THE LIST: Summer's Biggest Gambles
It has been my experience that summer movies are usually 'safe' movies. Now what I mean by 'safe' are projects that are bound to make some respectable box-office if for no other reason than folks need...
View ArticleIT'S HUMP DAY SO WHY NOT: Reggie Watts Wants You To Know If You're F*cking,...
Comedian/musician Reggie Watts has made an educational music video that will make it very clear to everyone that when you are engaging in fornication you are, in fact, fornicating and not, say,...
View ArticleDamning with Faint Praise: JACK REACHER
A former Army sniper gets framed for a mass murder. When the police pressure him to confess, all he says is “Get Jack Reacher.”Who is Jack Reacher? Why is he off the grid? What is his relationship...
View ArticleJAPAN MAKES A BEER FROTHER That Will Create A Luscious Head of Foam For Your...
If you are the type of person who pours a bad beer with no head on it and are filled with so much shame that you contemplate taking your own life for dishonoring hops and barley, then perhaps you...
View ArticleThe End of TV Advertisements
TV broadcasters are meeting this week in Las Vegas to discuss their growing concern over cord-cutters and the resulting decline in advertisement revenue. It’s a meeting about five years too late — the...
View ArticlePARENTING GEEK: Make A Set Of Adorable Sumo Wrestler Bowling Pins From Water...
I'm not a parent but plenty of my friends are and they are always complaining that there is nothing, outside of TV and video games, that will engage their offspring in a way that will keep them busy...
View ArticleView From The Brig(gs) Episode 7: JJ Hasn't Named It Yet
Ave, Centurions! Well, I'm slowly ramping-down on reading the pile of fiction books I have as shooting on PANZER 88 looms, transferring affections to my big pile of (mostly technical) movie books in...
View ArticleOtaku Lounge: Re-Examining RapeLay
Editor's Disclaimer: The following piece is sure to raise some eyebrows, and for good reason. As violence in America is often cited to be the result of the influence of video games, one has to question...
View ArticleTHE MOMENT Premieres Tonight and We're Giving Away a Prize Package!
Tonight, USA Network’s new original reality series THE MOMENT, premieres at 10/9c, which follows the dramatic journeys of nine lucky individuals who are given a second shot at pursuing their dream...
View ArticleTHE 40 DIRTIEST JOKES From Nickelodeon's 'Rocko's Modern Life'
Rocko's Modern Life premiered on the Nickelodeon channel in 1993 and continued on for four seasons bringing with it sexual innuendo, buried dick and ass jokes and even biting social commentary all...
View ArticleFanboy Convergence in Pop Culture's Nerd World Order
I have a very easy home life as a nerd. My wife also is a nerd, and we like a lot of the same things or at least we're amenable to a lot of each other's likes. Our first date was 28 Days Later, and I...
View ArticleHOW ANIMALS Eat Their Food
Sometimes the only way we humans can truly understand the subtleties of animal culinary delights is to observe a grown man with a sippy cup reenacting their various chow-down styles. And othertimes...
View ArticleHistory of Science Fiction Cinema: 1950: The Heyday of A Genre, and a...
The 1950's brought such a boom to the genre of science fiction, that the decade can not be contained in a single segment. That is why the decade is being split into ten separate segments, beginning...
View ArticleHey Amazon... Stealing Might Not Be The Best Way To Launch ZOMBIELAND
I thought Zombieland was a tremendously entertaining movie, in no small part due to the chemistry of the cast including Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and big, bad Bill...
View ArticleCLERKS-INSPIRED Short Film About Loser Robots Is Sure To Make You Feel Better...
If Clerks mated with Wall-E there's a good chance that the following short film, Shelved, would be its offspring. Created by Aukland's Media Design School (James Cunningham and eleven of his...
View ArticleTRIPLE SHOT: X #0, INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #1, G.I.JOE: COBRA FILES #1
Triple Shot stays independent this week with some violent first issues to get the blood flowing through your veins and onto the street. We start with the resurrected X from Dark Horse and move toward...
View ArticleCREED ON CREED: Creed Bratton (The Office) Discovers Creed (the band)
Creed Bratton is primarily known for the off-putting, somewhat insane, character he plays on The Office (who, interestingly enough, is also called Creed Bratton) but in his early days before...
View ArticleTO THE WONDER (review)
Review by Caitlyn ThompsonProduced by Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green Written and Directed by Terrence Malick Starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier BardemMagnolia Pictures / Studio...
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