Ok, so Felon looks pretty bad, but I posted it for two reasons

1) I’ve always been a sucker for Val Kilmer (his last scene in Heat makes me tear up everytime..)

2) It seems good opportunity to post some TakePart links about the prison problem and how you can help…..

• takepart to help the Ella Baker Center Campaign close youth prisons with their Books not Bars campaign.

• takepart to learn how you can prepare yourself to deal with police misconduct.

• takepart to help stop the largest prison expansion plan in history.

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Val Kilmer has signed onto the eco-monster movie The Thaw, which will begin shooting mid-June. The film also stars Martha MacIsaac, of Superbad fame, as Kilmer’s daughter. Here’s the scoop from Ecorazzi:

A group of student-scientists stumble upon a thawing Woolly Mammoth in a melting ice cap. Unfortunately, the Mammoth is packing a deadly parasite that had laid dormant (and hungry we might add) for thousands of years. One-by-one, everyone becomes infected, all hell breaks loose, and well, you get the picture. According to the synopsis, “soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground… including themselves.”

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