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Adult Swim serves up the first details and synopsis from The Venture Bros. upcoming animated special "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy. " Frith Almighty, it's been a good six months since we've seen any new  Venture Bros.  but the good folks at Adult Swim are finally ready to  ladle  out a fresh helping! A ways back we learned from Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick themselves that not only had  The Venture Bros . Been renewed for a fifth and sixth season, but that their new contracts included both a 60-90 minute special, as well as a Summer short to tide over fans.  Thanks to the Adult Swim upfronts, we now have our first details of what to expect when the fifteen-minute short drops on July 24th. The second  Venture Bros.  inter-season special in their history, this Summer special "From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy" will outline the truly fictional story behind Hank, Dermott and H.E.L.P.E.R....

The trippy sci-fi festival favorite from an alternate 1983 lands a distribution partner. Panos Cosmatos'  Beyond the Black Rainbow , the only memorable film from this year's Tribeca Film Festival, has landed a distribution partner.  And it is the  right  partner. Our friends at Magnet Releasing, the sociopaths who brought us  Rubber  and  Hobo With a Shotgun  and  Black Death  and the upcoming  Trollhunter , announced the deal the other day at the Cannes Film Festival.  It was swallowed by the news of Lars von Trier being a douche but, much like the insidious nature of this otherworldly film, the message has still seeped out. Beyond the Black Rainbow  is an endurance test - an intensely slow movie, focused on eerie tone over plot.  It bathes in the aesthetic of late '70s and early '80 science fiction, like a visit to EPCOT on some really bad LSD. No timetable for VOD or theatrical release has been announced. Below is ...

Want some sick achievements/trophies? We've got you covered. Depending on the game, I can be satisfied with online FAQs--that is, I would be, if I weren't perfect at every single video game ever made. But I've got to hand it to BradyGames for coming up with a strategy guide I actually want to plunk down money for. The official  L.A. Noire  app (available for iPhone/iPad as well as Android) will help you find all of the latest RockStar instant classic's hidden content much faster and more efficiently than any poorly-edited .txt file you can print off the ol' interwebs. The app, which will run you $2.99, consists of a completely zoomable game map. All over the map are little icons denoting the locations of the game's collectibles and secrets, like the film reels, cars, landmarks, and badges (should you have the Badge Pursuit DLC). That'll put you in the correct location. Once you're in the vicinity, tap on the icon of the item you want to find. The app wil...

Extreme, Beautiful Ads as a Work of Art (with some lovely kitsch thrown in) Spectacular wide-format thrills, monsters and disasters This series seems a bit too optimistic: A super-suction range and hood: Garbage Pen Fighters: "All We Throw Away Turns Against us" - Another way for garbage to fight back: Windex: a clean glass effect - Epic pile-ups: Landrover Phone, "Incredibly Tough" - Household Surrealism & Unexpected Weirdness Overweight washing machine? Sure, "think about what it consumes..." - Disturbingly fat fridge - is it eating your food? Happy Fried Chickens: Drinking straws creativity: from small to big ones - "Say Cheeese!" ad for SONY Cybershot (left) and Sydney International Food Festival campaign (right): Eat a bar code, darling: Some great ads for the Gold's Gym: Improved Chewing Skills! - fragment of a campaign for the Mintz gum Walt Disney Princess Crystal Slipper campaign: "Otherwise it would be too easy to install...