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Sweet Christmas, White Luke Cage is Hilariously Bad When a guy’s grandfather dies (“that’s not even the best part!”) he’s left the movie rights to Marvel’s African-American strongman Luke “Power Man” Cage. In this parody video the skinny white boy, Patrick Willems, sets out to make a film out of the 70’s star casting himself. Besides the hysterical trailer it also has reactions to the film including a fake website called “Racialicious.” This film is one bad mother…hush your mouth! I’m just talking about Luke Cage! Via Comics Alliance J.J. Abrams Directing ‘Star Trek 2’While not surprising, its good to know…
In X-Men: First Class (2011) we’re introduced to a whole new set of superheroes and a whole set of questions about how their powers work. I’ll start off by saying X-Men: First Class is dynamite. Loved it. The movie made $352,526,305 and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 87%. So, this isn’t based on my dislike for the film. I just hate inconsistency. So, I got a lot of flak for my diatribe against the monstrosity that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. My post broke down all the ways that XOW contradicted the original X-Men films. A few people have asked me…
“The Girl Who Waited” is my favorite episode of the new season with its warmth, conflict and struggle to come to terms with love lost through time. Official Synopsis: Amy Pond is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day – as the time-travelling drama continues. The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory Williams is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine. Rory…
Alphas Officially Confirmed For Season Two The SyFy show Alphas has officially been renewed. This is great! I love that show. Frankly, I wasn’t holding much hope the show would make it to a second season. We geeks are a jaded bunch. Which character are you looking forward to seeing come back? Via io9 I’m in Number Four of The Five Stages of Star Wars Grief Use this handy chart to see what stage of grief you’re on when it comes to the changes to Star Wars coming on Blu-Ray next week. I like everyone else on the Internet was…
What if the Star Wars characters had to communicate through text messages? What if George Lucas was limited to 160 characters per line? We now present part two of Star Wars: Episode IV (The TextSpeak Edition). For those not familiar with the acronyms, you can click on the link for a translation. === << Read Part 1 LukeS: M2K Falcon s POS HanS: W/E StormTrpr2445: Stop dat ship HanS: ChUe we GGOH. ltz go 2 lyt speed LukeS: Ltz get goin HanS: Traveling thru hyperspace izn lk dustn crops! w/o SMOP we cUd fly rytthrua* or go 2 clse 2 a…
If it hadn’t been for Batman and Robin we would never have gotten The Dark Knight. Here are six reasons why. The movie Batman and Robin (1997) is horrible. We named it #4 of the worst comic book movies ever and most people agree. But, considering the film has all the ingredients of success, analyzing the failures of the movie helped teach the industry what to watch for. In that sense it’s a good thing the movie was made. After Batman Returns there was a string of mediocre to horrible superhero films. Films like The Shadow (1994) and The Phantom were weak.…
An exception to the overused homeless sign meme is this laughably accurate Darth Vader sign. The Internet is filled with funny pictures of people holding suns. Most fall in the chuckle category. I though this was the exception because it’s more thought out than most. Disabled. Vet. Clone Wars. It works. Would you give this guy money? Have you seen a funnier homeless sign meme pic? [Image Source: Funatiq]
“Night Terrors” (3 1/2 stars) Season 6 Episode 9 Synopsis: Eight-year old George is so terrified he can’t sleep. His parents are unable to help, and the Doctor answers their plea. This was a good episode playing on and explaining the “scariest place in the universe. A children’s bedroom.” The Doctor (Matt Smith) gets a call from a little boy George who’s parents are beside themselves over the fact that he’s afraid of everything. A very funny scene has them go door-to-door in an apartment complex (“flat” as the British call it) trying to find the little boy. While the…
Season 1, Episode 8 ‘A Short Time in Paradise’ Last week’s Alpha’s was interesting and became my third all-time favorite (after “Cause & Effect” and “Rosetta”). Characters changed and grew.Synopsis:Hicks and Nina are entranced by a deadly cult leader named Jonas (Garret Dillahunt), whose powers are slowly killing his followers. Bill tries to persuade Dr. Rosen to have the team learn tactical maneuvers for their subsequent missions. Rachel urges her father (Daniel Kash) to go the doctor due to him showing early signs of throat cancer. For the first time we see a rogue “alpha” who actually knows about his power,…
While the Star Wars Blu-Ray DVD has many infamous changes, this one is well worth it. Ooola did have a Badonk-a-donk. A quote from George Lucas: “This was always my vision for Jabba’s Palace, but I didn’t have the technology for Sir Mix-A-Lot back in the early 80’s. Here’s the scene as I always intended.” Seems weird, but whatever. – Duggan Films What do you think of the video Lucas added? Does Jabba like big butts? [Image Source: DugganFilms]
Here are the most popular posts of August 2011. Catch up here or see what all the fuss was about. 10. Darth Vader Actor Banned From STAR WARS Convention David Prowse, the original Darth Vader actor, is still banned from official Star Wars conventions. The fans are still outraged. 9. Top Ten Bald Babes of Science-Fiction Beautiful bald women and the men that love them. 8. Make Up Obi-Wan Facts and Win A ‘Star Wars’ DVD [Contest] Last month we had an incredibly successful contest. We’ll probably do something like this again. You have to read the gut-busting comments people…
Amy Vitale has been in the entertainment industry for decades, find out how this beautiful empowered woman went from modeling to comic books to films. Q: Tell us about your new science-fiction film Global Elites. Without trying to give away anything, “Global Elites” is a movie where it takes place in the future of 2014. Due to the collapse of the American government, a New World Order comes into play. This created a new constitution that takes away the rights that the American people took for granted. You will see a transition in my character due to her seeking revenge…
There’s a great opportunity to watch your favorite television shows online for free using Amazon!If you connect your Twitter account with your Amazon account you can get a $5 credit. With that credit you can get one of several “Video on Demand” shows from Amazon. I haven’t used it much, but free is free right?To get your credit, connect your Amazon.com and Twitter accounts and you will automatically follow @amazonvideo and @amazon_movies. The following message will then be automatically tweeted from your Twitter account: “I just got a $5 credit for instant movies and TV shows @amazonvideo. Click http://amzn.to/oWmBFy to…
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You love Star Trek and want to set your wallpaper as an homage to your favorite show. Here are the top five sites to get your wallpaperbackgrounds from.1. Star Trek Desktop WallpaperIt doesn’t matter which version of Star Trek you love, you’ll find your favorite background here.Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, or the whole Star Trek universe. While it’s more of a hosting site for a lot of different wallpaper sites it’s pretty comprehensive. URL: http://www.startrekdesktopwallpaper.com/ Favorite Image: “Four Captains” by James Fazar 2. Star Trek MovieIf you’re a fan of the new Star Trek 2008…
Kathryn Romany Beckinsale was born in London, England, UK in 1973 and has been thrilling geeks since 2006. She has acting in her blood. Her mother, Judy Loe is an actress, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, was famous as a comedy actor.Besides appearing as a vampire werewolf hunter in the Underworld series, she played a vampire hunter in Van Helsing (2004) But, she hasn’t just been doing geek roles. One of her early dramatic roles was in Kenneth Branaugh’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993). She appeared in Click wih Adam Sandler and Serendipity with John Cusack.Consistently named in FHM…
Star Trek has been parodied by everyone from Saturday Night Live to Family Guy, but no one has done it better than the web serial Voyage Trekkers.Most Trek parodies involve making fun of red shirts or having Shatner say something lame. That or they drone on and on about how stupid the show was.To me Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek parody because it was done with love. Voyage Trekkers is like that. The serial takes it further because it makes fun of all goofy sci-fi team shows like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.Even though the show is set in space, the…
Watch every episode of Doctor Who in five minutes with this video compilation. With the British sci-fi show Doctor Who returning this Saturday in the episode “Let’s Kill Hitler” you may want to get caught up. If you don’t have time or a short attention span (Squirrel!) why not watch this video? Titled “Previously on Doctor Who,” the creator vampiremonkeyonspeed describes it this way:Doctor Who, the series so far. Every story from 1963 to 2011.Its got everything. Every major villain. Every Doctor. Every Doctor regeneration. Every goofy special effect. If you watch closely, it’s also a timeline of every hairstyle…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an amazing film that almost makes you root for CGI apes and hope they conquer humanity. Several personal experiences made the movie especially moving.James Franco pays a scientist, Will Rodman, desperately trying to create a cure for schemers. His motivation is his father, Charles Rodman (John Lithgow), who’s living with him despite being in the late stages of the disease. This is the point that moved me the most. My own mother suffers from the early stages of Alzheimer’s and I can imagine the desperation he must have felt. An early mishap in…
Star Trek has some real testosterone junkies in the future, but here are the top ten manliest men of Star Trek. Seinfeld said it best, “Big chair, nice screen, remote control. That’s why Star Trek really was the ultimate male fantasy. Just hurling through space in your living room, watching TV.” That said, it’s no surprise that the shows were filled with manly men. We now present the top ten manliest manly men of Star Trek. 5. Chancellor of the Klingon High Council Gowron (Robert O’Reilly) Imagine being the leader of the meanest toughest group of aliens in the galaxy.…
They say “Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness” and this is true of movies as well. With the recent slew of big budget films that are being panned by critics we now present the definitive list of 25 science-fiction films that cost a lot, but brought in very little love. These are rated by the following criteria: Budget (or cost to make the movie) and the current score from the rating aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Some movies didn’t get in because they didn’t fit the criteria. For example, the Ed Wood film Plan 9 from Outer Space is arguably horrible, but only…
For this month’s contest, we asked you to come up with funny “Chuck Norris” style jokes about Obi-Wan and the winner is: Jworzala!When we envisioned this contest we knew you guys were funny. We just didn’t know how funny you would be.All the entries were great. Unfortunately, some didn’t follow the rules, but were still funny.We almost changed the rules so they could participate, but the rules were set and it wouldn’t have been fair to change them.While it was hard to narrow the entries here is the winning entry along with the three runners-up.Fourth place: “Obi-Wan Kenobi was Chuck Norris’s personal…
For this month’s contest, we asked you to come up with funny “Chuck Norris” style jokes about Obi-Wan and the winner is: Jworzala!When we envisioned this contest we knew you guys were funny. We just didn’t know how funny you would be.All the entries were great. Unfortunately, some didn’t follow the rules, but were still funny.We almost changed the rules so they could participate, but the rules were set and it wouldn’t have been fair to change them.While it was hard to narrow the entries here is the winning entry along with the three runners-up.Fourth place: “Obi-Wan Kenobi was Chuck Norris’s personal…
In this new Nerd PSA, actress Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) addresses an important issue affecting cosplay girls across the globe: Slave Leia fatigue. With so many choices available to women who cosplay, there’s no reason everyone needs to be Slave Leia. By acting now, we can save Slave Leia for when we really need her. #freeslaveleia Video directed by Zachary Levi (Chuck) and features Team Unicorn’s Clare Grant, Rileah Vanderbilt and Milynn Sarley.Additional costumes provided by: http://www.halloweenexpress.com/ and Adam Sapien & Jessica Sapien — http://www.sapiencreations.com/ Team Unicorn costumes: http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/Is “Slave Leia Fatigue” a Cosplay problem? Can we all work together…
Currently starring in Rise of the Planet of the Apes Freida Pinto is an exotic Indian beauty all her own.Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India she starred in several commercials before becoming a model.Her big break came in 2008 when she starred in Slumdog Millionaire. Besides becoming a household name, she and her costars won a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.”She got her “Geek Card” by co-starring in the 2011 science-fiction reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes as primatologist Caroline.Next up, she’ll play in the 2011 fantasy-action-drama film, Immortals. What…
What if the Star Wars characters had to communicate through text messages? What if George Lucas was limited to 160 characters per line?We now present Star Wars: Episode IV (The TextSpeak Edition).For those not familiar with the acronyms, you can click on the link for a translation.
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Overall, this is one of the weaker episodes of the season, but it makes up for it with some good character moments and fine acting.Eureka “Of Mites and Men”Season 4 – Episode 16 The mission to Saturn’s moon of Titan is getting ramped up and Senator Alice Wen is pressuring “Global Dynamics” to move forward with the mission to Titan.Dr. Saint-Augutusa speeds up her production schedule using metal reforming robot mites to complete the hull of the Astreus vessel. Coincidentally, Dr. Fung is working on an interstellar communication system that’s accidentally causing earthquakes. Could the disappearance of Tungsten metal items be related? Of course not.…
When Eureka gets cancelled next year here are five questions we need answered in the last season.Syfy (The-Channel-Formerly-Known-As-Scifi) has announced that the science-fiction television show Eureka is being cancelled in it’s fifth season. Presumably, so they could make room for more shows about people pretending to be scared of fake ghosts.It’s getting a good send-off. SyFy ordered six episodes for the season and a special final episode which is supposed to wrap everything up.Eureka co-creator and showrunner Jamie Paglia tweeted the news earlier:Thrilled that our network and studio are giving us another episode to make a #Eureka series finale. The fans and show…
Anne Hathaway Herding Cats on Catwoman Costume Apparently, a lot of people were looking for a better Catwoman costume in the Batman sequel Dark Knight Rises. Star Anne Hathaway responded by saying: “What I am happy to say is, if you didn’t like the photo, you only see about a 10th of what that suit can do. And if you did like the photo, you have excellent taste.”Personally, I didn’t think much of the costume either way. Nolan has never done a straight conversion of a costume from comic to screen. Two-Face? Rhas Al-Ghul? Scarecrow? Nothing like it. Similar, but…