Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. Like “Borat”, the movie follows the adventures of a caricature, this time a flamboyantly gay man instead of a central asian anti-semite. I haven’t seen the movie, so I have no idea if it warranted the rating (supposedly due to nudity and gay [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
Borat’s New Movie Receives NC-17 rating.
March 31st, 2009 by Mark · No Comments · Site Update
Tags: Borat Bruno MPAA NC-17
Lindsey Lohan’s New Movie Heads Straight to Cable.
March 26th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
Apparently, Lindsey Lohan has a new movie out. It’s titled Labor Pains, but perhaps a more fitting title should be “I spend more time on the tabloids than actually working.” This is not meant as a knock against Lohan, the actor. In the few movies in which I’ve seen her (the best of which was [...]
Tags: Labor·Labor Pains·Lindsey Lohan·Lohan·Mean Girls·pregnancy
B-BoyKin
March 19th, 2009 by Victor · No Comments · Cinekin Artwork
Here is one of my favorite cinekin: the B-BoyKin. We haven’t had a chance to use him yet, and I wonder if we ever will (maybe I’ll find some far-fetched excuse…), so I figured “what better place and time to feature him than here in the Cinekin Blog?!” As you can see, he’s an older [...]
Tags: 80s·90s·b-boyg·black and white·boombox·breakdancing·cinekin·dance·hip-hop·urban
Movie stars who were awesome in exactly one awesome movie and no more.
March 12th, 2009 by Mark · 1 Comment · Movies
This is a list of people who are stars, for some reason, despite the fact that there is only one movie to their credit that did not suck donkeys. Orlando Bloom – The Fellowship of the Ring We can lump the other two LOTR movies in with this one, but Fellowship was the only one [...]
Tags: Adam Sandler·Angelina Jolie·Charlie Sheen·Dunst·Fellowship·Ferris Bueller·Ghostbusters·Happy Gilmore·Iron Man·LOTR·Mjor League·Morranis·Office Spacem Livingston·Orlando Bloom·Rourke·Spiderman·The Good Shephard·The Royal Tenenbaums·Tom Cruise·Top Gun·Wrestler
Cinekin watching a (horror) movie!
March 11th, 2009 by Victor · No Comments · Movies, Site Update
I needed to create a new image for the site and this was what I came up with. It took a couple of tries to get the image right; the first draft didn’t have the cinekin proportions I wanted. I wanted to draw an image illustrating a movie get-together and I brainstormed a bunch of [...]
Watchmen
March 7th, 2009 by Cinekin · 2 Comments · Movies
Excitement. Anxiety. Will it be good? Will it let me down? The Watchmen is, without a doubt, one of the great graphic novels. It’s classic. The story is rich, complex, deep, frightening, and spawns countless of other evocative adjectives. Will the movie get across the pathos of Rorshach? The indifferent gaze of Jon Osterman? Will [...]
Cinemus Anthropomorphus
March 4th, 2009 by Victor · 2 Comments · Site Update
Cinekin. The etymology of the word suggests a coming together – a kinship – shared through or over movies. At first glance, the notion of community through movies seems to me…superficial in a way. But I suppose that’s because when I think movies, I immediately envision Hollywood and its capacity to churn out crowd-pleasing drivel. [...]
Tags: cinekin·creative·design·drawing·homunculus·illustration·making of·process
Oktapodi – a tale of two octopuses
March 3rd, 2009 by Dr. Beth · No Comments · Movies
One of the nominees for the best animated short film at the Oscars was Oktapodi. As a lover of all things molluscan, I needed to see this short film. I was a bit annoyed at the title because the plural of octopus is ”octopuses” not octopodi or octopi. However, this is a common mistake - most science words are in latin [...]
