Tag Archives: Batman

Nominees for the 8th Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz

  By Aaron Hoover | November 29, 2012 - 9:38 pm | ,
Leave a comment
Ruthaz 8

 

Back by absolutely NO demand, it’s the Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz, Join Ethan as he leads Aaron, Chris, John, and Paul as they name their Nominees for the newest member of the Zone of Ruthaz!

About Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer, best known for his performance asLuke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as his voice role as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, its various spin-offs, and the video games Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Hamill has also lent his voice to various other villains and anti-heroes in various other animated productions.

About Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He has received many industry awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and the Palme d’Or and has been nominated for an Emmy and Grammy.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino was an avid film fan. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend’s Birthday. Its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter and the aestheticization of violence that often results in the exhibition neo-noir characteristics. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Death Proof (2007),Inglourious Basterds (2009), and the upcoming Django Unchained (2012).

His movies are generally characterized by stylistic influences from grindhouse, kung fu, and spaghetti western films. Tarantino also frequently collaborates with his friend and fellow filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino has been dubbed a “director DJ”, comparing his stylistic use of mix-and-match genre and music infusion to the use of sampling a DJ exhibits, morphing a variety of old works to create a new one.

About Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and director whose career as both a child and an adult has included television and feature films. He is best known for his roles in the films (500) Days of Summer, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, and Looper, and for playing Tommy Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. Gordon-Levitt began his career in commercials as a child before making his film debut in Beethoven. He has also starred in 10 Things I Hate About You, Manic, Mysterious Skin, Brick, The Lookout, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Premium Rush, and played a supporting role in Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln. He founded the online production company hitRECord, in 2004.

About Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.

He won international attention early in his career with his “splatstick” horror comedies beginning with Bad Taste (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA,Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.

His films also include Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992), Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners (1996), King Kong (2005), The Lovely Bones (2009), and the upcoming The Hobbit trilogy, which will include The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014). He also produced District 9 (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).

Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. He was later knighted (as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) by then Governor-General Anand Satyanand at a ceremony in Wellington in April 2010.

Nominees for the 8th Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz [ 15:38 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

First Annual Movie Pop Culture Showdown

  By terrestrialboy | January 24, 2012 - 1:22 am |
Leave a comment
Movie Pop Culture Showdown

Here are the rules:

  1. No characters from comic book movies. Comic books have a long and rich history that will undoubtedly color the judgment of voters. If we limit the selection to movies only, and only from non-mainstream comic book movies, this should help limit that problem. Therefore, no Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Hellboy, etc. Characters that began in film and were later adapted to comic book form is perfectly acceptable.
  2. No characters from television. This is for movie roles only.
  3. Most characters that originated in literature are also exempt.  There are some exceptions when the character has taken a genuine life of their own in their movies, and become something totally different from the original books.
  4. Only one character is eligible from each film and film series. Therefore, only one character from the “Star Wars” films or “James Bond” films would be eligible.

Each week, we post the bracket for the weekly round, with a poll for listeners to vote for winners in each match. If we go with 32 characters, that means the first round would be 16 matches, the second round 8 matches, the third round 4 matches, the fifth round 2 matches, and then the final round.

This year, we will post the preliminary winners of the first round on January 29, the second round on February 5, the third round on February 12, the fourth round on February 19, and the ultimate winner on Oscar Night, February 26.

We’ll announce the winners on the shows the following week, when we will add in the votes of Ethan, Aaron, and whoever our guest host is that week.

(more…)

Redphonezone #61

  By terrestrialboy | October 21, 2011 - 9:55 pm |
Leave a comment
Morgan Fucking Freeman

In this special issue, we induct the newest member of the Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz.  We are joined by the Bagged & Bored Cast once again as we talk up the nominees, and count the votes ….

Morgan Freman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven,Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins, The Bucket List, Evan Almighty, Wanted,The Dark Knight, and RED.

Gary Oldman was a member of the 1980s Brit Pack, Oldman came to prominence via starring roles in British films Meantime (1983), Sid and Nancy (1986) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987); in 1987, film critic Roger Ebert described him as “the best young British actor around”. Oldman went on to star in many popular motion pictures of the 1990s to the present day, often as dark and morally ambiguous characters,  many of which he has characterised as “wacky or strange”.  His acting credits include: The Firm (1989), State of    Grace(1990), JFK (1991), Dracula (1992), True Romance (1993), Immortal Beloved (1994), Léon (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Contender(2000), the Harry Potter film series, Christopher Nolan’s Batman film trilogy, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). In addition to his film career, Oldman has starred in United States television shows such as Knots Landing, Fallen Angels, Tracey Takes On… and Friends. He is also known for providing the voice of Viktor Reznov in the popular Call of Duty video game series andLord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). Oldman has been cited as an influence by a number of successful actors. Although he has won, and been nominated for, multiple awards during his career, he has been described as one of the greatest actors never nominated for an Academy Award. Aside from acting, he has served as a producer on several films, and directed, wrote and co-produced Nil by Mouth(1997), a film partially based on his own childhood,  for which he was nominated for the 1997 Palme d’Or and won two BAFTA Awards. Oldman also attracted media attention for his marriage to actress Uma Thurman in the early 1990s. In 2011, he was voted an “Icon of Film” by Empire readers, in recognition of his contributions to cinema.

Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver; October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her critically acclaimed role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition (she was also co-producer in the latter two films). Other notable roles include Ghostbusters and its sequel Ghostbusters II,Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, Working Girl, Death and the Maiden, The Ice Storm, WALL•E, Prayers for Bobby and Avatar (as well as the prequel video game). Weaver has received three Academy Award nominations and six Golden Globe Award nominations, winning two in 1988 (Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress) for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl, becoming the first person ever to have won two acting Golden Globe Awards in the same year. Her 1986 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Aliensare considered as landmarks in the recognition of science fiction, action, andhorror genres, as well as a major step in challenging the gender role in cinema. Weaver progressively received notoriety for her numerous contributions to the science fiction film history and gained the nickname of “The Sci-Fi Queen”.

Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres fromShakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known to many for roles such as Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code, Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and as Magneto in the X-Men films. In 1988, McKellen came out and announced he was gay. He became a founding member of Stonewall, one of the United Kingdom’s most influentialLGBT rights groups, of which he remains a prominent spokesman. McKellen was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts.

Redphonezone #61 [ 1:35:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

RedPhoneZone #58

  By Aaron Hoover | July 28, 2011 - 11:00 am |
Leave a comment
Batman

It’s one year from the release of The Dark Knight Rises and all Aaron needs is a little bit and he’ll talk your ear off about Batman! so that’s what we are doing! We even brought in Vin Roberts, Friend of Batman-news.com to discuss the Batman films as a genre!

About Batman Films

The fictional character Batman, a comic book superhero featured in DC Comics publications, has appeared in various films since his inception. The character first starred in two serial films in the 1940s, Batman and Batman and Robin. The character also appeared in the 1966 film Batman, which was a feature film adaptation of the campy 1960s Batman TV series starring Adam West, who also starred in the film.

 

Issue 58 [ 1:45:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

RedPhoneZone Issue #31

  By terrestrialboy | November 10, 2010 - 8:00 pm | , ,
Leave a comment
Copyright Warner Home Video
Art by Salvador Larroca

Artwork for the cover of Invincible Iron Man vol. 2, 25 second printing (June 2010 Marvel Comics).

In this issue, the RedPhoneZone jumps back into the grind when We Make It with Iron Man 3.  What would we like to see in the third installment of the Marvel Films blockbuster franchise?  Then, we take on our Top 6 Character Entrances on Top 6.  We wrap things up this issue with Watch This of the 2010 direct-to-DVD Warner Bros. animated release of Batman: Under the Red Hood.

About Iron Man

Iron Man is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character debuted in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby.

Born Anthony Edward Stark, and usually called Tony, he is an industrialist playboy and ingenious engineer who suffers a severe heart injury during a kidnapping in which his captors attempt to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. He later uses the suit to protect the world as Iron Man. Through his multinational corporation ― Stark Industries ― Tony has created many military weapons, some of which, along with other technological devices of his making, have been integrated into his suit, helping him fight crime. Initially, Iron Man was a vehicle for Stan Lee to explore Cold War themes, particularly the role of American technology and business in the fight against communism. Subsequent re-imaginings of Iron Man have gradually removed the Cold War themes, replacing them with more contemporary concerns such as corporate crime and terrorism.

Throughout most of the character’s publication history, Iron Man has been a member of the superhero team the Avengers and has been featured in several incarnations of his own various comic book series. Iron Man has been adapted for several animated TV shows and films. The character is portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. in the live action film Iron Man (2008), which was a box office success. Downey reprised the role in the sequel, Iron Man 2 (2010), and also played the character in a cameo in The Incredible Hulk (2008). Downey will also play the role in the upcoming film The Avengers (2012) and the planned Iron Man 3 (2013).

About Batman: Under the Red Hood

Copyright Warner Home Video

This is the cover art for Batman: Under the Red Hood.

Batman: Under the Red Hood is a direct-to-video animated film based on the Batman storylines “A Death in the Family” and “Under the Hood“. The film is the eighth in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line released by Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Animation. It was released on July 27, 2010. The film stars Bruce Greenwood as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jensen Ackles as Red Hood/Jason Todd, and John DiMaggio as the Joker. The screenplay was written by Judd Winick, who also wrote the “Under the Hood” run in the monthly Batman comic.

The two-disc special edition and Blu-ray also includes an animated short featuring Jonah Hex.

RedPhoneZone Issue #31 [ 1:26:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
RedPhoneZone Issue #31 [ 1:03:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

RedPhoneZone Issue #030

  By terrestrialboy | November 4, 2010 - 11:17 pm | ,
Leave a comment
Facilitators of the Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz

In this special episode, we take our four nominees for induction into the Facilitators of the Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz, and examine what makes them eligible for such a prestigious award.

The nominees this time around are Will Smith, Michael Keaton, Terrence Stamp, and Stan “The Man” Lee.

We’re also joined by John from over at the Bagged & Bored Cast, who takes on the duty of campaigning for the B&B candidate, Michael Keaton.

About Will Smith

Willard Christopher “Will“ Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and pop rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.

In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith transitioned from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films that received broad box office success. In fact, he is the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office as well as being the only actor to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.

Fourteen of the 19 fiction films he has acted in have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million, and 4 of them took in over $500 million in global box office receipts. His most financially successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II, I, Robot, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, Wild Wild West, Enemy of the State, Shark Tale, Hitch and Seven Pounds. He also earned critical praise for his performances inSix Degrees of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations for the latter two.

Read More on Will Smith

About Michael Keaton

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, well known for his early comedic roles in films such asNight Shift, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, Beetlejuice, and for his dramatic portrayal of Batman[1] in Tim Burton‘s Batman and Batman Returns, as well as lead roles in other films including The Paper, Jackie Brown, Jack Frost and White Noise.

Quirky, inventive and handsome US actor who first achieved major fame with his door busting performance as fast talking, ideas man “Bill Blazejowski” alongside nerdish morgue attendant Henry Winkler in Night Shift (1982). Keaton was born Michael John Douglas on September 5th, 1951 in Corapolis, Pennsylvannia and studied speech for two years at Kent State, before dropping out and moving to Pittsburgh. An unsuccessful attempt at stand-up comedy led Keaton to working as a TV cameraman in a cable station, and he came to realize he wanted to work in front of the cameras.

Tim Burton cast him in the title role of Batman (1989) because he thought that Keaton was the only actor who could believably portray someone who has the kind of darkly obsessive personality that the character has. There was a great deal of fan anger over his selection, forcing the studio to release an advance trailer both to show that Keaton could do the role well and that the movie would not be a campy parody like the TV show “Batman” (1966).

Read more about Michael Keaton

About Terrence Stamp

Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1939) is an award-winning English actor. Since starting his career in 1962 he has appeared in over 60 films. His title role as Billy Budd in his film debut earned Stamp an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer.

His other major roles include butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector, arch-villain General Zod in Superman (plus one of its sequel), drag queen Bernadette inThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, harsh guy Wilson in The Limey, the Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace,ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Elektra’s master Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Maxwell Smart’s arch-villain Siegfried in Get Smart, council of high help Terrence Bundley in Yes Man and the July 20th plot Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie.

Stamp has won a Golden Globe, a Cannes Film Festival Award, a Seattle International Film Festival Award, a Satellite Award and a Silver Bear.

Stamp was born in lived in Canal Road, Bow, until German bombers forced his family to move to Plaistow. An icon of the 1960s, he dated the likes of Julie Christie,Brigitte Bardot, and Jean Shrimpton. After an extremely successful early career, starring in Modesty Blaise (1966), Poor Cow (1967), and Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Stamp withdrew from mainstream films after his girlfriend, supermodel Jean Shrimpton, left him, and he and went on a 10-year sabbatical in India. He returned home in the late 1970s to star as the evil General Zod in Superman II (1980) and in 1984, delivered what many consider his finest performance as the supergrass in Stephen Frears‘ The Hit (1984). A few minor but colourful roles, topped by his performance as the transsexual, Bernadette, in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), have put Stamp back in the British conscious. His role of vengeful gangster in The Limey (1999) was created especially for him by its director.

Read more about Terrence Stamp

About Stan “The Man” Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, theHulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe intosuperhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry’s censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

He was inducted into the comic book industry’s Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.

Read more about Stan “The Man” Lee

About the Bagged & Bored Cast

Bagged and Bored was started by Chris as a comic and pop-culture blog, seeking to share his love with as many people as possible he contacted his two best friends Paul and John to help spread the word. Soon realizing that they had a lot more to say than a simple website would allow, the Bagged and Bored Crew took their thoughts and audibly recorded them making them available on iTunes as the Bagged and Bored Cast for more people to experience.

About the Facilitators of the Indomitable Order of the Zone of Ruthaz

The Order of Ruthaz is a place for those actors, filmmakers, writers, artists, and other geek icons who have made such a legend of themselves so that they may be forever immortalized in history as BLANK “Fucking” BLANK.

Enter the Zone of Ruthaz to see who has attained previous honors in the Zone.

RedPhoneZone Issue #030 [ 1:20:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
RedPhoneZone Issue #030 [ 1:19:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

RedPhoneZone Issue #23

  By terrestrialboy | September 15, 2010 - 8:11 am | , ,
Leave a comment
RedPhoneZone Logo

We kick off season two of the RedPhoneZone with new segments, and a little more of an informal atmosphere.  We also ditch the video for now, and go with nothing but audio!

In this issue, we introduce the “We Make It” segment, where we take some sort of concept or upcoming film project, and give our take on what we think it should be like, and what we’d do if we were the producers of the project.  Today, we tackle the next Batman film in the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise.

Top 6 makes its triumphant return when we take on our Top 6 Movie Monsters.

Finally, we debut our other new segment, “Watch This!”  In this week’s Watch This, Ethan talks about Smallville and the upcoming 10th season, and why you should be watching.

RedPhoneZone Issue #23 [ 1:55:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download