The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Ain't It Cool News claims to have found the final explanation for how Terry Gilliam will complete his film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus now that the star, Heath Ledger, is dead: apparently Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will all fill in for Ledger in "a weird sort of I’m Not There-esque tribute to the actor." Huh. Well, that......

Take a cursory look at the release history of Blade Runner (which originally came out in 1982) and you might begin to think that Ridley Scott has caught a George Lucas-sized case of Special Edition-itis - you know, that terrible disease that afflicts some directors and causes them to keep tweaking and re-editing and re-releasing their films in different versions, over and over and over. Wikipedia lists seven different versions of Blade Runner, for......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. How to Cook Your Life - A documentary about a combination chef-Zen Buddhist priest (Edward Espe Brown) who's trying to school viewers in the joys of organic cooking. We can't say that sounds particularly exciting to us, but we could see how it might be fun. Trailer Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Most Likely to Suck: Revolver - If you feel like this Guy Ritchie......

He's saying Goodbye, and you might not even know him yet. He's Ulrich Schnauss (MySpace), and he's got some shoe-gazing electro-pop he'd like you to hear. That's why he's coming to World Cafe Live tomorrow night, accompanied by Soundpool and Brooklyn dream pop band Mahogany. Schnauss' latest release, Goodbye, is a complexly layered, sweeping, dramatic, romantic piece of music. What it reminds us of the most is soundtracks: Tangerine Dream's original soundtrack to Legend; Vangelis'......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Check out this post by a Croatian comic-book artist about his favorite manga. It's as good a way as any to step into the weird and wild world of Japanese comics. Also check out the comments of the Drawn! post that led us to that list, as they contain even more recommendations. (Also, we second the recommendations of Death Note and Uzumaki, which......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. There's finally an official teaser trailer for The Dark Knight officially on the web, and you can watch it here. There's no footage from the film, just audio - but you do get to hear the Joker. (Via) Fun little profile of Neil Gaiman here, on the occasion of the upcoming release of the film adaptation of his book Stardust (via).......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Apropos of Something is celebrating the impending release of The Simpsons Movie with a list of The Top Simpsons Supporting Characters. Some of these folks actually seem to be pretty major characters to us, but apparently for the purposes of this list, anybody who is not part of the Simpsons family proper is considered a supporting character. Regardless, many lovely choices, and many......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It's a list, and one about Star Wars, even, so there's no way we could not post for you Star Wars: Top 20 Moments. And as it turns out, it's also quite a good list, with some really good selections. The only one we might quarrel with is number 7: Vader gets a new wardrobe. The scene where Anakin finally goes into the......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Joanna Cassidy, who played Zhora in Blade Runner, just finished her re-shoots for the upcoming DVD re-release, which we think will be called something like Blade Runner: The Really Real Director's Cut. As ridiculous as it all seems... we still can't wait. Every version of that movie is one of our favorite movies ever. Sony's announcing a YouTube-like video sharing site in Japan......