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WonderCon 2011: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Screening and Panel


 

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation have consistently given the fans a sneak preview of their new animated movies at conventions over the last few years, and this year at WonderCon we are given a new treat. With DC pimping out the new Green Lantern live action movie, there is no better  time for the DC Animated Film series to dive deep into Green Lantern mythos and lore by bringing us a series of short stories taken from the comics over the years in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (available to own on June 7th).

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Blu-ray Review: Hereafter

 
Death, and what happens after we die, is a very deep (and common) question that remains a big mystery for all of us. Is there anything out there? Is there any way for us to possibly know? These are the questions posed in Hereafter, the new release from director Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros Pictures.
 
We are treated to three (barely) intertwined stories about three lives being affected by death and how the characters deal with it. Matt Damon plays a retired psychic who has turned away from his gift of talking with the deceased. A French television reporter named Marie (Cécile de France), who is covering a news story in Thailand, gets caught up in a tsunami and can’t escape.

Giveaway: Scar 3D on DVD!

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Anime DVD Review: FLCL (Fooly Cooly), The Complete Series

 

 

It’s not a tumor!

Finally, finally the brilliant OVA (Original Video Animation) from the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion is available in a single DVD or Blu-ray format, loaded with juicy extras!  FLCL or Fooly Cooly follows young Naota in awkward flirtations with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, as he suddenly encounters a guitar-slinging alien girl named Haruhara Haruko, her sentient yellow Vespa, and a slew of robots Naota must fight.  Luckily, he has the aid of Canti, a TV-headed humanoid bot that sprouts from Naota’s own noggin.  All this madness is brought to you in glossy, vivid animation with a bangin’ soundtrack. 

Giveaway: Tron 2-Movie Blu-ray Collection (Contest Ended)

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Want to win the 5-Disc 2-Movie Collection which includes TRON: Legacy on 3D Blu-ray, 2D Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy and TRON: The Original Classic on 2D Blu-ray?

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Movie Review: Sucker Punch

 
 
What happens when you put five incredibly hot (and scantily clad) women against Steam-Powered-Mechanical-Zombie-Nazis, Dragons, Monsters, Robots, and Stone Samurai Warriors? You get Sucker Punch, the newest spectacle from Director Zack Synder (300, Watchmen). This new visual endeavor starts off as a slow-going intro to a psychadelic music video (enter: Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’, just in case the audience wasn’t aware that they should be on a hard-and-fast acid trip), crescendos into a dystopian first-person-shooter (ala Bioshock), and ends with a half-hour attempt to tie fantasy and reality together in a satisfactory ending.

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Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear plus interview with Patrick Rothfuss!

By Brenda Waldrop

Patrick Rothfuss follows up his wildly successful first novel “The Name of the Wind” with this superb telling of “day two” in Kvothe’s story.

To say that “The Wise Man’s Fear” was one of the most superb pieces of literature I’ve had the pleasure to read in some time would be an understatement.  Every one of just under 1,000 pages is suffused with such incredible detail that the reader is instantly whisked away into Kvothe’s world of Sympathy and music, treachery and betrayal, friendship, love, and madness.  The pages practically turn themselves, and if like me you have a day job that requires your presence, you’ll find yourself suddenly realizing that sleep is overrated!

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Anime DVD Review: Disgaea, The Complete Series

 

Don’t feed the penguin, Dood!

The Netherworld has never seen a small demon with such large ambition!  Prideful and power-hungry, Laharl, son of the former overlord, is determined to claim his deceased father’s throne and rule not only the demon world, but the realms beyond.  At Laharl’s side is a polar opposite pair of gals:  the demon Princess Etna and angel trainee Flonne.  Throw in a trio of Earth Defenders and endless winged-penguin Prinnies for one odd and hilarious anime adventure!

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Anime DVD Review: Black Butler, Season One

 

According to our new arrival, life is more than mere survival.

He cooks.  He cleans.  He kills.  The debonair Sebastian may not be Mr. Belvedere, but to his young and fragile master Ciel Phantomhive, he is certainly one hell of a butler.  For Sebastian’s array of talents are not exactly God-given.  Sebastian is an akuma shitsuji:  a devil butler.