News Around the Net (Comic-Con Edition!)
So, wow! After the recent Comic-Con the web has been flooded with all sorts of teases about upcoming movies, TV shows, and other geeky goodness. Here’s some of the best stuff that I’ve found: After so many years of speculation and false starts, the sequel to Tron is fi
Attack of the Phantom! Josh has seen a brilliant fan edit of Star Wars: Episode II!
Earlier this year I wrote about The Phantom Edit of Star Wars: Episode I. Michael Nichols was a fan of Star Wars who, like sane people world-wide, was tremendously disappointed with Episode I when it was released in 1999. While the rest of us just whined to our friends, Mr. Nichol
News Around the Net
Good news, everybody! Futurama lives!! So Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) is joining the cast of 24 next season? Time for the Battlestar Galactica actors to learn what the members of the ensemble from The Wire have discovered: they’ll never again be in a TV show as good. Did you
News Around the Net!
Big dumb summer movie trailer alert! It’s the new trailer for Transformers 2, filled with lots of robot smashing action, and the new trailer for G.I. Joe, filled with Ninjas and, um, Eiffel Tower smashing action! Sigh. Hard to believe these two iconic and beloved cartoons
Han Shoots First! Josh is astounded by Adywan’s Fan-Edit of Star Wars: A New Hope!
I have just seen the definitive version of Star Wars. And it wasn’t created by George Lucas or anyone at ILM. It was made by one fan. For years I have been reading about the variety of “fan-edits” of the six Star Wars movies that have been floating around the inter
A Vergence in the Force — The Phantom Edit of Star Wars: Episode I
I have been reading, for years now, about the mysterious Phantom Edit of Star Wars: Episode I. Apparently, some time after Episode I was released, a fan who was as dissatisfied as all the rest of us were decided to take matters into his own hands and re-edit Episode I in an attempt
Spend a Threevening with Kevin Smith & Robot Chicken!
I’ve seen some very funny movies in the theatres lately, but let me tell you about the two best pieces of entertainment that I’ve seen this week: Sold Out: A Threevening With Kevin Smith — Back in 2002, film-maker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, etc…
“I fought with your father in the Clone Wars”
After much debate, I decided to skip the animated Star Wars Clone Wars movie that was released to theaters in late August. It is almost unimaginable to me that I wouldn’t rush out to see a new Star Wars ANYTHING on the big screen. But as I read bad review after bad review, c
Unlearn What You have Learned: Looking back on Star Wars: Episode I
There’s a weird phenomenon that affects me sometimes (and I know I’m not alone in this) where I so fall in love with a story, or a group of characters, that I will watch those characters even in something really really bad. I know Star Trek V is a terrible movie. Terrible. The
Scum & Villainy: Star Wars Episode I
So. Sigh. The Star Wars Prequels. Its interesting to me to look back now, some years distant, on Episodes I-III. For someone like myself who grew up with the Original Trilogy but who has no memory of seeing those films released, it was an incredible thing to be able to experience