Author: Maurice Mitchell

This film was originally going to be called American Battleships (2012) until Universal threatened to sue The Asylum into oblivion. They caved in and changed the name, but it’s obviously a mockbuster based on the critically panned big-budget film Battleship (2012). Writer and director Thunder Levin’s (yes, it’s his real name) first directorial film was the classic Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood! I’ve never seen it, but I understand the dialogue was pretty good. Levin swears he had no idea of the plot of Battleship and has never even seen the trailer. This is amazing because the plot is…

Would you watch Connect Four: The Movie? Want to see clips from two upcoming CW shows? Will DC finally make a Justice League movie? Is there a conspiracy against Latino actors on TV? Every week we share a few links we found in the blogosphere to get you up to speed. 1. Trivia Question In the television series Battlestar Galactica (2004), there was a seductive blond Cylon named Number Six (Tricia Helfer). What famous 60’s television character was she named after? (Answer at the end of the post) 2. Motivational Geek Quote “The best way to find out where you…

Star Trek fans argue about whether to be called “Trekkie” or “Trekkers.” But, there’s one thing we can agree on: This video is funny. Scrimshank Records’ parody of the LMFAO song “I’m Sexy and I Know It” features three guys awkwardly dancing and singing their praises as Star Trek fans. Lyrics like: When I walk in the Con This is what I see All the other Spocks start starin’ at me We the passionate-est fans And we ain’t afraid to show it We’re Trekkies and we know it Check ’em out! Like ’em on Facebook. Thanks to Devona for the…

The television stations are all posting their fall schedule and here are the genre shows that you may want to watch this fall season. A bunch of new genre shows from last year are canceled, like Awake. A few shows are ending like Eureka. Some shows are returning, like Alphas. Since the major television stations have released their fall season, I decided to give a run-down of ten shows you may want to watch this fall season. 1. Do No Harm (NBC) Summary: Dr. Jason Cole is a highly respected neurosurgeon who has it all – a lucrative career, confident charm, and the gift of…

It’s the battle of the trailers! There have been some amazing trailers this year, but which is the best? The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Synopsis: Like most teenagers his age, Peter [played by Andrew Garfield] is trying to figure out who he is and how to be the person he is today. In his journey to put the pieces of his past together he uncovers a secret that his father [Campbell Scott] held… a secret that will ultimately shape his destiny as Spider-Man. This is the first in a series of movies that tells a different side of the Peter Parker…

What were your first loves? Do you remember you the first movie, song, book and person you every loved? This post is part of the “first loves” blog fest hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Movie – Superman While I’m tempted to list Star Wars as my first love, the reality is that Superman stands out as the first movie I fell in love with. I’ve seen it more times than I can count and it stands alone as one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. The casting was spot on and the special effects were cutting edge even…

Superman regrets adding his Mom to his Facebook friends list. There have been many epic fails on Facebook from people posting embarrassing pictures of themselves to friending their boss while playing hooky from work. This just might be the worst fail of all though as Martha Kent decides to post Clark Kent’s baby pictures. Oops. Joy Of Tech held a poll asking, what’s the moral of this comic? It’s harder to keep a secret in a digital world. Even a Superman can mess up on the Internet. Never teach your mom about social networking. If you are Lex Luthor, get…

This week I’m starting back up my Friday Geek Bits link list. I found a bunch of great new blogs to share links from thanks to the challenge. Hope you enjoy them and always remember to share great stuff you find on other blogs. The Internet is a big place and some great stuff gets lost without help. What does a rapping Dalek sound like? What famous superhero actor “didn’t get” The Dark Knight? When will we see another Hulk movie? Which albums should you won if you’re a sci-fi fan? How can you win a Giant Stuffed Microbe? What…

Can you spot a low budget knock-off of a popular movie? Universal Studios doesn’t think so. Earlier this week Universal sued the low budget movie company Global Asylum, or “The Asylum,” for producing a similar movie to the board game based film Battleship (2012) called American Battleship. Both movies revolve around naval ships fighting aliens. Universal sued them to stop them from confusing the public who would rent or buy the video thinking its the real blockbuster. This action arises out of Global Asylum’s knowing and willful violation of Universal’s rights with respect to Universal’s highly anticipated motion picture Battleship, and Global Asylum’s blatant…

The Avengers (2012) Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo Over the weekend, the film The Avengers (2012) set a record. Besides having the highest opening weekend gross ($200 million), it is also the movie that set the new standard for superhero team movies. It’s loud, boisterous and full of explosions, but still manages to take six characters and put them together in a way that doesn’t feel contrived or forced. Like Richard Murdock’s explanation of phone-hacking. The movie picks up where Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger left off. The military team…

Here’s a fun game: Can you guess which member of this away team is going to die? It’s a tough one, so I’ll give you a hint. Of the four people in this photo Kirk (William Shatner) Spock (Leonard Nimoy) McCoy (DeForrest Kelley) and Ensign Ricky only one has a shirt that’s red. Bonus Question: Which episode is this from? Who do you think isn’t going to make it? What do you think of the photo? [Image Source: lollercoaster.melollercoaster.me]

Big news! Our blogger buddie M. Pax has a new book launching today! Here’s the press release. The Backworlds is here! The first story in the Backworlds series by M. Pax. A vision of how humanity might colonize the galaxy some day in the distant future. The Backworlds After the war with Earth, bioengineered humans scatter across the Backworlds. Competition is fierce and pickings are scant. Scant enough that Craze’s father decides to hoard his fortune by destroying his son. Cut off from family and friends, with little money, and even less knowledge of the worlds beyond his own, Craze…

With the release of The Avengers (2012) in the US comes the $220 million big-budget film based on the Marvel comic superheroes. The films already made $281.1 million, so the question is when are you planning to watch it? Official Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers”–the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in…

We’ve all been waiting for The Avengers for years. In the vacuum, fans stepped in and created fan trailers. The movies we wanted to see and some we didn’t know we wanted. Here are the seven most amazing, shocking and hilarious fan-made trailers for The Avengers. Before we had The Avengers, we had these. 7. Avengers Inception Style There are a lot of mash-ups of the Inception trailer with other movies. Frankly, I think this one is more effective than some of the others. Surprisingly enough, the music actually synches up pretty well in places. 6. Lego Avengers Trailer 1…

Captain Sunstrike’s (Adam Rini) noble battle style Voyage Trekkers season two is on it’s way and I can’t wait. Last year, the webseries Voyage Trekkers blew me away with it’s smart writing brilliant acting and social commentary. It turned everything we knew about space travel upside-down and on it’s head. I laughed through the whole season. When I interviewed Nathan Blackwell he said they might not have a season two without funding and that made me sad. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts of the whole crew, they’re coming together to bring us more of the “worst crew in the galaxy.” I…

Here are some of the new DVDs coming out this week you may want to check out. Hot With Men in Black III coming out you may want to own the newly released Blu-Ray versions of the first two films. I was less impressed with the second one, but I know a lot of people liked it. The MIB collector’s edition has a ton of behind-the-scenes stuff if you’re into that kind of thing (***Raises hand***). The MIB disk has conceptual art and behind-the-scenes videos including “Telestrator Commentary with Director Barry Sonnefeld and Tommy Lee Jones” which means they can…

The Avengers opens this week. Your friends are excited, but you could care less. Here’s how you can look like you know everything there is to know about the movie in nine simple phrases. Your friends talk about some guy named Thor and “Mjolnir” like you should know what they’re talking about. They make you feel silly since you have no idea what a “Loki” is. As for “The Hulk,” you remember hearing about the TV series, but that’s it. Maybe you know a little bit about the movies, but haven’t seen them all and don’t have time to catch…

Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and Emma Frost (January Jones) X is For X-Men Update: All the entries are great, but the winner is Reno4711! We’re doing another long-overdue caption contest. This one has a picture from X:Men: First Class (2011) of Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and Emma Frost (January Jones) sitting on a couch in his groovy pad. Enter a comment below of what you think they’re saying to each other. Next Monday morning we’ll update the picture with our favorite caption and submit it to several image sharing sites along with your name and (if you have one) blog.…

Back in 2005 The Daily Show with John Stewart ran a piece about Hasbro’s merchandising tie-ins for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. It was called “Sith Happens” Hasbro toys rolls out a new line of toys to celebrate the opening of the final Star Wars movie. Everyone laughs about the talking Yoda doll and “Darth Tater,” but no one wants to do anything about it. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook It was funny then, but jump seven years and we have Darth Maul selling…

V is for Villains Where would Vader be if he hadn’t died from the Emperor? What would Jason be doing when he’s in his twilight years? What would the twins from the Shining be doing when they were in their sixties? Laughing Squid has a bunch of photos of your favorite villains being somewhat less heroic things. For Horror Vacui, Italian photographer Federico Chiesa has imagined what evil film characters would look like in their later years, including Darth Vader, Jason Voorhees and more. Carolina Trotta provided special effects, makeup artistry and styling for the project. Via Collider Thanks to…

Update: Removed duplicate wallpaper If you want to bring the force to your computer desktop here are some of my favorites. With six movies and hundreds of characters there are literally thousands of wallpaper backgrounds. You can’t see them all, but I brought you some of my favorites. Last time I brought you the best Star Trek wallpaper sites. I decided to bring you the best Star Wars wallpaper ever. Even if you don’t use a computer wallpaper you can still marvel at the beautiful images below. Here are my top ten wallpapers for Star Wars. 1. http://www.alexandgregory.com …

T is for Tenderstar Watch a cool sci-fi style video for a band called “Tenderstar.” The animation was created by a fellow blogger buddie you may know named Joshua Westbury AKA Sci-Fi Gene. Here’s how Joshua, the creator of the video describes it: For me the best part of making this video was working with the songwriter and lead singer who were both willing to share what the song meant to them. We started with abstract visualizations of the different sounds which also set the tone for the video, then added more concepts based on the verses and the overall…

Or…The Eight Ways Mariel Hemmingway Should Have Died in Superman IV In io9.com this week, they had a great post about the most absurd scene in the worst Superman movie, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987). I’m not going to link to it because it has a ton of curse words and this is a family friendly blog. Even the title is NSFW. But, if you head there you can find it and it makes some great points. That one scene proves once and for all that no one in the making of the film cared. The film is…

Q is For Quine Ha! Bet you don’t see any other blogs in the A-Z challenge using the word Quine! Quine means a self-replicating program or machine. Took me a while, but I got a good word. In the history of science-fiction there have been many robots, androids and machines. Occasionally, a robot is given the ability to replicate. It’s considered one of the great moral questions of science-fiction. Does the ability to reproduce make the machine more than just a machine? Does it mean it’s alive? Here are some of the best and your chance to vote on your favorite. Data…

“An Assembly So Awesome, It Should Be Illegal.” Any movie that starts with a tagline like that is destined to be great. Add seven of our favorite Marvel superheroes and it goes to eleven. The Avengers movie is only a few weeks away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t wish for another version. This amazing fan poster design for a fictional movie idea featuring The Avengers called Fury’s Seven was created by ninjaink who describes the concept. “Fury’s Seven” is a 2012 American comedy-superhero caper film. It features an ensemble cast of the world’s mightiest heroes. The film was a success…

O is For Orion Women “They’re like animals. Vicious. Seductive. They say no human male can resist them.” Commodore Mendez Star Trek: The Original Series “The Menagerie” Of the many alien females that Captain Kirk came across, none were more visually striking than the women of Orion. First appearing in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Menagerie,” they captivated viewers. Throughout the original series they were thought to have been slaves, but in the show Star Trek: Enterprise it was revealed that the women actually rule the planet and use the idea of slavery to take control of…

There has been a bunch of unconfirmed rumors surrounding the sequels to two of the biggest Marvel films. Here’s the rundown: Ben Kingsley Will Play Mandarin In Iron Man 3 Ever since Iron Man there have been hints that the Mandarin was going to be Tony Stark’s villain. Rumors are swirling that the Chinese villain known as “The Mandarin” will be played by Ben Kingsley in the next sequel. He’s already been cast as the villain according to /Film, but we don’t know for sure which one. A recent casting call on CBM asks for Asian extras which sounds suspiciously…

M is for Man of SteelOn the Man of Steel (2013) Facebook page they changed the cover photo to the new logo. It’s darker, grittier and more metallic. I’d love to know how you feel about it. Huffington Post says it best: Eschewing the clean lines and look of past iterations of the Superman logo, the new “Man of Steel” logo goes with a metallic grittiness, deeper colors, and swooping lines and deep shadows. The new logo is a sufficiently dark look for what passes as a modern reboot, as it has a “I’m superman and I’m gritty and real”…

The television show Grimm is filled with mythology, fascinating creatures and terrifying beasts, but these are the ones that stand out as the greatest and freakiest. If you’ve never seen Grimm you’re missing a wild show. Think X-Files with fairy tales. It’s pretty popular, which explains why it was renewed for a second season. Set in modern day Portland, Oregon, Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) is a police detective who inherits the ability to see supernatural creatures that inspired ancient fairy tales. Besides the originality of the “species” and the complex social structure behind the “Wesen” (the collective name for the…

K Is For Kashyyyk When George Lucas decided to set one of the battles on the home planet of the Wookies, he had no idea how much work it would take. In Star Wars, Kashyyyk is the home planet of the furry Wookies like Chewbacca. One source says that one live-action scene alone pushed the entire filming of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005). This Revenge of the Sith webisode below explains how much work went into the costumes and what it was like for the eight actors (Michael Kingma, Axel Dench, Steven Foy, Julian Khazzouh, James Rowland,…