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- Blu-ray Deal: The Bourne Trilogy
- Geek Gear: Star Wars ‘Greedo’s Shooting Academy’ Shirt
- Comic Review: Total Recall, Issue #3
- Comic Review: Hellboy: The Fury #2
- Comic Review: Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1
- Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Novel ‘Darth Plagueis’ To Focus On Palpatine’s Sith Master
- Spoiler Talk: The Help
| Blu-ray Deal: The Bourne Trilogy Posted: 15 Aug 2011 05:26 AM PDT  The Blu-ray deal of the week over at Amazon this week is The Bourne Trilogy Blu-ray collection for only $32.99 (that's 53% off the list price of $69.98). This Blu-ray collection contains all three of the Jason Bourne action movies, which starred Matt Damon as the title character: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. The set also includes plenty of bonus features like deleted and extended scenes, directors commentaries, and featurettes covering the fighting sequences, chase scenes, explosions, and other bits of action goodness. There's also a feature on Robert Ludlum, the author who created the Bourne book series. Exclusive to Blu-ray are character files, location analysis, and other information available as you watch the film, as well as the Bourne Orientation, which shows the connections of Jason Bourne's actions in all three films [...]            |
| Geek Gear: Star Wars ‘Greedo’s Shooting Academy’ Shirt Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:10 PM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is the Star Wars-inspired shirt called "Greedo's Shooting Academy" by artist R-evolution GFX. The sale at RIPT began today, Monday, August 15, 2011, 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 [...]      |
| Comic Review: Total Recall, Issue #3 Posted: 14 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT  Total Recall #3 Written by Vince Moore Pencils and Inks by Cezar Rezak Dynamite Entertainment Price: $1.99 Release Date: July 13, 2011 I have not seen the movie Total Recall for quite some time now. But from what I remember it was a fun and campy cci-fi movie from 1990. This being said, there is a new four-part comic book miniseries out that is simply titled Total Recall. In issue #3, we find Quaid and Melina are trying to deal with the current situations with the colonies on Mars, for both the humans and the Mutants, and what is really going on in the government. We also discover that they are having to deal with tragedy, and on top of that some old enemies from the past are reappearing. It is up to Quaid to figure out what is truly going on and discover what secrets Mars holds [...]      |
| Comic Review: Hellboy: The Fury #2 Posted: 14 Aug 2011 02:27 PM PDT  Hellboy: The Fury #2 Written by Mike Mignola Art by Duncan Fegredo Dark Horse Comics Cover Price $2.99 Release date: July 13, 2011 Part 2 of a 3-part storyline, Hellboy: The Fury #2 starts immediately into the war with the Queen of Blood. Knights fight on both sides and we even get a glimpse of The Four Horsemen, though truthfully it's the Three Horsemen and One Pedestrian (a pseudo Terry Pratchett reference for those in the know). Blood abounds, bodies lay scattered, and Hellboy seems to be on the losing end of this battle. Could this be the fabled Ragnarok the Norse always spoke of? Hellboy stands as the bastion of good in this battle, but is severely outnumbered and most certainly the underdog. Even the mighty Hellboy cannot bring down this mighty dragon queen.The ravens that appear throughout the comic lend themselves to the Norse theme of death and destruction, of course the battle taking place at Vigrid also pretty well seals the deal, too [...]      |
| Comic Review: Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 Posted: 14 Aug 2011 11:12 AM PDT  Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 Writer: Andrew Chambliss, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon Penciler: Cliff Richards Inker: Andy Owens Colorist: Michelle Madsen BOOM! Studios Cover Price $3.99; Release date: July 6, 2011 Based upon the creation of Joss Whedon, Dollhouse: Epitaphs #1 is directly linked to the television series. The first issue here introduces us to a world gone crazy with "imprinting." Imprinting is essentially the forcing of another life and set of memories onto an individual to basically rewrite their brain. New skills, new languages, even new likes/dislikes can be learned in short order. Originally this process was used only on the "dolls" at the different houses across the world, but the comic opens up to mass imprinting via basic communication devices. We get to meet Trevor, a young boy who is altered to be able to accept information and skills in a slightly different method than the reader/viewer is used to seeing. There are several new characters, well, new to me anyway, that seem to be pivotal to the building storyline [...]      |
| Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Novel ‘Darth Plagueis’ To Focus On Palpatine’s Sith Master Posted: 14 Aug 2011 09:46 AM PDT  The official Star Wars site has unveiled the first look at the cover artwork for the upcoming novel, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno. See full cover art by clicking image here above. The long-awaited novel (that was actually canceled at one stage) focuses on the Sith Lord who was the Master of Palpatine, the apprentice who would become the Emperor. Plagueis was first mentioned in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, when Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) recounts the "tale of Darth Plagueis the Wise" to Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). The novel is anticipated to expand on Palpatine's apprenticeship to Plagueis when he was dubbed Darth Sidious [...]      |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:00 AM PDT  I can't say much for Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help, having never read it. After having watched its big screen adaptation, The Help movie takes an issue as charged as racism, sorry, RACISM all caps, and turns it into a bloated after-school special (it logs in at around 2 hours and 15 minutes) complete with an "inspirational" end-credits song that'll have you sprinting for the exits. There are times when it plays like a Lifetime movie you might see at 1:30 in the afternoon except without the tampon commercials. Is it a good movie? That might be stretching it a little. It is an obvious and safe one. "Safe" in that you know exactly what you're in for and in that sense you won't be disappointed. You won't be particularly enlightened or challenged either, but it is easy-to-digest, filled with clearly delineated heroes and boo-hiss villains that may as well be wearing hoods for all the depth they're allowed. And in case you need some help, the heavy-handed score tells you exactly what to feel (Inspired? Outraged?) and when you should be feeling it. "Safe" is the movie's biggest compliment as well as its harshest criticism. You walk out knowing that racism in all its forms is bad. And we're all people too and if you can remember the lyrics from "We Are the World" or "Ebony and Ivory," then you've got the movie down [...]      |
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