Eddie Izzard: Offering the Finest in Male Lesbian Transexual Stand-Up

Eddie Izzard loves women so much that he likes dressing up as one. Not gay. Fascinating. I first encountered the work of Eddie Izzard in what I feel was one of the most underappreciated films of the past decade, Mystery Men. Little did I know, the "normal" way he appeared in the movie was actually quite abnormal for him.


This is how he usually chooses to appear for stand-up gigs and the like. Classy. Anyways, the reason Eddie Izzard came up was that I was watching 28 Weeks Later at my friend P's house. The movie was pretty sweet because rage zombies are the best zombies, as seen here, you have to verify your age and shit, but you get to watch free videos. Watch the first one, "Infected Attack," it's ridiculous.

Anyways, we were watching this Deleted Scene on the DVD where the family is in the cafeteria just kind of talking to people and being awkward. Then P showed me this perfectly topical piece of Eddie Izzard stand-up comparing British with American film, making it obvious why the scene was deleted.



Enjoy.

Main Hoon Na: Bollywood at it's Best

This movie has everything. First let me tell you about the genre as listed on imdb, Action/Drama/Romance/Musical/Comedy. So good. So for those of you that don't know much about Bollywood, it's basically a genre of Indian film that is usually a long and complicated love story with tons of arbitrary and hilarious song and dance numbers.

Anyways, Main Hoon Na, is great to start out with because it stars Shah Rukh Khan, the Tom Cruise of India. He's the best romance/action/musical star in the world. I don't want to give too much of the plot away, but basically Shah Rukh Khan is a Major in the Indian Army, and after a terrorist kills his father, he has to go undercover as a college student to protect the general's daughter from the same terrorist as well as find his estranged step-brother and have him help scatter their father's ashes. And then there's all sorts of love stories too! This movie alternates scenes of impossible Matrix-esque action with absurd, over-the-top dance numbers. It's extremely well written and very funny.

Here's a clip from the film. The main character has just saved the life of the most popular kid at school, so now everyone is showing how much they love him.



And here's a compilation of some action clips from the movie, set to "In the End" by Linkin Park. I thought there time in the sun was done, but no, here they are again.



Oh. And Merry Christmas.

Once and The Edukators

So I saw the movie Once on the airplane home from Japan, but I really liked so I watched it again two nights ago. Some of the music scenes are so ridiculously awesome that I decided I'd share them with you. This first scene is from when the two main leads first try to play a song together, inside a music store. There's also some other clips from the film spliced in. Enjoy:



Then there's my favorite song from the movie, which I imagined must have required a hundred takes to get right. Then I saw this video of the two main characters performing it live. Note the part where they are just screaming in perfect harmony. Glory.



Okay. So. Now that you're going to the video store to get Once, you should pick up this next film too. It's called The Edukators, and it's a German film that made a pretty big splash at Cannes. It's the kind of movie that can fall apart if you try to point out all the little flaws and improbabilities, but it can be really life-changing if you let it. Here's the trailer:




Cheers.