Author: Nigel G Mitchell

Batman v Superman (2016) – Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) [Source: Warner Bros Pictures] As you could easily tell from my brother Maurice’s post 10 Worst Parts of “Batman v Superman”, he didn’t care for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In fact, a majority of critics agree with him. However, I’m one of the few (along with the moviegoing public that made it a huge success) that liked it. It wasn’t perfect, but it had a lot of great and satisfying moments. Here are some of my favorites. And if you haven’t seen it… 1. Lex Luthor -…

Predator at the Dentist When is Luke Cage coming out? Would you recognize Henry Cavill on the street? All these questions and more are featured on this week’s Geek Bits! Even mandibles can get cavities…John Farrier at Neatorama brought us this funny sculpture by artist Simon Lee, along with the immortal line: “if it bleeds, we can fill it.” Luke Cage is Coming Sweet Christmas! After making his first appearance on Netflix’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter confirmed that his Luke Cage series will premiere on September 30, 2016. Here’s the official description: After a sabotaged experiment leaves him with super…

Ever since Bryan Fuller was announced as the new showrunner for the upcoming Star Trek TV series in 2017, a groundswell of support has risen up for the lead of the show. Fuller publicly stated he would want Angela Bassett as the captain of any future show, and we want to help make it happen. In 2013 (before becoming an executive producer on the new show), Fuller described his idea for a new Trek show on Den of Geek, saying his choice of captain would be Angela Bassett, and Rosario Dawson as the First Officer. The response to the suggested…

We love Star Wars. We love Sia’s “Chandelier.” And as the Internet has proven, everything is better with Star Wars. But we were not prepared for how awesome this parody of Sia’s “Chandelier” is with Chewbacca-themed lyrics. Created by Teddy Films with music by Israel Curtis, it’s a shining example of how a flesh body-stocking, Slave Leia bikini, and a rundown house can combine to be the funniest thing we’re seen all day. [Via The Mary Sue] What did you think? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned…

Source: Tested/YouTube Good news, everyone! Makeup artist Frank Ippolito from Tested has brought one of our most beloved cartoon characters to life: Professor Farnsworth from Futurama! This video shows how Ippolito painstakingly recreated the look of Farnsworth on a live human being. It’s both awesome and quite disturbing. But then, what would we expect from a bald, bottle-glasses-wearing old man with an extreme overbite? If you don’t want to watch the whole video about the planning and sculpting of the makeup, click here to skip to the big reveal at 6:19. What do you think of real-life Professor Farnsworth? Please…

The Imperial stormtroopers of Star Wars are well-known to be the worst shots in the Galaxy. But who’s the best? That’s the challenge answered by a Reddit user who called himself Troelski. He watched the entire Star Wars series and created this infographic based on how many shots the characters made with a blaster vs. how many hit. Check out the surprising results. View post on imgur.com What do you think? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below…

With the new movie The Force Awakens going like gangbusters, it’s time to update all our Star Wars trivia. Halloweencostumes.com has created this awesome infographic about all the most important planets in the Star Wars universe, including Tattooine and Jakku. View post on imgur.com What do you think? Did you learn anything new? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post! Follow us! Email | RSS | Twitter | Facebook

If you’re new to the Star Trek franchise, the idea of catching up might be overwhelming. With twelve movies and six TV shows, it will take some time, and you might feel like you couldn’t possibly get through them all. Well, I’m here to help. I’m compiling the ultimate guide to Star Trek consumption at About.com. With these helpful links, you’ll be guided through your journey to earning your Vulcan ears as a bonafide Trekker. 1. How Do I Start Watching Star Trek? – How should you watch Star Trek? Here’s a rundown of three methods of watching all the movies and…

Bad Lip Reading, the YouTube channel that creates hilariously bad translations of major movies and TV shows, is at it again. This time, they’ve taken on the original Star Wars trilogy. Today, we’ll feature the first, Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Watch A New Hope for the first time in the original dialogue, and enjoy Obi-Wan Kenobi’s mad singing skillz in his classic love song, “Bushes of Love.” Will Obi-Wan ever find the Pickaxe of Cortez? Will Darth Vader ever stop texting Princess Leia? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and…

Source: Lucasfilm I never thought I’d live to see the day. Not the day I saw another Star Wars movie after the original trilogy. That came in 1999 with The Phantom Menace. The day I’d see a good Star Wars movie? That I had given up hope for. It’s hard to talk about The Force Awakens without referencing the prequel trilogy. As I sat in the theater for the opening crawl, I felt a deep sense of fear and dread mixed with excitement and joy. I couldn’t help flashing back to the moments when I saw the opening crawl of Phantom Menace,…

Source: Paramount Pictures After months of teasing and secrecy, Star Trek Beyond finally has its first trailer. Check out our first peek at the movie coming July 2016! You can also check out my breakdown of ten things I noticed from the trailer at Startrek.about.com. What do you think of Star Trek Beyond? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post! Follow us! Email | RSS | Twitter | Facebook

Source: Amazon I promise, this blog isn’t going to turn into just an ad for different TV shows. But I have to say…tell me this doesn’t get your attention. In case you’re wondering, The Man in the High Castle is a TV series set in an alternate reality where the Axis powers won World War II. The United States has been divided up between Germany and Japan with a neutral zone in between. Unfortunately, the ads have caused a bit of a controversy. Amazon put banners on New York subway cars making the seats look like the Nazi-run American flag…

After months of teasing, Netflix has finally released its new series, Marvel’s Jessica Jones. It’s about a superhero (Krysten Ritter) who retires to become a private investigator after a devastating loss to a mind-controlling supervillain. She struggles with the psychological aftermath of what she’s done as the supervillain threatens to return. And meets Luke Cage. I’ll be posting reviews soon as I watch the show, but here’s the trailer. As you can see, it’s very different from other superhero properties you’ve seen before. What do you think? Are you watching? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments.…

I saw Pixels for the first time last night. Like most of the critics, I didn’t like it. In fact, I hated it. It took me a while to figure out why, though. When I realized it, it hit me with a ton of bricks. Pixels is nerdsploitation. I don’t know if I invented that term, because I’m too lazy to Google it, but I’m going to pretend I did. Nerdsploitation is my term for movies and TV shows that exploit nerds. Blaxploitation movies of the seventies pretended to be about showing love for black culture when they really just…

Source: YouTube We’ve all seen models of the solar system or thought we have. Those illustrations in textbooks and online show a nice collection of planets, big enough to see detail on, all looking like they’re close enough to touch. But we’ve all been told that the models aren’t to scale. In fact, you couldn’t create a scale model of the solar system on a normal piece of paper, because the planets would be microscopic. Well, get ready to have your mind blown, because you’re about to see the solar system in a whole new light. Wylie Overstreet and Alex…

After years of misleading Tumblr and Facebook hoaxes, (there’s actually a Tumbler that has been literally proclaiming every day as the day McFly went back in time since 2013) the day is finally upon us. In the classic movie Back to the Future II, Marty McFly traveled to the then-distant future of October 21, 2015. I’m sure no one expected the movie to still be around, and it’s hard to believe, but here it is. We’ve officially reached the future. In honor of the date, if you happen to have Amazon Prime, you can stream all three movies for free…

Source: Tumblr, Credit: Marvel Okay, we’ve been behind Marvel’s movement to add diversity to its iconic superheroes for a long time. Spiderman as a black/Latino teenager? Awesome. Captain America as an African-American? Bring it on. Thor as a woman? Okay, we’ll buy that. Hulk as a Korean-American? Why not? But this shocked even us: Wolverine is now a woman. In 2014, Marvel had a story arc called “Death of Wolverine” where Wolverine (also known as Logan) died. A virus burned out his healing factor, making him vulnerable. During a long battle with various enemies, he ended up being covered in…

The Avengers are now a bonafide part of pop culture. Whether you’ve only seen the first movie or you’ve seen all the movies and read the comics for decades, there’s probably still more you can learn about the world’s most popular superhero team. Buycostumes.com has put together this handy infographic that puts together a lot of info in a small package. Avengers Assemble in the image below. View post on imgur.com What do you think? Did you learn anything new? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you…

Source: Paramount Like many fans of Star Trek: Voyager, I hadn’t given much thought to what Jennifer Lien was up to since she left the show. (If you’re wondering who Jennifer Lien is, she played the young and sprightly Ocampan Kes, also known as “The Gorgeous Alien Woman Who Inexplicably Decided To Spend Her Short Life Span With Annoying Chef/Troll Neelix.”) I always felt badly for Lien after she was terminated to make room for the sexy Borg Seven of Nine, Jeri Ryan. I assumed Lien went off and did whatever ex-Star Trek actors do. You know, TV movies, bit…

Source: Marvel The continued integration of comics has taken another bold step forward. Marvel announced that the Hulk will be changing characters. Bruce Banner, the longtime alter ego of the Hulk, will disappear and lose his powers for as yet unknown reasons. In his place, Asian-American teen genius Amadeus Cho will become the new Hulk in the Totally Awesome Hulk series in December. Much like the new African-American Captain America took the existing superhero Falcon, Cho is not a new character. Wikipedia says, “Amadeus Cho was created by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy (volume…

Source: YouTube, Credit: Lucasfilm Do you want to watch The Empire Strikes Back, but don’t have 124 minutes to spare? If you’re one of those who complains about George Lucas releasing different versions of the movie, you might be surprised to find out he’s been doing this since the beginning. Case in point, in 1981, Lucasfilm released a Super 8mm version of The Empire Strikes Back. Because of the limitations of the medium, there were two parts, each only fifteen minutes long. It does a surprisingly good job of hitting the highlights. Watch part two below, and be glad this…

All movies about Marvel superheroes are not created equal. As we’ve highlighted with our infographic, not all Marvel property are yet owned by Marvel Studios, and the quality of non-Marvel Marvel movies is all over the map. With the failure of Fantastic Four, and the agreement for Marvel to take over the Spiderman property from Sony, it seems more and more that Marvel Studios might be the only sign of a quality superhero movie. More than ever, we the viewers want to make sure we’re seeing a quality film. That’s why this infographic by CyanShades is useful. Check out the…

Fantastic Four (2015), Source: 20th Century Fox Well, this is awkward. Although we’ve been championing the new Fantastic Four reboot for quite a while, it seems the movie isn’t as good as we hoped. In fact, the reviews are in and it’s bad. Really bad. Like, one-of-the-worst-superhero-movies-ever-made bad. At one point, Metacritic had FF at a combined score of 6, which would have meant that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (at 16) was a better movie. Fortunately, a few “mixed” reviews came in to bring FF up to 27, so now it’s about equal with Pixels. Which is still bad. Here’s…

Edward Scissorhands Neighborhood, Source: 21st Century Fox In 1990, Tim Burton’s surreal masterpiece Edward Scissorhands hit theaters, telling the bizarre fable of a young Johnny Depp with scissor blades for fingers. Some of the most memorable images in the movie came from the creepily bland pastel houses in Edward’s new neighborhood. A user on IMGUR calling themselves Voodrew apparently lives in the neighborhood where the movie was filmed, and posted these photos showing what it looks like today. Here are the comments: In 1990 Edward Scissorhands was filmed in a (then brand new) subdivision right down the street from me just outside…

(Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images; DC Entertainment) There are a lot of awesome POC DC superheroes, and one of our favorites is finally getting his due in the upcoming season of Arrow: Mr. Terrific. First, an overview. In the comics, Michael Holt is the superhero Mr. Terrific. But unlike Mr. Fantastic (who’s not so much “fantastic” as “smart and stretchy”), Mr. Terrific really is terrific. Mr. Terrific is pretty much the peak of physical and mental abilities. Not only is he a gold medal winning Olympic athlete, he’s described as the third smartest man on Earth in the DC Universe. He has…

When we were kids, we loved the Super Mario Bros games. Then they came out with the first video game movie adaptation ever, Super Mario Bros. The result was less than impressive. In fact, it was downright horrifying. Screen Junkies has finally gotten around to tackling the movie with their latest Honest Trailer. Witness the bizarre visuals, the story that had nothing to do with the original game, and the behind-the-scenes injuries in what would be the trailer if they’d been upfront to begin with. What did you think of Super Mario Bros? Related Posts 9 Bizarre Things About the…

“Buzz” Aldrin Jr. standing on the Moon, Source: NASA Today is the 46th anniversary of the day humans first walked on the Moon. The Smithsonian Museum used the event to launch an ambitious project to save an important piece of history: Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. On July 21, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 spacecraft and became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface. On July 20, 2015, the Smithsonian announced a Kickstarter campaign called Reboot the Suit. Right now, all the spacesuits used in NASA missions are being stored in a climate-controlled storage…

Source: Marvel Ant-Man premieres tomorrow, and Marvel has been pulling out all the stops to promote it. That includes releasing numerous clips and featurettes. These three clips focus on Ant-Man’s shrinking powers and how he uses them to fight evil, as well as get himself into tiny perils. Click below to watch. If this doesn’t get you excited about the movie, we don’t know what will. What do you think of Ant-Man? If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post! Follow us! Email | RSS | Twitter | Facebook

If you didn’t get to San Diego Comic-Con this year, you can still see this awesome short film shown to promote the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s not another trailer, but more of a documentary with behind-the-scenes footage of the filming. At the same time, it does have a lot of tantalizing glimpses at characters (Princess Leia!), sets (the Millennium Falcon!), and creatures (that fat alien guy!) in action. But more than anything else, as you watch it, you pick up an unmistakable message: practical effects are better than CGI. J.J. Abrams vowed to film as much of…

Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), Source: Warner Bros/DC Comics In the new trailer for Batman v Superman, we finally got to see what gets Batman so mad at Superman (allegedly). It seems Bruce Wayne was in Metropolis during the battle between Zod and Superman, and one of his buildings got knocked down during the destruction. But at what point does it intersect with Man of Steel? Well, we put together this mash-up of footage from Man of Steel and the footage from Batman v Superman’s trailer to show how the battle went down from Batman’s POV. Check it out. What do…