Now I’m not usually the type to care about Hollywood comic book adaptations. With the exception of a handful of movies (Both Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, Darkman, Spawn), superhero movies have fallen flat on the big screen. But there is one popcorn flick that is based on a comic book - sorry, graphic novel… the nerd union won’t let me get away with that - that I’ve been greatly anticipating this year: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which is out this Friday. The film will encompass all six volumes of Bryan O’Malley’s epic series. Normally I’m skeptical about any film adapted from another source, because, well, Hollywood always manages to turn even the finest source material into utter slop. But with Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) directing, a brilliant cast (Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Kieran Culkin), and most importantly, a soundtrack spearheaded by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Beck, I think this thing’s in capable hands. The soundtrack features tracks by Beck, Broken Social Scene, Frank Black, The Stones, T. Rex, Black Lips, and Metric, just to name a few. Both the film’s soundtrack and score were released yesterday in stores, and you can stream the whole kit and kaboodle over at Spinner. (Hmmm… there’s probably a reason why people stopped saying “kit and kaboodle”… oh yeah, it’s really, really gay.)

Now I’m not usually the type to care about Hollywood comic book adaptations.

With the exception of a handful of movies (Both Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, Darkman, Spawn), superhero movies have fallen flat on the big screen.

But there is one popcorn flick that is based on a comic book - sorry, graphic novel… the nerd union won’t let me get away with that - that I’ve been greatly anticipating this year: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which is out this Friday.

The film will encompass all six volumes of Bryan O’Malley’s epic series. Normally I’m skeptical about any film adapted from another source, because, well, Hollywood always manages to turn even the finest source material into utter slop.

But with Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) directing, a brilliant cast (Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Kieran Culkin), and most importantly, a soundtrack spearheaded by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Beck, I think this thing’s in capable hands.

The soundtrack features tracks by Beck, Broken Social Scene, Frank Black, The Stones, T. Rex, Black Lips, and Metric, just to name a few.

Both the film’s soundtrack and score were released yesterday in stores, and you can stream the whole kit and kaboodle over at Spinner.

(Hmmm… there’s probably a reason why people stopped saying “kit and kaboodle”… oh yeah, it’s really, really gay.)

Charlotte Gainsbourg did a two-night stint at Montreal’s L’Olympia this past weekend, and seeing as how she skipped over Toronto on her first-ever tour, it seemed as good of a time as any to make the five-hour trip to Montreal.

My greatest fear was that I wouldn’t be able to get her vicious genital mutilation scene in Antichrist (and if you think this sounds awful, multiply it by a thousand and you’ll have some appreciation for how horrifying it really is when you’re seeing it on a 30 foot screen) out of my head the entire time she took the stage.

But as soon as Gainsbourg and her band — which is actually Beck’s band — launched into the hypnotic beat of “IRM”, I had forgotten all about the Lars Von Tiers’ nightmare.

Despite her lack of experience in performing in front of large audiences, the soft-spoken and graceful Gainsbourg had no problems keeping the packed room completely captivated.

Here she performs “In the End”, a tender ballad off the new album, which was also recently used in the French trailer for Where the Wild Things Are.

And despite not understanding a word of French, I’m still dying to see the French-dubbed version of the instant Spike Jonze classic because Charlotte voices the KW character.

I used to hate INXS. But then this happened. Beck and St. Vincent could probably do a cover of Lou Bega’s “Mambo #5” and I would be right there with them, singing along. A little bit of Monnnicaaaaaa…