Starship Blogbook

Your sneakers are part of the plastic problem — an issue that you’d probably be unsurprised to know. We’ve always had suspicions.

The latest Uzumaki trailer introduces Junji Ito, the mild-mannered Japanese master of horror, one of the greatest horror fiction creators alive. He’s mildly afraid of cats. Via io9:

In the newest teaser for Cartoon Network’s adaptation of his masterwork, Uzumaki, we meet Ito and learn about the creation of the upcoming miniseries. For such a menacing thing, it’s quite a pleasant little glance. We also meet the other creators behind the anime, all of whom are as fascinated with the unknown terror of Ito’s works as Ito himself. The warm passion would be a blast, if it wasn’t pointed at something so menacing.

Did you know? There’s a sequel for the Shining that’s coming up, Doctor Sleep, and it’s gathered so far a bunch of great reviews.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is out, and its single player campaign focuses on a few characters, all part of the modern war against terrorism. Via Forbes:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has arrived, and if you can struggle through its initial server issues, is available to play across Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Modern Warfare has gone for a harder edge and more realism this time around, a re-imaging of the sub-series into something darker, and so far, it appears to be paying off.

Rotten Season 2 is out — with Mexican avocado cartel wars, water crises in Chile, corruption and fraud in wine industries and more.

Wandering Souls is a horror short film by director Josh Tanner set during the Vietnam War, set in the claustrophobic Cu Chi tunnels of Vietnam.

BBC iPlayer, an internet streaming, catchup, television and former radio service from the BBC, has a new, hilarious ad campaign.

How American CEOs got so rich compared to their bottom line — it’s part broken capitalism, part the rise of stock buybacks.

Liquid Death hired a certified witch doctor, Mystic Dylan to curse all the water in the company’s warehouse into becoming demon magnets. How’s that for a Halloween stunt…

Box 616 is a Mitch Glass science fiction short film about a man finding something in a bank vault that threatens everything he knew. Via Gizmodo:

As we saw in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, strange things can be hidden inside bank vaults. Sometimes, they have the ability to change the world. Dust has released a short film where a man is given a key to a mystery that threatens everything he ever knew.

Box 616 is the latest sci-fi short film from Mitch Glass (who also directed the stellar short Again™), shot for two days inside a bank vault with a budget of about $US800 ($1,176). It’s about a man named Malcolm Crowe, who’s informed by the local bank that a trust, well, entrusted to him by his grandfather is now available. The safety deposit box, empty except for a single key and an old matchbook, had instructions to be opened on a specific day, which has now come to pass.