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- Geek Gear: ‘Supertough Girls’ Shirt
- How To Throw A Hobbit Day Party
- Movie Review: House At The End Of The Street
- Skull-Face Island: Episode 09: For a Good Time, Call… / Robot & Frank
- ’42′ Trailer: Harrison Ford & Chadwick Boseman Break Baseball’s Color Barrier
- The Drill Down 249: Flashback to Number One
- Remembering The Late Jazz Bass Player Jaco Pastorius On The 25th Anniversary Of His Death
- Guillermo Del Toro, ‘LOST’ Showrunner Carlton Cuse Team To Turn ‘The Strain’ Into TV Series
| Blu-ray Deal: RoboCop Trilogy For $16 Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:50 AM PDT  Amazon currently has a sale on the RoboCop Trilogy Blu-ray box set for only $15.99 (that's 73% off the list price of $59.99). This 3-disc Blu-ray box set comes with all three RoboCop movies (no bonus features). Grab this deal before the end of the day Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 11:59pm PST while supplies last [...]            |
| Geek Gear: ‘Supertough Girls’ Shirt Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:20 AM PDT  The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is called "Supertough Girls" by Mandrie and it takes superheroines Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl makes like the Powerpuff Girls. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Saturday, September 22, 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 [...]      |
| How To Throw A Hobbit Day Party Posted: 21 Sep 2012 05:10 PM PDT  "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." — Bilbo Baggins to the guests at his 111th birthday party There's been a lot of happenings this week in celebration of Tolkien week, with the release of the full trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment in Peter Jackson's planned big-screen Hobbit trilogy, along with its four alternate endings, as well as character photos from the upcoming film. Tomorrow is another big day in the Tolkien universe, as it's the birthday of both Bilbo Baggins - who you might recall celebrated his 111th birthday during the events of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings - and his nephew Frodo Baggins. Therefore, September 22nd has been dubbed Hobbit Day. And what better way to celebrate Hobbit Day than with a Hobbit Day party, precious? The official Hobbit Facebook page has posted a guide on How To Throw A Hobbit Day Party - check it out here below! [...]      |
| Movie Review: House At The End Of The Street Posted: 21 Sep 2012 03:26 PM PDT  House At The End Of The Street Directed by: Mark Tonderai Written by: David Loucka, Jonathan Mostow Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows, Elisabeth Shue Relativity Media | Rogue Rated PG-13 | 101 Minutes Release Date: September 21, 2012 Directed by Mark Tonderai, with a script by David Loucka (Dream House) based on a short story by Jonathan Mostow, House At The End Of The Street stars Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and Elisabeth Shue (Piranha). How many times must we watch a horror movie where the premise is, "Someone was killed in that house..." or "They never found the body," as if all across the country single mothers and their daughters are moving next door to the friendly neighborhood Murder House? House At The End Of The Street is the latest in a long-running tradition of bad things happening in houses on streets. Of course there's Wes Craven's 1972 exploitation film, House At The End Of The Street and his 1984 classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Actually, considering 1991's People Under the Stairs is also by Craven, that guy might have a serious issue with houses. Let's not forget 1977's Last House on Dead End Street (originally released in 1974 as The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell), which I only mention because of the awful title(s) and a plot that involves snuff films and power drills. Knowing Hollywood, we'll probably see a remake of The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell after the next batch of Paranormal Activity sequels [...]      |
| Skull-Face Island: Episode 09: For a Good Time, Call… / Robot & Frank Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:34 PM PDT  Greetings! It's Adam Frazier aka FamousMonster and it's time for another transmission from Skull-Face Island. As always I'm joined by Farrah Fawcett's mouth double, David Allen! And still recovering from a Pachycephalosaurus attack, producer Tim Grant! Today on the Show: We talk about Jamie Travis' raunchy sex-comedy For a Good Time Call... as well as Jake Schreier's Robot & Frank. We'll flip the switch on the Geek-O-Matic News Machine and discuss director Rupert Wyatt's departure from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel, Larry David's improv comedy, titled Clear History, which stars Bill Hader and Danny McBride, and we'll take a look at the Criterion Collection's December releases [...]      This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ’42′ Trailer: Harrison Ford & Chadwick Boseman Break Baseball’s Color Barrier Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT  One of the best moments in sports history was when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first African American to play Major League Baseball. Inspirational stories like Robinson's are begging to be made into movies, but rather than create a straight-up biopic on the most celebrated athlete, 42 will focus on the relationship between Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) and Dodgers' manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford). So check out the first trailer for 42 below. There are plenty of performances to look out for and enjoy. Ford looks like he is back at the top of his game starring as Branch Rickey, the man who believed that signing Jackie Robinson would change the face of Major League Baseball. Sure the music may be a bit contemporary, but its tone certainly fits into the theme of the film. But the big reason why these kind of films work so well is because everyone loves to cheer for an underdog [...]      |
| The Drill Down 249: Flashback to Number One Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT  The Drill Down is off this week, but until we return next week with our regularly scheduled show, please enjoy this glimpse back to a kinder, gentler place, where the iPhone was new, Facebook was privately held, and US Government surveillance of private citizens was still a rare occurrence. A land we called... 2007. Here is The Drill Down podcast's very first episode, released July 28th, 2007, featuring the podcast's original panelists, Andrew Sorcini, and Social Media experts Muhammad Saleem & Reg 'Zaibatsu' Saddler [...]      This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Remembering The Late Jazz Bass Player Jaco Pastorius On The 25th Anniversary Of His Death Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT  Today marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of one of jazz music's brightest lights in its rich history, Jaco Pastorius, who in his short life became as important a figure on his respective instrument, the electric bass guitar, as Charlie Parker had been on his saxophone, Jelly Roll Morton on the piano, Louis Armstrong on the trumpet, and Jimi Hendrix on the electric guitar. For about ten years on the jazz/fusion scene, Pastorius pioneered sounds and a feverish, almost robotic attack to the instrument, creating sounds and an approach unlike anything heard before it or since. There were legendary figures on the instrument before him, who also became his influences - Paul Chambers, who played with Miles Davis; Charles Mingus; Gary Peacock; Dave Holland; Ron Carter - all masters of the upright bass, and the early figures on electric bass, famed session players like Jerry Jemmott and Tommy Cogbill, Paul McCartney and Donald "Duck" Dunn. But Pastorius took all that he learned, especially playing night after night in cover bands all throughout his home state of Florida growing up as a teen, and he made it original and jaw droppingly astonishing, bringing the bass guitar, usually relegated to the "backbeat" of a musical ensemble, to a lead instrument of sorts [...]      |
| Guillermo Del Toro, ‘LOST’ Showrunner Carlton Cuse Team To Turn ‘The Strain’ Into TV Series Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT  Many of you may have read Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's trilogy of vampire horror novels, which began with The Strain back in 2009 and was followed by The Fall in 2010 and The Night Eternal in 2011. Considering del Toro's strong background in film and his dabbling in TV and video games and pretty much all forms of entertainment, it was safe to assume that the books would eventually come to life via adaptation at some point. [...]      |
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