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- Geek Gear: Super Mario Bros. ‘Starman Golden Stout’ Shirt
- Video Game Deal: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
- Geek Gear: Labyrinth ‘Close Enough’ Shirt
- Dark Horse Comics To Publish Michael Avon Oeming’s ‘The Victories’
- Netflix Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
- Guitarist Joe Bonamassa Announces Latest Album ‘Driving Towards The Daylight’
- ‘Star Wars: Scoundrels’ Puts The Usual Suspects In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
- Check Out This First Poster For Rian Johnson’s Time Travel Thriller ‘Looper’
- Comic Review: Axe Cop, Vol. 3 TPB
- Listen To Samples From Alan Silvestri’s Score For ‘The Avengers’
- Comic Review: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 12
- Have $1.4 Million Laying Around? You Can Now Own District 12 From ‘The Hunger Games’
- The Drill Down 228: The Social Network Strikes Back
| Geek Gear: Super Mario Bros. ‘Starman Golden Stout’ Shirt Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:50 AM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a Super Mario Bros.-themed called "Starman Golden Stout" by Steven Thibaudeau. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Saturday, April 7, 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 [...]            |
| Video Game Deal: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:25 AM PDT  Right now, Amazon is selling LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean for Nintendo DS for only $13.66 (that's 54% off the list price of $29.99). The prices have also dropped for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, PC, Nintendo 3DS, and Sony PSP editions of the video game. Now word on when this sale will end, so grab it now if you want it [...]      |
| Geek Gear: Labyrinth ‘Close Enough’ Shirt Posted: 07 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a Labyrinth-themed shirt called "Close Enough" by thePurv. The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, April 7, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]      |
| Dark Horse Comics To Publish Michael Avon Oeming’s ‘The Victories’ Posted: 06 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT  Dark Horse Comics announced this week that it would be publishing Michael Avon Oeming's post-modern superhero tale The Victories this August. Oeming, long-time collaborator with Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Takio), will be taking his skills to perform both writing and art duties on his brand new mature comic The Victories. The Victories is being described as a post-modern superhero story for mature readers in the vein of Watchmen and Powers. And while those are completely different comics, the themes of turning the idea of a superhero narrative on its head is still present. We've seen a lot of comics attempt this brand of storytelling recently with books like Irredeemable, Kick-Ass, Empowered and many, many more to the point of near saturation, but some books still stand out, and with Oeming's phenomenal artwork, I have no doubt that this comic will rise to the top. And if you doubt that, check out the cover image here below [...]      |
| Netflix Review: The Lincoln Lawyer Posted: 06 Apr 2012 04:34 PM PDT  The Lincoln Lawyer Netflix Streaming DVD | Blu-Ray Directed by Brad Furman Based on the novel by Michael Connelly Starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, Josh Lucas, Bryan Cranston, Margarita Levieva, Trace Adkins, John Leguizamo, William H. Macy, Frances Fisher, and Laurence Mason Lionsgate Originally Released: March 18, 2011 The Lincoln Lawyer is a surprisingly enjoyable ride, bearing in mind it was promoted as a courtroom drama. In fact, the Brad Furman film, based on the novel written by Michael Connelly, is much more than that – combining elements of crime films and thrillers, The Lincoln Lawyer hurriedly becomes a deeply strategic movie that demands your attention from start to finish, with excellent performances from the all-star cast. The tale focuses on a criminal defense attorney, Mickey Haller played by Matthew McConaughey (in perhaps one of his finest roles caught on film), who takes on a case involving Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillipe). Roulet is accused of beating a prostitute named Reggie Campo (Margarita Levieva), though he claims he is innocent of the crime [...]      |
| Guitarist Joe Bonamassa Announces Latest Album ‘Driving Towards The Daylight’ Posted: 06 Apr 2012 02:30 PM PDT  Blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa has announced his latest studio album, Driving Towards The Daylight. Produced by his Black Country Communion collaborator Kevin Shirley, the album features guest appearances by the likes of Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford and Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes. Among the 11 tracks there are Bonamassa originals and he also puts his inimitable style on songs such as "New Coat Of Paint" by Tom Waits, Bernie Marsden's "A Place In My Heart," and Willie Dixon's "All I Need." Bonamassa is adding to his long line of solo albums including the excellent You & Me, The Ballad Of John Henry and last year's terrific Dust Bowl. Driving Towards The Daylight, Bonamassa's thirteenth album, will be released in the UK on Monday, May 12, 2012 and in the U.S. on May 22, 2012 [...]      |
| ‘Star Wars: Scoundrels’ Puts The Usual Suspects In A Galaxy Far, Far Away Posted: 06 Apr 2012 01:06 PM PDT  Timothy Zahn returns yet again to the Star Wars universe, with a new publication to be released at the end of this year focusing on Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian. Entitled Star Wars: Scoundrels, the book will be released on Boxing Day, which is December 26. Zahn's new adventure is essentially a heist/crime story, which is an awesome idea, as this concept has never been explored in the Expanded Star Wars Universe. Picture this: mixing up the stories of Ocean's Eleven, The Usual Suspects, and The Italian Job, and chucking them all into the backdrop of the Star Wars galaxy... Sold on the idea yet? I can tell you with absolute certainty that I am. The Expanded Universe has been advancing sub-genre stories like this for a few years now, the best known being Deathtroopers, mixing up Horror and Zombie stories into Star Wars lore. This year's Darth Plagueis played more like a Godfather-esque tale inside the context of Sith lineage; and the recent Dark Horse comic book series Agent Of The Empire captures the Bourne/007 spy genre wonderfully [...]      |
| Check Out This First Poster For Rian Johnson’s Time Travel Thriller ‘Looper’ Posted: 06 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT  Looper, the sci-fi thriller from Brick/The Brothers Bloom writer-director Rian Johnson, has been in the works for several years now and an early cut was screened for critics last year to mostly positive notices, but only recently has Columbia Pictures kicked their promotional efforts into gear on behalf of the movie. Last month, Johnson and star Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared at WonderCon to discuss the movie (check out our panel coverage here) and give us our first look at Gordon-Levitt in character. Today, our friends at /Film have debuted the first poster from Looper You can check it out here below [...]      |
| Comic Review: Axe Cop, Vol. 3 TPB Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT  Axe Cop, Vol. 3 TPB Written by Malachai Nicolle Drawn by Ethan Nicolle Colors by Dirk Erik Shulz Designer Kat Larson Dark Horse Comics Release Date: March 28, 2012 Cover Price: $14.99 There will never be a comic quite like Calvin and Hobbes. For ten years Bill Watterson worked on an extraordinary ode to the trials and tribulations and joy that comes with being an imaginative 6 year old. It was arguably the greatest newspaper comic strip this side of the twentieth century. In part that's because its main character was allowed to be as selfish and destructive as he was sweet and imaginative, in other words, he was allowed to feel like an actual 6 year old. Then one day the strip was gone and comics have been trying to fill that void ever since. Other artists and storytellers have tackled friendship and growing pains, but one comic, Axe Cop, has emerged that really captures the sense of play that kids have. The make-the-story-up-as-you-go-along sensibility where dinosaurs, robots, and aliens are casually thrown into a plot. And unlike Watterson who would usually pull back to his real world in the last panel, Axe Cop digs deeper and deeper into its world of make-believe [...]      |
| Listen To Samples From Alan Silvestri’s Score For ‘The Avengers’ Posted: 06 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT  A new rock-packed soundtrack for next month's Marvel super-team spectacular The Avengers is scheduled for release three days before the movie opens (you can pre-order Avengers Assemble here), but no U.S. date has been set for a release of the film's orchestral score composed by Alan Silvestri. Amazon's UK site has the Avengers score being released on April 20 and has posted brief snippets from all 18 tracks of the album. You can check out a preview of Silvestri's score here. It is exactly what you would expect an Alan Silvestri score for a grand-scale summer blockbuster to be, a rousing action score meant to generate excitement and radiate emotion. I can't wait to hear the score in its entirety and see it matched to the Joss Whedon-director superhero adventure on the biggest of movie screens [...]      |
| Comic Review: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 12 Posted: 06 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT  Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 12 Story by Eiji Otsuka Art by Housui Yamazaki Original Cover Design by Bunpei Yorifuji Translation by Toshifumi Yoshida Editor and English Adaptaion by Carl Gustav Horn Lettering and Touchup by IHL Dark Horse Comics Release Date: March 21, 2012 Cover Price: $11.99 I hope you like high-concept because the best story in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol. 12 involves haunted houses, struggling comedians, astral projection, dirty real estate deals, and a dude getting shot in the face with a nail gun, all in a brisk 75 pages that I must have read in under a half hour. Full Disclosure, I wasn't familiar with the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service series when I picked this volume up. It's about five recent college grads with their own unique connection to the afterlife and who have formed a company which specializes in granting the dead their last wishes. Although, they seem to just kind of stumble into trouble. Think Ghostbusters by way of Scooby-Doo. But in Japan [...]      |
| Have $1.4 Million Laying Around? You Can Now Own District 12 From ‘The Hunger Games’ Posted: 06 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT  Are you a rabid fan of The Hunger Games, the mega hit first movie based on Suzanne Collins' popular book series? If so, you now have the option to purchase the entire town that was transformed into District 12, the home district of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). The town's real name is Henry River Mill Village, and it's located about 70 miles away from Asheville, North Carolina. [...]      |
| The Drill Down 228: The Social Network Strikes Back Posted: 06 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT  This week, The Drill Down team takes a look at April Fools' Day on the web, Apple's upcoming revolutionary TV vs. existing console-based options, and further bad times for Yahoo, as Facebook strikes back, but first, this week's hot tech headlines. Instagram comes to Android, details on Sony's next-generation Playstation, Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs, Apple addresses worker violations at Foxconn, an iPhone stalker app raises privacy concerns on Facebook, Amazon wins sales tax fight in Colorado, Google to sell tablets online, Google tests augmented reality goggles, and OMGPop's CEO gets catty [...]      This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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