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Year: 2011

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Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 2: Borderland and Crazy Eights


Chop, chop, chop and never stop…

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Borderland

When three close friends decide to take a trip south of border to celebrate their high school graduation, they find more than a party waiting for them. They have the Mexican vacation of their lives until the boys decide to do some ‘shrooms and ultimately get separated. 

Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 4: The Graves and Zombies of Mass Destruction

Frida! She’s like a Cheetah!

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The Graves

Megan and Abby Graves, two close but completely different sisters, are spending a final weekend together before Megan heads off to college.  Instead of choosing some awesome place like a beach somewhere or Las Vegas, they choose the middle of nowhere in an Arizona desert.  After a diner waitress convinces them to visit the town’s only attraction: an abandoned mining town called Skull City (no really, Skull City!), all hell breaks loose (literally) when they are chased by a determined killer. 

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DVD Review: The Adventures of Merlin the Complete Second Season


Cometh with me if you want to liveth.

Season two of the BBC’s hit series Merlin surprised me.  I wasn’t sure after the end of season one that the series would be able to maintain its momentum, or develop its characters deeply enough to make the show believable for any length of time.  One of the things you have to love about BBC productions however is that they’re so obviously not Hollywood, everything seems so much more real in a BBC series, and Merlin is no exception.   Perhaps it sounds strange to place a show based entirely on fantasy into the category of “more real”, but bear with me while I make my case.

DVD Review: Dark Skies: The Declassified Complete Series

History as we know it is a lie

Conspiracy and science fiction have been popular television themes since the invention of the cathode ray tube, and when the two mesh it’s often magic. In the middle of The Fugitive, V, X-Files, Lost, and Fringe are 1996’s Dark Skies.

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Comic News: Marvel Announces the Death of (SPOILER) in Fantastic Four!

Marvel Announced the Death of a beloved hero who first appeared back in 1961! Who dies?

Are you sure you want to know?

SPOILER ALERT! There is no turning back!

 

Last Chance!

SPOILERS!

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TV News: ThunderCats 2011 Update!

Check out the new image and press release for the upcoming 2011 ThunderCats TV SERIES!

THUNDERCATS HO!!!

 

Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4°C’s use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, “ThunderCats” characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations.

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Blu-ray Review: Battlestar Galactica Season Four

Since the final moments of the original mini-series pilot of the current re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, fans have been teased with the fact that one or more of the members of the colonial fleet might actually be Cylon Sleeper Agents. As the Third Season came to a close, Col. Tigh, Sam Anders, Tory Foster, and Galen Tyrol were revealed to be members of the “Final Five” Cylons. Now the group must decide if they will continue on as members of Humanity or side with their true nature. All will stand revealed in these final episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 4 are now available on Blu-ray!

Lots of spoilers people. You have been warned. So say we all.

 

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DVD Review: Black Panther Motion Comic


We had iPads before you had televisions. What now, bitchez?

In 2005 Reginald Hudlin (House Party, House Party 2, House Party 3) and John Romita Jr. (Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Invincible Iron Man, Kick-Ass) brought back Marvel’s first black hero into volume 3 of The Black Panther ongoing series. This is a great comic whose initial 6-issue arc was strong and lent itself to an animated miniseries perfectly, but really that’s not unique among great comics, right? What’s notable here is the how and why this particular comic arc got made into a miniseries.

Blu-ray Review: Twelve

 

Based on the book of the same name written by the 17-year old (at the time) Nick McDonell, Twelve offers a fast paced journey through a week in the life of a young drug dealer. “White Mike” has never done any drug or used alcohol to distract him from the reality of his situation.  His mother is dead from cancer, he has fantastic childhood friends who have been there every step of the way, his family is well-respected in the community…and he’s dropped out of school to become a successful drug dealer to spoiled rich kids in the Upper East Side.  Kiefer Sutherland (24) narrates this seedy tale of when the privileged life meets the underbelly of society and how mutually damaging it can be.
 

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Movie Review: The Green Hornet

 
What is the one thing all heroes have in common? They’re all obvious good guys. Any villain knows that knocking the city around a little bit is going to bring a good hero running. So, what happens when an Average Joe decides to pose as one of the bad guys, while actually trying to save the city from an underground crime syndicate? Well, you either get one very dead Joe, or the story of The Green Hornet.