Aardman strikes again, because this looks like it just became my most anticipated animated film right now. Yes, above Pixar’s Brave, which I’ve been looking forward to for 5 years.

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

So on Sunday morning, I saw musician/singer/actor/Top-Youtuber Chester See tweet out that he was, for some reason, in my city (Surrey), all the way from LA. 

Now, I follow nearly 1000 people, so my timeline moves pretty fast. I would’ve missed this if I had logged in just a minute later. Taking it as some sort of sign to seize an opportunity to get some advice from a YouTube veteran and meet someone we look up to, Mannan/kthx and I headed out with a camera and no plan. 

Turned out he was incredibly nice and open to talk, so I decided to go ahead and just interview him for Dunya, too! I’ve met celebrities/people I look up to before, but there was a really real difference with Chester— when he says he enjoys and cares about personal connections with his fans, he really isn’t joking.

There’s also a longer, unedited version of the interview up on Dunya’s Facebook page, so be sure to check that out, too!

And, of course, visit Chester See on YouTube :)

First teaser trailer is out for The Social Network!

I’m still super excited for this David Fincher-directed, Aaron Sorkin-written movie about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Eisenberg seems to have the Zuckerberg voice down in a way that sounds right but isn’t spot-on enough for the movie to be as unbearable as listening to Mark for two and a half hours.

Justin Timberlake manages to sound the best, even with just one line “You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

Brought to my attention by Avatar crew member David Stripinis, this is a great 27 minute interview with director James Cameron, where he discusses many things, chiefly, in my memory at least, developing the camera technology used in the film and the years of R&D that went into producing both Avatar and his future film Battle Angel.

I can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that this Avatar clip is 100% CG.