Author: Maurice Mitchell

A few weeks ago we opened up the Star Wars March Madness contest, and it’s time to announce the winner. Above Image: Yoda Star Wars March Madness 2013(non-official) If you’re here for the A-Z Blog Challenge, my brother I’ll be posting the entry later today. Stop back this evening and thanks for visiting! LucasFilm started the Star Wars “This is Madness” bracket and we promised a chance to win a copy of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, 20th Anniversary Edition. It was a fierce battle, but in the end it came down to Yoda vs. Darth Vader. The winner of…

All images associated with and from the second Hunger Games movie, currently titled Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin and directed by Francis Lawrence. Above Image: Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) We’re starting up a gallery of images and videos for The Hunger Games sequel Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Update: 4/26/2013 Added teaser trailer and If you’re here for the A-Z Challenge, then you can skip to end. We’re highlighting 26 great geek blogs this month. Photos Videos Get More: 2013 MTV Movie Awards, Latest…

Monday morning, Marvel sent us a press release and it contains some juicy spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. SPOILER ALERT Here are some interesting spoilers Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow is back in this film Georges St-Pierre (“Death Warrior”) as Georges Batroc AKA “Batroc the Leaper.” Batroc the Leaper is a fictional villain from Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in Tales of Suspense #75, 1966. He is a mercenary and a master of the French form of kick boxing known as savate. Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) is coming back, presumably in his robot form. Hayley Atwell is…

It’s a known fact that Earth will eventually be enslaved by alien overlords. As President McNeal said, “The time has come to knuckle under. To get down on all fours and really lick boot.” Above Image: V: the Mini-Series So, our future alien masters, to show that some here on Earth welcome your domination, we now present a list of dos and don’ts, along with movies you can watch that help demonstrate my points. Note: If you’re here for the A-Z Challenge, my brother and I are taking turns. Check back later today and thanks for visiting! 1. Don’t Invade…

Above Image: Roger Ebert Yesterday was a sad day for film lovers. Roger Ebert, one of the film reviewers for Siskel & Ebert, has died at age 70. He had been struggling with cancer for a long time. In honor of the man, this special edition of “Geek Bits” has 47 50 quotes from Roger Ebert on the 47 50 greatest science fiction movies of all time. By the way, I know this isn’t the way Ebert looked when he died, but honestly I felt the recent pictures, with his prosthetic jaw, distracted from the image of a great man. What do you think? 1.…

What funny caption would you give this picture of The Joker and the gang? Above Image: Batman (1966), Joker (Cesar Romero), Penguin (Burgess Meredith), Riddler (Frank Gorshin) If you’re here for the A-Z Blog Challenge, my brother is posting his entry later today. Stop back this evening and thanks for visiting! How would you describe this scene? What do you think they’re saying? By the way, did you know you can use the voting buttons to vote up your favorite caption? Last week had zero votes, so give it a try people! Don’t leave it up to me. Let’s vote…

“Carrie Fisher says” is a series of Carrie Fisher pictures matched with Princess Leia’s best quotes. Above Image: Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill 56-year-old Carrie Fisher has been a lightning rod of controversy. Star Wars Princess Leia is feisty, funny and in charge. Put the two together and you have the perfect combination of spunk and humor. Here now are eight great quotes from Princess Leia with the funniest pictures of Carrie Fisher. What’s your favorite quote from Princess Leia? Do you have a favorite memory of Carrie Fisher? C for Closet Geek Gurl – http://closetgeekgurl.blogspot.com Jessie Stank (formerly Rice), is…

A whole new look to “The Geek Twins” is coming in 27 days and, to celebrate, we’re giving away a $50 gift certificate from Big Fish Games. It’s going to be amazing. Above Image: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), David Bowman (Keir Dullea) If you’re here for the A-Z Blog Challenge, my brother is posting his entry later today. Stop back this evening and thanks for visiting! We’re redesigning the blog to have a new look. It’ll load faster, have less clutter and be more interactive. The Geek Twins have a new philosophy: if you like what we’ve done how…

Here are the 12 most insanely stupid villains that G.I. Joe has had to deal with. Above Image: G.I Joe Intruders 1976 The big budget live-action movie G.I. Joe Retaliation came out this weekend, and it’s a huge success thanks to cool villains like Storm Shadow and Cobra Commander. But Cobra hasn’t always been successful in it’s recruiting. Here are 12 idiots who stumble, mumble and stink up the Cobra base. If you’re here for the A-Z Challenge you can skip to the end. We’re highlighting 26 great geek blogs this month. #12 Headman Specialty: Illegal narcotics Back in the…

Welcome to “Geek Bits” where we share the geekiest bits of the Internet for you. Who is backtracking on decades of Star Wars hatred? What classic Batman figure is coming soon? When will the A-Z challenge begin? How would a Star Wars poster look like with the old cast?How much will you pay for popcorn and soda in the future? Above Image: Batman 1966 action figure, Batman (Adam West) NEWS Don’t forget the A-Z Blog Challenge starts Monday, April 1st! It’s not too late to sign up! It’s the LAMMY 2013 Award Nomination Stage and we’re submitted to the Lammys…

What of you could watch a movie again for the first time? Above Image:Paycheck (2003) Ben Affleck, Paul Giamatti There’s nothing like watching a great film for the first time. It might be that it makes you think, like Inception, or it might have a great twist, like Memento. Whatever the reason, it’s never the same. Let’s say someone could invent a machine to wipe out the memory of the movie like in Paycheck. Would you use it? Is there a movie you’d like to walk into the theater or watch at home with no memory of what it was like?…

Star Wars is uplifting and has made millions happy, but now James Hance has managed to make the movie even more uplifting. Check out his amazingly uplifting mash-ups with Disney, Pixar and Winnie the Poo. “A Tatooine Explorer Is A Friend To All!” by James Hance “Home” by James Hance “Someone who loves you.” by James Hance “We’ll be alright” by James Hance “Always thinking with your stomach.” by James Hance Make sure you see the rest of his work and buy prints of his awesome work here JamesHance.com What do you think of his paitings? Do you have a…

Learn seven interesting things you may not know about the making of Batman Begins. Above Image: Christopher Nolan directing Batman Begins, Christian Bale The Christopher Nolan films have grossed over 1.2 billion dollars and nominated for dozens of awards, but it wasn’t always a guaranteed success. It’s hard to imagine, but Nolan and his team were taking a lot of risks. There were real fears the project would fail. Christopher Nolan is a very private film maker. He doesn’t do rarely does director’s commentary and his projects always have tight security. So, even though the movie Batman Begins came out…

Guest blogger Nicole Ayers breaks down the power of that wonderful black female that is Uhura. Above Image: Star Trek Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) Many of you know Nicole from her awesome movie blog MadLabPost.com. She’s taken time out of her busy schedule putting the finishing touches on her upcoming short film Abyss, to write a post about the wonderful Star Trek woman Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Here’s Nicole! Although I’m not one to celebrate Halloween, I dressed as Uhura for a party a few years ago. This costume beat my initial choices of firefighter and race car driver for two…

Welcome to Geek Bits, where we share best bits of the Internet with you. Was the destruction of the Death Star an inside job? How do you make a recyclable Iron Man suit? What do you need to hack your cooking technique? Above Image: Peter Jackson with Doctor Who Daleks IRON MAN Royal_dump, made a lifesize Iron Man costume out of cardboard! (Screen Rant) STAR WARS Was the destruction of the Death Star and inside job? See the proof for yourself… STAR TREK Shot-by-Shot Analysis Of Star Trek Into Darkness International Trailer Designer Andy Helms, known by his handle OKTotally…

What hilarious caption would you give this picturte? Farscapeturned 14 this week, so the show is the theme behind this week’s caption. Above Image: Farscape (1999), Scorpious/Harvey (Wayne Pygram), John Crichton (Ben Browder) This week’s “Caption This” is based on one of my favorite shows: Farscape from “The-Channel-Formerly-Known-as-Sci-Fi” Ten years ago this week, on March 19, 1999, the Australian science fiction television series Farscape premiered. The final episode of the series, “Bad Timing” was on March 21, 2003 in the U.S. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O’Bannon and “The Jim Henson Company” made most of the cool alien…

Hulk Hogan said, “When the script for ‘The Wrestler’ kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, ‘No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn’t a good actor,’ whatever Hollywood thinks of me.” Above Image: G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Roadblock (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) So, even Hulk Hogan agrees wrestlers aren’t good actors. Many say, since professional wrestling is fake, they’re already great actors. John Batista is playing Drax the Destroyer in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy. This is a pretty tall order, because…

We all know Stan “The Man” Lee is a master comic book writer, but did you know he’s also a master of Parkour? Above Image: Stan Lee Parkour Master Last week, Stan Lee decides to skip the car in favor of Freerunning and Parkour through Los Angeles and Santa Monica. There are so many comics created by Stan Lee it’s hard to count them all. His major successes are Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Thor. This video proves Stan Lee is the greatest superhero. Practitioners of Parkour try to move quickly through an environment…

1982 is considered the greatest year ever for great science-fiction films, but it’s also a great year for terrible movies. Above Image: Conan the Barbarian (1982) Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) 1982 had crime comedies like Eddie Murphy’s 48 Hours, and dramatic films like the Academy Award-winning Gandhi. But, science-fiction really came into it’s own in that year. The year 1982 was a year of highs and lows in science-fiction. With movies like Blade Runner and E.T many have called 1982 the best year for science fiction movies ever. 1982 brought us E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, John Carpenter’s The Thing and…

Welcome to “Geek Bits” where we share the geekiest bits of the Internet for you. Who is directing Jurassic Park 4? What orchestra is playing music from the Matrix? When is Star Wars Weekend? Will Joss Whedon crowd-fund Firefly? Above Image: Spider-Man Beard Don’t forget to sign up for Star Wars March Madness 2013! We’re well on our way to the 100 participant target. If you’ve signed up, why not tell two friends? Then they tell two friends. And so on…and so on… IRON MAN Iron Man iPhone case complete with pulsing arc reactor (via Blastr) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES…

The next season of the web series Voyage Trekkers starts soon, so check out the new trailer! Above Image: Voyage Trekkers Season 2, Dr. Rena (Gabrielle Van Buren) Captain Sunstrike (Adam Rini), Commander Powell (Logan Blackwell) I have exciting news, so this is a special edition post. My favorite web series is Voyage Trekkers. I heard about it last year, interviewed creator Nathan Blackwell and have eagerly looked forward to the new season. They ran a fundraising drive and it’s totally paid off. While I didn’t mind the low-budget of the series, the extra money makes it even better. The…

NCAA March Madness begins in a few weeks, but what if you’re not into college basketball, or you’re looking for a change? Have no fear. Starting on March 23rd, 18th Star Wars March Madness 2013 begins! Above Image: Star Wars march Madness 2013(non-official) Update: This has been changed to support the official Star Wars March Madness game. I found out this last night that there’s an official Star Wars March Madness tournament. So, there’s good news and bad news. First, the bad news: I’m shutting down our tournament. While I think our match-ups are a lot more interesting and our system…

So, it’s been confirmed that three of the original Star Wars actors will return for the new Star Wars movies. The next question is, can they even do the job? Above Image: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill reunited There has been some bozo conversation around whether the main actors can reprise their roles, with people using terms like “Geriatric Wars” and comparing it to watching “Superman with a walker.” “Jedi mind tricks to find their keys? No thanks.” says one forum commentor. I already wrote how I think the original actors should return for Star Wars, but let’s answer…

What if you had to choose a corporate sponsor for a superhero? Who would it be? Above Image: Hulk sponsored by Monster Energy Drink Being a superhero is pretty expensive and these are tough economic times. Peter Parker’s webshooters don’t grow on trees you know. Batman can only afford to lose so many batarangs before he starts trying to recycle them. Clark Kent can only afford to take so many sick days from the Daily Planet. There are some superheroes who use corporate sponsors already like Mystery Men’s Captain Amazing, Watchmen’s Dollar Bill and Booster Gold, but what about Superman, Batman…

The greatest moment in cane history was on the Senate floor in 1856, when House of Representatives member Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Summer unconsciousness with a metal-topped cane. Sci-fi has a bunch of great cane moments too, but here are the 10 greatest. Above Image: Tron Legacy (2010) Castor (Michael Sheen) The idea of using a cane as a fashion accessory to go with top hat and tails was popularized by Fred Astaire in several of his films and in the song “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.” Nowadays, people don’t use canes much, but they’re still a great fashion…

Welcome to “Geek Bits”where we share the geekiest bits of the Internet for you. Who will watch Star Trek Into Darkness first? Which villain is coming back to Doctor Who? Above Image: Doctor Who (2013), Doctor (Matt Smith) Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman) STAR WARS Carrie Fisher made headlines by telling The Hollywood Reporter she’s confirmed for the next Star Wars movie. Turns out it was “a joke”. Her reps said, “Nothing had been announced.” I can’t imagine them signing her before anyone else. (Via The Guardian) DOCTOR WHO “Doctor Who” season 7 (and a half) returns this month with new adventures for the…

It’s time for another bi-weekly edition of “Caption This!” This time, Batman notices someone has been messing with his Bat-Signal. Above Image: Batman (Christian Bale) looking at the Bat-Signal Batman and Superman are best friends, but like all best friends they play pranks on each other. This one is especially brilliant as Superman replaces the famous Bat-Signal with his own logo. The original caption was: “Clark, you a******.” Here’s the question though: What caption would you give this image? What do you think summarizes the image? What do you think happens next? What do you think they’re saying? When you’re looking…

Here’s your chance to read my review of the great animated film Wreck It Ralph, now on home video, and a chance to win a Blu-Ray copy! Above Image: Wreck It Ralph (2012), Ralph (John C. Reilly) Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer), Sergeant Calhoun (Jane Lynch), A few weeks back I finally caught Wreck It Ralph, and can say it is one of the most heart-warming movies I’ve seen in a long time. Wreck It Ralph (2012) follows the adventures of the video game character “Wreck It Ralph” (John C. Reilly), who’s the villain of the…

The second Iron Man 3 trailer reveals new secrets, and here are the 13 biggest things we’ve learned from the new Iron Man 3 trailer. Above Image: Iron Man 3 (2013), Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) The new trailer for Iron Man 3 dropped at 9AM PST this morning and it took me a while until I can write the full post. The trailer leaked already, but I wanted to wait for the official release of the trailer to give my analysis. That way you can see it in all it’s brilliance. Here’s the trailer: WARNING: SPOILERS 1. The…