Here ye! Here be updates for the upcoming 5th Philippine Yaoi Convention on the 6th of September.

For any unwilling straight guy dragged to the convention by their sister or significant other, there is a Panic Room for you!

The main second floor veranda has been set aside for your use, so feel free to smoke, play handheld consoles, or read there. The mods will also be bringing along a number of guy-friendly manga, art books, and magazines which you can peruse to your leisure. Source

Cafe le Mirage, the butler cafe exclusive to the convention, now has a microsite. The list of butlers available and meals are all in there.

Last, but not the least, updated complete details of events, venue info, guidelines and FAQs are already posted at the official site.

5th Lights Out
6th of September, 2008
Ikeda Hall/ Balay Kalinaw (next to Ilang-Ilang Residence Hall),
University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, Quezon City
Festivities will start at 1:00 PM and will wrap up at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are pegged are pegged at PhP 150 each (inclusive of single-use Event Badge and Library Pass), while tickets to Cafe Le Mirage are at PhP 80 each (inclusive of one half-hour tea set).

Official Site: Lights Out

Oh man. The more details I get on this Dragonball movie, the more I’m trying not to barf. For one, I really hate it when you get white folk trying to play black-haired anime characters. Such is the case when Hollywood decides to get something innately Asian and Anglicize them for a westernized take. But what makes this a travesty of justice is that Stephen Chow is producing this potential pile of steaming crap.

This is Dragonball for chrissakes! It doesn’t really matter if you cast Jamie Chung, Chow Yun Fat and Eriko Tamura (as Chi Chi, Master Roshi and Mai, respectively). Justin Chatwin as Son Goku is just plain wrong! Enough with white guys playing the token anime hero!

Oh, and does Chow Yun Fat look pervy enough to be Master Roshi? Pfft…

More pictures after the cut.

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Why wasn’t I too surprised when CNN ran this news on David Duchovny’s sex addiction and his efforts to address it. The Intarwebs has been rife with this newsbit especially with the recent run of the new The X-Files movie in which he reprises his role as Agent Fox Mulder opposite Gillian Anderson. Not that I believe that the “X” in X-Files and his Californication role (where he plays a really horny dude) had anything to do with this.

I wasn’t really into The X-Files but I do remember him being famous even among non-geeks just because a VHS tape of one of his low-budget adult films got circulated in our class. And to some extent you got to hand it to this guy – studied at Princeton, left before finishing his PhD to star in some pr0n. Then we all know him as Mulder and Tea Leoni’s husband.

He has checked into rehab to ice down his mojo. I wonder how Tea Leoni dealt with it all these years.

Yes, more movie-for-geek madness in this sugoi blitz posting.

When it was first rumored that Iron Man 2 will lose Jon Favreau at the helm, I started to think that the second installment wouldn’t be the The Dark Knight to Batman Begins. That the whole Iron Man movie franchise would break into pieces and succumb to the same fate as the Matrix trilogy. But yes, thank God for small mercies, Jon will be back.

You see, the best thing about Jon was that he gave Robert Downey Jr. a lot of slack on how to push the Tony Stark character. Any other director (with a prima donna complex) would have stymied Downey. And we could all agree that Downey’s performance pretty much gave life to what could’ve been nothing but a CG explosion fest.

Joining him in the creative team is Tropic Thunder‘s Justin Theroux (What’s up with the French-y surnames?) and reprising their roles in the sequel are RDJ, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrence Howard. Hopefully War Machine finally makes his debut (at least as a moving character).

Source: Film School Rejects

When everyone else is barfing because of too much beer, some die-hard otakus might just be barfing their guts out when they finally see the trailer this October. That’s where we’d all get to see some white dude with spiky hair play Goku and a bunch of other white chicks trying to pass off as J. Even the prospect of seeing my man Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi hasn’t upped my interest for this one.

I don’t care if this is a 20th Century Fox film. This has the makings of a craptastic movie. Heck, I even have the impression that the DoA movie will be better just because that had tits and ass. The film is slated to be shown April 10, 2009. Happy belated April Fools.

And oh. The trailer is set to be shown in the screening of the up and coming Max Payne movie starring Marky Mark without the Funky Bunch. For those not a Batang 80s, that’s Mark Wahlberg for you.

Oktoberfest, baby!

Source: Comingsoon.net

MamaPop just dished out this post pitting two of the biggest superheroes in the movies this year – Iron Man versus Batman. Quite the sacrilege if you ask me. Well, mostly it’s because of the movies. Iron Man is the best superhero movie so far. The Dark Knight (Batman) is an epic crime drama that happened to feature a guy in a cape.

But the two (as characters) taken side by side do not really feature much difference. Billionaire playboys, with lotsa money, lotsa toys, and swanky butlers. There were some other takes online pitting one against the other but come on, they come from two different mythos. Sure they have some dead-on similarities but we could still highlight key differences here. Phenomena on Break had an interesting take on this too.

And MamaPop’s take is a bit flawed I guess since they’re based mostly on the movies. Tony Stark had Jarvis as a butler. There’s no point comparing Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) with Alfred (Michael Caine). Hot-blooded men would definitely choose Pepper any day. Well, they ended up with Iron Man sweeping all points.

Oh and remember this YouTube clip?

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I guess it’s time to dish out some more magic into this thing. Sheesh, crappy average blog postings per month and we’re supposed to be committed to bring you nothing but the best in everything sugoi.

For those of you who don’t know who Stephen Fry is, stop watching Pinoy Dream Academy and those other brainless Pinoy TV and start watching some British TV. (Yey! Pelt me with stones for being unpatriotic. Come on, PDA and PBB are all brainless shows. Piff!) He’s that genius of a Brit who happens to be a writer, director, actor, blah, blah… You might also know him as the other half of the Fry and Laurie comedy tandem. Laurie as in Hugh Laurie – that British bloke who plays Greg House in House MD.

Anyway, Stephen Fry has just started blogging and he’s also writing about games and gaming. Here’s what he has to say about his pink DS Lite.

My DS Lite is pink. There was so much demand earlier this year that they couldn’t be had for bribes, sexual favours or worse. Unless you accepted girly pink. The moment you open it, you are taken back to the old Game & Watch days but can see why the DS has succeeded so well with the middle class, the middle-aged and the Hello Kitty/My Little Strawberry Shortcake Pony set. You set up in a twinkle and then play on two screens, one of which accepts stylus input and touches.

He goes on into comparing it with the unimaginative PSP, and boy do I agree. It was a toss coin thing for me on how to spend a good month’s pay and I took the DS over the PSP. Never mind if I could actually watch hi-def pr0n on a PSP. Handheld pr0n is for wankers anyway. Can’t wait for his take on the Wii.

No, I’m not talking of a sequel to Resident Evil: Extinction, because they would probably never make a part four anyway. (Well, if they did, I’ll just wait until it comes out on DVDs.)

I’m talking about Resident Evil: Degeneration, the first full-length CG animation feature based on the video game series of the same name. According to Wikipedia, it’s currently in production, and it’s slated to make its theatrical debut October 2008 in Japan, and come in DVD and Blu-Ray in America later this year.

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