The thing I like about the BBC documentary on Hunter Thompson that is on the new Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Criterion Collection disc is the proper sounding voiceover actor that reads all of Thompson's writing. It sounds like a Shakespearian actor that is to read from Henry Rollins lyrics. TThis is why books written in an author's voice should be read by the author.

It's also quite frightening how close that Johnny Depp gets to Hunter's actual diction and mannerisms in the film itself.

Go read Warren Ellis's Brainpowered column at ArtBomb.Net.

Also Warren says you should go and download Corey Doctrow's book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Hey, it's free, why not.

Cube 2: Hypercube mini movie review

Somewhat building on the premise of the original this film takes a crew of strangers with unrevealed connections and puts them mostly unwillingly inside a hyperdimensional tesseract. The story unfolds as they are bumped off in a variety of ways and discover the reality of what is going on and who is manipulating them.

About as good as the original if you liked that one, but with less varied death scenes (at least from a gore standpoint). Worth a look if you like the grisly sci-fi story.