Giant Freakin Robot

When applying for a new job, there are few more impressive accomplishments you could list on your resume than “astronaut.” Sure, brain surgeon is damned impressive. Navy SEAL, unquestionably awesome. But astronaut is the only one that tells people, “I’ve been to space, dude.” So it’s understandable that former NASA engineer Jose Hernandez wanted to list “astronaut” as his profession on the ballot in his race for U.S. Congress in California. And now, despite the efforts of his opponents on the other side of the aisle, he’ll be able to do just that.

According to the L.A. Times, Hernandez wants to list his occupation as “astronaut/scientist/engineer.” Given that Hernandez flew on the space shuttle Discovery’s STS-128 mission in 2009, you’d think that claim would be pretty clear cut. If it walks like an astronaut, talks like an astronaut, and gets launched into the final frontier on a pillar of flame like an astronaut… Not so, claimed Republicans, who argued that Hernandez shouldn’t be allowed to call himself an astronaut since he left NASA in 2011 to work at a technology company.

Star Wars has taught me that in order to become a Sith Lord you must first murder everyone you love. At least that’s how Anakin did it but maybe he’s not the norm, since Homer Liwag has gone through the trouble to create a Sith wedding ring.

Looking to propose to your Sith girlfriend in a way that won’t get you fried by Force lightning? Then try this…

Opening on May 25th, MIB III sees Will Smith’s Agent J traveling back to the 1960s to stop an alien from pulling a John Connor and killing a younger version of Agent K. The bad guy in question is being played by Flight of the Conchords‘ Jemaine Clement, and you can see his look in these new shots. There’s not a lot of context provided, but I’m speculating that the hot evil chick (Nicole Scherzinger, in the role of “Lily Poison”) is breaking Boris (Clement) out of some sort of prison. I’m betting the delicious cake is involved in some MIB spin on the old “hide a file in a cake” chestnut.

That could all be entirely wrong, of course, but my guess is as good as yours. Check out the shots…

Last week we brought you the first full trailer for director Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall. He’s taking it in a different direction from the 1990 Paul Veerhoven movie, with more slick, CGI action and with a change in setting. This Total Recall will be set entirely on Earth and not on Mars.

Maybe you’re confused by some of his decisions or just want to know what he was thinking. Now you can. Wiseman called MTV and spoke to them about the trailer and they’ve mashed that audio together with the actual trailer footage to create, in essence, trailer commentary.

Watch the new Total Recall trailer with director’s commentary embedded below…