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B-movie website update for the now:
The big news for the summer is 21 websites teamed up to do a B-movie Beach Party. Oddly enough, I was not invited to participate. Because we all know it isn’t a party until Tars Tarkas arrives with my high tower to cast down judgment upon the guests. Anyway, the splash page with links to all the reviews is here.
Foywonder’s July Foyeurism takes on Fantastic Four 2, an example of how to give a mediocre film a terrible sequel
Foyeurism - FANTASTIC 4, AUDIENCE 0
Your Video Store Shelf hit’s it’s 49th podcast interview with Leigh Scott, who has done numerous films for The Asylum (including Dragon)
49th podcast interview - Leigh Scott
Bad Cinema Diary has 8 new titles in its Newest entries page
Mise-en-scene Crypt has reviewed the post apocalyptic film Steel Frontier
In an amazing coincidence, post-apocalypse.co.uk has also reviewed Steel Frontier!
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More dinosaur news, looks like dinos didn’t become the supreme beings that quickly. Still, we got some cool new fossils that will probably make their way into some B-movies sometime in the next 20-30 years, quicker if SciFi Channel is reading this.
Ascent of dinosaurs more gradual than once thought
By Will Dunham Thu Jul 19, 5:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ascent of the dinosaurs to the throne of the animal kingdom may have been more gradual than previously believed, scientists said on Thursday.
New fossil discoveries dating from about 215 million years ago showed some of the earliest dinosaurs lived for millions of years side by side with related animals long seen as their ancestors and precursors, scientists said on Thursday.
Many scientists had thought these reptiles — very much like dinosaurs, but more primitive — died out around the time of the appearance of the first true dinosaurs, which were dog-sized beasts not giants, roughly 230 million years ago.
“When dinosaurs first evolved, they were not very common and they were pretty small,” said Randall Irmis of the University of California-Berkeley, who worked on the study.
“So they’re not the dominant predators or creatures on land at all during most of the Triassic. And it’s only really until the Jurassic when they really explode in diversity and reach these huge sizes that we’re so familiar with,” Irmis added.
Scientists previously hypothesized that the first dinosaurs quickly out-competed their more primitive cousins, known as “basal dinosauromorphs,” condemning them to extinction. But the new findings indicate that any such competition was prolonged.
The newly found fossils from New Mexico dating from the Triassic period showed that the first dinosaurs co-existed with these animals — “dinosaur wannabes,” as one scientist called them — for perhaps 15 to 20 million years.
“For the first time, we’re finding the earliest dinosaurs and their closest relatives together,” paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California-Berkeley, one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview.
“That tells us that the transition to the beginning of the age of dinosaurs was not a very-rapid affair and that, therefore, it wasn’t instant competitive superiority.”
Irmis said these dinosaur precursors are not thought to have been direct evolutionary ancestors of the dinosaurs but rather having shared a close common ancestor.
NEWLY DISCOVERED BEASTS
The scientists discovered new dinosaur precursors including one 3 to 5 feet long called Dromomeron and another unnamed one about three times larger that walked on four legs and ate plants with a beaked snout.
Relatively small bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs also were found, including Chindesaurus, which measured about 6 feet (2 meters) long, as well as remains of an apparent close relative of the well-known Triassic dinosaur carnivore Coelophysis.
The fossils were found at the Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch, a site that over the decades has yielded many exquisite fossils. For example, hundreds of Coelophysis fossils were found in the 1940s at Ghost Ranch, making it among the best documented of all dinosaurs.
These early Triassic dinosaurs were not the bullies and behemoths that later appeared in the Jurassic period, which started around 200 million years ago.
In fact, they were mere pipsqueaks next to some of their nasty neighbors. The scientists found remains of crocodile-like phytosaurs up to 25 feet long, and a relative of the equally long and vicious four-legged predator Postosuchus.
The New Mexico site at the time these animals lived was a lush environment with a vast river system, flood plains and forests with towering large conifer trees.
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Basking Shark
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Cetorhinidae
Cetorhinus maximus
The basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, is the second largest fish, after the whale shark. It is a filter feeder and is found throughout the oceans of the world. The largest specimen accurately measured was 12.27 metres (40 ft 3 in), and weighed an estimated 16 tons. Normally the basking shark reaches a length of between 6 metres (20 feet) and a little over 8 m (28 ft). In females, only the right ovary appears to be functional: if so, this is a unique characteristic among sharks.
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Bloody Disgusting is reporting the movie Troll is going to be remade. Yes, Troll. And if it does well, we might get a new Troll 2. How disturbing is that?
Here is how commited I am to you guys… this is the hardest thing I ever typed in my life considering I just had an eye exam and all I see are blurry keys - but this news was just too good to pass up. We heard rumblings recently that a remake to the ‘86 horror film Troll was being remake, with a substantial budget. Of course the first thing we did was laugh, laugh some more and then joke about the piss scene in the sequel. Well guess what… it wasn’t a joke. We discovered this evening that a remake to John Carl Buechler’s film is in fact being remade. No details have been revealed about the film other than this synopsis: The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others. Watch for more as soon as we find out.
Remember in the original the main character was named Harry Potter. I wonder if that will stay…
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Another Jim Carrey-less sequel to a Jim Carrey movie, this one starring the most annoying kid in the world, fat bastard Josh Flitter. This time he’s the son of Jim Carrey, so we have nothing but an annoying kid running around to try to keep us entertained. This stinks like DTV (the director David M. Evans directed the good Sandlot film, but also one of the DTV sequels and two DTV Beethoven sequels) but will probably get released in theaters just to bomb spectacularly, and hopefully finish off Josh Flitter’s career forever. I long for the day he’ll be asking me if I want fries with that.
Will this be worse than Son of the Mask? Of course it will! Head to the bomb shelters now, this celluloid crap will be the cinema equivalent of 9-11!
Flitter to star in ‘Ace Ventura 3′
Actor will play pet detective’s son
By DAVE MCNARYJosh Flitter will topline Morgan Creek comedy “Ace Ventura 3,” directed by David M. Evans.
“Ace 3″ will be produced by Morgan Creek topper James G. Robinson. David Robinson will also serve as a producer with Morgan Creek’s Guy McElwaine exec producing.
Principal photography will begin Sept. 17 in Orlando, Fla. Screenplay, penned by Jason Heimberg, Justin Heimberg and Jeff Sank, centers on the son of Ace Ventura following in his father’s footsteps by becoming a pet detective for the 7th-grade set and tracking a stolen baby panda after his mother’s wrongly arrested for the crime.
Flitter’s currently appearing in “License to Wed” and “Nancy Drew.” Evans penned “Radio Flyer” and directed “The Sandlot.”
Morgan Creek produced “Georgia Rule” and “Sydney White,” starring Amanda Bynes.
Flitter’s repped by Abrams Artists Agency and manged by MBST.
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Here are some more of the search terms people are using to get to the site. emmanuelle continues to be a strong keyword, as does lesbians. It is also nice that people looking for “daddy daughter rape” choose TarsTarkas.NET and not some site that would actually appeal to them. I’m sure we can get a more disgusting search term soon, I’ve seen some really bad ones a while ago. Regularly updating the search terms will help me keep track of things outside of a stats program environment, and might help me discover new keywords.
My average visitors per day went down from 200 to 176, it usually fluctuates around between 150-250, so it stays close to 200. The particulars depend on search engines and what movies aired that week on SciFi Channel.
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The story of a man who is also a shark, and also a touching story about a father’s love for his son, who eats his arm. With two movie clips. SciFi Channel and Nu Image Films are who you should blame, not me. I just watch the movies.
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