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What's Already Wrong With STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

December 16, 2015, 9:00 am
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Admit it.

As much of a fan you are, you're still going into Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a hell of a lot of skepticism.


Angst ridden feelings of crass disappointment from the prequel trilogy, combined with the ongoing-altered original trilogy?

A Jedi craves not these things.

I go into this new trilogy with a sense of slight bit of trust, because, after all, as fear leads to anger, yada yada yoda.

But I have a bad feeling about this because...


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MOOMINS ON THE RIVIERA (review)

December 16, 2015, 10:00 am
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Review by Elizabeth Weitz
Produced by Vesa Harju, Hanna Hemilä,
Sophia Jansson, Xavier Picard
Written by Leslie Stewart, Annina Enckell,
Hanna Hemilä, Xavier Picard, Beata Harju
Based upon the comic strip by Tove Jansson
Directed by Xavier Picard and Hanna Hemilä
Voiced by Nathaniel Parker, Tracy-Ann Oberman,
Russell Tovey, Stephanie Winiecki, Ruth Gibson


For a majority of Americans the world of comics and animation begins and ends with the works that are created here, forgetting that there's a treasure trove of creativity that have come from other parts of the world.

Sure, we may be familiar with Tintin and Babar, but say the word Moomin, and most people would draw a blank.

Which is probably why the story of the Moomins (a group of hippo-like creatures created originally as a comic strip in 1945 by Tove Jansson) going to the French Riviera seems, well weird.

After-all, who are these characters and why would someone want to see them getting into a series of conundrums worthy of a Griswold Family-like European Vacation?

Maybe because a lot of the rest of the world does and has for decades.

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THE LEFTOVERS: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD February 9, 2016!

December 16, 2015, 11:00 am
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Includes All 10 Episodes from the Compelling Second Season!

From Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of the hit series Lost, and acclaimed Oscar-nominated novelist Tom Perrotta, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment brings the next chapter of the HBO series The Leftovers to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD for the first time with The Leftovers: The Complete Second Season.

As one of the most critically acclaimed shows on HBO, the series averaged over 1.2 million total viewers. Joining the first season’s stellar cast including Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive), Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy), Christopher Eccelston (Doctor Who), Margaret Qualley (Palo Alto), Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider-Man), Carrie Coon (Gone Girl), Liv Tyler (The Lord of the Rings films), Ann Dowd (Masters of Sex) and Janel Moloney (  The West Wing), the second season also adds Emmy winner Regina King (American Crime), Kevin Carroll (Survivor’s Remorse) and Jovan Adepo to the series. Created by Lindelof and Perrotta (Little Children), and based on the book by Perrotta, The Leftovers: The Complete Second Season from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on February 9, 2016 for $44.96 / $39.98 SRP.

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UNCLE NICK (review)

December 16, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Review by Joshua Gravel
Directed by: Chris Kasick
Written by: Mike Demski
Executive Produced by: Errol Morris
Starring: Brian Posehn, Scott Adsit, Missi Pyle,
Paget Brewster, Beau Ballinger, Melia Valeriek


Spending Christmas with family can be hard, but when you are a bitter middle-aged alcoholic and are spending Christmas with your younger brother Cody’s seemingly perfect family, it may be unbearable.

Nick arrives at his Cody’s house intent on smoking and drinking his way through the holiday and hooking up with his brother’s twenty-year-old stepdaughter but over the course of the evening he realizes that everything isn’t as perfect as it seems.

As Nick narrates his holiday night via the analogy of the failed 1974 Cleveland Indians “Ten Cent Beer Night” fiasco we see that the arrival Nick and Cody’s sister and her husband appears to balance the mood of the group and just when we think that evening may take a positive turn it comes time to exchange gifts…

Uncle Nick is a darkly comic tale with an undercurrent of emotion and a mean streak that all combine to form a powerful character driven story.

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In Defense of George Lucas

December 16, 2015, 1:00 pm
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With Episode VII coming out, I’m going to have to shill for George Lucas.

As the years go by, people dump on him more and more for his many missteps (and he does deserves a lot of the criticism). But we’ve gotten to the point that people even call into question what, if any credit he deserves for the success of the first Star Wars film, arguing that his then-wife Marcia Lucas and the rest of the creative team were really the ones who pulled the film together.

People want to erase his involvement from the franchise altogether.

So given that we’re inevitably about to go through another cycle of Lucas bashing, it needs to be said that he is a visionary filmmaker even if he hasn’t been involved in a good movie since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

Lucas with Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford on the Last Crusade set.

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The Road To Episode VII: A Day Long Remembered

December 16, 2015, 2:00 pm
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Remember when you would go to bed early on Christmas Eve so morning would come that much sooner?

That is how I feel about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I can't believe it!

We are about 48 hours away (24 hours for some folks) from seeing a Star Wars sequel in theaters.

This is the last stop on The Road to Episode VII, and I'll be reviewing the new Star Wars short stories along with a personal message about my thoughts and feelings about the Star Wars franchise.


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Looking For Official, Personalized STAR WARS Merchandise?

December 16, 2015, 3:00 pm
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Welcome to the Galaxy’s greatest destination for official, personalised Star Wars merchandise.


Art You Grew Up With International are excited to offer for the first time exclusive, personalised mugs, phone cases and prints featuring iconic designs and scenes from the Star Wars movies.

Mugs, phone covers and prints emblazoned with iconic images and new, exclusive designs that will proudly bear the names of your family, your friends - and don’t forget to get something for yourself as well!

Christmas is a chance to share good times with the folks we grew up with. The people we love. We’re speaking, of course, of Luke, Leia, Lando, Chewie, Han, Yoda, Ben and Darth, plus welcome newcomer Kylo.

The festive season wouldn’t be the same without them, and with The Force Awakens poised for record- breaking Christmas success, there’s no greater gift for the other favourite people in your life than something gorgeous, fun and personal from the wonderful, wide world of Star Wars.

Pick the design that represents you or a friend, type in your chosen name and watch as it brings an iconic Star Wars moment to life ready to personalise a product of your choice.

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FOG! Chats With Will Tracy and Gabe Koplowitz About ALLEN: SON OF HELLCOCK

December 17, 2015, 9:22 am
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I was at first skeptical to read yet another brightly colored Conan-sword-tale. With space lasers the fashion this week, this seemed like a step backward back in time to a place I didn't need to revisit.

And the creators are comedians, and we all know how those people are.

This all came to a climax when Z2 Comics forced me at dagger point to read issue one of their Allen: Son of Hellcock to prepare for an interview with their famous funny people Will Tracy (HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Onion) and Gabe Koplowitz (VH1).

I finally relented. Mead in hand, I had some questions for these guys because I was only two pages in when I realized this might be the funniest book of the year.

Will and Gabe joined us to answer our questions about the new publisher and disappointing the person that brought you into this world. Allen: Son of Hellcock debuts today in stores and digital comic shops.

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An Evening at The Krampus Ball

December 16, 2015, 5:51 pm
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By Gavin Hignight
 
A couple of years ago I was in downtown Los Angeles at the Artwalk.  It was a chilly December evening and I had a profoundly unique Holiday experience…

Walking down the street after visiting a gallery I saw a crowd stirring.  The sounds of excitement buzzed from the group along with loud clanging bells, stomping noises and horns.

Suddenly a procession of hooves, ghoulish hairy monsters, the hairiest of beasts were walking through the crowd. They were classic with a uniform quality to them and there was something very disturbing about their presence.


These were monsters in the truest sense of the word and I love monsters.

I was hooked.

This was my first exposure to the Krampus.

How, after a lifetime of loving monsters had I never heard of this amazing mythical figure?!  Coming down to punish bad children?!  I think I like this guy!!


And lets be honest if there was ever a time for Krampus it was now! It would seem the counter-culture and soon most likely the popular-culture agrees for he is back in a big way.


The beast is popping up in more and more places this year.  Of course the biggest beast news is the new film from director Michael Dougherty (of Trick 'r Treat fame) that opened this month!

Krampus getting his own Hollywood film will probably push him into mainstream consciousness.


Next year he’ll be cartoonized as a mascot for Target, he’ll get his own kids show, there will be cuteness all around him

But for now, this year, he’s still a scary, nasty force to be reckoned with.  And the people at Krampus Ball in Los Angeles know how to celebrate him! I had the pleasure to party with the Krampus last night in the Highland Park area of LA (a neighborhood still as counter-culture as Krampus), a perfect place to celebrate the holidays and prepare to punish those who have been naughty.  But don’t take my word for it… Here are some photos of the ball.



Next year, when you are sharpening your horns and getting out your best scary mask remember….

                       is an event that always sells out, so pre-order tickets early you ghouls!


For more details visit krampuslosangeles.com/the-krampus-ball/
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These STAR WARS Cocktails Are Out of This World

December 16, 2015, 6:56 pm
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Before you head out to your evening screening of The Force Awakens tomorrow, check out these fantastic Star Wars themed drink recipes.

They're as good as anything they'd serve in Mos Eisley and after a few you'll feel strong enough to pull the ears off a gundark.

A few more and you'd just assume to kiss a Wookiee...


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MARSHALL AT THE MOVIES - STAR WARS: EPISODE VII – THE FORCE AWAKENS

December 18, 2015, 6:00 am
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By Marshall Julius

Marshall at the Movies delivers a spoiler-free, rave review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Everything you love about the original trilogy is captured in JJ. Abrams’ new adventure. Everything you hated about the prequels is militantly avoided. It’s the Star Wars film we’ve been waiting for since 1983!

If you like the video, or at least see promise in the idea, do please subscribe to Marshall at the Movies on YouTube. You can also subscribe by clicking on the specs in the bottom right corner of the screen.

Now, on with the show!

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BODY (review)

December 18, 2015, 7:00 am
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Review by Joshua Gravel
Produced by Bryan Gaynor, Michael W. Gray,
Chadd Harbord
Written and Directed by Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Starring Helen Rogers, Alexandra Turshen,
Lauren Molina, Larry Fessenden


Three college age friends at home for Christmas vacation are looking for some fun when one of them brings the other two to her vacationing uncle’s empty mansion.

After a lot of drinking and goofing around it is revealed that this isn’t an uncle’s housem but rather the house of a family the girl used to babysit for and she knew they would be on vacation.

Unfortunately, this is when a groundskeeper shows up to check on the house and in the confusion and panic one of the girls pushes him down the stairs, breaking his neck.

The girls devise a plan until they realize that the groundskeeper isn’t dead, as they believed.

A slick and good-looking film, Body, moves at a brisk pace, but unfortunately that’s about it.

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JOY (review)

December 18, 2015, 8:00 am
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Review by Caitlyn Thompson
Produced by John Davis, Megan Ellison,
Jonathan Gordon, Ken Mok, David O. Russell
Story by Annie Mumolo, David O. Russell
Written and Directed by David O. Russell
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro,
Bradley Cooper, Édgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd,
Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini


This holiday season we are presented with David O. Russell’s newest comedic, yet slightly depressing creation, Joy.

I have a sort of unconditional love for the director, so it’s hard for me to admit that this film wasn’t my favorite. While all the usual suspects (Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, to name a few) perform with excellent timing and deprecating humor, I felt the story was diminished by the fact that the typically fluid, fun yet exciting nature we’ve come to love in Russell’s films, was over-exaggerated, a bit contrived, and pretty slow.

Now, the story of Joy is actually fun and interesting.

It’s a true story about a woman who single-handedly creates a corporation from her invention of the self-wringing mop—this after taking care of her broken-hearted soap-opera obsessed mother, dealing with her ex-husband, who awkwardly lives in her basement, and juggling her father’s move in/move out situations depending on whether or not he has a girlfriend.

Joy is thwarted at every turn not only by familial dysfunction, but bad luck, and irrational circumstances that render her helpless. Her mop invention is incredibly fitting here, as she is so often the rag (of her family) that is used to clean up mess after mess without any consideration for her wants, needs, or happiness.

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Watching THE WIZ LIVE! In All Its Unabashed, Lovely Blackness

December 18, 2015, 9:00 am
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I didn’t know how much I needed The Wiz Live! in my life when it premiered December 3.


I just though it looked kinda cool. Having Queen Latifah, David Alan Grier, Mary J. Blige and Ne-Yo attached to the project didn’t hurt, either.

But when a video was released of Stephanie Mills, the original Broadway show’s Dorothy, singing “Home” with newcomer Shanice Williams at a piano, I was sold.


“Sing, Shanice,” Mills said, in that familial tone of encouragement and affection that felt straight out of church.

And “Home,” with its aspirational runs and lyrics that envision a lost soul wishing for “a place where there’s love overflowing,” looks back to the liberation theology of the black church and its spirituals.


When Mills, as Aunt Em, sang the first iteration of “Home” in The Wiz Live!, I nearly put up my praise hand.



The rest of the show really didn’t disappoint, either: Grier showed off his Yale School of Drama training as a Lion whose quivering muzzle made me laugh every time; Williams sang well; Broadway ringer Elijah Kelley’s frenetic motions had me thinking Scarecrow could come apart any minute; Ne-Yo’s countrified Tin Man had strength and pathos.


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Ridley Scott’s THE MARTIAN Comes to Digital HD 12/22 and 3D Blu, Blu-ray & DVD 1/12/16

December 18, 2015, 10:00 am
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Now everyone can “Bring Him Home” with the highly anticipated release of the stellar movie event of the year. Buckle up and brace for the thrilling journey that is Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s THE MARTIAN, arriving on Digital HD December 22 and 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray & DVD Jan.12, 2016.

From legendary director Ridley Scott (Alien, Prometheus) comes a gripping tale of human strength and the will to survive. During a mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney (played by Academy Award winner Matt Damon) is presumed dead and left behind. But Watney is still alive. Against all odds, he must find a way to contact Earth in the hope that scientists can devise a rescue plan to bring him home. Based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir, THE MARTIAN provides a realistic glimpse into life in outer-space that will have you on the edge of your seat! In addition to wowing audiences around the world, the film is one of best reviewed of the year and has been named one of the best movies of the year by such groups as National Board of Review, which also awarded top honors to Ridley Scott for Best Director, Matt Damon for Best Actor and Drew Goddard for Best Adapted Screenplay.


The 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and Digital HD release will have more than 90 minutes of special features including an exclusive newly produced in-world retrospective starring Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sean Bean covering the “true” story behind the daring rescue seven years after the events of the film occurred. The Martian also includes two making of documentaries, a gag reel and more. Now you can become part of the universal phenomenon that has taken the galaxy by storm in the comfort of your own home.

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Author S. HARRISON's Top 5 Superhero Movies

December 18, 2015, 11:00 am
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My love of everything superhero, like so many others, began when I was a little kid.

I still remember pinning a towel around my neck, jutting my arms out in front of me with a determined frown on my face and “flying” the two foot drop from the arm of the couch to the floor.

In my heart I never stopped flying and it makes me geekily happy to see that the hero movie biz is now a multi-billion dollar Juggernaut, Cain Marko reference totally intended.

So, I thought I’d share with you a few superhero movies that I dig very much, and we can all pin a towel around our necks and jump off the arm of the couch together.

In no particular order, I think we’ll start with…


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OUR EXPANDING UNIVERSE by Alex Robinson (review)

December 18, 2015, 12:00 pm
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Our Expanding Universe
Written and illustrated by Alex Robinson
Published by Top Shelf Productions
Released on December 3rd, 2015 
ISBN-10: 160309377X / ISBN-13: 978-1603093774
Price: $19.99


Alex Robinson’s Our Expanding Universe may just be one of the most difficult graphic novels to review because the major components of the book succeed as individual parts but just do not quite congeal.

Generally, I always tread carefully when I see something that interweaves the history of the earth or space into what would otherwise be a work of realistic fiction.

Occasionally, it works, as seen with Richard McGuire’s Here, but more times than not, the combination of everyday life with the magnificent wonders of the universe creates a recipe for a pretentious disaster.

While Our Expanding Universe does not triumph like McGuire’s acclaimed book, it also did not cause me to recoil as I read the parallels between the expansion of the universe and the expansion of a group of three friends.

Billy, Scotty, and Brownie live in New York City and have managed to cross paths and develop a tightly knit friendship despite their contrasting temperaments and dramatically different paths in life.

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Universal Digital HD Releases: THE VISIT, THE GREEN INFERNO and SINISTER 2 in Time For The Holidays!

December 18, 2015, 1:00 pm
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With Christmas quickly approaching, let's discuss three good reasons not to get off the couch over the holiday weekend.  Universal Digital HD is releasing three of the year's scariest films, which means there are three movies you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home with a cup of egg nog in one hand and a rum soaked piece of fruit cake in the other.

After the jump, check out some details and trailers for these three releases and imagine Jason Blum, M. Night Shyamalan and Eli Roth dancing like sugar plums.


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It's Alive: The Television Reboots of 2016

December 18, 2015, 2:02 pm
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The cemeteries of TV history are filled with great dramas, comedies and serials all plucked from the primetime schedule well before their prime.

Shows with steady fanbases, but lagging ratings that were killed before they had the opportunity to blossom.

Or in some cases, shows that went past their prime and found themselves running on the fumes of nostalgia and the former glory of what they once were.

In 2016, a handful of former primetime glories and favorites will return from the grave, returning to audiences with fresh storylines, a few fresh faces and another chance at life.

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Win STAR WARS Sarlacc Toilet Decal or JAWS Tub Decal!

December 18, 2015, 3:17 pm
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You may have already seen these in our Holiday Gift Guide, and to be honest, both are amazing.


TOILET SARLACC STICKERS
 


Decorate your toilet bowl with the Star Wars Sarlacc...why? Because nothing will make taking a dump more exciting than thinking a pit creature will soon be climbing into your anus...

Or worse, knowing that your meal's remains will likely see Boba Fett on the way down where he'll digest for the next thousand years. Included are instructions on how to apply the stickers.
 

JAWS BATHROOM DECALS
 

Man goes into the bathroom.  Tub gets filled with water.  Stickers are in the water.

You are probably going to need a bigger tub.

And the best part? The stickers include the Orca, Hooper in the shark cage, barrels, a severed leg, Ben Gardner's decapitated head and "beaches closed" signs plus more that will take tub time for the kiddos in a nightmare-fuel direction.

And thanks to our friends at BathroomDecal.com, we're giving away one of each of these amazing sets to Forces of Geek readers!

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