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- Lightning Deals: Pirates of the Caribbean, 2012, Modern Family
- Syfy To Begin Making Movies With Universal Pictures
- Longtime Writer/Director Blake Edwards Passes Away At 88
- 25 Days of Geek TV Christmas: Day 16 – How I Met Your Mother
- Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2010: Books
- Watch Now: Christmas With GWAR
- Blu-ray Review: Inception
| Lightning Deals: Pirates of the Caribbean, 2012, Modern Family Posted: 17 Dec 2010 04:51 AM PST  Every day, Amazon offers up "Lightning Deals," limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out within that four hours, the sale is over. Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it's gone. Typically you don't know what will be on sale until the minute it gets posted, but as part of their Holiday event, Amazon has released this week's Lightning Deal schedule for Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray. See below for a list of today's deals -- which begin at 5:30am PST and run through 9:30pm PST -- along with more information on how these special deals work. The last deal goes up at 5:30pm PST. There's also TONS of extremely low prices and great deals on DVDs and Blu-rays right now, so visit the TOP HOLIDAY DEALS page to see the wide selection. Also, Amazon's Blu-ray box set deal of the week is the Glee: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Edition for only $34.99 (that's 50% off the list price of $69.99). The TV Deal of the Week is Married...with Children: The Complete Series DVD box set for only $116.99 (that's 53% off the list price of $250.95). Both deals are valid only for this week through December 18, 2010. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010 5:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. PST The Spy Next Door (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Blu-ray - $16.99 Afro Samurai: Resurrection - Director's Cut DVD - $7.49 The Road DVD - $11.99 Eat Pray Love DVD - $10.99 Eat Pray Love Blu-ray - $13.99 [...]            |
| Syfy To Begin Making Movies With Universal Pictures Posted: 16 Dec 2010 09:25 PM PST  Syfy is best known for their science fiction TV series like Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, as well as their unexplained phenomena shows like Ghost Hunters and Destination Truth. They're also known for some of the (intentionally) worst TV movies you'll ever lay eyes on, like Sharktopus and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Now comes word that Syfy, who belongs to NBC Universal, will be teaming up with Universal Pictures to step into the realms of feature films with their new venture, Syfy Films. The plan is to produce one or two new movies each year with small to moderate budgets ranging from $5 million to $25 million. Movies produced will not be restricted to just science fiction, either; other genres including fantasy, horror, and supernatural are all expected to see some love when things get going. The first of the new Syfy Films/Universal Pictures joint venture projects is expected some time in the year 2012. [...]      |
| Longtime Writer/Director Blake Edwards Passes Away At 88 Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:58 PM PST  Famed Hollywood writer and director Blake Edwards died yesterday at a health care center in Santa Monica, California. Edwards passed away due to complications from pneumonia with his family close by, including his wife, Julie Andrews. He was 88 years old. Edwards actually started out as an actor, appearing in many different films of the 1940s, but it's his work as a writer and director for which he's best known and will be remembered forever. Most notably, he both wrote and directed the late Peter Sellers in 1963's The Pink Panther, which turned into a franchise with sequels in 1975, 1976, and 1978 -- all involving Edwards and Sellers. Not to mention the many spin offs, adaptations, and remakes that have made the character a pop culture icon over the years. Though the Pink Panther films are his most identifiable works, in no way did they define his career. From westerns to dramas and romances to wars, Edwards set his stories in whatever genres complimented them the best. [...]      |
| 25 Days of Geek TV Christmas: Day 16 – How I Met Your Mother Posted: 16 Dec 2010 05:55 PM PST  The most wonderful time of the year is once again upon us. The Christmas season is here and with that comes Christmas TV episodes! For the 25 days leading up til Christmas Day this month, we'll be spotlighting some of the best Christmas-themed episodes from some of Geek culture's greatest shows. Each day we'll cover different shows and episodes and encourage you to watch along with us. So come one, come all, to the 25 Days of Geek TV Christmas! Thursday, December 16th, 2010 - Day 16: How I Met Your Mother Season 2, Episode 11: "How Lily Stole Christmas" Directed by: Pamela Fryman Written by: Brenda Hsueh Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Harry Groener, and Cristine Rose Original Air Date: December 11, 2006 You can also purchase a copy of the episode at Amazon or iTunes [...]      |
| Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2010: Books Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST  Here at Geeks of Doom, we've been hard at work putting together some Holiday gift ideas so that those of you who are buying for a geek have a much better idea of what we love, what we want, and what we're downright twitching to get our hands on. If you've missed them, be sure to check out our DVDs & Blu-rays, Video Game, Comic Books, Specialty Items Guides for some Christmas shopping suggestions. If you're anything like us, you're still doing your holiday gift shopping, and luckily there's still time to order some items online for Christmas Eve delivery. For very last-minute gifts, there's always a gift card AND now you can also gift someone a Kindle book! To round out our gift suggestions, see below for our Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2010: Books. We've also included some ordering deadlines [...]      |
| Watch Now: Christmas With GWAR Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:00 AM PST  Look, in all honesty, I really was going to write up something detailed and fabulous about this video, including a bit of a background of GWAR and so on... but once you've watched this video below, there's really nothing to say. Honestly - aside from having to change my pants because I laughed so much, you just have to see this one for yourself. Any description or background I offer will just ruin it for you. So I guess metal band GWAR decided to team up with Break.com for a video, and decided to make it Christmas themed. That's all I'm telling you about it because the video on its own is just brilliant, awesome, bloody, and festive. I'm hoping GWAR get some viral mileage out of this. At any rate, here's the video. Bring it on! [...]      |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2010 08:19 AM PST  Inception Blu-ray Combo Pack | DVD Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Paige, Marion Cotillard, Michael Cain, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe Warner Bros Home Entertainment Release date: December 7, 2010 American Beauty had a tagline that instructed us to "look closer." Apply this instruction to Inception and see what lurks underneath the myriad of descriptions explaining what inception and extraction actually are. Adhering to a more surgical approach to Christopher Nolan's film we will be granted what truly drives the movie. Looking closer we are no longer misconstrued by the esoteric explanations of dreams, but are firmly grooved along a rail that is undeviating in its approach of getting to the heart of the film: which is the wounded souls of two men who inhabit an unrelenting atmosphere of ceaseless action. The true meaning of this film isn't about penetrating through multiple layers of dreams, nor is it about an espionage heist. Inception, as psychologically brilliant as it is, is even more potent when it reveals that it has a heart; a heart so beaten down to a wounded mass that it is thriving to be resuscitated. It is this kind of heart that takes the film past the esoteric and psychological realms of excessive commotion and into the heights of the masses who can empathize with what it is like to have a heart that feels it cannot be mended. Here is Nolan channeling a universal theme of extreme grief. We are swimming in a pool of grief the entire span of the film (the brooding soundtrack is evidence). Hearts want to mend the past, dissipate the regret pervading its existence and get revenge on things eating away at it. Nolan created a character that had intact these same motivations in his hallmark film Memento. That film and Inception reveal men disconcerted with their current way of living, motivated by past events and regrets that have the potential to drive them mad [...]      |
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