If you're not familiar with the 2012 film classic, Iron Sky, let me give you a quick synopsis:

There are Moon Nazis. They try and take over the Earth.

That's it.

That's all you need to know, honestly — it's a well done, decently acted, campy-as-hell take on an invasion film that does a heavy-handed take on social commentary.

And the creators want to film a sequel.

I'm in. From their IndieGoGo campaign:

The story of Iron Sky a begun long time a go in a sauna far far away, when a friend of mine told that he's got an idea for a new film — Moon Nazis. We were laughing at it, but decided — let's make this happen!

We had no idea what it meant to do an international, English-language, multi-million film back then, but we went for it. Another six years later, Iron Sky was released, distributed worldwide, got a million people to cinema and even more to buy the film on BluRay and even more to grab it from Pirate Bay. A crazy success for an indie dream.

The story of Iron Sky continues, and this time, we want to be dependant on nobody but our fans, friends and followers out there. With Iron Sky, we spent all of our energy in trying to finance the film, forced to be doing bad deals and compromising a lot. We had to tweak the story to meet the needs of the financiers but still fight to keep the integrity of the story intact — had we not fought, we'd probably had Mickey Mouse in Moon Base with Santa Claus — this actually was one real suggestion to make the story “funnier”. We don't want to end up in these discussions again and we don't want to spend five years trying to come up with the money.

Listen, I already threw my wallet at the screen — and that was before the folks at Film School Rejects indicated that they might include dinosaurs and Nazis from the center of the Earth.

Yes please.

[IndieGoGo - Iron Sky: The Coming Race]

I'm a sucker for movies about music, so between Rock Around the Loft (rock films every Wednesday in July, including The Last Waltz, Stop Making Sense and Urgh! A Music War) and the One Hit Wonders series of new-to-Tucson documentaries, I'm basically assuming I'm going to spend (at least) two nights each week in a seat at the Loft.

However, the real highlight of the month will be the opportunity to see Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, last year's documentary about one of my favorite bands of all time and one of those great band/bad luck stories you hear sometimes in the history of rock. Seriously, if you haven't heard the three albums the band released in the early 70's, they really could change your life. They're the power pop/rock band every power pop and rock band you've ever enjoyed loved (just watch the trailer and see the names singing Big Star's praises) and there's a good reason. Remember how excited everyone was about Rodriguez and the Searching for Sugarman documentary? This story's less weird in some ways, but just as tugging at the heart-strings, plus (nothing personal to Rodriguez and his fans) the music is better.

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me shows at the Loft, Saturday, July 13 at 7:00 pm.

For what it's worth, I don't think there are enough references to Jet magazine in popular culture these days, but it's possible I've just been watching the wrong stuff.

We tend to cover Kickstarter and other crowdsourcing sites a lot around here, and justifiably so considering the awesome things people tend to do with them (beer! art! film!)...but here's a particular crowdfunding site I honestly didn't expect to ever exist, for some reason: Offbeatr [NSFW, obviously], the crowdfunding site for pornographers seeking startup capital.

"Half The Road" trailer from kevin tokstad on Vimeo.

As you might be familiar, Tucson's something of a haven for cyclists (just ask frequent Range contributor Michael McKisson, proprietor of TucsonVelo.com. The Old Pueblo is a great place, year-round, for both regular riders to get around town and for cycling teams to train to their heart's content.

So, it makes sense that Tucson-based athlete, journalist and educator Kathryn Bertine is taking a shot at producing a documentary, focusing on the world of women's professional cycling — though she needs your help to do it.

Bertine's IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign is in full-swing, as she's raised more than a quarter of the funds she needs with 45 days to go. I'd call it a safe bet for Bertine to pull through easily, but you never know when things are going to stall in the weird world of crowdfunding, so if you're at all interested in seeing her movie, give her a campaign a look (and read a statement of the vision she has for the documentary) here.

HALF THE ROAD is a documentary film that explores the world of women’s professional cycling, focusing on both the love of sport and the pressing issues of inequality that modern-day female riders face in a male dominated sport. With footage from some of the world’s best international UCI races to interviews with Olympians, World Champions, rookies, coaches, managers, officials, doctors and family members, HALF THE ROAD offers a unique insight to the drive, dedication, and passion it takes for female cyclists to thrive. Both on and off the bike, the voices and advocates of women’s pro cycling take their audience on a journey of enlightenment, depth, strength, love, humor and best of all, change & growth.

In addition to the international race footage and athlete interviews, the film also follows director/athlete Kathryn Bertine’s quest to make the 2012 Olympics during her first year racing professionally for Team Colavita. Bertine, a three-time national champion of St. Kitts and Nevis, explores the issues faced when smaller nations try to make strides in a sport that has no history of tradition (or fiscal support) within their culture. The documentary's title, HALF THE ROAD, comes from a segment of the film where the president of a small cycling federation quotes the old adage, "Women hold up half the sky" in reference to equality. Our documentary explores the idea that, If women hold up half the sky, then the women's peloton deserves 'half the road' of opportunity, growth, support & equality within professional cycling.

Memes, increasingly, make the Web go 'round, and nothing has struck the Internet's weird, cat-obsessed imagination quite like Arizona's own Grumpy Cat.

Well, someone out there thought "saturating the Internet with a silly lookin' cat's head isn't enough...this cat needs a movie!" Someone else agreed with that thought.

Now, those two people might be in line for raises:

Broken Road Productions, the film studio that brought you such classic titles as Jack and Jill and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, has negotiated a deal for a family film starring the Internet’s favorite curmudgeon, Grumpy Cat. Bad news: It will probably not be 90 minutes of following her while she crawls around her Arizona home, which is what the Internet really wants.

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Unfortunately, they’re looking to “build a big family comedy around this character,” according to producer Todd Garner, so odds are this movie is going to try to have a plot and characters and lame stuff like that. Grumpycat will probably even talk, too. If that’s the case, then they should get the adorable voice actress that Tumblr Storyboard used in the video below. That might make the inevitably hacky jokes just a little more bearable.

I disagree, Geekosystem writer Victoria McNally. This is the Garfield movie, given new form and shape — and unfortunately, won't have anything to do with Bill F—king Murray.

How do you feel about this idea, Grumpy Cat?

• Us too, Grumpy Cat. Us too.

[h/t: Geekosystem]

Coming to your television screen sooner rather than later (unlike the story of Jodi Arias, which is constantly on the edge of any television viewer's consciousness): Lifetime presents Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.

The synopsis, via Movienews.com:

Based on the disturbing murder trial that has captivated the nation, “Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret” tells the story of Jodi Arias (Tania Raymonde, “Lost”), a seductive 27-year-old aspiring photographer recently found guilty of killing her former lover Travis Alexander (Jesse Lee Soffer, “The Mob Doctor”), who was found nude in his apartment shower with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. While investigating the violent killing, Mesa, Arizona, police retrieved a digital camera from Travis’ washing machine, revealing shocking images authorities claim Jodi took of their sexual escapades, as well as during and after his murder.

While Jodi pled not guilty and contends she killed Travis in self-defense, police concluded that when Travis broke off his relationship with Jodi, she became a real life “Alex Forrest” (portrayed by Glenn Close) from the film “Fatal Attraction.” Jodi, they say, stalked her ex-boyfriend, who she successfully seduced one final time before murdering him and then attempted to cover her tracks. Her subsequent trial has been grand theater, dominating the cable news networks, with Jodi testifying in her own defense, offering insight into the sex, lies and obsession that led up to Travis’ murder — beguiling media and onlookers, alike.

SEX. MURDER. INTRIGUE.

This is stupid.

You can watch the stupid, non-event made-for-TV movie based off of a stupid, non-event murder trial on June 22 on Lifetime.

Or at least, I am, and I don't feel bad telling you that you should go.

If you're not familiar with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of books, here's a short synopsis: In the future, Earth is attacked by alien forces. To combat them, Earth forces unite to create a space-station/school for select children, training them from preschool to be the greatest tactical military minds we could ever need or want. Ender Wiggin is one of those kids.

From there, there's a bunch of floating in simulated war games, and child-on-child violence, and things blowing up mixed in with geopolitics and people having feelings about stuff.

As a huge fan of Ender's Game (and the companion Shadow Series following Bean, a supporting character from Ender's Game), I'm excited — not just because this was a favorite book of mine growing up, but because the cast and effects appear to actually do the book justice.

The movie comes out Nov. 1. I'll see you folks there.

University of Arizona alumnus and heralded as the "Voice of a Generation" by far too many people to count, David Foster Wallace was one hell of a writer — to put it mildly.

And while he's well known for his massive fiction pieces, such as the posthumously-released The Pale King, or the massive, weighty tome Infinite Jest, I'm personally quite the fan of his non-fiction—his essays, his journalistic assignments, and the commencement speech he gave to the 2008 graduating class of Kenyon College, "This Is Water."

This year, in time for 2013 graduation ceremonies, The Glossary put together a video from an abridged version of Wallace's speech that's fairly damn great. Check it out below.

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo.

Funny World from Ben Kitnick on Vimeo.

If you've ever wanted to see a 78-year-old man with muttonchops like Lemmy from Motorhead "rap" in the desert hills while wearing a hat made of horns, then I've got the opportunity for you.

Funny World, a documentary about Phoenix's Donald Roth — or "the World's Oldest Gay Canadian Rapper," Space-Alien Donald, as he calls himself — is short (only 10 minutes long), but fascinating. It gives a look into the life of Roth, the eccentric owner of Phoenix's Funny World arts and performance venue...and honestly, it's pretty damn great, if only because it's a peek inside the mind of a man who knows he's different than the rest of the world, and embraces it as tightly as he can.

For a bit of insight, check this excerpt from a 2011 blog post by the Phoenix New Times:

Besides hosting art shows and live music events at the venue, Roth — a self-proclaimed "backyard scientist" — will also conduct physics and gravity experiments inside and outside. Local artists will display their works during art shows at Funny World, and Roth will allow them any sort of mural they desire on its walls.

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Roth purchased the residence for $40,000 [in 2011] with the intention of hosting "loud rock shows," performance art events, and other creative endeavors. He named it Funny World after a humorous religion/life philosophy called "Must Be Funny" that was created by his friend Derek Brownlee of Prescott. Artist Daniel Funkhouser, who lives at the venue, painted its name on a carport wall outside.

Check out more on Roth and Funny World at Facebook. Funny World documentarian/writer/producer Ben Kitnick doesn't have a lot going on at his Vimeo page, but hopefully he's not done.