Dragon Con 2025: The Force Still STRONG with Star Wars Cosplayers

Heather Buckley is running the gambit at Dragon Con, and as she does her daily business, she's on the lookout for PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES for her buddies at Idle Hands. She rocks that way. First up, we take to THE STAIRS...a popular meeting place for cosplayers from literally across the globe who want to pose with like-costumed heroes and villains. 

SXSW 2014: A Heather Buckley Adventure

Prologue: After much adventure through these past weeks, these notes were written on the way to a shattered city—a pile of rusted steel known as Detroit. If it is one thing we can say, to keep adventuring, is to keep the spirit alive at its fullest and fan the fire which will always hunger for more. I have not stopped moving since the film shoot went down in Odessa, TX.

It was first brought to my attention that a 4k restoration of Texas Chain Saw Massacre was to be premièred at SXSW 2014. A relentless classic. Imitated. Worshiped. And Tobe Hooper was going to be there. Austin: the hometown of the saw. And the saw has always been family.

It was too late for press sponsorship at that point— I was off in Upstate New York doing FX shop coordination for We Are Still Here— when the deadline hit on February 5^th. I asked about 12 of my peers: Was it worth it, could you do it with a pass? All agreed this was possible...but the madness of it all! I booked my flight, found a place to stay though my beloved Texas crew and off I went without a badge. To Texas.

Jodorowsky's Dune Reviewed

With maniacal insight from Heather Buckley

“…If I need to cut my arms in order to make that picture, I will cut my arms. I'm even ready to die doing that.”— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Star Wars. Alien. Blade Runner. Arguably the three most influential science fiction genre movies of the past thirty years, and they all were made possible by a single grand abandonment.

Aftershock Reviewed

A Heather Buckley Joint

Eli Roth’s projects work within a certain framework. Young, beautiful, privileged party people, having a great time, only to be interrupted by almost fantastically horrible life events. Flesh-eating bacteria. Torture chambers times two. They suffer and scream. They wind up bloody, watching their loved ones die in front of them. These same themes are also explored within Aftershock, a film that he stars in, co-wrote and produced. Though I would not even call it a movie, maybe an exercise; a very tertiary level exploration of what happens when it all goes very wrong.

Clancy Brown Talks Lex Luthor, Dream Projects and Mr. Krabs Starring in Female Perversion

Heather Buckley is and will always be our go to girl for killer interviews. While some folks are strapped with boring questions they need to ask as a mandate from the higher ups at their magazine, Heather has the trust of those who pass her assignments and love her at the same time, and so is free to mine an often wildly varied past to elicit reactions in a celebrity no one else will. it was with this knowledge we sent Heather off to interview Clancy Brown..The Kurgan..Mr. Krabs..and the quintessential voice of Lex Luthor) for the upcoming LEGO Batman: The Movie.

When asked what Brown brings to Lego Lex he replied: “I try to bring some humor, I try to bring some terror, I try to bring whatever they want me to bring.” But he credits the writers for putting it all there for him; as an actor he “reads what’s on the page.”

Heather Buckley Muses on Jack Reacher

...and doesn't waste any time getting right to the meat of it.

Jack Reacher may have worked if it was shot in 1975 staring James Caan and Burt Young, but Tom Cruise is just not tough enough to deliver what the material needs. His Reacher may think he’s channeling Eastwood, but he just is not a badass. He’s Tom Cruise. Hollywood star. Wacky Scientologist. He couldn't bus Lee Marvin’s table at a bar. You need a grizzled worldly fucker in that role—quiet and weary, and yet a man of action—someone who challenges Henry Silva to arm wrestling and wins. Much like how the character is actually written by UK crime writer Jim Grant. In Grant's novels, Reacher is a mountain of a man, a typical pulp fiction drifter and anti-hero, a harsh character who knows the score. Bigger than life as these characters usually are; a sort of male superhero fantasy without the powers—but not a Cruise-style movie star.

Heather Buckley VS New York Comic Con 2012: Day 2 & 3

We sent Heather Buckley to New York Comic Con 2012 to discover the wonders of this nerdy oasis in the heart of the mean city, knowing full well her horror convention instincts would lead her to adventure. We found Heather, crumpled and beaten, at the bottom of the stairs at Midtown Comics. It seems she stayed alive just long enough to write up this blog, edit her pictures and pen a lengthy odyssey-like tale of love and loss starring Peter Weller and Philip K. Dick. It was a buddy movie. The latter will be released in 2016, when Peter Weller has ripened. For now...this is Heather Buckley's Comic Con tale...

  ABOUT LOYD:

My key goal today was to meet Christopher Lloyd. It was 50 bucks for his autograph and I had my Christopher Lloyd sack with me it case he could be captured and displayed in my parlor. I even posted the price and banner with Lloyd’s name on it to crowd source my answer: do I do it?

I mean, Lloyd is getting up there and when I was 14 years old, we were asked to write a letter to our favorite person and I picked him. I made my Mother tape every Taxi episode he was on. I loved him in Back to the Future, One Flew over the Cuucook’s Nest, Amazing Stories... I had to meet him, even if it was for one second. I needed a brush with Lloyd greatness.

Heather Buckley VS New York Comic Con 2012: Day 1

Some press folks rush home from their daily toils at conventions to post their scoops, sneaks and rumors. We here at Idle Hands like to ruminate on our findings, letting them gel until the consistency of a fine paste we can use to affix the geektastic informations like a Motley Crue tour poster engaged to a brick wall..forever intertwined. We sent Heather Buckley out into the microcosm of New York Comic Con to experience the show as only a Heather Buckley could. This...is her story.

DAY ONE:

NERD HORDE
I got to Jacob Javits Center the earliest I could on October 13^th in the year of our Time Lord 2012. After being ushered into the industry entrance, I was given a Walking Dead badge (a female zombie, claw grasped around a gate for Press) and moved my way though a rainbow of nerds, geeks, and fan boys in various states of fancy dress.

I saw a slew of anime demon girls with candy corn horns—wondering all along whom they were supposed to be and why there were so many have them. I saw lots of Catwomen in all shapes and controversial sizes. 15,000 female Lokis (the new Catwoman for Cosplay?) and Ghostbusters. Some commented on my bihawk and asked who I was dressed as (“I am dressed as Heather Buckley, maybe you should try it sometime.”).  All this attempting to get to my candy apple goal: Bruce Timm.

Frankenstorm Vs Halloween

Hows that for a Syfy Saturday Night title? Throw in NJ and you've got gold! Suffice to say, my birthplace of New York and my adopted home town of New Jersey has gotten its collective ass kicked by mother nature and just as we are picking up the pieces, I hear another storm is on the way. I'm currently soaking up the electricity at my Mom's place; a mere 10 minutes from my own dark home. There was no telling when my power would return and when I heard she had power..well..let's just say she would have had to have beaten me at the door with a broom stick to stop me from dropping in. We'd heard power was being restored to the south and as it moved up rt.35 it lit up Red Bank, then Freehold, then Hazlet...then skipped right over us and landed on Rahway.

Toy Fair 2011 : A Death in the Family

Today we mourn the loss of Heather Buckley, valued member of Idle Hands, Dread Central and co-chairperson of the Cabbage Patch Kids Legal Defense Fund. Heather was an influential personality in the pop culture world, paving the way for the re-trending of Russian military hats and coiner of the phrase "This Slaw is Family." Heather was also a woman, and in this, a fierce friend of the cute. At Toy Fair 2011, Heather saw many cute things. At Mezco, the Living Dead Dolls are re-invigorated with a new line of cute but still keenly creepy plush dolls alongside new, ridiculously cute zombie plushies. At NECA, an entire line of overflowing cuteness was found in their new Gremlins figures, boasting a lineup that would make you think you'll awake from this fever dream any second. Compiling the agony were the Tatumi kits at Bandai, featuring little Rockabilly Vinyl Girls you can tattoo up and make ready for a weekend of bar hopping and burlesque dancing. Cuter still were the anime-esque women of DC Comics in DC Direct's Ame-Comi line, showing off a Big Barda statue that was beyond adorable...but the fatal blow came at Funko toys. Yoda. Described as "painfully cute"; and little did she know these would be her last words as she clutched her heart, pointed to the heavens..and promptly died. Javits convention staff were quick to clear the isle of her body, so keep watching Idle Hands for funeral service info once we resolve our dispute with the events center over the 2k bill for carting and storage. Seriously. 2k?! I ain't paying.

Heather Buckley is survived by Nummins Buckley, to whom we offer our condolences. Heather would want us to forge ever onward, so keep checking our FLICKR for updates and when the dust clears a bit, we've got massive piles of info to fling at you like an angry, incontinent gorilla. BELIEVE IT!