ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING ACTOR DENZEL WASHINGTON STARS IN OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR ROBERT ZEMECKIS’ RIVETING AND CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DRAMA
FLIGHT
Mesmerizing Tour de Force Debuts on Blu-ray™ and DVD February 5, 2013
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Press Release: FLIGHT Debuts on Blu-ray and DVD on February 5th
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AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE, You Want the Peace of Knowing That No One Can Trace Your Hentai Addiction
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Smallville: Random, Awesome and WTF?! - S9E20: Hostage
Mama Kent returns and guess who she’s bringing to dinner?
Why, it’s her new beau, none other than the wonderful and formerly drunk as a skunk Perry “Don’t Call Me Chief” White.
How’s that for a surprise, Clark?
And that’s not the only secret she’s got to reveal…
The Random:
1. Clark’s search for the Book of the Rao is handled smoothly—with him punching holes indiscriminately in various walls in his house. He’s like Charlie Sheen in a hotel suite.
2. A sober Perry is a good development for his character and seeing how he interacts with Clark after their last encounter is enjoyable to watch. But Clark has to be freaked out about him asking permission for his mom’s hand in marriage.
3. A massive neon sign falls and almost crushes a crowd of people while two people nearly fall to their deaths and the crowd still stands there cheering when it all works out. Talk about jaded, huh?
Read more »Why, it’s her new beau, none other than the wonderful and formerly drunk as a skunk Perry “Don’t Call Me Chief” White.
How’s that for a surprise, Clark?
And that’s not the only secret she’s got to reveal…
The Random:
1. Clark’s search for the Book of the Rao is handled smoothly—with him punching holes indiscriminately in various walls in his house. He’s like Charlie Sheen in a hotel suite.
2. A sober Perry is a good development for his character and seeing how he interacts with Clark after their last encounter is enjoyable to watch. But Clark has to be freaked out about him asking permission for his mom’s hand in marriage.
3. A massive neon sign falls and almost crushes a crowd of people while two people nearly fall to their deaths and the crowd still stands there cheering when it all works out. Talk about jaded, huh?
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“So, wait. When you say you’re ‘tapping’ my mom, you mean for like a source for a story, right..?” “Uh, Clark. Not exac…ok, let me explain this to you again.” |
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KIDS ARE FRAKKING EVIL! Teen Drugs Parents So She Can Use the Internet After Curfew...This Is A Thing Now?
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MY TOP 5: Movie Shootouts
Gimme some time and maybe I'll do one around Oscar season.
I'm ALSO not doing another list that would be perfect for January 4th.
You see, that's the day that the REAL James Bond was born in 1900. American Ornithologist James Bond lent his name to Ian Fleming for a little book called Casino Royale…you won't have heard of it.
That list, too, is coming, but I'm not quite ready to write it yet.
Luckily, January 4th was a pretty eventful year in history. What I'm going to write about was inspired by an event in 1847.
It's the day that Samuel Colt sold the first revolver to the US government, starting a gun culture that doesn't seem to be letting up. I'll try to keep my own politics out of this here article…but I can't make any promises.
I do love a great movie shootout, though.
Here are just a few of my favorites:
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HELLO, IS IT TEA YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? Lionel Ritchie Is Immortalized As A Teapot/Cup Set
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Marvel Comics Silver Age DisContinuity 001:Fantastic Four #1
This allows us to see the ways in which the universe was expanded, sometimes carefully, often times not. We get to see undeveloped themes and the earliest examples of new themes.
Like an evolutionary biologist studying our small, brown furred burrowing human ancestors, we get a look at the way things were without the baggage of the way things are.
In a series of posts I hope to look at Marvel Comics the same way.
The "Marvel Universe" is the place where all the various superheroes and villains of Marvel Comics live, die, come back to life and have adventures. The Marvel Universe is, at its core, a concept invented by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and other comic legends as a way to sell more comics.
If you love the Fantastic Four, did you know that their pal Spider-Man lives in the same world?
A shared continuity does more than just sell more comics, though, it allows creators to share ideas and concepts, building on the best of the past while creating startling new stories.
Today Marvel's continuity is often seen by the current crop of creators as a limitation, and is, as often as not, ignored.
Weirdly, I'm fine with that. It's the job of comics creators to produce good stories.
It's the job of obsessive nutcase fans to be concern themselves with continuity.
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EMBRACE YOUR INNER "DUDE" In the Book 'The Dude and the Zen Master'
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An Adult Nerd at Christmas
If you celebrated the day, whether religiously or as the secular-cultural juggernaut Christmas has become, I hope you had a good one and a good start so far to 2013.
The boxing days are upon us, and I have been going over the haul o' gifts. And this daunting realization has dawned upon me: I am the worst kind of geek, the one you can't shop for.
My tastes are very exact, my desires of products are very limited, I have most of what I want, and whatever I want, I buy myself.
If no one asks me what I want, and wants to engage in the surprise gift that showcases their thoughtfulness toward me, then they embrace risk. Whether 'tis nobler to risk getting me something I already own, or finding me something that I'd never want. This is the question.
For me, this gift trap often happens with superhero stuff.
This Christmas, I received a movie poster for Marvel's The Avengers. A huge, 24-by-36-inch poster of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and the Gang.
And while it's awesome, and I like it, my next thought was, “I'm 32 and have no desire for this.”
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Press Release: Shout! Factory Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with A Year-Long Campaign
Read more »SHOUT! FACTORY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS RELEASING QUALITY HOME ENTERTAINMENT WITH A YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN TO MARK THE MAJOR MILESTONE
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Let's Go To The Movies: NIGHT OF THE COMET
So, it appears we've managed to thwart another apocalypse (thanks Mayans for getting THAT wrong) but that doesn't mean that we won't be destroyed by some horrible "End-of-the-World" catastrophe one day.
And my vote for the next apocalypse is: Killer Comet...just like in the 1984 sci-fi/horror cult classic Night of the Comet starring the super-cute Catherine Mary Stewart (The Last Starfighter, Weekend At Bernie's), Robert Beltran (ST: Voyager, Eating Raoul), Kelli Maroney (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Chopping Mall) and the great Mary Woronov (Eating Raoul, Rock 'n'Roll High School) who have survived the destruction of mankind (which has rendered all humans into either piles of red dust or turned them into Zombies- ya gotta have an undead element with all apocalypse scenarios) only to find themselves fighting for their lives.
Filled with the desolate landscape of an empty metropolis, evil scientists, mutant humans and the hard rocking sounds of 80s power cords, the next end-of-days is going to be Totally Rad!
Take notes during the movie people, you're going to want to jot down some survival tips.
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Today We Turn Five...That's Right, Bitches, We're A Toddler
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| "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid" |
Here we are, five years in. I've been going through a bit of a mid-site crisis (in dog years we're thirty five) and am extremely excited about some of the upcoming changes. As we head into 2013, I'm fairly confident that Forces of Geek's evolution will titillate and entertain.
Thanks for reading, and in the words of Samuel L. Jackson's only memorable line in Jurassic Park...
"Hold onto your butts."
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THE SHAM WOW GUY MAKES A MOVIE And It Stars People You Would Think Had Other Options...And Lindsey Lohan
Infomercial star and prostitute puncher, Vince Offer, has made a movie that is pretty much about white people being racist and homophobic while passing it off as a comedy starring Adrien Brody (?), Michelle Rodriguez, Rob Schneider and Lindsey Lohan.
(I feel like this is a cast list inspired by a nightmare I had once)
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Nostalgia, Shrugged and Purged
Since moving out over fifteen years ago, my parents have gradually turned my childhood room into a convenient place of extra storage. You may have even experienced this yourself.
Every return visit home for the holidays lands me in the nostalgia of that room, but this past trip I decided to clean things up a tad, purging my room of one giant bag worth of unneeded dust collectors and box-fulls of once thought collectable collectables for goodwill.
With my 10 year old nephew and 8 year old niece by my side, we pilfered through the bookshelves and desk drawers that, for some reason, I never got around to bringing to New York and my parents never felt the need to get rid of.
As hard as I tried, I couldn't convince my nephew to take my old copy of Encyclopedia Brown (he's infatuated with John Grisham's Kid Lawyer currently). I did manage to move an unused Lava Lamp to my niece.
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GOT ABOUT AN HOUR TO SPARE? Then Watch the 1985 Russian Version of The Hobbit...It' Won't Disappoint You Like The Newer Version
In 1985 a production of Tolkien's The Hobbit was shot by director Vladimir Latyshev and shown on Soviet TV to the delight of everyone who happened to have a television set and were allowed to view it per the KGB (I'm speculating here).
The budget, .00001% of what Peter Jackson had for his epic, resulted in a fantastic display of ingenuity and hilarious props and costumes that made for some rip roaring hilarity that must be seen while sober.
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2012: A Cinematic Memory
In the future do you think anyone will ask where were you
when The Avengers was released? I was there for the 10am showing on the
first day of release and I was alone. But I didn’t care. Some things are too exciting
to be shared with anyone else, anyone apart from a roomful of likeminded
strangers whose verve and passion equals your own….and who also don’t have to
work that day.
But I felt sludgy afterwards. Like the Ben and Jerry’s I
treated myself to. Cold and sludgy. Sick to the stomach. In a mud-like
depression. Heavy and slow. I was left feeling film-noirish. Pretty uninspired.
Pretty dry monologue running in my head. I thought The Avengers would complete me.
The ultimate high in all my favourite strands of make believe colliding together.
Instead it left me pondering why I hadn’t laughed as hard, or been as convinced
by the formation of these characters as everyone else.
I sat by the fountains where I live, and thought about Loki
and how pantomime the whole film felt. Fountains seem like the kind of placeJoseph Gordon-Levitt would sit and think in 2012. But probably not about
Loki. About girls and moving into
production and how he could be better, better then Franco, better then Tatum.
After all, Tatum was getting credible. He had a production credit to his name.
He had a biopic made about himself.
I spend a lot of 2012 hanging around water features.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZIGGY STARDUST! David Bowie Celebrates His 66th Year By Releasing A New Single
The man who made androgyny sexy has turned a mouth dropping 66 today (how the hell did THAT happen?) and to celebrate his super hot Senior Citizenship, he has released a new single for his fans, Where Are We Now.
But wait, There's More!
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Contest! Win THE WISE KIDS on DVD!
Read more »New York Times Critic’s Pick!The Wise Kids is Number 1 on Indie Outlook Top Films of 2012 List!
“This is the most even-handed, insightful and breathtakingly authentic film about people of faith I’ve ever seen… Not only is The Wise Kids the best film of 2012, it is a gift to all viewers disgusted with America’s tirelessly polarizing culture. I honestly can’t think of a better present for Christmas.”
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The Pull List: STAR WARS #1 (review)
Star Wars #1
Writer: Brian Wood
Art: Carlos D’Anda
Colors: Gabe Eltaeb
Cover: Alex Ross
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Price: $2.99
Dark Horse has published a cornucopia of Star Wars comics since 1991, covering an array of time periods. From the “Dawn of the Jedi” to 100 years after the Battle of Endor, and everything in between, nothing has been out of bounds as some of the most creative minds in the business have brought their talents to this beloved franchise.
Brian Wood’s midas touch produces some of the best books in the game today and his turn with the pen on Star Wars is simply comic book nirvana. Nothing else has occurred other than “New Hope.”
It's two months after the “Battle of Yavin.”
The Rebel Alliance is in desperate need of a new base while the Empire is hot on their trail.
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Contest! Win The Deluxe Edition of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES
On Monday, January 28th, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice celebrates it's 200th anniversary. And it might have taken a few centuries to see it back on the Best Seller List, but thanks to author Seth Grahame-Smith and Quirk Books, the mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies became a bit of a phenomenon. And certainly a book this important deserves an edition that can be passed down to your heirs.
Which is why we're giving away two copies of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Deluxe Heirloom Edition to Forces of Geek readers!
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