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- $5 MP3 Album Deal: Korn ‘Follow The Leader’
- Geek Gear: Toy Story/How I Met Your Mother ‘True Story’ Shirt
- Watch The Sizzle Video For Joe Carnahan’s Would-Be ‘Daredevil’ Reboot
- Movie Review: The Awakening
- Geek Fit: Fitness Can Be Fun: Racquetball
- ‘Seven Psychopaths’ Trailer: 7 Troubled Characters In One Hilarious Movie
- Ron Palillo, Welcome Back Kotter’s Arnold Horshack, Dead At 63
- Watch Jake Gyllenhaal In This Dark & Grizzly Red Band Trailer For ‘End Of Watch’
- Marvel NOW! Covers Galore!
- Must See: ‘Back To The Future’ DeLorean Hovercraft Hits San Francisco Giants’ McCovey Cove
- Book Review: The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy
- Keanu Reeves Reveals Plot Details For ‘Bill & Ted 3′
- Comic Review: Fictionauts/The Spark
- Joe Carnahan Suggests That Things Aren’t Looking Good For ‘Daredevil’ Reboot
| $5 MP3 Album Deal: Korn ‘Follow The Leader’ Posted: 15 Aug 2012 05:20 AM PDT  During the month of August Amazon has not 100, but 1000 albums for $5 each in MP3 format Korn's third album, the breakthrough Follow The Leader is part of the deal and you can pick it up (well, download it) for only $5 (the CD is available for $8.55). Containing the essential Korn tracks like "Freak On A Leash" and "Got The Life," lead singer Jonathan Davis was at his darkest most introspective best with the haunting "Pretty" and "Dead Bodies Everywhere." The clacking slap-bass of Reginald 'Fieldy' Arvizu, the heavy, abrasive guitars of Brian 'Head' Welch and James 'Munky' Shaffer and the crushing drums of David Silveria really came together for their best album. Korn was trying to regenerate metal and further the influences of hip hop within the genre and came up with a monster of an album. Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each [...]            |
| Geek Gear: Toy Story/How I Met Your Mother ‘True Story’ Shirt Posted: 15 Aug 2012 04:50 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a mash-up of How I Met Your Mother and Toy Story called “True Story” by Fanisetas. The sale began at Teefury today, Wednesday, August 15, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will [...]      |
| Watch The Sizzle Video For Joe Carnahan’s Would-Be ‘Daredevil’ Reboot Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:25 PM PDT  Earlier today, director Joe Carnahan tweeted out that things were going south on his Daredevil reboot for Fox. The studio is about to lose the rights to Daredevil when the deadline runs out for them in October and the rights go back to Marvel Studios. From what Carnahan has been saying, the people over at Fox loved his ideas for the reboot, stating that his Daredevil "pitch was tremendous and everyone flipped for it," but that "the clock ticked down at Fox, that's why it went tits up." Understandably, Carnahan is disappointed that his vision for The Man Without Fear won't be making it to the big screen, so for his Twitter followers, he debuted two videos tonight that he referred to as "sizzle pieces" that he created to capture the essense of what he had planned for his Daredevil film. You can watch them both here below [...]      |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT  The Awakening DIRECTOR: Nick Murphy WRITERS: Stephen Volk, Nick Murphy STARRING: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Cal Macaninch, Shaun Dooley BBC Films RELEASE DATE: August 17, 2012 (limited) As a lover of all types of horror movies, and especially of a good ghost story, I was excited to check out The Awakening, the new thriller from director Nick Murphy, who's making his feature debut. The movie follows Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), a paranormal hoaxes author and true skeptic in a devastated post World War I England who's firmly set on revealing the real cause of paranormal occurrences, whether they be scientific or man made trickery. [...]      |
| Geek Fit: Fitness Can Be Fun: Racquetball Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT  There is one universal truth that I have discovered in my short existence on this planet and that is, if it isn't fun, then I am likely not going to be able to do it very long. It's a weakness that, in truth, has probably cost me quite a few opportunities throughout life. Boring teachers meant failed classes, not being handed a sword on the first day of Karate led to me giving up my ninja aspirations, and fitness was most certainly never something I was interested in. I have come to recognize this flaw and that allows me to properly prepare myself for all variety of scenarios. For example, when I made my decision to get healthy I knew it would have to be accomplished in a way that was fun and provided me results [...]      |
| ‘Seven Psychopaths’ Trailer: 7 Troubled Characters In One Hilarious Movie Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT  Seven Psychopaths is the follow-up to Martin McDonagh's Academy Award winning film In Bruges (please watch the film if you haven't yet). The first trailer for the film has appeared online and it looks nothing short of hilarious. Check it out below. The premise is pretty simple: three people working in the dog kidnapping business (Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken) unwittingly take a dog that belongs to an emotionally unstable mob boss (Woody Harrelson). From there it is escaping the mob, trying to survive, and figuring out how to make a profit from all of this [...]      |
| Ron Palillo, Welcome Back Kotter’s Arnold Horshack, Dead At 63 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 03:08 PM PDT  Ron Palillo, best remembered for his role as the geeky and gawky, yet loveable Arnold Horshack who made up part of the quartet of Sweathogs on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back Kotter, died of a heart attack today at his home in West Palm Beach Florida. He was 63. Palillo's death marks the second death of an actor who portrayed a Sweathog on Welcome Back Kotter. Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein, died in late January of this year. The surviving members of those fun-loving high school juvenile delinquents who helped make the show such a success during its original run from 1975-1979 are Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (who played Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington) and of course, John Travolta, who played Vinnie Barbarino [...]      |
| Watch Jake Gyllenhaal In This Dark & Grizzly Red Band Trailer For ‘End Of Watch’ Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT  If Training Day, Dark Blue, and The Shield have taught us anything, it's that every city has its dark pockets or places you just don't go to. So with David Ayer's End of Watch, we get to see how dark and gritty these pockets can be. The filming style resembles a documentary of sorts, with the shaky cam being a constant presence during chase scenes and with the way that actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena address the camera. Check out the red band trailer below. The violent tone shouldn't be new to anyone who has watched the aforementioned films or television shows. Plus, Ayer directed both Training Day and Dark Blue, but the documentary style film shoot brings an exciting new element to these cop dramas. Think of it as the raw uncut footage from COPS [...]      |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT  The new Marvel initiative Marvel Now! is rapidly approaching its launch so the House of Ideas is starting blow out the cover previews to get us all salivating for these new stories. Check out the covers here below. As previously announced, Marvel NOW! is a new set of stories resetting but not rebooting many of Marvel's most popular characters and teams. Most of them are at least a curiosity, except one. FF #1 features a new group of heroes fighting for the Future Foundation that aren't the Fantastic Four we know and love. There's Ant-Man, Madusa, an anime-ish looking She-Hulk, and uh She-Thing? I haven't been following this one closely so this female Thing is a real shocker to me especially considering how goofy the character looks. At any rate, the true Fantastic Four still exist in the Marvel Now! Universe in their classic book. Mark Bagley has crafted variant covers to the launch issues of both books that connect [...]      |
| Must See: ‘Back To The Future’ DeLorean Hovercraft Hits San Francisco Giants’ McCovey Cove Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT  Sure you can try and acquire a real DeLorean and turn it into a replica of the iconic time travel vehicle from the Back to the Future movies. That's a dream of geeks everywhere. Unfortunately for most of us, that costs way too much coin, and the finished product won't take you back to hang out with dinosaurs if you so wished it. It wouldn't even hover off the ground a few feet. In order to achieve the flying part, you can always do the remote controlled thing. But someone named Matthew Riese had an even better idea, a DeLorean hovercraft, and he showed off his idea in grand fashion. [...]      |
| Book Review: The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT  The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy Written by Jody Duncan Jesser Hardcover Abrams Books | 304 Pages Release Date: July 20, 2012 In 2005, director Christopher Nolan reinvigorated Warner Bros.' blundering Batman film franchise with Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as Gotham's caped crusader. A dark, realistic reboot of DC's brooding avenger, Batman Begins explored the comic book hero's origins and his evolution from billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne to watchful protector, combating crime and corruption in Gotham City. A 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight, took the intriguing, character-driven premise and raised the stakes, pitting Batman in an all-out war against the Joker (Heath Ledger), a sinister agent of chaos who killed Bruce Wayne's greatest love and transformed District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) into the vengeful Two-Face. 2012's The Dark Knight Rises provided a definitive conclusion to the Dark Knight legend as masked terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy) held Gotham City hostage under the fear of nuclear annihilation, forcing the Dark Knight to resurface and save a city that branded him an enemy [...]      |
| Keanu Reeves Reveals Plot Details For ‘Bill & Ted 3′ Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT  Bill & Ted 3 ended its long-gestating phase when Galaxy Quest director Dean Parisot was brought in to helm the film, using a script that Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson wrote. The film would obviously mark the return of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's characters. Other than that, not much was known about the film's second sequel. Now in an interview with GQ Magazine, Reeves reveals the plot for the film, how the time lapse between now and the first sequel has affected the characters, and how time travel will be a factor [...]      |
| Comic Review: Fictionauts/The Spark Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT  Fictionauts / The Spark Fictionauts Written by Mauro Mantella Art by Leandro Rizzo The Spark Written By Martin Renard Art By Nahuel Sagarnaga Cozman Studio 407 Release Date: June 2012 Cover Price: $12.99 Independently published comics are always very difficult to review. Generally speaking, publishing a small press comic in single issues is an uphill battle. Independent publishers can rarely compete with the promotional reach that publishers like Marvel, Image, and DC have. With mammoth publishing costs and distribution being limited to a digital format, these artists and writers are essentially going to make pennies on the dollar. To publish with a small independent press, in most cases is purely a labor of love. These are creators with day jobs who understand that chances are independent publishing will result in meager sales and minimal distribution. As a reviewer of these comics it is hard to stay subjective, even though it is clear what these publishers and creators are facing when it comes to small press publishing. That being said, Fictionauts and The Spark from Studio 407 are exactly the labors of love mentioned above. Both comics take the spirit of independent comics and channel it into something compelling, but inevitably flawed in their own ways [...]      |
| Joe Carnahan Suggests That Things Aren’t Looking Good For ‘Daredevil’ Reboot Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:01 AM PDT  The Daredevil clock on Fox's wall is ticking away and with each passing second the rights to the property are getting closer to reverting back to Marvel Studios. With the October 10th deadline looming closer, Fox is in a position where they might lose the film rights to Daredevil. Even Joe Carnahan, whom Fox hopes to direct the reboot, is beginning to lose hope that he will get to direct the Man without Fear. Here's what the director tweeted that could indicate that he may not be directing the Daredevil movie: Think my idea for a certain retro, red-suited, Serpico-styled superhero went up in smoke today kids.      |
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