- Who’s ready to get “Sinister” again? Anyone who enjoyed
the low-budget horror movie released in 2012 with Ethan Hawke as a true-crime writer who found
a box of home movies in his attic that put him and his family in grave danger
from the demonic child snatching entity known as Bagul will be thrilled to know
that there will be another feel-good chapter in this saga. The producers of
“Paranormal Activity” and “Insidious” are behind the sequel and revealed plot
details about the project this week. It will follow up will star Shannyn
Sossamon and real-life twins Robert and Dartanian Sloan and the producers
described the new movie thusly: “In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, a protective mother
(Sossamon) and her 9-year-old twin sons (the Sloan brothers) find themselves in
a rural house marked for death.
James Ransone (Ziggy in The Wire season 2), who portrayed the concerned sheriff’s deputy
in Sinister, will be reprising
his character in Sinister 2.” To
give the new movie continuity with its successor, the director of the first
picture, Scott Derrickson, co-wrote the script for the sequel with C. Robert
Cargill. However, Derrickson will be replaced behind the camera by Ciaran Foy (“Citadel”).
New director and all,
this project is projected to come together quickly and is scheduled to hit
theaters next summer. Low-budget, indie-esque horror and paranormal movies have
had some of the most profitable runs of any movies in theaters lately, so don’t
be stunned if “Sinister” finds a dark, twisted and successful place in the
hearts of movie goers across the United States………
- Only a small percentage of people can afford to stay in a
hotel that has butlers and maids. Those with enough disposable income to rent
rooms in such establishments are looking for an elite, posh experience and if
an ongoing experiment at the Aloft Hotel in tech haven Cupertino, California is
successful, the elite experience of a luxury hotel is about to get better – and
weirder. The top-end hotel has a pool, a bar….and robots that can deliver items to guests’ rooms. “It’s
something that’s very Silicon Valley. It’s very novel and I think it’s the
future,” said Steve Cousins, CEO and co-founder of Savioke, which makes the
robots. The robots are known as ALO’s and when a call comes to the front desk
from a guest who wants food or another item brought to their wildly overpriced
room, the clerk programs the robot with the desired room number and off the
bundle of wires, gigabytes and electrodes goes with their $25 hamburger, fresh
pillow or new toothbrush. The robots’ guidance system has a map of the entire
hotel and ALO is able to guide itself safely through the building using sonar
waves, lasers and special cameras. Its tiny electronic mind can also summon
elevators and avoid obstacles in its way. When ALO arrives at a guest’s door,
it calls their room phone to let them know their item has arrived. According to
Savioke, the design for ALO was inspired by R2D2 from the “Star Wars” movies.
Right now, the robots can carry up to a 10-pound payload, a number likely to
increase as the robot is refined……….
- The New York Mets are not going anywhere this season. Rehabbing ace Matt Harvey isn't either. Harvey,
who underwent Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow on Oct. 22, 2013, was
widely expected to miss the entire 2014 recovering from the procedure. Either
no one told Harvey that or he’s just determined to take the mound for a team
mired in mediocrity, because Harvey has suddenly become very chatty about his
rehab process and his plans for a sooner-than-expected return to the mound. During
a rehab stint in Port St. Lucie, Florida, Harvey threw a 27-pitch bullpen
session and after he was doing, he did a radio interview with a New York
station during the Mets’ game against the Washington Nationals. "I felt
like I was easily throwing into the low- to mid-90s, with pretty much no
effort," Harvey said. "I know there's a process, but as a competitor
I want to get out there as soon as possible." He intimated that he would
like to pitch this season and when the Mets’ game ended, manager Terry Collins
was ambushed with questions about his absent ace. Oddly enough, Collins wasn’t
happy with the message relayed to him. "No. 1, he's a tremendous
competitor," Collins said. "That being said, he's a bulldog at the
same time. There's no backing down with Matt Harvey -- for anything. He was
bound and determined to get ready. We slowed him down. It frustrated him to the
max. He's feeling good." He had a phone chat with Harvey the next day,
telling him to back off his push to come back this season and ordering him to
stop doing interviews during games. "He wants to try to get back here to
help," Collins said about Harvey. "And I explained to him, 'I
understand that. But ... you have got to understand the big picture. And the
big picture is 2015. So back off.'” An exasperated Collins explained that he
has a hard time controlling Harvey’s comments and interviews, but made it clear
he can keep the pitcher off the mound this season. He's not going to pitch this
year. I'm settled with that. He's settled with that. And I've just told him
you've got to take a look at the big picture and you've got to be careful what
you're doing and what you're saying, because you have to be here next year.” Well,
there goes the Mets’ chances to be interesting the rest of this season……….
- From Colombia, with love….in the form of two surgically
enhanced boobs filled with blow. Smuggling cocaine out of Colombia and into
foreign countries where it can be sold for a premium price is increasingly
difficult and drug cartels are always searching for new ways to move product
across borders. An unidentified woman aboard a flight from Bogota to Madrid’s Barajas
International Airport was not trying anything new, but she did put herself in
harm’s way to make a few dollars and/or avoid having a cartel leader put a
bullet in her head for being uncooperative. According to Spanish police, the
woman arrived at
Madrid's international airport with 3.7 pounds of cocaine hidden in her breast
implants. How did security officials possibly know the difference between a
natural rack and one stuffed with Colombian nose candy? Well, narcotics agents
grew suspicious when the Venezuelan woman exhibited unspecified strange
behavior during a routine screening of passengers who had just arrived. A
twitchy person who has cocaine in their system is nothing new, but usually
those people have snorted or otherwise ingested the Bolivian marching powder
into their bodies. In this case, a female security officer approached the
woman, inspected her luggage and found nothing unusual. However, when two
female officers frisked the woman, they found irregularities and deformations
in both of the suspect's breasts. At that point, the woman "became nervous
and confessed to carrying cocaine implants," a police statement said. She
was then transferred to a hospital where she was detained for an alleged crime
against public health, the statement said. Maybe she and whoever sent her
should have done some research and found out that Spain employs a police unit
to specifically check passenger arrivals from major drug-producing countries………..
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