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• $5 MP3 Album Deal: Siouxsie and the Banshees ‘Juju’
• Geek Gear: Breaking Bad/Batman ‘Breaking Bat’ Shirt
• Check That: Carl Erik Rinsch Not Fired By Universal, Continues To Edit ’47 Ronin’
• Disney In Depth: Soundtrack Review: ‘Everybody Wants To Be A Cat’
• ‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Trailer: When XBox Kinect Is On, Things Go Bump In The Night
• Geek Fit: The Plight Of The Skinny Guy
• $5 MP3 Album Deal: Blind Faith ‘Blind Faith’
• New ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Poster Centers On The Dwarves
• Actor Herbert Lom Of ‘The Pink Panther’ Movies and ‘The Dead Zone’ Dies At Age 95
• Angela Lansbury & Bill Murray Join Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’
• ‘Identity Thief’ Trailer: Jason Bateman Is No Match For Melissa McCarthy
• Geek Gear: Army Of Darkness ‘This Is My Boom Stick’ Shirt

$5 MP3 Album Deal: Siouxsie and the Banshees ‘Juju’ Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:30 AM PDT As part of Amazon's monthly $5 MP3 album deals for September 2012, Siouxsie and The Banshees' Juju is on sale for only $5. If you would like a physical copy of Juju, the CD is available for only $8.99. Released in 1981, Juju was the fourth studio album recorded by English goth-rock group Siouxsie and the Banshees. While the album didn't make so much as a ripple here in the U.S., it made quite a splash on the other side of the pond, peaking at #7 on the UK charts. Countless musicians site Siouxsie and the Banshees – and Juju, in particular – as being influential in their music. Highlights from this album are "Spellbound, "Arabian Nights," and the uber-creepy "Voodoo Dolly." Browse the main sale page to see all 100 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of September 2012 [...]

Geek Gear: Breaking Bad/Batman ‘Breaking Bat’ Shirt Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a mash-up of Batman/The Dark Knight Rises and Breaking Bad called "Breaking Bat" by studown. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Friday, September 28, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

Check That: Carl Erik Rinsch Not Fired By Universal, Continues To Edit ’47 Ronin’ Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:03 PM PDT The trouble with unnamed insider sources is that sometimes their information is unreliable. However, when there is trouble on a film set, budgetary issues, and multiple scheduling changes, the information from those insider sources may have some validity. Last week we reported that those problems took a toll for 47 Ronin, and as a result Universal Pictures forced director Carl Erik Rinsch out of the editing process. But when a studio ousts a director just like that, sometimes it's best to get the word from the actual person. Reports are now saying that Rinsch is still very much a part of the editing process and has not been fired by Universal [...]

Disney In Depth: Soundtrack Review: ‘Everybody Wants To Be A Cat’ Posted: 27 Sep 2012 05:56 PM PDT More than a year ago, Walt Disney Records released a soundtrack to little fanfare within the general music community, but rightfully deserves some attention. Collect a bunch of famous Disney tunes and gather some jammin' jazz artists. Spin the two together and your creation is an awesome assortment of standards breathing new energy. Here is my review of Disney Jazz Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat. 1. "Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat" by Roy Hargrove: The Grammy-winning trumpeter lends his potent musical skills into mixing up this classic tune from The Aristocats. While the first minute or so of the five-minute cover closely resembles the jazzy piece, he then spins some impressive arrangements. I could imagine listening to this strong instrumentation in a coffeehouse or lounge. Though it steers off in a different direction for much of the entirety, Hargrove returns to the memorable theme toward the end. 2. "Chim Chim Cher-Ee" by Esperanza Spalding: The artist who prevailed over teen sensation Justin Bieber at the 2011 Grammys as the "Best New Artist" adeptly takes control over the Sherman Brothers' legendary melody. The orchestration possesses a French flair, with some light piano and accordion in the background at different points. Spalding scats with beautiful range in this romantic version that still stirs up a chilling sensation. Guesses are that if Dick Van Dyke has heard Spalding's take on the piece, he would be pretty proud [...]

‘Paranormal Activity 4′ Trailer: When XBox Kinect Is On, Things Go Bump In The Night Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT The new Paranormal Activity 4 trailer quickly establishes that there is a connection between it and Paranormal Activity 2. It all begins with a home surveillance camera capturing a very familiar possessed woman snatching a boy and then walking off into the darkness. The trailer than flash forwards to last year, where we are introduced to a new family, and the evil spirits that haunt their chandeliers, Skype, and Xbox Kinect. Check out the brand new trailer for Paranormal Activity 4 below. Henry Joose and Ariel Schulman return to direct the third sequel to the Paranormal Activity franchise. Whether or not the film involves Katie and Hunter remains a mystery, but the trailer certainly implies that there is a connection between the two [...]

Geek Fit: The Plight Of The Skinny Guy Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:45 PM PDT In the inaugural post of the Geek Fit series I may have painted a slightly misleading picture of "the geek." I was an overweight couch potato, but obviously not all geeks are. I once had a discussion with some friends via Twitter regarding the modern day definition of the word "geek." We came to the conclusion that geeks are not just people who read comic books, adore gadgetry, have at least 5 level 80 characters residing in Azeroth, and know the words to every Rush song ever. Instead we agreed that a geek today is anyone who has a passion for something that leads them to near-obsessive and sometimes annoying level of fandom or appreciation for a particular subject. It is at the nexus of this definition and the classic stereotype where this series exists. That said, I believe I gave the impression that this series would only be beneficial to people that were in my particular situation (overweight and sedentary). The fact is that the vast majority of my friends who were (and are) geeks are all variety of shapes and size. I have had the privilege of working out with and learning from a variety of different individuals. You see, part of what made getting in shape possible for me was that I truly geeked out about it. I became passionate and as such wanted to learn as much as I could about fitness and getting in shape. I would take learning directly from someone else's experiences rather than just reading books and so I began to really pry into the fitness habits of my friends and colleagues [...]

$5 MP3 Album Deal: Blind Faith ‘Blind Faith’ Posted: 27 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT Blind Faith, the self-titled only official release by the classic rock supergroup Blind Faith, is now available on MP3 format from Amazon this month for only $5. (The CD is available for $7.96). Released in 1969, this one-off supergroup release, consisting of ex-Cream bandmates Ginger Baker and one Eric Clapton and British blue-eyed soul singer/piano player Steve Winwood, who had been in The Spencer Davis Group prior to this collaboration, created a memorable six-song record which musically endures to this very day. Great crossroads musically for the members of the group, who went on to other projects of varying success, Clapton with his own smashing solo career and Winwood, who formed the Blind Faith style-Traffic. This album is a largely successful venture, nice bright and punchy arrangements throughout, breezy rock and roll in a sense, backbeated by the rebellious attack of Baker. "Can't Find My Way Home," "Well All Right," the wonderful "Sea of Joy," the spiritually uplifting "Presence of the Lord," and "Do What You Like" in which Baker has a field day, his tour-de-force in way; fresh off of the split from Cream, he's still in his element a thousand fold. So are the rest of the group. Great album by a band which can only spark the question "What Could Have Been?" if Blind Faith had stayed together, instead of disbanding after its release. Browse the main sale page to see all 100 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of September 2012 [...]

New ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Poster Centers On The Dwarves Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:29 PM PDT The marketing team is slowly revealing more of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Last weekend, Jackson released a prolific poster of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. The character was in a very familiar pose, perhaps homage to the posters for Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now we got a brand new poster that squeezes in all the dwarves – a plate full of pastries – into a standard-sized poster. Check out the full image of the poster here below. The newest poster for the first Hobbit installment features all the dwarves you will see in the film. As you can see, each dwarf has a unique identifiable characteristic that separates them from the others [...]

Actor Herbert Lom Of ‘The Pink Panther’ Movies and ‘The Dead Zone’ Dies At Age 95 Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:47 AM PDT Herbert Lom, the Czech-born film and television actor best known to modern audiences for playing the long-suffering Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the successful Pink Panther movies for United Artists, has passed away less than three weeks after celebrating his 95th birthday. Born Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevič ze Schluderpacheru on September 11, 1917 in Prague to parents of Austrian nobility, Lom started out acting in mostly supporting roles (with an occasional lead) in the Czech cinema, but was forced to flee to England in 1939 due to the country's invasion by the Nazis. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he began appearing in British comedies and dramas throughout the following decade and made his American film debut in Jules Dassin's 1950 film noir classic Night and the City. Five years later he first appeared alongside future on-screen adversary Peter Sellers in the great Ealing Studios comedy The Ladykillers (awkwardly remade by the Coen Brothers in 2004). After the smashing success of the first Pink Panther movie, UA gave the green-light for a sequel - a practice that was hardly as common in the film industry as it is today - and in 1964 Lom made his debut as the harried Inspector Dreyfus in the Blake Edwards-directed A Shot in the Dark. The actor's gift for red-faced bluster made the inspector an invaluable addition to the series. He would go on to play the role in each subsequent sequel ending with 1993's Son of the Pink Panther, which had Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni taking over the role of perennial pain in Dreyfus' backside since Sellers had died in 1980 and which would also be Lom's final feature film [...]

Angela Lansbury & Bill Murray Join Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom provided lighthearted comedy in summer that was chalk full of action tentpole films. Recently, the director has been courting a variety of names to join him for his new film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Johnny Depp and Jude Law – neither one of them have ever worked with the director - have signed on for unspecified roles. Frequent collaborators Edward Norton and Owen Wilson have been confirmed to have parts in the film as well. Now there is word that Bill Murray - another frequent collaborator of Anderson's work - and Murder She Wrote star Angela Lansbury will join the cast as well. In an interview with Vulture, Murray confirmed that he does have a part in the film and that production will take place in Germany. However, the actor did not elaborate on what kind of role he has in the film [...]

‘Identity Thief’ Trailer: Jason Bateman Is No Match For Melissa McCarthy Posted: 27 Sep 2012 08:06 AM PDT After turning in a scene-stealing performance in Bridesmaids last year, Melissa McCarthy signed on for Seth Gordon's Identity Thief. McCarthy stars opposite Jason Bateman in a comedy about a nitwit who steals the identity of an uptight businessman. Now we got the first trailer for the film, which you can check out here below. Identity Thief arrives in theaters on February 8, 2013, but it's a bit strange to see a comedy with so much potential being released during a time when the box office isn't exactly booming. But Identity Thief could be a sleeper hit that no one sees coming. McCarthy has already established herself as a solid comedian, and Bateman never fails to make us laugh. The film also stars Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Genesis Rodriguez, John Cho, Robert Patrick, and Eric Stonestreet [...]

Geek Gear: Army Of Darkness ‘This Is My Boom Stick’ Shirt Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is an Evil Dead/Army Of Darkness-themed shirt called "This Is My Boom Stick" by nikholmes. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Thursday, September 27, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

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