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Boston Cinegeeks! Win Passes To See SABOTAGE!

March 19, 2014, 2:00 pm
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In Sabotage, Arnold Schwarzengger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated.

As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.

Coming to theaters March 28th, Sabotage stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Harold Perrineau, Martin Donovan, Max Martini, Josh Holloway and Mirelle Enos and is written by Skip Woods and David Ayer and directed by David Ayer.

For your chance to win passes to see Sabotage at the advanced screening on Tuesday, March 25, at 7pm at the AMC Boston Common, go to www.gofobo.com/RSVP and enter the code FOGVZT9.


For more details visit http://facebook.com/SabotageMovie and follow on Twitter @SabotageMovie


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NOAH (Graphic Novel Review)

March 19, 2014, 3:00 pm
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I’m not the first to run to a tome about some bible story, admittedly, and seeing previews initially for the upcoming Noah starring Russell Crowe made me a bit skeptical.

Do we need a Darren Aronofsky’s reimagining of this biblical story, like oh-so-much Battlestar Galactica?

Thankfully, there is more to this beautifully illustrated graphic novel than a chromed out Old Testament boat. Based on the first draft of the movie’s script, this 256 page hardcover or digital graphic novel is worth the high price tag for fans of the medium and comics that exist outside of the vacuum that is mainstream superhero comics. This book could exist comfortably at Vertigo as a mini-series.

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Boston Cinegeeks! Win Tickets to CUBAN FURY Starring Nick Frost!

March 19, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1987: Poised to sweep the floor at the UK Junior Salsa Championships, 13-year-old Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) has fire in his heels and the world at his feet… until one fateful night, a freakish bullying incident robs him of his confidence and diverts his life down a very different path. 25 years later, having locked away his boyhood dreams, Bruce finds himself out-of-shape, unloved and truly wedged in his comfort zone. It takes the arrival of Julia (Rashida Jones), his smart, funny, gorgeous new American boss, to force him to re-examine his dull, passionless existence. But she’s way out of his league, and with expert lothario and alpha-male office nemesis Drew (Chris O’Dowd) in rampant pursuit of her, it’s enough to make Bruce want to give up on himself all over again. Can his loyal sister (Olivia Colman), childhood dance mentor (Ian McShane), and crazy new amateur salsa pal (Kayvan Novak) help Bruce unshackle his dancing beast, regain his long lost fury and claim the love of his life?
And we're giving away tickets to Forces of Geek readers to see the film on Thursday, March 27th at the Regal Fenway at 7:00 PM.

Below please find the epass for the screening. Either print it out and bring to the screening or present the pass on your smart phone.


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The Great Muppet Contest! We've Got a Prize Pack!

March 19, 2014, 6:00 pm
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This week, The Muppets Most Wanted arrives in theaters.

And to celebrate this most sensational, inspirational and celebrational event, we've teamed up with our friends at TV Store Online to give away a prize pack to two Forces of Geek readers!

Included in this prize package are two Muppetsational t-shirts!

The Kermit The Frog Face and Collar T-Shirt

Jim Henson was an amazing man. After all, he created the Muppets and voiced one of the most iconic characters of all time, Kermit the Frog! If you're a fan, why not show it off in style? This officially licensed Muppets t-shirt features everyone's favorite frog, making it the perfect choice for any die hard fan. It's easy being green in this fun and awesome Kermit t-shirt, so show off some love for this unforgettable puppet today!
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We Know How to Rock T-Shirt

Few bands know how to rock as hard as Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem! If you've always been a fan of their work, why not show it off with pride? This officially licensed Electric Mayhem t-shirt features the gang rockin' out as only they know how. With the likes of Animal, Dr. Teeth, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Janice and Zoot, it's hard to go wrong with this awesome band! Show them some love with this totally awesome Muppets t-shirt. 
Enter after the jump.

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DANNY TREJO...Bread Artisan...Yep, I Said Bread Artisan

March 20, 2014, 7:00 am
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Danny Trejo may look like a guy who would just as soon shoot you in the head as look at you but appearances can be deceiving, for all that Mr. Trejo really wants to do in his journey upon this mortal coil is to make animals out of freshly baked bread. 

Yes, you heard me correctly...make bread animals.

I'm sorry, did you just titter a little bit, perhaps guffaw? I really don't think that's wise do you? Not when Mr. Trejo is standing directly behind you with a machete with...well, I don't think that's butter dripping off the end of it.

Watch the video and keep the laughter to a minimum.

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Five Best Sci-Fi Series Of All Time

March 20, 2014, 9:00 am
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Trekkie (trɛki) n: A fan of the US science fiction programme Star Trek.

Yes. The name given to Star Trek fans really has made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s hard to think of a genre that has changed our lives as much as Sci-Fi. Whether that be through sheer enjoyment or the invention of gadgets we use every day (you can thank Mr Shatner for the mobile phone), the genre has produced some of the most futuristic, and entertaining television in history.

Sci-Fi’s emergence dates back as early as the 17th century but eventually began to hit our TV screens in the 1940’s, with the developments in special effects. Since then it has become a multi-billion dollar empire and includes some of the hottest shows in television.

We take a look at five of the best science fiction series of all time.

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Like Giant Monsters? Watch ENORMOUS and FOG! Chats With Director BenDavid Grabinski!

March 20, 2014, 10:00 am
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Based on the critically-acclaimed graphic novel written by Tim Daniel and drawn by Mehdi Cheggour, Enormous told the story of a post-apocalyptic world in which humans are now the bottom of the food chain and massive insect-like beasts take over the world.

Now, the creative minds of Director BenDavid Grabinski (short film Cost of Living), writer Andre Ovredal (Trollhunter) and Producer Adrian Askarieh (Hit Man, Agent 47) are taking Enormous from the page to the screen in an all-new live-action pilot that picks up years after E Day, the worldwide attack of massive insect like beasts, as the remaining humans from all walks of life must band together to survive and fight back against the monstrous invaders. Viewers are introduced to Ellen (Ceren Lee), a mother who has lost her child, and watch as she prepares to play a major role in the human resistance. The cast also includes Steve Braun (Wrong Turn 2), and Erica Gimpel (Veronica Mars).


After the jump FOG! chats with director BenDavid Grabinski.

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Why Ian Doescher's WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S STAR WARS Trilogy Should Be Mandatory in Schools

March 20, 2014, 11:00 am
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I'll be the first to admit that when I was forced to read Shakespeare in high school, I hated it. The sentences felt stiff and cumbersome inside the mouth of a then fifteen year-old who hadn't the skill to appreciate the antiquated language in order to see just how beautiful it was. In short, Shakespeare and I didn't become friends until many years later when I realized that if I wanted to become a truly learned person, I was going to have to get over my fear of thou and whilst and verily and simply fall into the poetic nature of Shakespeare completely.

And I did, thank you verily much.

But these days (and isn't it always someone who has reached their middle age who begins a sentence like this?) there seems to be a falling out in schools, that somehow teaching the art of learning and constantly questioning is quaint or obtuse (which includes that aforementioned Shakespeare). It's all tests and test prep and what needs to be learned for the test. There seems to be very little in the way of critical thinking and introducing concepts to young, impressionable people who might then go out into the world armed with the beginnings of these ideas and change everything.

Now, instead of planting small educational seeds in the young, we are only giving them the ability to color-in ovals marked A, B, C and D without going outside the lines. Which, as we all know, is extremely valuable in terms of fighting diseases, eradicating poverty and generally living life to the fullest.

Which brings me to the point of this post, We need to re-invent education in a way that will get those atrophied brains of Generation Whatever sparking again, and the way to do that that is fairly simple, Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars trilogy (well, soon-to-be trilogy).



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Win ATLANTIS: SEASON ONE on Blu-ray!

March 20, 2014, 1:00 pm
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Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason (Jack Donnelly, Dancing on the Edge) washes up on the shores of an ancient land - a world of bull leaping, of oracles and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants. This is the lost city of Atlantis. But beneath the surface of this enticing place is a dark and simmering past, a complicated web of treachery and deceit in which Jason himself now seems inexplicably bound by a destiny he doesn't fully understand. Aided by the studious young Pythagoras (Robert Emms, War Horse) and the overweight, overbearing Hercules (Mark Addy, Game of Thrones, The Full Monty), Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa (Jemima Rooper, Hex), come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead. A treasure trove of Greek myths and legends are re-imagined in a whole new way as this unlikely trio embarks on this edge-of-your-seat adventure.
And we're giving away two copies!
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Bitchin' Sounds of the Sanyo Audio Spec Stereo Will Make Everything A-Ok

March 20, 2014, 3:00 pm
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The grainy picture tells you this is going to be awesome

Hey groovy guys and chicks, wanna show off how awesome you and your wheels are while you drag the gut of your hometown trying to score (whatever it is you are in the mood to score) as some mega sweet tune-age thumps from your speakers?

Did you understand one damn word I just said?

If you did then you are gonna be down with this righteous ad for the Sanyo Audio Spec Stereo from 1977 that shows just how bitchin' it is to spend money on an 8-track...and just how groovin' the members of the opposite (or same) sex will think you are once you slam it into your car's interior face hole.

Oh yeah....

Video after the break.

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LUPITA NYONG'O, Storm and One Blerd's Wish

March 20, 2014, 5:00 pm
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It's hard not to love Lupita Nyong'o.

The newest winner of the best supporting actress Oscar for her work in 12 Years A Slave, Nyong'o has been a revelatory It Girl.


Her heart-wrenching performance in the film, her striking good looks – deep-chocolate brown skin, natural short hair, tiny-but-muscular frame – and bold fashion sense has made her the toast of Hollywood and the media gossip machine.


And now, we gasp collectively and ask, what's next?

Nyong'o has taken the world by storm. And some folks now want her to be it – Storm the mutant, that is.

A #LupitaForXmen campaign cropped up online recently calling for Lupita Nyong'o to play Storm in whatever new X-Men films may come down the pike. (Of course there will be more X-Men movies, Days of Future Past notwithstanding.)

Seriously, what's not to love about Lupita Nyong'o playing Storm, comics' top black-is-beautiful female superhero, the wonder woman of browngirls everywhere?

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Girl On a Bicycle (review)

March 20, 2014, 7:00 pm
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Review by Elizabeth Robbins
Produced by Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann
Written and Directed by Jeremy Leven
Starring Vincenzo Amato, Nora Tschirner, 
Paddy Considine, Louise Monot, Stephane Debac


Girl on a Bicycle is the story of love and happenstance in Paris from writer/director Jeremy Leven.

Leven is the screenwriter of such chick-flick staples as The Notebook and My Sister’s Keeper, and as such, is used to trying to pull on our heart strings.

In Girl on a Bicycle, Leven brings together a multinational cast. Paulo (Vincenzo Amato, Golden Door) is an Italian emmigrant working as a tour bus driver in Paris. He has just proposed to his gorgeous, flight attendant, German girlfriend, Greta (Nora Tschirner, Bon Appétit).

While Greta is away, Paulo meets Cécile (Louise Monot, A Love to Hide), who rides her bicycle on his route.

Paulo becomes enchanted by Cécile, and on the advise of his friend and co-worker, Derek (Paddy Considine, Bourne Ultimatum and a SimonPegg/Nick Frost regular) that he should get over the girl on a bicycle by meeting her, since a real woman can never live up to a fantasy woman.

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CRUSH: What If Crash Test Dummies Achieved Sentient Thought Before Impact? [Animation]

March 21, 2014, 7:00 am
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There are a lot of things I don't want to think about: How I smell after going three days without a shower, if I'm going to die because I ate that gelatinous blob of Thai food from the back of the fridge, or what would happen if Crash Test Dummies aren't really dummies at all but some new potential life form that has grown fed-up with the human race for the continuous torture of its kind?

Granted, this short animated film, Crush, about Crash Test Dummies isn't so much about revenge against us, as it is about that tiny spark of life that always seems to "Find a Way" (if I may quote from Jurassic Park).

Created as a final project in the 3D Animation and Visual Effects program at the Vancouver Film School by Malek Rizkallah, this ode to that little "What if?" question is executed brilliantly and with a lot of soul for a film that clocks in at less than two minutes long.

Check it out after the break.

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Win 'MS. 45' Blu-ray and Vinyl!

March 21, 2014, 9:00 am
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From director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York), MS. 45 was originally released in 1981 and quickly became a notorious cult favorite, an eye-opening study of a seamy, sticky, pre-Disneyfication New York City. But it had remained hard to find in the years since, until Drafthouse remastered the uncut film in HD from the original negative materials and booked it in theaters. The film follows a mute Garment District seamstress – played by the late model/actress/musician/screenwriter Zoë Lund (then known, at age 18, as Zoë Tamerlis) – who, after falling victim to multiple unspeakable rapes, unleashes a one-woman homicidal rampage against Gotham’s male population.

Fiercely independent auteur feature (originally rated X) was instantly regarded as a uniquely feminist entry in the urban revenge subgenre. In Brad Stevens’ biography “Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision,” Ferrara recalls of the film, “It shook people up to see an innocent person like themselves suddenly becoming a wanton murderer.” Combining the rampaging angst of Death Wish and Roman Polanski’s surreal post-traumatic shocker Repulsion, MS. 45 returns from the cult underground over 30 years later to reclaim its title as perhaps the most shocking, complex and empowering vigilante film of the 1980s.
To celebrate the return of MS. 45, we're giving away a prize package that features a copy of the Blu-ray featuring a stunning HD restoration of the uncut feature film plus special features and a copy of the limited edition MS. 45 official motion picture soundtrack, available on vinyl for the first time ever thanks to composer Joe Delia and Death Waltz Recording Co.  The LP is 180 gm Bad Habit coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold heavyweight tip on casebound sleeve and includes a giant fold out poster and booklet featuring all new exclusive sleevenotes from composer Joe Delia.
 

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WTF FRIDAY: Another In A Long Line Of Seriously F*cked-Up Japanese Commercials About Gum And Cats

March 21, 2014, 11:00 am
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If I were a better writer, I would have been able to create a grouping of fascinating sentences about whatever it is this commercial is about (a refreshing gum that makes you feel like a cat toy? Adderall-flavored gum that makes all your problems go away and there's cats involved?) but let's face it, I'm not, so why don't we just move along to the reason you even bother tolerating me at all...super-crazy fucked-up Japanese commercials.

You wanted it and after the break you've got it.

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Double Feature Movie Show: PECKINPAH’S END OF THE WEST

March 21, 2014, 1:00 pm
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Sam Peckinpah had a knack for showing us what it was like at the end of the “Old West.”

Most of his films tended to take place in that rather grey area just at the beginning of the 20th Century when the cowboy was on his way out of favor, as it were.

A time when carrying wire cutters was illegal. (Actually, I think it still might be in Texas. Maybe even a few other Southwestern states.)

I’m sure that this was a violent time. I mean, everyone was carrying a gun.

Ev-rey-one.

But Peckinpah’s vision of the end of the West was a particularly violent one. Older men were fighting against the end of everything they’ve ever known. They wanted one last grab for glory before it all went tits up.

Ride The High Country and The Wild Bunch were only made seven years apart, but they may as well have been made thirty years apart. But they’re very close to the same movie. I love them both and think they work well together almost as bookends to a great Western career…even though Peckinpah made tons of Western television before (and one movie that no one remembers) and a few great Westerns after.

None of them, though, had the power of The Wild Bunch.

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Read Jack Kirby's THE PRISONER!

March 21, 2014, 3:00 pm
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In the March 21st, Entertainment Weekly ran an article called In Search of Pop Culture's Holy Grails, listing, "some hallowed projects (that) evade(d) our grasp.  A guide to our great white whales."  Over two dozen, "lost" projects are listed.

But, in the FOG! world of pop culture, not everything is lost.  So in the coming weeks, we're going to uncover a number of those projects, including our first, Jack Kirby's The Prisoner, which EW describes as, "a comic based on the gonzo sci-fi show.  Kirby never finished issue No. 1."

It does look like Kirby finished it, however.  Just some lettering and inking by Mike Royer might be all that's needed to complete the issue.  Check out the "lost" holy grail and be sure to check out Charles Hatfield's fantastic article about the history of the project from The Jack Kirby Collector #11 over at TwoMorrows.com

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Your Friday After-School Work Special...'Have You Ever Been Ashamed of Your Parents?'...Well, Have You?

March 21, 2014, 5:00 pm
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You know, back in the early 80s there was a lot of Parent Shame going around, you know, 'cause your parents were so lame and didn't rock feathered hair and shit. But thanks to ABC and their After-School specials, we children of dorktastic parents were given an educational smack on the ass via some hard-hitting exposé on what a bunch of drunk/high/pregnant/std-filled assholes we were...or whatever, and we were damn thankful for it.

And, in this particular movie, Are You Ashamed of Your Parents?, the shit gets real when a self-obsessed teen named Fran (Kari Michaelsen, Gimme a Break!) is totally bummed that her lame-ass mom (Marion Ross, Happy Days) has to take a servant job with, like, the so totally rich and awesome Fairchild family because they are, like poor and stuff. And, like, worse, the Fairchilds have a daughter named Andrea (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) who's so snobby and, like, bitchy, but then the two girls totally realize, like, they have a lot in common 'cause their parents are super stupid and stuff, so they become friends and realize that just because someone is poor and someone has money, like, that doesn't mean they are, like, different and stuff...even if their parents are complete dorkwads.

So yeah, you should, like, totally watch this while you, like, so down an entire bottle of wine, 'cause that would be totally righteous and stuff.

Movie after the break.

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LITERARY GEEK: A Reading of Charles Bukowski's 'Aftermath of A Lengthy Rejection Slip'...Perfect For Those of Us Who Are Rejected Daily

March 24, 2014, 9:18 am
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In 1944 (at the tender age of 24) Charles Bukowski saw his first short story, Aftermath of A Lengthy Rejection Slip, published by Story magazine. A meta piece about being rejected from Story magazine (which in itself is interesting enough), Aftermath remains one of the greatest sarcastic, yet lovely, odes to what it feels like to live life as a writer based on the many tiers of rejection that they face.

Starring, incredibly, the famed editor/founder of Story magazine, Whit Burnett, and the actual reconstructed rejection slip (!) that he sent Bukowski, Aftermath manages to capture a verisimilitude tale of the psychological mayhem that was experienced by Bukowski upon the receipt of such a personalized rejection (a tale that includes cats, a lady of the night, many drunks and yes, a healthy dose of bittersweet anger).

It is, to say the least, an epic WTF to every rejection slip/letter that anyone who writes wishes they had the balls to whip out and send to those who did the rejecting.

After the break you can listen to the story read in two parts, or, if you prefer to read it for yourself click HERE (which also includes other terrific short stories).

Either way, it is a deeply affecting look at when literature was a heavy influence in pop culture...kind of like how cat videos are today...(sigh).

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The Best Games and Movies: Ice Hockey, Football and American Football

March 24, 2014, 7:30 am
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Another year, another crop of blistering releases in both the gaming and movie spheres.

This year there are some amazing sports titles out that will have you clicking, button mashing or, for the more laid back among us, sat on the couch with a cold one in your right hand. To celebrate and help you choose which titles are the ones for you, we’ve selected some of the best of this years crop.

Game on!


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