A friend of mine bought The Incredibles yesterday at Circuit City and got an Incredibles basketball.(Ok, a mini basketball, but WANT!)

The Onion's AV Club has a great series of interviews with the people behind the DVDs, including the senior VP in charge of Warner Home Video's classic films, a producer for Home Vision Entertainment (specializing in foreign and older cult films), and the founder of Something Weird Video, specializing in "quaint old smut."

Coolest thing I found out in the first interview was that Warner will be releasing the complete set of Astaire/Rogers RKO pictures by the end of the year, completely restored!

Did we already know about this?

Vin Diesel’s film production company One Race Films and animation house Blur Studio have partnered to build a multi-media franchise around Blur’s RockFish, the multiple award -winning animated short.

The project is envisioned as a feature length, family friendly film based on the character Sirus Kirk from RockFish that was created by writer/director Tim Miller. RockFish is a comic book-influenced, high adventure tale set on a barren planet in a distant corner of the galaxy. Sirus Kirk is a no-nonsense working man tasked with rounding up creatures that “swim” through rocks far below the planet’s surface and plague the miners who live and work there. The story starts out as just another day on the job for Kirk but quickly turns into a titanic struggle with the catch of his life.

I saw "Rockfish" in the most current edition of The Animation Show, which is playing various places around the country, and I liked it a lot. Not sure how it's going to translate into a feature, but I'm looking forward to it.

Gotta see RockFish but this...

creatures that “swim” through rocks far below the planet’

immediately sent me to a 'No Kill I' place with Hortas and spheroid eggs and "I'm a DOCTOR dammit, not a brick layer!"

Okay, I'm guessing DeForrest Kelly didn't actually say 'dammit', but that's how my memory works.

I was really quite pleasantly surprised by it, considering how little I liked Gopher Broke (which was...fine, just way too cute and broad to be Oscar-worthy, IMO).

OMG, there's an Easter Egg on the Incredibles DVD with sock puppets !!

How do I get to it, Tom?

On the 2nd disk, there's an Easter Egg on almost every menu page: If you wait 15-20 seconds, an Icon will appear in the top right hand corner of the screen, which is selectable. There's one on the 1st disk, on the commentary track menu page.

Back to Three Kings (since I'm assuming I'll be getting The Incredibles for my birthday I am showing great restraint and not buying it for myself NOW)...I just like the concept of the protagonists attempting to not make any ethical decisions and yet continually being forced into situations that demand ethical responses.

That, and the cut from Arabic industrial rock to "If you leave me now, you take away the biggest part of me...."

Last night's movie was Sherman's March. It was odd. It's a documentary framed loosely around Sherman's march through the South, but as he's filming it, the filmmaker turns it into a blog about his relationships (mostly failed) with Southern women. It was filmed in the early 80s and is great for the fashion and hair, but there's also a prevalent through-line of nuclear paranoia.

Again, I was told it was funny. I didn't find it funny, but I'm glad I watched it.

Joss is doing Wonder Woman.

I'm just sayin'.