Remember James Lovelock? He’s the Gaia-hypothesis guy. The Gaia hypothesis is the idea that all the living things on earth are really one organism. The Gaia hypothesis isn’t widely accepted in the scientific community, although various forms of the idea that kinds of life (oceanic, forest, animal) balance out one another are better accepted, and even in the Gaia-hypothesis-community there is a spectrum of belief including strong and weak versions of the Gaia hypothesis.

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I haven’t mentioned Mel Gibson’s new film Apocalypto thus far because I haven’t really known what to say about it.

Gibson’s latest is another non-English-language film. Apocalypto takes place about 600 years ago during the decline of the Maya, as the Spanish were about to conquer them. The Maya, as we’ve mentioned here before, were famous for their ceremonial headdresses, their pyramids and especially their calendars.

By most reports, Apocalypto is a beautifully made, brutal film. A pair of recent reviews on Ain’t It Cool News disagree about its quality; one calls it out as one of the best recent films; the other review describes some of its motifs as cliched heavy-handed.
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Normally copyright isn’t something that we have to deal with much here at the Apocalypse Blog (not is it something that certain savory third parties who blatantly violate the Apocalypse Blog’s copyright by reposting our articles on another blog worry much about, either), but recently copyright has been in the news in the UK.

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This looks like a cute film (in-as-much as post-apocalyptic films can be said to be cute). Set in San Francisco twelve years after a pandemic has killed almost everyone, the film is presented as a documentary as the filmmakers wander San Francisco and beyond.

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Neil Marshall, who directed the horror flick The Descent and the the UK werewolf series Dog Soldiers is working on a new film called “Doomsday”, starring Rhona Mitra, recently of Nip/Tuck. Doomsday is a story about a group of people trying to prevent the outbreak of a plague that killed hundreds of thousands of people 30 years before.

The Film Asylum - It’s ‘Doomsday’ for Rhona Mitra.

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Ah, for the halcyon days of the 50’s and 60’s, when forward utopian thinkers dreamt of formica countertops and fallout shelters. Boing Boing reports that Ward Jenkins has posted the blueprints to that dream. Think they’re proof against zombies?

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For the latest news from Death City, check out the Death City blog as it details the spread of the mysterious disease afflicting Death City residents. Told by Xav, a reporter for the Death City Chronicle, the blog provides the real information that the papers are afraid to print.

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At long last: the lost collaboration between Marvel Comics and Jack Chick - Galactus is coming!

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We always knew you had it in you, Helena Bonham Carter! Congratulations on coming to terms with your inner beast!

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Drawn Together can be both more vile and more funny than South Park. When I first saw ads for the show I thought “exploitation” but when I finally started watching it, I was amazed at how smart and stupid it managed to be at the same time, how vile and how very, very funny. It’s one of the shows I most look forward to every week…the story of cartoon housemates on a reality show akin to Big Brother.

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