Blu-ray Review: X-Men: First Class (Two Disc Set)
by Erin Hatch, Editor-at-Large and Matt Sernaker, Senior Editor
TV Review: The Secret Circle – “Pilot”
Written by Gema Luna, Reporter
From the executive producer of The Vampire Diaries (Kevin Williamson) comes a new teen drama full of magic: The Secret Circle. The show is based upon the L.J. Smith series of the same name.
Spoiler alert!!!
TV Review: Ringer – “Pilot”
Written by Gema Luna, Reporter
Sarah Michelle Gellar, the “Queen of the Primetime Teen Drama”, is back with a whole new identity crisis. Ringer, which is produced by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder from Supernatural, is about twin sisters, Bridget and Siobhan, who are both on the run from their own lives.
Beware of spoilers!
Ah, the beautiful bond of youthful friendship!DVD Review: Captain America: The Re-Released 1992 Edition
Giveaway: Creature – Free Sneak Preview Screening 9/8 (Contest Ended)
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TV Review: Venture Bros “Shallow Gravy – From Ladle to the Grave: The Shallow Gravy Story”
by Sammi Bold, Reporter
After almost a year of waiting for something new to hit from Venture Bros, We The Fans got a marathon ending with a brand new mini-episode. Within 11 minutes we get a mockumentary of the awesome band “Shallow Gravy”. The band’s first gig was in the season 4 finale at Hank and Dean’s home school prom with a brief clip of their single “Jacket”. Venture Bros – From Ladle to the Grave: The Shallow Gravy Story gives us what the title says. Hank and Dermott tell their story of how they became a band with H.E.L.P.E.R’s added chirps and beeps. They get their family members, friends, and enemies to add on to their thrilling story depicting past events with a new spin on them.
Blu-ray Review: Rounders
Cassidy, Jason Bourne, and Jesse Custer walk into a Casino…
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Rounders hit theaters in 1998 and is now available in Blu-ray. Strangely, the movie does not open with a 1-800-BETS-OFF card.
Spoilers after the cut!
Phoenix was tempted to make him angry
My Leverage 4×09 Review
The opening to this episode was a bit different than other episode which is a good thing. Instead of seeing how the client gets in trouble first thing, you see the team coming back from their recent job. While coming through the lobby of the airport, Nate Ford scans the crowd and sees a con in progress. In the process, he sees a woman looking a bit out of a place who because the new client. She is a nurse, transporting a heart to a child in the Cincinnati hospital. The team finds out that someone took Linda’s daughter in order to force her to give them the heart.
More @ – The Cross My Heart Job Review
Video Game Review: Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
by Caleb Paullus, Video Game Editor
During Comic Con, I bumped into the reps from Wizards of the Coast. I was lucky enough to score a promo code to play Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012. Now if you’ve played the more recent version (which is free to Playstation Network Plus members) you’ll remember how fun it was. It did have some things that needed to be fixed though…specifically the length of the game, it was too short.
Now here am, after playing nothing but this game for three straight weeks. I still can’t put down the controller! Maybe I’m just ultra nerdy because I’m hooked, but I think it’s pretty freaking fun (or how I like to say PFF!) So you ask me “You’re playing Magic the Gathering?” I respond with “PFF, Yeah!” Anywho lets dig in.
Comic Review: IDW’s Crawl To Me
by Karl Madsen, Media Editor, Horror
In the comic world, much like all other forms of entertainment, we are constantly being offered the next big thing, event, story, character, or genre. Recently we were offered the next big horror series from Alan Robert, creator of Wire Hangers, and lead singer for New York punk band Life of Agony, as well as creator, writer, illustrator, and letterer of his newest scare fest. This new series is from San Diego’s own IDW Publishing and is a new horror offering titled Crawl to Me.
Review: Castaneda Art Show- San Diego
Mictlantecutli, the Aztec God of the Dead, oil on canvas by Cesar Castaneda
by Brenda Waldrop, Media Editor
If you missed the Castaneda Art Show last Saturday night, you really missed out. The Voz Alta Gallery, an adorable little gallery on National Ave near downtown San Diego, hosted the show, complete with a band, a small bar, and great atmosphere. While the gallery was perhaps a little small to hold everyone and the band, Franky Two-Times and His Goons, everyone seemed perfectly content to spill out onto the back porch and the front sidewalk where they could hear the band through the open doors as well as they could inside.
DVD Review: After Dark Originals Scream of the Banshee
by Karl Madsen, Media Editor, Horror
One of the sure fire ways to find a monster or demon, or to release a curse is to work for a museum, or a major educational institution. More importantly, you have to be a researcher at a school or museum – anyplace that has lots of creepy old stuff, that’s not your mother-in-law. Scream of the Banshee takes place in just that type of setting.
TV Review: ThunderCats – “Ramlak Rising” and “Song of the Petalars”
by Sammi Bold, Reporter
ThunderCats, Ho!
The Cats are back in action. Check out our reviews of their latest adventures:
“Ramlak Rising” picks up immediately where “Ancient Spirits of Evil” left off, with Lion-O (Will Friedle), Tygra (Matthew Mercer), and Cheetara (Emmanuelle Chriqui) mourning the death of their father and King. Lion-O’s rage at Mumm-Ra causes him to abandon the mission of finding the Book of Omens, and instead wanting to avenge his father. The group starts on their journey, but not before joining with the adorable kittens, WilyKit and WilyKat. Lion-O’s angst drives the story forward by angering his friends and brother to keep going forward despite the harsh conditions.