for the record, Saul Goodman is not even his real name.

Tom Hanks was at the New York Rangers hockey game tonight at New York City's Madison Square Garden, and I don't know how and I don't know why, but he had his "friend" and Cast Away co-star Wilson with him.

Hanks was captured on camera at the game holding Wilson. Check out the photo here below posted to the Rangers' official Twitter account tonight.

Wilson, you might recall, was the actor's co-star in the 2000 Robert Zemeckis-directed film, which saw Hanks as Chuck, a FedEx employee stranded for over four years on an uninhabited South Pacific island after surviving a plane crash. Wilson also happens to be a volleyball with a bloodied handprint face on it that was Chuck's best friend on the island, helping him to maintain as much of his sanity as he could under the dire circumstances. Over the course of the movie, the inanimate Wilson becomes a loveable character [...]

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They say opposites attract, and in art, the idea of mixing “cute” and “violent” helps prove the saying. 100% Soft, a California based artist, has a very distinct, very “cute” style where all the characters are small, sweet and cherubic. He’s had many pieces in lots of different shows but this week, he’s having his first solo show and the work is absolutely incredible.

The show is called Mass Hysteria and it’s a collection of art featuring massive gatherings and action scenes from your favorite movies, TV and music. It opens at 7 p.m. February 6 at Gallery 1988 East in Los Angeles.

Some examples of this “Mass Hysteria” is the end of The Avengers, the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, the hallway in Oldboy, the finale of Raiders of the Lost Ark and many other mass gatherings in pop culture, all viewed through that cute little filter. The results are just beautiful and gory and awesome. In a phrase: mind-blowing. Check out a small sample of the 30 + images in the Mass Hysteria art show below.

Here are just a few of the pieces in 100% Soft’s Mass Hysteria art show. The show opens at 7 p.m. February 6 at Gallery 1988 East, 7021 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA and remains on display through February 28. Any remaining prints go on sale February 7.

There are over 30 pieces in the show, the majority of which are 16 x 20 inch prints in editions of 20 and 30. There are also some 5 x 5s, some panoramics and even one that’s 9.5 feet long.

100% Soft is actually Truck Torrence and I asked him how he came up with the name and about the inspiration for the show. Here’s what he had to say:

I think I started using 100% Soft because i wanted to create something that wasn’t just about myself but still had a really distinct and recognizable look. It’s a guideline for how I make things. I want everything to be soft-looking, like you can squeeze it. Everything should be soft. Everything should be kawaii. Even the dark stuff. I like being able to take something that might have a complex design and distill it down to it’s basic elements. I basically just try and imagine what it would be like cuddling a super cute xenomorph.

For more on the artist, visit @100soft on Twitter and Instagram or 100percentsoft.com

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The latest big name director to make the move to TV is Baz Luhrmann, and he’s following David Fincher to Netflix. The streaming service has just signed on to make 13 one-hour episodes of Luhrmann’s The Get Down, a music-driven show set in 1970s New York City. Luhrmann will serve as executive producer, and direct the first two episodes of the show as well as the season finale. It’ll hit Netflix worldwide in 2016. Read the full press release about the Baz Luhrmann TV show below.

UPDATE: A short trailer has been released. Watch it below.

Here’s the full press release on The Get Down. It sounds like it could be amazing:

The Get Down, a new Netflix Original Series, from visionary director Baz Luhrmann, will premiere exclusively on Netflix in all territories in 2016. The series marks Luhrmann’s first music-driven drama since the global hit Moulin Rouge!

The one-hour, 13-episode drama from Sony Pictures Television will focus on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal games, improvised dance steps, some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements, to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the just-built World Trade Center, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco — told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city, and the world…forever.

Luhrmann, director of Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet, and The Great Gatsby, will direct the first two episodes and the season finale and serve as executive producer. Academy-Award winner Catherine Martin (The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge!), will serve as Costume and Production Designer and executive producer. Paul Watters (Australia); Thomas Kelly (Copper); Stephen Adley Guirgis (Motherf***er With The Hat); Shawn Ryan (The Shield, Terriers); and Marney Hochman (Terriers), will also serve as executive producers.

“From his very first and magnificently original steps on the world stage with Strictly Ballroom to his most recent with The Great Gatsby, Baz conjures worlds we may not recognize initially, but once there, realize they are infused with the same dreams of every person – to belong, to matter, to live life to its fullest. We are thrilled to support Baz, Catherine and Paul and their team in their quest to illuminate those same dreams through the artists who came of age in the cauldron of the Bronx in the late 1970s,” said Cindy Holland, vice president of original content for Netflix.

“In this golden era of TV, the Netflix culture puts no constraint on creative possibilities. So it is a natural home for The Get Down, a project I have been contemplating and working on now for over 10 years. Throughout, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of how a city in its lowest moment, forgotten and half destroyed could give birth to such creativity and originality in music, art and culture. I’m thrilled to be working with my partners at Sony and collaborating with a team of extraordinary writers and musicians, many of whom grew up with and lived the story we’ve set out to tell,” said Baz Luhrmann.

“Baz is an artist in the truest sense, whose talent and vision resonate across mediums. There is no better filmmaker and storyteller to draw us into this world of the forgotten and oppressed residents of the Bronx who rose up and fought back to create and define culture and music for decades to come,” said Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, presidents of programming and production for Sony Pictures Television.

What do you think about the Baz Luhrmann TV show?

UPDATE: Netflix has posted a brief teaser for the show.

The post Baz Luhrmann’s Music-Driven TV Show ‘The Get Down’ Coming To Netflix; Watch A Teaser appeared first on /Film.

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If you worked in advertising and were tasked with creating an ad campaign for a condom company, what would your brainstorming session look like? You could go at it from a number of angles, but like the first part of this sentence, everything you wrote would be suspect as a double entendre. Thus, a little would go a long way. A little imagery, a little creative wording... less would be more. That is, unless more was more. 

Without keeping you on the edge of your seat, here is a collection of clever advertisements for condoms. Hopefully you'll be momentarily amused as you check them out. Your mileage may vary, however. As they say, give some people an inch...


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52 Facts People Always Get Wrong 

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix are looking to develop a live-action TV series based on The Legend Of Zelda video games. According to them, the idea is to produce a more family-orientated version of Game Of Thrones. Writers are currently being sought, and though Nintendo are on board, it's all said to be the very early stages. There can't be many people that haven't heard of Zelda, but for the uninitiated the games are set in the fictional land of Hyrule, and tell the story of an adventurer named Link (who looks a lot like an Elf but is actually a member of the Hylian race) as he attempts to rescue Princess Zelda from the clutches of the evil wizard, Ganon. The games have spawned everything from comics, to toys, to a short lives animated series, and Zelda is one of the most popular, revered properties out there. What do

20 Breathtaking Photos Of Amazing Animal Migrations

From incredibly precise navigation to the undistracted focus of migrating animals, the seasonal journeys of wildebeests, insects, marine life, birds, and many other species are some of nature’s most magnificent spectacles.

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The original Franken Berry cereal was made with red dye that the body can’t break down. When it was released, hundreds of mothers were panicking because their kids had pink poop. Doctors called it “Franken Berry Stool,” which looked like strawberry ice cream, but smelled like feces. Source

Black Dynamite is the best show on television. Since beginning its second season on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim back in October, Dynamite—an animated spin-off of the 2009 Michael Jai White blaxploitation send-up/homage movie— has depicted the following: Mister Rogers (you know, the army-trained killing machine-turned-children's show host?) using Waka Flocka Flame lyrics to train an army of child soldiers; Rev. Al Sharpton using the shocking content of Alex Haley's Roots ("I heard it was bad, but not THAT bad!") to convince the black community to enslave all white people in retaliation for not getting reparations; and Mr. Drummond from Diff'rent Strokes adopting a group of streetwise black children to compete in a Hunger Games-style tournament for an audience of bloodthirsty, affluent whites. Why are you watching Friends reruns again?

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We've seen some amazing light paintings that make the real world look magical and surreal. But what's even cooler than a static light painting? A whole video, where beings made of pure light burst into existence and run around. Here are the most eye-popping and dazzling light-painting videos on the internet.

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Simpsons couch gags have practically become an art form unto themselves, and artists Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon decided to do their own fan animation in pixel art. It starts out as a pretty straight, if clever, adaptation of the classic Simpsons intro, then turns decidedly bizarre.

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You did it, you crazy-looking building, you! Dubai's 55-story, aptly-named "Maze Tower" just got the nod from the Guinness folks that it's officially the largest vertical maze in the world.

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There’s a scientific reason why you crave greasy foods when you’re hungover. Drinking alcohol increases production of a brain chemical called galanin that enhances your desire to eat fatty foods. If you get drunk and wake up needing a bacon cheeseburger, it’s just your brain chemistry at work. Source

10. Friends, “The One With The Embryos” (1999)

Monica’s fiercely competitive streak is the engine in some of Friends’ finest moments (“The One With The Ball” also comes to mind), but never more than in “Embryos.” The only thing funnier than the fast-paced trivia questions—“He’s a transponster!”—is Monica’s banshee wail when she realizes they lost. 

9. Party Down, “Steve Guttenberg’s Birthday” (2010) 

Steve Guttenberg’s relentless, slightly clueless positivity throughout is thoroughly delightful, and the setup gives everyone a chance to shine, like when Ken Marino’s Ron takes typically disastrous steps to try and fix The Gute’s priceless iceberg water art.

8. 30 Rock, “Rosemary’s Baby” (2007)

For as much as “Rosemary’s Baby” stands as a sharp satire of how network influence shapes the work of television writers, it also stands as an exemplary character piece for 30 Rock’s ensemble, a combination that all sitcoms strive for.

7. The Office (U.K.), “Training” (2001) 

The Office hit a major milestone as early as its fourth episode, when Brent hijacks an employee learning session (kicked off by a fantastic faux-’80s training video) from the hapless group leader. Somehow Brent works into the proceedings that he was once in a band, pulls out his guitar (“he went home to get it”), and entertains his employees with anti-classics like “Free Love Freeway.”

6. NewsRadio, “Complaint Box” (1997)

The 1990s were awash in workplace sitcoms, but NewsRadio was one of the few to embrace the inherent absurdity of the entire genre, and was the absolute best at using the limited space of the TV screen, often by stripping elements away and finding the humor in their absence.

5. Arrested Development, “Pier Pressure” (2004)

This first-season episode marks the debut of one-armed “scare toy” J. Walter Weatherman as well as the series’ first hit off the “Big Yellow Joint.” But Arrested Development builds half-hour puzzles, too, and “Pier Pressure” is one of the most intricate, a wild farce involving drugs, deceit, and the words that should be on the Bluth family crest: “I need a favor.”

4. Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory” (2011)

The show’s biggest strength is injecting genuine sweetness into high-wire ideas that could easily come across as formalist exercises. “Remedial Chaos Theory” is no exception, with the ragtag clique concluding the darkest timeline is the one in which Greendale never brings them together.

3. The Office (U.S.), “Dinner Party” (2008)

“Dinner Party” becomes the mockumentary version of Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,with Michael (Steve Carell) and Jan (Melora Hardin) trading barbs over her unemployment, his excessive enthusiasm, her funky scented candles, and his tendency to run into glass doors.

2. The Simpsons, “Marge Vs. The Monorail” (1993)

“Marge Vs. The Monorail” represents The Simpsons at its best because it’s the story of a town, a town representing a raging American id that’s too stupendously stupid to recognize Lanley’s Music Man schtick.

1. Seinfeld, “The Chinese Restaurant” (1991)

Debuting at a time when the show was still a struggling fill-in, maintaining the Cheers audience but not yet building one of its own, “The Chinese Restaurant” gave Seinfeld an identity—and helped define the sitcom for the next 25 years.

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“…it’s always February 2nd and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

Eddie Murphy and SNL helped each other out in a huge way in the early 80’s. As a young star, Eddie Murphy saved the show from its fledgling state, making at once relevant and edgy during its nadir. And, of course, SNL helped turn Eddie Murphy into one of the biggest stars in America.

However, since his departure for film, the two parties haven’t treated each other very well. Eddie Murphy repeatedly snubbed reunion and hosting gigs after SNL had made fun of his career in later years.

It appears that all is forgiven. Well, maybe not forgiven, but pushed off to the side for a minute. Murphy will be joining a big ole’ cast for the show’s 40th anniversary special on February 15th. It’s unknown what the show or Murphy has in for us, but it will be nice to see Eddie Murphy back in the place that made him a star.

And so help me God if he doesn’t do Buckwheat…

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If you thought the Super Bowl was exciting…you were right. It was. Very dramatic ending. but equally dramatic (no, not really) was the lip sync battle on the Tonight Show between Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Things kicked off with Ferrell channeling none other than Beyonce, and from there, things somehow got better.

Just as we wouldn’t spoil the Super Bowl, we’re not going to spoil the end of this context. So watch. Learn. Love.

This is exactly the type of thing Seahawks fans will need after that devastating loss.

Whoops. We gave it away.

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Snipers Are Hiding In All Of These Photos, But It’s Nearly Impossible To Spot Them (Even With Help)

Expert snipers are trained to conceal themselves in unexpected places called “hide sites,” where they can shoot targets and conduct surveillance. All of these photos have German soldiers hiding in plain sight, but it’s surprising how difficult it actually is to find them.

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Conan O’Brien‘s Clueless Gamer series is always worth a laugh or two when they air in an episode or go live on Youtube. Watching as he stumbles his way through understanding video games and its culture is a cute little bit.

This new episode raised the stakes though. In honor of the upcoming Superbowl, he invited notoriously media shy Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch and New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski to sit down and play a game with him. Now, you’d think they would play Madden, but no. NetherRelms sent them all an early copy of Mortal Kombat X to play.

It’s great watching.

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Their shocked faces are really what sells it. These fatalities are particularly gruesome, especially for the uninitiated.

It’s good to see Lynch out and talking though. He probably spoke more in this video than he has the entire Superbowl press coverage. His talk about Mario Kart was a real highlight.

Conan, Marshawn Lynch and Rob Gronkowski Sit Down To Play Mortal Kombat X