DVD Review: Haywire
by Karl Madsen, Editor
Remember the first time you see a movie that’s told in a non-traditional fashion? For many in the movie viewing public, it was the classic Tarantino flick, Pulp Fiction that indoctrinated us to the alternate story telling styles. Now, the Steven Soderbergh thriller, Haywire, uses an unusual style to tell the story of a black ops soldier on the outs with her company.
Haywire follows the last official mission of Mallory Kane (Gina Carano – Blood and Bone) that is meant to be her last mission, ever.
Blu-ray Review: Ultimate Avengers Movie Collection and Marvel Animated Features Collection
Movie Review: The Avengers
Assemble the movie stills! There are a lot of them in here.
Sorry I’m not sorry.
by Karissa Barrows, Editor
If you have not been excited for The Avengers since first hinted at in the Iron Man franchise, you have no soul. Or whatever. Maybe not that extreme, but DUDE. The movie was destined to be either a massively awesome, mind-blowing life experience or the worst 2+ hours of life. As soon as it was announced that Joss Whedon was directing the film, I knew the former would be the case. I went to see the movie after having driven for 16 hours the day prior and still getting up super early that morning, and I was so pumped up afterwards that I was able to stay up for two hours more than normal playing Modern Warfare 3. Seriously. It is that good. I’ll explain why… and try my hardest to be as brief as possible. That’s gonna be hard, considering how much I loved this movie.
Blu-Ray Review: Torchwood – Miracle Day
Miracles really do come true as Torchwood finally returns with the brand new series of Torchwood: Miracle Day now on Blu-Ray and DVD. This newest incarnation of the Torchwood series is brought to us thanks to a new partnership between BBC and Starz. which has allowed the series to expand in both scope and budget.
TV Review: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – “A Canterlot Wedding”
by Kroze “King of the Bronies” Kresky, Media Editor
I can say that without a single doubt that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been one of the most consistently entertaining and well written shows on television in recent memory, and I have no fear of being ridiculed or laughed at. This is because the show has grown to such enormous levels of popularity, taking over the internet with its massive fanbase at a lightning quick speed that could only be compared to Rainbow Dash making a Sonic Rainboom™.
iPad App Review: Avengers Origins: Hulk
by Mike Favila, Reviewer
iPad App Review: Avengers Origins: Assemble!
by Mike Favila, Reviewer
Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods
Hey guys, the cellar door just flew open loudly. Let’s check it out!
by Aliki Taylor, Reviewer
Sure, we all love Joss Whedon and we’re already salivating over his upcoming blockbuster The Avengers, but Dollhouse has been off the air for a while, so what’s he been doing? It turns out he spoiled us years ago.
At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) announced on stage that he and Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cloverfield) were co-writing something, describing, “It is a film called Cabin in the Woods, and it is the horror film to end all horror films. Literally. And more about that, I will not say.” Nearly five years later, we now know what he meant.
(Spoiler-free review ahead!)
Blu-ray/DVD Review: War Horse
by Karissa Barrows, Editor
Albert Narracott (Irvine) and Joey
When you think “horse movie”, what do you think of? Black Beauty? Seabiscuit? Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron? Typically, I usually think some movie that’s going to make me cry because of shameless horse-killing, the overplayed horse-separated-from-loved-owner-and-later-reunited storyline proven to elicit tears, or some cowboy movie. War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s newest film, uses those first two, mixed with a little Seabiscuit-style “miracle horse” aspect, and a little bit of storytelling I thought slightly reminiscent of Tarantino – and makes for a huge success.
Movie Review: Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
“When a woman tells you to grow up, that’s God’s way of telling you to get a new woman… There’s three billion women on the planet, and not a lot of great comics, so it’s an easy choice.” -Chuck Rosanski, Mile High Comics
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
San Diego Comic-Con is the cultural Mecca of geeks everywhere, the one place where we can all gather together and gaze across the vast landscape of all our varied fandom obsessions from superheroes to sci-fi to fantasy to horror to anime to video games and every related subject–Where we can not only hang out with each other but we can meet the creators and stars of all our favorite stuff–where ‘Trek and ‘Wars nerds can take up their sabers and phasers, not to battle each other but to pose with the next generation of geeks or to drink with the real Green Lantern or Duke Nukem and listen together to bands play songs about Aquaman or Laurence Fishburne and then look over and say to each other in the words of Joss Whedon: “Are we not dope?”
DVD Review: Hellacious Acres: The Case Of John Glass
A hoodied denizen of the new world!
by Chris Kane, Reviewer.
TV Review: Ultimate Spider-Man – “Pilot” Part 1
I AM THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN!
by Kroze Kresky, Media Editor, and Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor
Spider-Man returns to TV with a brand new animated series: Ultimate Spider-Man, premiering on April 1st during the Marvel Universe Animation Block on Disney XD! How does this new series stack up against the previous incarnations? Well…let’s just say that it is no Spectacular Spider-Man.
TV Review: The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – “The Private War of Doctor Doom”
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
by Kroze Kresky, Media Editor, and Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor
This Sunday, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes returns for Season 2, which features an apperance by the Fantastic Four. Marvel was kind enough to screen the episode early at WonderCon 2012!
TV Review: Community “Digital Exploration of Interior Design”
by Kroze Kresky, Media Editor
After first being screened at WonderCon 2012 to thunderous applause, this episode of Community seems to be the beginning of something epic brewing at Greendale. First off, let me get this out of the way and mention Subway’s sudden involvement in the show as of late. For fans of another NBC cult hit Chuck, they know that when the show was having trouble, they were able to get some additional backing from Subway and it seems that Community is trying to do the same thing here, only to a much more hilarious extent.