All good things must come to an end…

As of Tuesday night, February 28, at 8:00 p.m. EST, we are ceasing operations at InfamousKidd.com.

We’re closing up shop at the Infamous HQ, and, while it may come as a sudden shock to you, it’s been something a long time coming. The writing’s been on the wall for awhile for us, for a number of reasons, and, after fighting with hard work and dedication to try to push through to the next level, we’ve come to accept our fate that InfamousKidd.com has gone as far as we can possibly take it.

It’s not easy to launch a website in a highly competitive field with a bunch of other outlets that have been doing it for far longer than you, but we took our best shot at doing something special in South Florida that no one had tried to do before. We tried to bring together a film community that really didn’t exist with any type of organization, encouraging people to embrace their inner geekdom and share their passion for cinema with others who have a similar love for the movies. We did our best to engage you, to kick off the discussion about the latest movie news, our reviews of films, our commentaries, our articles, etc. We never once tried to dictate the conversation… we just wanted it started period.

If you would have told me a little more than three years ago that I would have been able to take this idea of starting a website to creatively express myself, which inevitably turned into a forum for me to talk movies, this far, I wouldn’t have believed. What started out as something to do for fun and to keep myself busy turned into a dream and something I absolutely loved doing. I loved being able to see and talk movies with other fans. I loved meeting new people who were interested in sharing their knowledge. I loved being able to interact with others who had that excitement and fire for movies much like I did. Without InfamousKidd.com, I never would have been able to come across some of those amazing individuals. I never would have been able to meet some truly amazing friends, and I never would have been able to find that I, too, was perfectly capable of doing something I loved to do for a living.

I’m very proud of what we were able to accomplish down here in South Florida in our short time. We tried to make the most of every opportunity that was ever given to us, and, where there weren’t any, we tried to blaze the trail to make them for ourselves. We fought tooth and nail for everything we ever earned, and I can take pride in the fact that we always gave things our best shot.

I want to thank my wife Nicole for the patience and support she’s given me since the very beginning, demanding that I “treat this like a job” and work my ass off if I wanted to make the most of my opportunity to make this work. We’ve been through plenty of ups and downs as a result of the time, effort and stress that go into trying to get a baby website up off the ground, and, through it all, she’s still managed to love me as I poured everything I had into trying to take InfamousKidd.com where I wanted it to go.

I want to thank my son, because, even though he’s too young to know it, he’s the reason for me always trying to do better each day.

I want to thank my parents for encouraging me to make a go of this, even when they knew getting a “regular job” would be a better idea.

I want to thank my old friend R3Y, who, even though we don’t talk anymore, was the first person to encourage me to launch my own site as a way to get my voice out there.

I want to thank my old friend Vara, who put forth a strong commitment at the outset of InfamousKidd.com, because she believed in me and my vision for the site.

I want to thank Raven McCoy, or Dianne as some people have been known to call her from time to time. When she approached me about being an intern for the site, I doubt she ever knew what she was getting herself into. However, over time, I think she enjoyed the thrill of chasing the dream as much as me, and she came to love the site and what we represented as much as anyone.  I’ll always be able to look back fondly on the site and know that, because of it, I was able to meet a very dear friend.

I want to thank Jon Doe, or Marcus in some circles, who just liked what we did, got on-board with it and had a hell of a time in trying to help us all reach our goals. He was always down for whatever ideas were thrown at him, whether it was hitting up a midnight release of a movie nobody wanted to let us see or embracing the idea of launching a column centered around the atrocious movies he was up until 4 in the morning watching anyway. I wouldn’t have someone to be up discussing movies until 2-3 in the morning with if we hadn’t crossed paths, and, while we’ll never see eye to eye on our taste in movies, he’s become an awesome friend along the way.

I want to thank all the publicists we’ve ever worked with, especially the ones who relented and gave us the chances we demanded, because they knew how passionate we were.

I want to thank all of the staff that’ve worked their hardest to always providing the best possible content they had within, from those who were with us through the end – Pumpkin Escobar (Adam) and Mascott (Scott) – to those may not still be with us but helped us get a little further as a result of their efforts – Max Rebo (Michael), Penny Lane (Lauren), Amsterdam Vallon (Reuben) and Rufus T. Firefly (David). At one point or another, they all believed in me, and they all believed in what the site could ultimately be. I can never properly convey my level of gratitude for their support to keep trying to achieve greatness.

I want to thank you, our readers. I’m not talking about those people who’ve come to the site because we’ve given tickets away, and they saw us as their way in, or those who wanted a shot at winning something. No, I’m talking about you, who has taken the time to read our work. It is your love for the movies that has kept us going this long. You are the segment of the population we’ve been reaching out for since the beginning, because it’s your passion that matches ours. We appreciate you caring about anything any of us have ever had to say, and, as a writer, I can tell you it feels good to know that there is someone out there taking an interest in something you’ve worked hard to produce. So thank you. It’s because of you that we know our stuff wasn’t for naught.

This is the end of an era, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t future challenges awaiting us.

With the shuttering of InfamousKidd.com, I can proudly announce that we will be moving forward and joining the staff of Ain’t It Cool News.

This is a pretty major opportunity for all of us, as now we’ve moved beyond just being a small regional site with a footprint in South Florida. We are now a part of something global, reaching a worldwide audience, and it just so happens our home base is still South Florida. We have the chance to further expand the film community we’ve been dreaming about kickstarting into gear, and we have the chance to be involved in something greater than we ever could have imagined for InfamousKidd.com.

AICN was one of the first film blogs to really make an impact on the internet, and really the first film site I ever made it a point to read on a daily basis. Their staff wasn’t made up of critics. It was entirely built by fans, who could then engage other fans to share their love of movies with them. A great deal of what we tried to do with InfamousKidd.com was modeled after AICN and the sense of community they were able to bring to everything they did, so to now become a part of that is a tremendous honor and one I am extremely excited about.

You won’t miss a beat on certain things that would have been missing around here with the closure of the site. Raven McCoy and I will continue to review films as we’ve always done, just now for Ain’t It Cool News. We’ll be covering the latest news and happenings in the movie industry, just now for Ain’t It Cool News. More interviews are already on tap. More opportunities are already presenting themselves. We plan to make the most of the chances being afforded to us now, and that means some pretty incredible content for you to be able to read in the future.

Jon Doe will be continuing on as a columnist as will Mascott and Pumpkin Escobar, so we look forward to them joining us on this new challenge. We also look forward to you coming along for the ride. We have big ideas and big things in store for our South Florida film community, and we hope you take an active role in what we’ve got on the horizon.

It’s been a good run, but this is the end of the road for us. I hope you’ve enjoyed everything we’ve been able to do here at InfamousKidd.com, and I hope you stick with us on the next leg of the journey.

Have a pleasant immediate future.

On this week’s episode of Infamous Radio, the InfamousKidd.com crew (The Infamous Billy The Kidd, Raven McCoy and Jon Doe) discuss the 84th annual Academy Awards, going through some of the winners and losers, but mostly their overall disappointment and boredom with the Billy Crystal-hosted, predictable ceremonies. In addition, they give a little hint about InfamousKidd.com’s big announcement.

LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2012

Happy post Oscars !! How’d everyone do with their picks?  Was it as predictable as you expected? I came in third in my Oscar pool which isn’t too shabby since this was my first time entering a pool. And what a wonderful way to end the month and celebrate the Oscars than with two less than stellar movies, one of which was a winner on Sunday. There’s the Oscar-winning 3D Scorsese children’s film and yet another unwanted addition to Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling spy series. That’s it folks. Slim pickings this week but that’s probably because better movies are being released in theaters so just go to the theaters this week and check the racks next week.

If any of these titles tickle your fancy be sure to click the cover art on this page to purchase them through Amazon and help keep our site going.

HUGO 3D

I initially had no interest in seeing Martin Scorsese’s HUGO, a big screen adaptation of Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The story didn’t sell me and the trailers didn’t tell me what it was about so I didn’t pay it much attention. It wasn’t until I kept hearing about how well Scorsese used the 3D and that his usage of it might teach others how to properly use it that I considered seeing it. Then he started winning awards for his directing so I figured alright I’ll give it a shot.  I did and I was bored out of my mind! Yes Scorsese did integrate the 3D really nicely into the film but the story was dreadful.  About an orphan boy that lives inside of the clock within a 1930s Paris train station after his father’s death who befriends a toy shop owner’s niece and together they unravel a mystery, it’s so terribly boring.  All that ever happens is the boy steals food occasionally, he introduces the girl to movies and he avoids being captured by the station’s police officer.  The only interesting portion was a 20 minute piece that showed how George Méliès created so many of his effects in some of his earliest films. But a good twenty minutes out of a two hour movie is not enough to make me tolerate the rest of it. I am probably in the minority about HUGO because so many others have told me they enjoyed it and it was nominated for eleven Oscars this year but that’s just me.

If you did enjoy HUGO then you’ll be happy to know that Paramount Home Entertainment is offering HUGO in two Blu-ray versions - a Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack which is designed to more closely replicate Hugo‘s original theatrical exhibition and a standard Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack. Both editions only include five behind-the-scenes featurettes, which for a film that is supposed to portray the magic of film I’m a bit surprised that there isn’t more being offered. Then again, I don’t think it’s worth your money in the first place.

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN

When I was younger I loved Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean. He was a child in a man’s body that performed everyday tasks while rarely speaking and making all these grand, goofy movements. It was silly fun but I grew out of it but it doesn’t seem Atkinson has.  He carried that same brand of humor into a James Bond parody called JOHNNY ENGLISH back in 2003 where he played a bumbling, incompetent English spy and it did really well overseas, not so much in the US. However that didn’t deter him from making a follow up to it last year called JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN which many of you probably didn’t hear about because there was such little promo done in the US and the US doesn’t really care for Rowan Atkinson’s brand of humor anyway.  Needless to say it did poorly in the US, only earning $8 million, but did a whopping $150+ million overseas. Hoping to get the US audience a bit more interested in it than they were able to last year, Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN on Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack with a number of bonus materials feature commentary with the director and screenwriter, deleted/extended scenes with introductions by Oliver Parker, a behind-the-scenes featurette and gag reel. If you like bumbling British folk then you might want to check out JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN. Otherwise forget about this film like you did when it was first released in theaters.

Which will you be adding to your rack?

It seems that Hill is going to continue riding that momentum, now that Deadline is reporting that he is attached to star in another dramatic role, produced by Plan B (Brad Pitt, yo) and to be helmed by veteran stage director Rupert Goold (responsible for 2010′s TV production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart in the titular role). And again, it’s another movie based on true accounts. This time, it’s a memoir by New York Times magazine reporter Michael Finkel, entitled True Story. 

The story followed a recently fired Michael Finkel (played by Hill), after his editors believed that he falsified some parts of an investigative report. At the bottom of the country, FBI Wanted murderer Christian Longo (played by my main man, James Franco) has recently been arrested in Mexico for the murder of his wife and kids. Seemingly unrelated, right? Well, for the length of Longo’s tenure as a fugitive, he had been using Finkel’s identity to remain hidden. Now that Longo’s behind bars, reporters are frothing to get his story. Unfortunately for them, he’ll only talk to one reporter, the real Michael Finkel. From there on out, they begin a relationship where Longo attempts to prove his innocence and Finkel attempts to get back his career.

This movie sounds particularly interesting. Of course, I’ll probably see James Franco in anything, but given the severity of the role and how bad-ass this movie sounds, I think I’ll have to make time for this one. Hopefully, Franco (and maybe Hill) will get another Oscar nom for this one. If I had it my way, Franco would have even gotten a nom for that 2 minute cameo in THE GREEN HORNET.

So all the way back in May, it was reported here that Guy Pearce had gotten a role in Ridley Scott’s new flick PROMETHEUS. The details of Pearce’s role, like many other details, has been kept pretty tightly under wraps. There was a little piece of information that scribe Damon Lindeloff gave up about Michael Fassbender being an android and Charlize Theron being the “corporate presence.” Keep that in mind for the story. As well, this flick has went from being a prequel to something entirely different that people are still scratching their heads about how it will be connected to the ALIEN universe. The answers to these questions lie ahead… maybe.

Apparently, Hungarian website Filmsite.Hu got a quote from Ridley Scott, where he did an interview with IC Press, stating:

When the first ALIEN movie and BLADE RUNNER were made, I thought that in the near future the world will be owned by large companies. This is why we have the Tyrell Corporation in BLADE RUNNER, and Weyland-Yutani in ALIEN. They sent the Nostromo spaceship.

The Prometheus is owned by an entrepreneur called Peter Weyland, and is played by Guy Pearce. That’s the connection between the two films, and nothing more. PROMETHEUS is a new film, a new world, and is full of new ideas. And of course new monsters as well.

Translation courtesy of AlienPrequelNews.

For the most part, he’s saying that the only connection between ALIEN and PROMETHEUS is that the company that remained a omniscient entity in the original flicks returns in PROMETHEUS to provide a face and commission another exploratory mission. Other than that, it’s an entirely unrelated movie. It’s pretty interesting, but it’s unfortunate that that really is the only link between the two flicks. However, considering the fact that no one knows when the fuck he gave this interview or who the hell IC Press is, lots of folks aren’t willing to commit quite yet. So until then, as APN puts it, “please take this info with a little bit of salt for the time being…”

With presumably only a few days left before they start filming, Deadline is telling us that Frances Fisher has just signed up for the role of Melanie’s auntie, Maggie, in THE HOST. Prior to this, the only other role I know her in (I know, I know) is TITANIC, where she played the overbearing mother of Rose (Kate Winslet). Now that I think about, I fucking loved her in that flick. Aside from that, she co-starred in Clint Eastwood’s UNFORGIVEN, which got some serious gold at the Oscars, and most recently played in THE LINCOLN LAWYER alongside Matthew McConaughey.

THE HOST follows a the last few vestiges of the human race following the invasion of aliens beings known as Souls, which have the ability to possess humans and possibly feed off of them. For the most part, gotta give props for this choice in actress. They’ve got a good one on their hands.

Aw, you guys are just the best.

Back to normal! The episode starts off half-way in – Shane’s in a bus, Randall is doing the worm, Rick is running around – Whatever, it’s the future, we aren’t supposed to know what’s going on.

I'm forcing this reference to insert a TARDIS.

Back in the (present/past/part we’re supposed to understand) we see Rick and Shane driving Randall, the kid they took last week, far away from the farm so he can’t tell his original group where the Atlanta survivors are quartered. Before they drop him off though, Rick stops the car and gets out with Shane – they need to talk.

Now, after last week’s episode, with Lori whispering in Rick’s ear that he has to kill Shane, you’d imagine that one of the two of them was not particularly long for this world. But Rick doesn’t see that as a necessity in the same way that a television viewing audience does. The two have a long overdue talk about what happened, and Rick’s reaction to what he learned last week. He gets Shane to admit to killing Otis, but doesn’t really “blame” him for it – Shane says he had to do it to save Carl, and Rick is willing to believe that, to a point.

Rick makes it clear to Shane that Carl is his son, and Lori is his wife. It’s his job to keep his family safe, something he makes clear that he’s able to do on his own. Rick tells Shane that he knows about what happened between him and Lori. He understands, but makes it clear to Shane that it needs to be put in the past – that it’s not okay. Shane says that if he could take it back, he would, and seems sincere. However, it doesn’t end easily, as Rick makes a final statement that Shane needs to forget about anything ever happening between him and Lori ever again, and walks back into the car with that.

To a point, Rick still trusts Shane, or wants to. He wants to be able to trust him in the same way that he did in the first few minutes of episode one, when they talked about an argument between Rick and Lori over fries and burgers, and I feel like Shane might even wish for the same thing. The only difference is that Shane sees that as being impossible now, whereas Rick sees a future for his family. (Of course, that conversation mirrors the current conflict, where Shane believes he has the chops to be a better husband to Lori than Rick does.)

Pre-Zombie-Apocalypse, this was the kind of picture they would have untagged themselves from.

Back at the farm, Lori and Maggie talk about Glenn, and what happened in the last episode where he said he wussed-out on Rick and Hershel. Lori advises Maggie to just tell Glenn to “man up,” which is interesting for Lori to say, because both of the two “men” she has in her group are guys she’s slept with.

Rick speculates on the effect that the coming winter will have on the walkers, and suggests that they start using their knives to kill walkers more often. They need to save ammunition, and using more silent methods of dispatching threats will prevent more from arriving at the sound of the gunshots. Shane isn’t listening however, staring out the window at a lone walker slowly making its way through an empty field. (Which we will talk about later.)

The pair arrive at the county’s public works department, just over 18 miles from the farm. A walker appears inside the gate, a police officer, and instead of shooting it, Rick tries something new – he cuts his own finger to attract the walker with the smell of the blood, and jams a knife in its forehead. A second police walker appears, and Rick lets Shane try this new and innovative technique.

Shane examines the bodies of the two walkers, and comments to Rick that he can’t find any bites on them. Rick says that they must have been scratched, which is one of the first things we’ve learned about the actual virus since the last episode of season one, when we watched Marlon from THE TRUMAN SHOW talk at length about the nature of the infection.

"Mmmm. That's good plague."

This very specifically made me think of Beth being in a semi-comatose state – Could she have been scratched by her mother’s walker? Oh, wait, no, she’s fine.

What? Are they just going to go ahead and say “Never mind. She just fell over.”

….I guess they are?

Lori brings Beth food, trying to get her to eat. For the first time, she seems very compliant. Lori does her best to calm her after what could have only been a terribly traumatic experience, but she seems oddly peaceful. She leaves, and comes back after a while, only to find that Beth hasn’t eaten any of her food, but the knife is missing. Lori rushes in, and is able to get the knife back before Beth does anything rash with it. She was considering killing herself.

We’ve dealt with suicide before, or at least attempting it. Andrea was stopped from “killing herself” at the CDC by Dale, while Jacqui decided to stay. For a while, Andrea hated Dale for stopping her from killing herself, for taking the choice away from her. Now, it seems she’s okay with the fact that she’s alive, but still would have preferred that the choice remained hers.

Rick and Shane leave Randall on the ground at the public works depot with a knife to eventually cut the ropes binding him. (Shout out to that classic Tarrantino trunk shot.) Tied up with little hope to survive on his own, he starts begging them to let him stay on the farm – and lets slip that he went to school with Maggie – He knows where the farm is, and leaving him somewhere won’t change that. Shane makes a move to shoot the kid, while Rick stops him – he wants some time to think about it. With Rick’s refusal to shoot the kid, Shane now makes his views clear. “I don’t think you can keep them safe.”

Shane and Rick get in a dirty fight, while Randall tries to move toward the knife that was left for him. Shane picks up a humungous wrench and shotputs it through a window. Instead of hurting Rick, it just awakens the walkers that were inside the building.

Shane catches a glimpse himself for a moment in the glass of the broken window, looking like a crazed monster – the monster he’s become, and this is the first time he’s seen himself as such.

Rick kills the first walker with his knife, but more pour out through the window. He does the same trick we saw Daryl pull in the first episode of the season, hiding under a dead walker to mask his own scent. Instead, they all go after Shane.

Randall is able to get loose from his ropes just in time to kill one walker getting dangerously close to biting him, while Rick shoots two, and then a third through the mouth of the first. (FORESHADOWING!)

Lori has brought Maggie and Andrea into the house to try to deal with the Beth situation. Maggie and Beth have a classic sister to sister talk, where Beth suggests the two of them engage in a murder/suicide pact together. Maggie’s having none of this, and does her best to convince her sister that life is worth living. “What are we waiting for?” she says. Downstairs in the kitchen, Lori and Andrea are just as divided. Andrea thinks that Lori shouldn’t have taken the knife, instead giving Beth her own choice, the one she had been denied at the CDC. Lori then calls out Andrea for not helping around the house as her, Carol, Maggie, Beth and that other one have been. (Some of these characters are just so forgettable that I can’t even come up with a decent enough Google search to find their names.) Andrea wins the argument, however, after giving Lori some serious shit about Shane.

We’re seeing Lori go off into some strange directions with this conversation. She brings up the idea of gender roles on the farm. I honestly thought that was a non-issue, but apparently it’s a bigger problem than I had realized. (I suppose it goes all the way back to the laundry scene from season one.) But don’t forget, Andrea has been forced to “man up” as well. This is just what’s resulted.

We find ourselves back at the beginning of the episode, with Shane barricading himself inside a school bus under siege by at least seven or eight walkers. He takes a page out of Rick’s book and begins to pick off the zombies one by one by smearing blood on the door of the bus, and picking them off one by one with a hunting knife as they go to lick it up. Rick picks up Randall, and they both see Shane’s dire situation. Randall is all for leaving him behind, and Rick pulls Randall away. The two leave the depot with Shane still in the bus.

What we’re seeing is Shane’s own philosophy being demonstrated to him right to his face. The heartless action of leaving him behind is just exactly what he said needs to be done to protect Carl, Lori and the unborn child.

At the farm, Maggie is getting tired and stressed watching over Beth. Andrea offers to take over, leaving her alone with Beth. Andrea is a woman of few words, but those few are important. She talks about the choice of whether or not suicide is the right option, and explaining that she’s going to give Beth that choice. “The pain doesn’t go away,” Andrea says as she walks out the door.

It’s an incredibly bleak idea, but if you think about it even a tenth as much as these characters have, you’ll see that in this world suicide is as viable an option as staying alive. Andrea didn’t come to this conclusion for nothing.

A few minutes later, glass is heard breaking in Beth’s bathroom. Maggie and Lori rush in, but the door is locked. Lori quickly pries the door open, and they find Beth bleeding, holding glass from a broken mirror.

On their way out, Rick stops over the two corpses of the police-walkers that he and Shane had killed earlier. It’s not a leap to say that he sees himself and Shane in the two walkers in a lot of ways, but I just can’t think of a good bridge to that that can’t be misinterpreted as “Rick and Shane are zombies.”

In the bus, Shane is getting tired. He knows he won’t last much longer, and is about to give up hope when Rick and Randall arrive in the car, Rick shooting out the shotgun seat like an old cowboy movie. They’re here to rescue him – which goes against Shane’s logic.

Not even Shane could have blamed Rick for leaving him behind. In fact earlier in the episode he would have even said that it’d be a necessity to leave him behind. But Rick finds a way, and saves him anyway. Man, Shane feels like such a dick right now.

Andrea comes back to the house after hearing what happened with Beth, acting like it was no big deal that she left the suicidal girl alone after promising that girl’s sister that she’d be safe. The cuts weren’t deep, which Andrea sees as a safe sign that Beth made her choice to live. Maggie doesn’t see it that way, and bans Andrea from the farmhouse. For a moment, Lori stands up for Andrea’s actions, saying that “sometimes you need to cross the line.”

It was at that moment I realized that Shane and Andrea are pulling the same shit. Doing what they believe is right no matter what anyone else thinks, and not letting anyone get in their way.

Shane and Rick tie up Randall again, and have another talk. Rick says that he’ll probably have to kill Randall, but he can’t let it be so easy as just shooting him, as Shane wanted. He doesn’t want murder to become the norm, even with all the walkers they kill on a daily basis. He wants the old Shane back, and gives him his gun. On the way back to the farm, Shane sees that lone walker in the field again.

That walker is rife with symbolism. I’m sure you’ll have your own theories, but here’s mine. Shane previously saw himself as a pariah, but someone working toward the benefit of his “family.” Rick has shown him that his actions aren’t always the “right” ones, and he’s been forced to rethink everything he’s done up until now, and maybe, just maybe listen to Rick for once. Alone, he’s useless and kind of sad looking, just like that lone walker. But in the group, he can truly do some good.

But will he?

I’ll leave you with this panel from the comics, notable as probably the most impactful moment of the series. We’re seeing more and more characters subscribe to this belief, but you haven’t heard anyone actually say it yet. I’ll let Rick say it best.

Did Anyone Else See… - That Mass Effect 3 trailer premiere?

Click here to view the embedded video.

How awesome was that? I cannot wait for that thing to be delivered to my house, and neither can you. Be supportive, guys, come on.

My Advice to You… – Read the comics. They were good enough to get AMC to throw millions of dollars at Frank Darabont to make a fantastic TV show, they’re probably good enough that you’d enjoy reading them.

Mascott remembers what InfamousKidd.com looked like on its first night because he was there. In the future, no matter where he ends up, you’ll be able to find him in one way or another at TheMascott.com. You can follow him on Twitter if he ever starts tweeting again, or you can email him here.

Another year, another Academy Awards. As the Oscars get a bit older, now reaching the geriatric age of 84, you wouldn’t want to miss out on experiencing the winners, the losers and the Billy Crystal of the evening with us, would you?

The crew of InfamousKidd.com will be live blogging the Oscars once again this year, starting with a little bit of red carpet coverage at 8:00 p.m. EST (there’s no way The Kidd is sitting through 90 minutes of “Who are you wearing?”) before the curtain goes up at 8:30 p.m. EST for THE ARTIST to collect plenty of gold statues on Sunday night, February 26. Or could there be some upsets on the way? Hmmm… who knows. But as long as I get to see some Jessica Biel at some point during the evening, I think I’ll be okay with whatever goes down.

Join The Kidd, Raven McCoy, Jon Doe and Pumpkin Escobar for every last thought, idea, debate and discussion that pops up in our collective heads on Oscar night. It’s like swimming in our stream of consciousness… or something.

Deadline is telling us that Scott has got Fassbender, for them to start shooting on May 1. The flick follows a lawyer’s foray into the drug world, with him ending up in a dangerous situation that he must now survive. It also seems the flick has a fleshed-out villain in it and we all know McCarthy can develop a fucking villain (Anton Chigurh, bitches!). Deadline is hearing that Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper (Really?! Why?), and Brad Pitt are being considered for the baddie.

This flick is sounding extremely interesting, but unfortunately, it hasn’t found a studio as of yet, which put its status in jeopardy. However, considering all the people involved in it so far, I’m sure it won’t be long until a studio gets out of their stupor and picks this flick up.

The Hollywood Reporter gave us a slew of names to be added to the IMDB page, which lists Paul Giamatti, Samuel L. Jackson, Luis Guzman, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins, Dr. Ken, Michelle Rodriguez, Kurtwood “My Foot in Your Ass” Smith, Ben Schwartz, Maya Rudolph, Michael Pena, and Snoop Dogg (yo). Gotta admit, that’s a pretty cool cast. A lot of those folks, I really like. A surprise to see the man who used to play Red Foreman on there. I wasn’t even aware he did voice acting.

They’re also telling us that David Soren, storyboard artist, occasional voice actor, and director (He directed that TV special, MERRY MADAGASCAR) will be getting his directorial debut with this flick and the script is by David Lemke (Known for SHREK FOREVER AFTER and the upcoming JACK THE GIANT KILLER) and Robert Siegel, wrote THE WRESTLER and got to direct his own screenplay with BIG FAN. So far I’ve loved all of Siegel’s work, so let’s hope his work is more prominent in the final cut.

In a double wami news to try to compensate for that shitty movie poster, we’re also getting a new photo from the movie that’s loads cooler than the poster. Loving the fact that they took advantage of the blurred light effect when looking at cars to emphasize the speed that this snail longs for.

Take a look: