* I’ve been reading up on serial killers again in order to get in the right headspace for a project, so I’m catching more such stories in the news. Meet husband and wife serial-killer team Michel Fourniert and Monique Olivier, recently convicted of abducting, raping, and killing a series of virgin girls throughout France and Belgium.

* Matthew Zoller Seitz stops in at the Movie Geeks United podcast to discuss Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo series, touching on Indiana Jones, John McClane, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer, Dirty Harry Callahan and other action icons. His segment starts at 42:24. (Via The House Next Door.)

* FourFour’s Rich Juzwiak assembles an awesome continuous mix of songs that sample Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers’ seminal drum break from the song “Ashley’s Roachclip.” (It’s the beat from “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss,” “Unbelievable,” “Paid in Full,” and “Girl You Know It’s True.”) That, as they say, was a good drum break.

* Hey, look, it’s the trailer for the Chuck Palahniuk “Fight Club with fucking instead of fighting” adaptation Choke! (Via AICN.)

* And here’s a report from the set of the post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road from the New York Times. Heh, I wonder what Dan Simmons makes of the director’s claim that this eschatological scenario is “realistic.”

* Here’s a pair of interviews with Lost‘s great Michael Emerson. Pseudospoilerishesque if you want to go into the season finale with no expectations whatsoever, but delightful for fans of how Emerson has become the de facto non-Lindelof/Cuse spokesperson for the show. (Via Whitney Matheson and Jim Treacher.)

* Jason Adams at My New Plaid Pants defends Hostel from unfavorable comparisons to Inside–which he also liked, but for different reasons than…well, here, read this quote:

just because you put on airs of importance by throwing a bone to some random social or political message,…it doesn’t instantly make your film more worthwhile.

* Check out artist Joe Quniones’s de-O’Malleyified takes on the cast of Scott Pilgrim! (Via David Paggi.)

* Speaking of O’Malley, he brings us your quote of the day:

I did not win a contest and I was never an overnight success. The instant-gratification-American-Idol mindset is so sad, so damaging. Everyone I know who’s successful got that way by hard work, gradual building of an audience, nonstop hustling, plenty of luck.

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