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Wii Game Review: Pandora’s Tower

  by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor (Australia) Pandora’s Tower gives a new meaning to the term “Chains of love”, as players take on the role of hero Aeron (read: “bitch-whipped girly-boy”) as he uses his magical chain to vanquish monsters…

DVD Review and Giveaway: Phineas and Ferb: The Perry Files

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief “There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it. LIKE MAYBE…” So begins…

Movie Review: Prometheus

When filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the evolution of sci-fi suspense, Prometheus is the natural selection to show us the creation of horror and the horror of creation. by Matt Sernaker and Kevin Gaussoin, Editors The official synopsis says “Ridley…

Anime DVD Review: Mongolian Chop Squad S.A.V.E Edition

by Mike Favila, Reporter It’s been many years since I’ve sat down and watched Beck (or as it’s known here, Mongolian Chop Squad) and I was really excited to rewatch it and see how well it had held up. Would…

Blu-ray Review: One for the Money

by Karl Madsen, Editor I have to be honest, when I first heard that there was another Katherine Heigl project coming out I did what many others did – I had a few laughs at the project’s expense. Then I…

Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 3 – Issues 24 & 25

 

Have you ever been completely obsessed by a particular comic book series only to have it abruptly end without a proper sense of closure, with multiple questions left unanswered and various plot mysteries left unexplained? If you are anything like me you will have experienced this when Image’s run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to a sudden close with issue 23. As this leg of the turtles’ journey involved many drastic changes to the turtles and their universe it was considered to no longer be “canon” for Mirage’s TMNT universe, and when Volume 4 began all of the events from Volume 3 were ignored and forgotten about. Until now…

 

 

 

Movie Review: Battleship

  Summer blockbuster movies are normally one of the highlights to the mid year season. Many look forward to being entertained with whatever new spectacle that Hollywood has managed to cook up, while being able to turn their minds off…

Android App Review: The Avengers Live Wallpaper

Hulk Smash Android!
Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow avenge your phone.

The Avengers has smashed box office records and has provided fans with oodles of fun tie-ins such as the latest Android wallpaper from Cellfish, the developers of NFL 3D Live Wallpaper, Halloween Live Wallpaper, and other popular apps.

Anime DVD/Blu-ray Review: Cat Planet Cuties: The Complete Series

 

Don’t worry cutie, there’s plenty of pussycat to go around! 

What’s better than cute kittens or cool aliens?  Busty aliens in skin tight suits with cat ears, naturally!  Prepare to have an extra close encounter with FUNimation’s Cat Planet Cuties:  The Complete Series on DVD/Blu-ray combo.  A sexy, harem-style anime with a sci-fi action twist and plenty of geeky references, Cat Planet is a fast-paced, playful series full of fan service in sleek, shiny animation.

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

by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor
Getting ready for the live-action release of The Avengers? Lionsgate Home Entertainment has you covered! Assembling for the first time are the Ultimate Avengers Movie Collection and the Marvel Animated Features Collection, featuring adventures of the Ultimate Avengers, as well individual stories focusing on The Hulk, Iron Man, and Doctor Strange!

 

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

After reading the fun Avengers Origins: Assemble! (read my review here), I was curious to see if there would be any major differences in the pacing of this app. With the same writer (Rich Thomas) and the same excitable narrator (Stan “The Man” Lee), would this just be more of the same? Amazingly, I found a more intereresting, engaging adventure.