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Geek Gear: Harry Potter/Lovecraft ‘Howard Phillip’ Shirt
Netflix Review: The First Grader
‘Harry Potter’ Scribe Steve Klove To Direct Live-Action ‘Jungle Book’ For Warner Bros
Marvel Comics Launches Marvel Digital Comics Store
$5 MP3 Album Deal: Patton Oswalt’s ‘Werewolves and Lollipops’
You Don’t Want To Smell What The Rock Is Cooking In Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’
Watch Now: Every Zoom Shot In Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Synchronized
DVD Review: Creature (2011)
Doom Digest: LoTR, The Hit Squad, Book People Unite, The Simpsons, Game Of Thrones
Happy Birthday, Ace Frehley!
The Drill Down 231: Billionaires In Space!

Geek Gear: Harry Potter/Lovecraft ‘Howard Phillip’ Shirt

Posted: 28 Apr 2012 04:50 AM PDT

Harry Potte HP Lovecraft - Howard Phillip

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a mash-up of Harry Potter and H.P. Lovecraft called "Howard Phillip" by NikHolmes.

The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, April 28, 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 [...]

Netflix Review: The First Grader

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 06:04 PM PDT

The First Grader
Netflix Streaming
DVD
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Starring Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Vusi Kunene
National Geographic Entertainment
Originally Released: September 4, 2010

The First Grader is one of those rare dramas that is such enthralling viewing; you cannot turn away from the screen. The performances in this movie are well above standards and expectations, with some moving moments sure to bring some viewers to tears. Coupled with some extraordinary cinematography and an exceptional score, The First Grader is a film based on true events that is not to be missed.

In 2003, the People's Republic of Kenya officially announced that they were introducing free primary education (what Americans refer to as Elementary School) across the country. The result saw a massive increase in enrollment and attendance (Wikipedia cites this as high as 70%), ushering forth a new era of potential for the children of the country [...]

‘Harry Potter’ Scribe Steve Klove To Direct Live-Action ‘Jungle Book’ For Warner Bros

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 04:59 PM PDT

Move over Disney, there's a new studio that wants to tell the tale of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling's collection of stories about his adventures and excursions in dangerous jungles. Though the most notable incarnation of Kipling's work was the animated version that Disney released, the studio also had a live-action move starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli.

Warner Bros. is hiring Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves to write and direct the new live-action version of The Jungle Book. This wouldn't be the first time that Kloves has directed a movie. He previously worked on The Fabulous Baker Boys and Flash and Bone [...]

Marvel Comics Launches Marvel Digital Comics Store

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Marvel has offered their comic books in print, digitally via an online app on PCs, and for mobile through the Marvel Comics App. While there has been synergy between these two mediums, since the start the House of Ideas has desperately needed a way to consolidate their distribution structure.

Now they have launched the Marvel Comics Digital Store. At this online destination fans can purchase and read their Marvel Comics and those purchases will automatically sync with the Marvel Comics App allowing them to take their books on the road on Android and iOS devices [...]

$5 MP3 Album Deal: Patton Oswalt’s ‘Werewolves and Lollipops’

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT

In the summer of 2004 Patton Oswalt's career in comedy went supernova almost overnight when his first stand-up CD Feelin' Kinda Patton was released. In that instant he evolved from a moderately well-known comedian and King of Queens co-star to one of the universe's funniest and imaginative personalities. Three years after the release of his first CD, Oswalt made a blazing return to record stores with his brilliantly titled follow-up album Werewolves and Lollipops; its unheralded genius, coupled with the successful theatrical release that summer of the Pixar animated delight Ratatouille, confirmed Oswalt as a force to be reckoned with in the world of comedy.

This month, Patton Oswalt's epic second comedy album is on sale at Amazon as part of their monthly $5 MP3 deal. You can also check out more of these deals at the main sale page and order Werewolves and Lollipops on CD here.

You Don’t Want To Smell What The Rock Is Cooking In Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT

During the late '90s, my junior high class was completely fascinated by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. They questioned teachers and fellow classmates with his infamous question: "Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?"

Ten years and a few movies later, Johnson has made a name for himself outside the wrestling ring. He is just one of the many stars who will appear in Michael Bay's new passion project Pain & Gain and in this new image, people will once again be asking themselves: "Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?" [...]

Watch Now: Every Zoom Shot In Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Synchronized

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Stanley Kubrick's classic 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Shining was probably the last great horror film of the decade that gave us such timeless scare fests as The Exorcist, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Carrie, and Halloween. Though the snobbish cinemaphiles are reluctant to group The Shining in with the director's other masterworks of the silver screen the movie has endured and grown in popularity over the past three decades. It is now regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made.

An 80-second video collage of every zoom shot from The Shining has been assembled by Ian Kammer. You can watch it here below [...]

DVD Review: Creature (2011)

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Creature
DVD
Directed by Fred M. Andrews
Written by Fred M. Andrews and Tracy Morse
Starring Sid Haig, Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller
The Bubble Factory
Release Date: March 20, 2012

If you've seen one backwoods incestuous half-man, half-alligator creature feature, you've seen 'em all.

Directed by Fred M. Andrews, Creature follows an ex-Navy SEAL (Mehcad Brooks) and his trashy girlfriend (Serinda Swan) on a road trip to New Orleans with their annoying twenty-something pals.

The gang stops at a desolate roadside gas station owned by Chopper (Sid Haig, House of 1000 Corpses), who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a backwoods abomination who is half-man, half-alligator. The incestuous and absurd folktale goes a little something like this: An inbred cajun creeper by the name of Grimley (Daniel Bernhardt) lost his family to a monstrous white alligator, which drove him to madness - and by madness I mean, he beat the shit out of that alligator and turned into a cannibal. Somehow ol' cannibalistic Grimley transformed into Lockjaw, an alligator-man with a Glasgow grin that prowls about the swamps in search of fresh meat [...]

Doom Digest: LoTR, The Hit Squad, Book People Unite, The Simpsons, Game Of Thrones

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don't always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we've resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

Today: get your hands on Sting from Lord Of The Ring, a star-studded video for Book People Unite, The Hit Squad pixel art movie, The Simpsons diss Fox News, and a Caligula - Joffrey comparison, plus some Bits Of Doom [...]

Happy Birthday, Ace Frehley!

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Happy Birthday today to the "Spaceman" - one Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist for the rock and roll all night group KISS, whose frantic, spacial guitar work made him one of the most influential guitar players of the 1970s, when KISS was at its highest powers as a powerhouse, superstar hard rock and roll quartet.

Frehley, who was with KISS from 1973 until he left in 1982 and then from 1996 to 2002 when they embarked on their successful "reunion" and "farewell" tours, humbly downplayed his success, even telling Rock and Roll Experience Magazine in 2009 that "I'm an Anomaly, I'm an unschooled musician, I don't know how to read music, but I'm one of the most famous guitar players in the world, so go figure." Everything he said in that one statement pretty much encapsulates the career of Ace Frehley [...]

The Drill Down 231: Billionaires In Space!

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 07:15 AM PDT

This week The Drill Down team takes a look at the battle for your online distributed data, with new features on cloud storage services from Microsoft, Dropbox, and Google. Then, it's sci-fi billionaires in space!!! as Google's Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and director James Cameron launch into a new venture to mine asteroids.

But first, the headlines... Nokia's down 30% with a $1.7 BN loss, Anonymous launches a social music service, Facebook pays Microsoft $550 M for former AOL patents, Adobe announces Creative Suite 6 (and subscription-based licenses), and Facebook announces its staggering Q1 financials, including details on its Instagram purchase [...]