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.
Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less
Facebook? I don’t check that shit, I’m off the grid.
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Amid scathing controversy claiming the film exploits a real world tragedy, 30 Minutes or Less attempts to make a comedy out of a plot that might otherwise be best expected in a torture-porn like that found in the Saw movie franchise. Does it succeed?
(Spoilers after the cut!)
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Comics Review: SmarterComics Series
By Brenda Waldrop, Media Editor
Business comics, a novel concept?
DVD Review: Your Highness
by Chris Learned Kane and Kimberly Learned Kane, Reviewers I was excited to see Your Highness. On paper, the movie justifies my excitation: it stars James Franco, Danny McBride, Natalie Portman, and Zooey Deschanel. The film boasts director David Gordon…
Blu-ray Review: Stake Land
by Karl Madsen, Media Editor, Horror
Every once in a while you get a movie where the main antagonist isn’t the most dangerous. That’s the case with Stake Land, a vampire movie where the bloodsuckers are the obvious bad guys, but are by no means the most dangerous.
In Stake Land there has been an outbreak of vampirism, and humanity has been splintered into lone travelers and small communities. The communities operate on a barter system and rely on the travelers to bring in food, medicines, tools, and luxury items. And everyone waits for confirmation of the safe zone in the north, New Eden.
Blu-ray Review: Entourage: The Complete Seventh Season
The boys are back again.
The Show
Those unfamiliar with Entourage should definitely take some time to view the previous seasons before even considering watching season seven or reading this review.
Movie Review: The Change-Up
by guest reviewer and Kroze Kresky, Media Editor
Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds star in Universal Pictures new take on the hilarious body swapping formula: The Change-Up.
Mitch and Dave lead two completely separate lives; Mitch is a playboy who has no clue what to do about his future while Dave is a family man. Both think they would be better off leading each others lives. One day they both wake up to find they got their wish alright!
Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I wish I knew how to quit you.
by guest reviewer and Kroze Kresky, Media Editor
Blu-ray Review: Stargate Atlantis – The Complete Series
by Matt Sernaker, Senior Editor
Stargate Atlantis makes the jump to High Definition with the release of Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series on Blu-ray! Now is the time to relive the epic five year tale of the Atlantis Expedition. Watch as the team faces off against threats from the Wraith, the Replicators, the Wraith, the Replicators, the…(wait this is getting a bit repetitive), and many other threats!
Highlights:
The series features many fantastic moments, but here are just a few of my personal favorites:
DVD Review: YellowBrickRoad
Follow the Yellow Brick Road, oh my.
by Karl Madsen, Media Editor, Horror
Urban legend and the chance to prove, disprove, or to simply solve the mystery, is the stuff that horror films are made of. Joining the ranks of Event Horizon, Blair Witch Project, The Cave, The Legend of Hell House, and any number of ‘find out what happened’ flicks is YellowBrickRoad.