There are few things as cool as a bounty hunter. Going purely on the basis of movies and television, it's the ideal gig when you lack the commitment to be a cop (even a loose cannon cop) and you don't want the ruthless immorality of the bloody stuff. Of course, cinema's bounty hunters run the gamut from Gerard Butler's mellow Milo in The Bounty Hunter to the ruthless killers of Sergio Leone, so the boundaries between "hitman" and "hunter" are often blurred.

But the difference between an assassin and a bounty hunter isn't financial (assassins are often guns for hire), but one of publicity. If you kill people for a living, you have to basically live off the grid. Bounty hunters have to surface, and provide proof that they've brought their quarry in, dead or alive ... or they don't get paid. They willingly wear their profession on their sleeve. That takes guts, and it's no wonder that they tend to stand out in any cast of characters.

So in honor of The Bounty Hunter, here are seven of my favorite hunters of humanity. Butler's Milo Boyd might want to rent all of these films and study them closely, especially in regards to fashion. No bounty hunter worth his or her grit would be caught dead in that short-sleeved plaid shirt. The whole point of being one is to live outside of society, so why would you choose to dress like your average Target ad?

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In the new film The Runaways, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning play Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, musical pioneers who broke down gender stereotypes as members of the eponymous band. A sex-charged rejoinder to the argument that men rock harder than women, Jett and Currie found their strength even as their producer and promoter, industry luminary Kim Fowley, took advantage of their youth and feminine appeal. Unlike the characters they play, however, Stewart and Fanning aren't letting anyone exploit them, even if it's in the guise of empowerment; the actresses have spent much of their careers redefining the limits of roles young actresses can play, and the women offer equally powerful turns in this film, proving that even a downbeat ending, such as the one that eventually befell The Runaways, can turn into triumph later on.

At a recent press day in Los Angeles, Cinematical spoke to Stewart and Fanning about both The Runaways and the exploits, both good and bad, of the band that inspired the film. In addition to talking about the influence the real women had on the way they played their characters, Fanning and Stewart reflected on their own process for playing different roles, and offered a few insights about acting against a seemingly unstoppable wall of analysis coming both from the public, and occasionally, from within themselves.

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We're reprinting this review from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to coincide with The Runaways theatrical release this weekend.

By: Kevin Kelly

I'll be blunt about this: I really wasn't looking forward to this movie. I'm not the biggest fan of lip-chewing, hair-twirling Kristen Stewart, or the wide-eyed, blank face expert Dakota Fanning. I love rock and roll (so put another dime in the jukebox, baby) as much as the next person, but these two starring in a movie about an all-girl, teen sensation, flash in the pan band from the 1970s? I just didn't think they could pull it off. Hey, at least I'm big enough to admit I was wrong. The Runaways rocked the Joan Jett / Cherie Currie backstory's pants off (literally), and I'll be buying the soundtrack, which features K-Stew and D-Fan singing the blasts from the past.

However, this movie really should have been called The Joan Jett & Cherie Currie Show, because the other Runaways are hardly featured in this movie at all. Sandy West (who co-founded the band with Joan Jett), and Lita Ford's stories aren't given much attention in the film, and Ford seems to exist just to cause drama. Additionally, The Runaways had six different bass players during their short four-year history (including Micki Steele who went on to The Bangles) so the filmmakers decided to create a fictional girl named Robin Robins. She's played by Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development fame, and she unfortunately gets only one or two lines.

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At long last, the wait is over. Set your nerdometers to full-on geek out mode because the first trailer for Nimrod Antal's Predators is now online. Produced by Robert Rodriguez, the reboot-slash-sequel is due in theaters July 9th. IGN scored a nearly two minute long preview -- check it out after the jump.

In the film, Adrien Brody and a group of elite warriors are hunted by the alien Predator race -- only this time, the action takes place on the Predator homeworld. Brody is joined by Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo (love!) and Oleg Taktarov in the ensemble cast. Derek Mears, the most recent actor to don Jason Voorhees' hockey mask, will be one of the Predators.

The clip looks impressive, showcasing the lush landscape of the Predators' world while still managing to work in numerous action shots and scenes of the cast looking grizzled and badass. And holy testosterone -- I want to punch someone in the face after watching that.

Predators is the fifth film to feature the galaxy's most feared hunters. Here's to hoping it can make us forget all about the two Aliens vs. Predator films. You can read Todd's thoughts on the SXSW preview here.

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What do you do with a woman who boldly declares that she's a whore? If you're Cameron Yates, you follow her around for years and discover that she has a fascinating, funny, troubling story to tell. And you end up with The Canal Street Madam, a documentary that had its world premiere at SXSW. The film navigates gracefully through shifting emotional currents, blurring the lines between issues and people to allow the outspoken, occasionally contradictory Jeanette Maier to speak her mind about life as an infamous -- or famous, she can't quite decide -- prostitute and business owner.
Maier became known as "The Canal Street Madam" after she was arrested by the FBI for running a house of prostitution in New Orleans. What set her story apart in the national consciousness was the revelation that Maier, her mother, and her daughter were all involved in the business. Three generations of prostitutes made for a great news story, and Maier was able to parlay that publicity into a made for TV movie starring Annabella Sciorra as herself and Ellen Burstyn as her mother. But Maier was convicted of a felony, and so comes to realize that her options have become more limited for the next stage of her life.
Not that she seems to have had many options before she became a prostitute. She was sexually abused at a young age by a close relative, eventually drifting into dancing in strip clubs and then following her mother into the prostitution business. Her first trick was easy money, she recalls: $200 plus a $200 tip for an hour's work; she felt good about it.

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With blogging as hot as it is, and the fact that Julie & Julia earned itself an Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep, it was only a matter of time before another big name grabbed a bloggerific pic. Deadline Hollywood posts that Columbia Pictures has grabbed the rights to The Pioneer Woman, and will develop it as a "potential star vehicle" for Reese Witherspoon.

Unlike Julie Powell's blog, which focused on one very specific thing, there's a wide range of themes and quirks to choose from this time around. As the story goes, Ree Drummond was on her way to Chicago (from LA) when she detoured to Oklahoma, met "the cowboy of her dreams and transformed from spoiled city girl to domestic ranch wife." In other words, the opposite of Sweet Home Alabama. Drummond's blog is pretty cool, detailing food/home/garden blogging, photography, and even homeschooling. (I've been in love with her Action Sets for CS4 for a while now.) She's a bit of a movie fan as well, having recently devoured The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation, and offering movie line questions as part of her "Smartypants Quizzes."

Unfortunately, Deadline says: "The film will explore the fantasy of trading big city living for a wholesome simpler life," but I'm really hoping they put some solid focus on the wickedly wide range of interests and experiences she has. Otherwise, we've seen it all before. A lot. We don't need Blog Hollywood.

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He's been acting for 30 years and recently even became part of a franchise (Dukes of Hazzard), but I would never think of Willie Nelson as a movie star. Yet the country music icon and star of 1980s Honeysuckle Rose has launched a production company called Luck Films, which will produce 3-5 films a year, many featuring Nelson and/or his music. Nelson isn't going at this alone, though. Joining him are actor/producer Kerry Wallum, actor/filmmaker Norman Macera and producers Scott Macauley and David Von Roehm. According to Variety, each release will have a budget under $3 million.

The company's first movie, which I can't find any info on except that it will star Nelson and start shooting in May, is called The Dry Gulch Kid. The next, titled Shoot Out of Luck, will feature Nelson and Randall 'Tex' Cobb as sideshow cowboys who "tangle" with the mob for a comedic hybrid of the Western and gangster genres. The film's IMDb page adds that it will be "a dramatic, suspenseful journey that ends with a musical celebration." Sounds to me like Stir Crazy meets The Cowboy Way meets ... well it doesn't really matter because it's Willie Nelson and Randall 'Tex' Cobb going up against the mob. My 1980s-dwelling adolescent self would have been all over it.

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Imagine a flick like Braveheart, 300, Gladiator, or King Arthur, only those films have just been stripped of all those boring scenes about kings and princes, peasants and slaves, taxes and trades, and all that jazz. The result would be a movie that looks a lot like Neil Marshall's Centurion, a fast-paced, visually stunning, and action-heavy period piece that focuses on what matters most in a Saturday afternoon matinee: the good stuff. Boasting nary a subplot or an extraneous character to deal with, Centurion seems fully intent on delivering an old-school action adventure that tickles the eye without taxing the brain. And it succeeds on all counts.

It's the story of Centurion Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender), a trusted officer in the Roman army. Following a brutal attack by the barbaric Picts (ancient Scots are what they are, I do believe), Quintus finds himself stuck deep inside an enemy village -- but not for long. Quintus' escape is aided by the last few survivors of the legendary Ninth Legion, and together the small band of soldiers must make their way to a friendly border. Not only do they have a long way to go, but they also have on their tails a tenacious group of Pict trackers, which is led by the ferociously unwavering Etain (Olga Kurylenko).

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Yes, as of today Frankenstein has been a fixture in American cinema for 100 years. The first film version of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel first saw the light of a projector bulb on March 18, 1910. Predating the better known Boris Karloff version by 21 years, this film was directed by J. Searle Dawley and starred Augustus Phillips as Frankenstein (no first name) and Charles Ogle as the monster. It was produced by Edison Studios, although according to Wikipedia Thomas Edison had no direct involvement in the film. You can see this early example of horror cinema after the jump.

To commemorate the occasion Pierre Fournier is presenting a week of relevant posts on his Frankensteinia blog. For an in depth article on the Edison Frankenstein, check out Fournier's posting "The First Frankenstein of the Movies" which was his first post of the week.

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With so many female-driven films and strong roles at this year's fest, and in the spirit of the opening night film, we'll be profiling some of the most kick-ass females representing at SXSW this week. Next up: Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz.

At only 13 years old, Chloë Grace Moretz is already shaping up to become the next great geek icon. Sure, you've seen her do the occasional kid's television show, but in between the girl has managed to pick up roles in Wicked Little Things, The Amityville Horror, Room 6 and The Eye. Now, in 2010, she's poised to take the geek world by storm with roles in the comic adaptation Kick Ass, as well as Let Me In, Matt Reeves' remake of Let the Right One In. Needless to say, this ain't your ordinary 13-year old, and while some have called her the anti-Dakota Fanning, I wouldn't label her as anything other than one actress you should really keep your eye on.

While at SXSW, Cinematical managed to grab only a couple minutes with the much sought-after actress, but only because we just happened to be sitting right next to her between events. We'll bring you more from Chloë prior to the release of Kick-Ass, and look for a much longer interview with her later in 2010 as we approach the release of Let Me In this October.

Cinematical: Let's face facts: in this film, you kill more people than I think I've ever seen a person your age kill on the big screen before. Not only are you a weapons master, but you throw in flips and jumps, and you're running up walls. How much of this stuff did you really do yourself?

Chloë Grace Moretz: Almost all of it was me, except for the gigantic flips and running up the wall wasn't me. But all of it was me except for that, and it was insanely hard because in the middle of thinking about choreography -- you know, left, right, left, right -- you're aware that one little mistake and you're on the ground.

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Bruce Willis has found his next feature film buddy. Deadline Hollywood reports that Jamie Foxx will star with Willis in the upcoming videogame adaptation Kane & Lynch. Well, actually, they happened to spot the news on Kyle Ward's Twitter, a leaked little goodie that has since been deleted. However, as Deadline writes: "There's no room for rewrites in the Twitter world, so the news is officially out there."

So, assuming Mr. Screenwriter isn't just imagining things and deleting things to increase intrigue, Foxx will play the schizophrenic psychopath/ticking time bomb to Willis' Kane, a mercenary who is broken out of prison and given "72 hours to recover a doomsday device," with his kidnapped wife and daughter used as incentive. Yes, it was once a stolen fortune, but why deal with that tired pile of gold when you can help move the doomsday clock forward another notch? ...especially when your main source of help is a psychopath!

Simon Crane is directing Ward's script, and I imagine production should start soon; last October, production was slated to begin this month. Willis is said to have thought the script was killer, so let's hope this will be a juicy little psychotic role for Foxx, and not another shmehfest like Cop Out.

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Okay, I've seen some weird marketing tactics -- especially this week at SXSW -- but this one takes the cake. Or gives away the pie, actually. The producers of Andrew Bujalski's film Beeswax have cooked up a very funny contest to market the movie's DVD, which will be released by Cinema Guild on April 6.

Here's the deal: The DVD package you buy includes a small snippet of 16mm film with a frame or two from Beeswax. Very nice. One of the snippets is from a sex scene in which Austin filmmaker (Goliath) and occasional actor David Zellner is dressing and has his back to the camera. In other words ... Zellner butt. If you get this priceless piece of indie cinema memorabilia, someone from the Beeswax cast or crew will meet you for free pie. They're betting that the winner will live in or near a city easily accessible to one of them, and the perverse part of me wants all of you in places like Topeka, Kansas and Billings, Montana to buy lots of copies of Beeswax.

I'm not sure this contest will directly encourage people to buy copies of the Beeswax DVD unless they are crazy obsessed with David Zellner, but it seems effective to me. After all, here I am writing about it, and now you know about it. I reviewed Beeswax when it played SXSW 2009, and I think you should see it because it's a good movie. The possibilities of free nude pix and dessert are just, er, a cherry on the top of the cake. I mean, pie.

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After playing Fanny Brawne in last year's Bright Star, actress Abbie Cornish is getting ready for her next historic adventure. According to Variety, she's going to topline W.E., the Wallis Simpson feature that Madonna is co-writing with Alex Keshishian, which the ol' Material Girl is also planning to direct. (The trade also notes that Cornish is set to play the female lead opposite Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro in Dark Fields.)

It's been an intriguing path to this point. Last October, there was word that Madonna was prepping this feature to direct, but it was being described as a romantic comedy about a woman named Wally Winthrop, and her romantic forays with a pediatrician and security guard. The twist was that somehow, intermingled into this tale, are "fantasy and flashback scenes" focusing on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and that whole throne abdication. When word hit with the trades last month, however, the romcom Wally part of the scenario seemed to be forgotten, with the film described as a biopic about Edward and Wallis.

So, either way, there's some VIII action coming our way, starring Abbie Cornish. She may have replaced the previously mentioned Vera Farmiga, or if the romcom twist is still in effect, they could both be grabbing lead roles.

Comedy ... historical drama ... which do you think Madonna would be better suited for?

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If watching John Cusack navigate through the apocalypse in 2012 is too much for you, perhaps you'll enjoy the latest Moviefone Mash. This video looks back on some classic Cusack scenes, specifically those in which the actor gets rained on. Certainly not the end of the world, but linked together the clips show us that he's pretty much synonymous with gloomy weather. Whether he's just been dumped or he's just popped out of John Malkovich's head, there's always a storm cloud with Cusack's name on it.

Moviefone deduces that because of all this caught-in-the-rain stuff, Cusack's characters are collectively akin to Bad Luck Schleprock from the Flintstones cartoons, and other examples of that comic trope. Or, maybe Cusack is like the character Rob McKenna from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, who can't get away from rain because he is, unknowingly, a rain god. Hmm, I wonder if the cloud catches up with him in Hot Tub Time Machine, which hits theaters next week.

How many of Cusack's films can you spot in the Mash. I recognize Say Anything, High Fidelity, The Ice Harvest and Being John Malkovich, but I'm sure I'm not recognizing some of these scenes. Check out the video after the jump and let me know which ones I'm missing. (warning: video has profanity and may be NSFW)

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Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston seem to be in the news more for their personal lives than their films lately -- Roberts for annoying her neighbors, Aniston for her inability to get over her failed marriage to Brad Pitt, but that might change in August when the two actresses square off in a box office battle royale. Maybe.

Roberts is trading her faded romantic-comedy darling role for that of memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love, based on Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia -- and that pretty much sums up the plot for the film. And despite how emotional and uplifting this story aims to be I can't help but feel annoyed -- because we can all just take off and travel the world when our lives suck, especially in this economy, right? Ryan Murphy (Running With Scissors) directs and Roberts is joined by Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis and James Franco.

Aniston is co-starring with Jason Bateman in The Switch, formerly titled The Baster (ew thank god they changed the name) -- a romantic-comedy about unrequited love and sperm. Bateman plays Wally, the neurotic best friend (a huge feat considering Jeff Goldblum is also in the film) to Aniston (Cassie), a single woman in NYC who decides to have a baby by way of artificial insemination. He accidentally drunkenly hijacks her donated cup o'sperm, replaces it with his own and years later meets his son when Aniston moves back to New York. Perhaps the saving grace here is a script by Allan Loeb (Things We Lost in the Fire) based on a story by The Virgin Suicides author Jeffrey Eugenides.

Eat, Pray, Love hits theaters August 13 with The Switch hot on its trail, August 20. Check out both trailers after the jump.

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They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether ... being reunited on the big screen courtesy of Tim Burton. Yes, for all of us who thought Burton should have made the Addams Family movies instead of Barry Sonnenfeld, he has been given another chance. This one, according to Deadline New York, will be a 3-D stop-motion film unrelated to those prior two movies or the silly old TV series or the upcoming Broadway adaptation starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. Presumably Burton will direct this after his feature-length stop-motion remake of his own Frankenweenie, which is in pre-production now.

Reportedly, and somewhat obviously, Burton will look only to the wittier original Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams. Anyone who has seen Burton's drawings, especially those in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, know how similar they are to the work of Adams. Although, of course, even if you aren't familiar with the filmmaker's artwork (which can currently be seen in an enormously popular exhibit at NYC's Museum of Modern Art), the style of his movies should be enough indication that he's the most perfect person to make a movie about Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Lurch and the rest of the Addams clan.

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As perhaps the most highly-anticipated movie of the year, Tron: Legacy continues to build interest from longtime fans and newcomers alike thanks to Disney's successful viral marketing campaigns, provocative images, and exciting clips of footage. But none of that effort would make a difference if it weren't for Steven Lisberger, the creator of the 1982 film Tron. Although Lisberger's directorial debut was met with only modest critical acclaim and commercial success, it went on to earn a reputation as a groundbreaking pioneer effort in computer-generated effects, and spawned a loyal legion of fans that have provided a solid foundation for the hopeful success of director Joe Kosinski's forthcoming sequel.

Last summer, Cinematical joined a small group of online and print journalists to visit the set of Tron: Legacy, where we toured sets and talked to various members of the filmmaking team, including Lisberger (read our interview with star Jeff Bridges). Talking in the film's craft services tent, Lisberger talked about returning to the film franchise that he launched almost 30 years ago, and reflected on why he was happy to turn over the reins to a new filmmaker and give his ideas new life for a new generation of film fans.

The number one question I have for you is, why not create this yourself?

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Much press has been given to Second Life, the virtual world/social network "game" in which participants can live out their fantasies in a polygonal wonderland, free of the restrictions that come with real life. Imagine a perfectly visualized chat room, only with its own user-created socio-economic structure. Companies have found clever ways to monetize the free experience, while over 15 million users work virtual jobs, buy virtual items, have virtual sex, and dance the night away in virtual nightclubs.

Life 2.0, a new documentary by Jason Spingarn-Koff, finds a human story within the world of Second Life, by focusing his attention on the experiences of four of its users. One is a young woman working from her basement, making a six-figure salary designing clothing and houses for sale in Second Life. A male Second Life addict tries to make sense out of his relationship with his created avatar, an eleven-year old girl that he feels controls him through the game, not vice versa. In another thread, a couple tries to bring their Second Life romance into the real world, despite being committed to other partners.

By putting a human face on the participants, Spingarn-Koff is able to help us understand the society of Second Life, while creating an incredibly compelling human drama. I don't have an addictive personality, so it's hard for me to relate to the desire to spend countless hours living out a fantasy in a "fake" world. Spingarn-Koff makes it real to me, by making the people real to me.

Read the rest over at SciFi Squad

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I'm not particularly enthusiastic to see X-Men going backwards into prequels instead of venturing into a glorious future, but I'm happy to see Bryan Singer return to the franchise. The director sat down with Hero Complex and Lauren Shuler-Donner to discuss the past, the present, and the future of the X-Men franchise. It's a very enjoyable read, but it's also full of maddening off-the-record moments that are going to set the rumor mill churning.

Singer casually mentions he met with Hugh Jackman recently to discuss a project, and drops strong hints that Jackman wants him to direct Wolverine 2. Naturally, they're also trying to find a way to work Wolverine into X-Men: First Class. Continuity holds no weight with Old Canucklehead anymore, so why the heck not? Singer half laments his commitments to Warner Bros and Jack the Giant Killer: "I wish I could be four people," he moans. "I could make everybody happy."

Shuler Donner is also open about having offered X-Men 4 to Singer, and the director is quite determined he'll take the job at some point. During the interview, he tells Donner to "Hold that one off for just a little, I'm fixated on the other one right now", and she agrees. "I will, I will ... I'm holding it open with high hopes. It's totally different [from 'First Class'] and it will be so interesting for you." At that point, Hero Complex notes the conversation went off record, but hints there's more than just vague ideas being tossed around. It's as if Singer had a taste of the world outside of the X-Men, and didn't like it, so he's selling them his soul. And that's okay by me. I could use another X2 to make me appreciate my favorite superhero team again. Maybe he could even rescue Movie Wolverine.

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If you are a happy mutant (i.e. a daily reader of BoingBoing.net), you'll have experienced the awesomely bizarre, funky, danceable beats of Die Antwoord. Ninja (Waddy Jones) and Yo-Landi, who sing and rap in both English and Afrikaans, have become a literal Internet sensation since being exposed to the world on BB via photographer Clayton Cubitt. Their videos are equally visually striking, especially "Enter the Ninja," which was co-directed by Rob Malpage (who was a cinematographer on the direct-to-video Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove, which stars Beau Bridges and Bindi Irwin).

Now that Die Antwoord are taking over, they've signed with Interscope and told Xeni Jardin exclusively that they are working on a film (no word if it's a doc or feature) and their next music video will be directed by fellow South African, District 9's Neill Blomkamp. They also met up with with David Lynch while they were in Los Angeles earlier in March; Ninja credits Lynch's Twin Peaks character Dale Cooper with inspiring the rapper to quit smoking weed.

The band told BB: "Ninja called David [Lynch] 'Dad'. David said, 'You turned out alright son.' David also said, 'I was a bit worried about you for a while there, but you turned out alright.' Ninja said, 'I'm a lucky duck.' David said, 'You're a good guy.'" When Die Antwoord's videos started "taking over the interweb," as their site's tagline says, no one knew if they were for real or not. NME posited DA is a more high-concept version of previous comedy/music/video projects by Jones, referring to him as "The District 9 Ali G." As for me, I agree with all the other writers online who insist, fake or not, they're still one of the most interesting things to come along in a while. (See also Pitchfork, New York Magazine, and Brooklyn Vegan.)

After the jump, check out their video for "Enter the Ninja." Would you watch a two-hour film about them? I'd love to see Die Antwoord collaborate with their fellow futuristic South African, Neill Blomkamp, or David Lynch, or any of their other sci-fi samurai inspirations. (Photo by Sean Metelerkamp)

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