News Around the Net!
Let’s begin the day with this phenomenal article from badassdigest.com about how Optimus Prime’s death defined a generation of kids. Do you want to understand the depths of my geeky heart? Then read that article. My parents wouldn’t let me see Transformers: The
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First of all: Arrested Development. Sadly for me, life has intervened and, despite my years-long anticipation, I have not yet seen a single second of the new Netflix season. But rest assured, friends, that very shortly I will be devouring these new episodes and I will be back here
News Around the Net (and a rant about Prometheus!)
So, OK, bloody disgusting ran an article that Fox doesn’t know what to do with a proposed sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and that the source of the problem is that when Lost’s Damon Lindelof re-wrote Jon Spaihts’ original Alien prequel script into wha
Awesome new Iron Man 3 Trailer & News Around the Net!
I am absolutely loving this new Iron Man 3 trailer: This movie looks fantastic from what we have seen so far. I love seeing Tony really challenged. I love the idea of connecting this film to the Avengers not by featuring other super-heroic characters, but by exploring the psycholo
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Did you enjoy the new Hobbit trailer I posted last week? If you haven’t seen them, here are all of the other alternate endings to that trailer. Uh oh. Looks like Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt has dropped out of work on the sequel, Dawn of the Planet of
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This is a fantastic article from the New York Times about how baseball dugout payphones are the last bastion of the landline. The web-site io9 always has some great lists, and I particularly enjoyed their recent list of 10 stand-alone episodes that totally represent their respective s
In What Order Should One Watch the Star Wars Films?
With the recent release of all six Star Wars films on blu-ray, Star Wars is on my mind (and I’m sure I’m not alone). I am standing by my vow not to purchase this new set, since I am confident that the additional changes to the films (most heinously represented by Darth V
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I have had to reevaluate my opinion of Adam Carolla after listening to his marvelous interview (well-over an hour long) with the great Albert Brooks. This is a MUST-LISTEN, friends. Attorney General Eric Holder has challenged David Simon to produce a sixth season of The Wire?? Tha
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Following up on my review of Source Code, which I posted yesterday, click here for a wonderfully spot-on assessment of all of the myriad problems with the film’s ending. It’s a sweet ending that felt right when I walked out of the theatre, but like the rest of the film,
It’s a Trap! Family Guy and Robot Chicken take on Return of the Jedi!
It’s difficult to express just how much fun I’ve had watching the dueling Star Wars specials that both Family Guy and Robot Chicken have been releasing over the past few years! I was blown away by both shows’ initial Star Wars episodes (Robot Chicken’s Star W