Event News: Boreanaz, Reedus, Smith, Gillan Headline Wizard World Chicago Comic Con Celebrity Roster
David Boreanaz, Norman Reedus, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Katie Cassidy, Stan Lee Headline Celebrity Guests At Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, August 21-24 Five WWE® Standouts Including Superstar John Cena®, Five ‘The Walking Dead’ Stars, Anthony Mackie, Evan Peters, Top…
Dead Trend Walking: New Zombie Docuseries from Syfy
By Kim Filchak, writer and professional bibliophile. It’s hard to keep a dead trend walking but Syfy is trying to get a little more life out of the current feeding frenzy of zombie related entrainment. With Walking Dead having wrapped…
Convention News: Supanova Pop Culture Expo
Geeks from Down Under, get ready to have your convention appetites satiated with this latest press release for Australia’s Supanova Pop Culture Expo. For info about which Supa-star guests are (and regretfully are no longer) coming to the Melbourne…
Review: “Rob The Mob”
by NEW CO’ER Kim F (a professional bibliophile and layabout who who is constantly flabbergasted to find herself living in LA along with six houseplants and one very disgruntled cat.) Full disclosure, this is the first time I have ever done…
Movie Review: The Family (2013)
by Sav Rodgers, Guest Reporter Typically I pay no mind to reviews before I go watch a film: if the movie appears interesting and catches my eye from the get go, I would like to make up my own mind…
DVD Review: Frankenstein’s Army
Nazis have long been one of Hollywood’s favorite movie villains. So what’s worse than a Nazi? How about a Nazi Zombie Robot? You might be asking yourself ‘Can it be done?‘ In fact, it can. Let’s check out Richard Raaphorst’s Frankenstein’s Army to find out how.
Oz Comic-Con Melbourne 2013: Overall Event Coverage
Oz Comic-Con Melbourne, 2013. That time of year had come again where the masses of fans had all gathered in the one venue to share their love of comics, videogames, movies, television and all things geek pop culture.
SDCC 2013: Amazing Opportunity for Hunger Games and I, Frankenstein Fans
Lionsgate announced that Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger will moderate a panel on Saturday, July 20th at the San Diego Comic-Con, featuring talent and exclus ive footage from two of the studio’s upcoming films THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (opening November 22, 2013, the film stars Jennifer…
Movie Review: World War Z
by Bill Watters, Editor It says a lot about a movie when people suggest to NOT read the book before watching it in the theater as I’ve found more and more people doing with World War Z. I rather wish…
Movie News: The Wizard of Oz in 3D and IMAX for the first time ever!
WARNER BROS. TO CELEBRATE THE FILM’S 75THANNIVERSARY WITH HUGE FALL 2013 INITIATIVE Film Returns to the Big Screen for Exclusive IMAX® 3D One-Week Run on September 20 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Available October 1 on Blu-ray™, Blu-ray 3D™, DVD and…
Convention News: William Shatner Announced For Oz Comic-Con Melbourne 2013
In news that should greatly excite Trekkies all across Victoria, Oz Comic-Con has recently announced that the mighty Captain Kirk, William Shatner himself will be attending the Melbourne event this July. Check out the press release here.
Interview With Max Brooks
It was at the 2013 Emerald City Comic Convention that I first heard about the Max Brooks project for Avatar Press Extinction Parade. This tale combines the concept of zombies, vampires, and war. A couple of weeks ago I…
Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
The crew of the USS Enterprise returns for further big screen adventures with the latest installment in the franchise: Star Trek Into Darkness. Directed by J.J. Abrams, this new story in the Trek universe focuses on a threat that hits close to home, and forces the intrepid group of explorers to face their deepest fears. Star Trek (2009) had set the bar so high that it was hard to not to walk into the sequel without raised expectations.
Blu-ray Review: Pawn
A night shift cop on a routine visit to his favorite diner interrupts a robbery in progress. And that’s nearly all we can say without giving away key pieces of Pawn, a compelling straight to Blu-ray crime flick from first time director, David A Armstrong. Pawn contains some attractive elements: the story is told in anachronic flashback, the setup is deliciously intriguing (what team of professional thieves robs a nearly empty diner at 11:30pm?) and the cast is top shelf.
Supanova 2013: Melbourne Coverage
Sticking very much to tradition, the numbers of costumed attendees of Supanova Melbourne 2013 seemed to largely outweigh the amount of non-costumed folk, thanks to the gaze-stealing powers of their beloved attire. Just about every character, genre or media format you could think of was on display: videogame icons, television and movie characters, DC and Marvel superheroes, cartoon characters and of course the anime aficionados.