If you’ve never seen the indie hit Once, it’s a movie you simply have to see before you die. It’s a beautiful film with one of the greatest soundtracks ever made that tells the story of two musicians falling in love despite the complications in each of their own lives making things very difficult. And the reason the soundtrack is so good is because the two stars of Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, aren’t actors at all but actually very talented musicians, who were each awarded an Academy Award for their music in the film.

What those of you who have seen Once might not know, however, is that a real–life romance sparked and faded between the two and a new musical venture called The Swell Season was born.

Now it’s time for that story to be told in the new musical documentary also titled The Swell Season, which is making the festival rounds. You can see the trailer below now!

Today Universal Pictures has released a new restricted trailer for their upcoming redux of The Thing. You can watch the video below this article.

The trailer runs a little over a minute in length but features a lot of previously unseen footage, including a long-awaited peek at the alien creatures that will be giving our characters the fight of their lives. The monsters look to have been created through a combination of practical effects and CGI, with a little too much emphasis on the latter. Some of the effects look appropriately freaky and cool but it will be all for naught if the rest of the film isn’t up to snuff. Still, this sucker might be worth a watch after all.

Tell it to the parrot, me hearties, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! So shake a cloth in the wind and git yer best Pirate-speak on with a little ‘elp from the rogues and wenches at Disney and the fine sea-faring phrases from their Pirate Lexicon.

Me thinks you laddies might also enjoy a bonus feature from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which will come to shores in due course [October 18, 2011, that is] and stars everyone’s favorite pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow. Feast yer eyes on the video “From London To Hawaii” and the Pirate Lexicon here below.

Yo Ho Ho!

The latest cinematic adventure of Riddick, the vicious yet resourceful criminal anti-hero played by Vin Diesel who first appeared in the 2000 sci-fi thriller Pitch Black and later returned in his own big-budget adventure The Chronicles of Riddick in 2004, has slowly been gaining momentum since it was first announced nearly two years ago. We previously reported on the new film, which will be simply titled Riddick, HERE and HERE . Today Diesel has released a piece of concept art on his Facebook page. You can check out the full image below this article.

The independently-financed film will reportedly discard the elaborate mythology that Diesel and writer-director David Twohy were initially developing for Riddick to explore and take the character back to basics, putting him into a struggle for survival on a hostile alien planet that will make every other battle he has fought in his life seem like a prelude. Riddick finds himself pitted against otherworldly beasts and mercenaries out for his blood. The project has an undetermined 2012 release date.

Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human #2
Written by Rob Williams
Art by P.J. Holden
Colors by Rainer Petter
Letters by Simon Bowland
Covers by Walter Simonson, Jonathan Lau, Tom Feister
Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

There’s nothing quite like a good mash-up, no matter the art form. When an artist takes two distinct pieces and combines them well, that is the mark of true brilliance. Well, put together Robocop and Terminator, and you have a geek’s dream come true!

Come with me on a journey to the future…and the past. In the future, Robocop has seen all the horrors that Skynet is responsible for. In an effort to change the course of history and stop the evil before it happens, he travels back in time and finds himself in the days when Sarah Connor and her young son John struck down Cyberdyne Systems. A battle ensues when he encounters the second time-travelling Terminator, whom he perceives as a threat.