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04.24.08 by Widge @ 2:53 pm
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04.23.08 by Widge @ 7:02 pm Found yourself depressed because you didn't get to see the Venture Bros. Season 3 teaser trailer that Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick detonated in the middle of New York Comic-Con? Pining because you weren't part of the masses that were so unanticipated that they broke the Comic-Con schedule like a twig? Jonesing because you didn't get the chance to be impaled with a Dum-Dum thrown by the deadly hands of Ken Plume? Your prayers and burnt offerings have been answered. Quick Stop Entertainment has posted the teaser. You will not be disappointed. Update: It's now embeddable. God bless those pagans. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.22.08 by Widge @ 11:46 pm An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help.
You know what's odd? From the three actors who make up the core of the Harry Potter films, I would never have thought Daniel Radcliffe would be the one who steps up the most and preps his post-Potter career. I know that sounds counterintuitive but, honestly, Potter acting-wise is given nothing interesting to do until Book 5. But Radcliffe is setting himself well: another step in that process is this BBC flick where he plays the son of Rudyard Kipling, who goes off to World War I in order to get away from his family. David Haig (who wrote the play) reprises his stage role as Kipling the father. This BBC Home Video release comes with an interview with Radcliffe, Haig, and Kim Cattrall as well as deleted scenes. Fans of Kipling will probably want to rent, as will fans of Radcliffe. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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04.20.08 by Widge @ 11:56 pm An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help.
The well-adjusted television proto-family gets the first season treatment from Shout Factory. That's right, it's Father Knows Best--a window on a simpler time of television sitcommery, where Mom and Dad knew what was up and could dispense with wisdom as needed, and all the kids were relatively normal and well-behaved to a point. Fans of the show will want to snag it because it's pretty stacked: new interviews with the actresses who played the daughters, home movies from Robert Young, behind the scenes color footage from the show, a pilot episode from Young's next series Window on Main Street, and also a special episode that they filmed for the U.S. government to promote savings bonds. Oh, and twenty-six episodes of the show across four discs as well. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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04.16.08 by Dindrane @ 4:20 pm  There's really no higher height to which a movie can aspire than to feature the death, mutilation, or death AND mutilation of packs of Yuppies. You know you're with me on this. So just take a gander at the following movie poster, and you'll be as awed and excited as I am about Dimension Films' upcoming April 25th release of ROGUE. This film earns the industry's real highest honor: the Dindrane-Leigh Seal of Approval for Gratuitous Human Deaths. There will be blood. Oh yes. There will be blood. Just look at that eye! (Click through to see it embiggened--the whole poster, not just the eye.) That eye wants to EAT YOU. I mean, for God's sake people, what more could you really want? Categorized as: Headsup
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04.15.08 by Widge @ 6:50 pm  Okay, so we can't have an official Monopoly of the Living Dead. (But we can have a great idea for the box cover art.) But apparently we can have a board game based in a mall where there are zombies to contend with. So it will have to suffice for the moment. (The humans are the ones who screw it up every time anyway.) ALBOTAS points out some verbiage from the box: In Mall Of Horror, each player takes control of three characters: a blonde, a bad boy and a brute, trapped in a mall invaded by hundreds of hungry zombies. There is only one way to survive: find a temporary safety in areas where the zombies aren’t yet, and forget about values such as solidarity and humanity. Better them than you!
Indeed. Looks like a hoot. And you know us: if it's undead and bleeds, it leads. Normally we'd send you to Amazon to buy it, but we can't in good conscience when the Funagain site ALBOTAS links to has it for $7 or so cheaper. The game is apparently from France and translated into English by the US subisidiary of ASMODEE Editions. Thanks to PrcsMmnts for the headsup. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.14.08 by Cosette @ 11:41 pm An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help.
I've always had an appreciation for the Upright Citizens Brigade. The first episode of their TV series, featuring "The Bucket of Truth," is probably one of the funniest comedy bits I've ever seen. So it's no surprise that this quartet of maniacs do improv and do it well. And then they drag their friends into it with ASSSSCAT from Shout Factory. Somebody in the audience throws out an idea, and a monologist talks on it. Then from there they spin into crazed sketches featuring sex, drugs and a talking cactus. But don't worry: he's friendly. If you like comedy, then this is at least a rental. If you're an UCB fan, you might want to snag a copy for yourself. It's even funnier than the Bravo ASSSSCAT special they did with folks like Tina Fey, if that can be believed. Here you've got Chad Carter, Sean Conroy, Andrew Daly, Horatio Sanz, Will Arnett, Ed Helms, Jen Kirkman, Thomas Lennon, Paul F. Tompkins and Kate Walsh along for the ride. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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04.12.08 by Widge @ 11:41 pm
Well, hopefully you were all good citizens and didn't go see the crazed CG Chipmunks movie. Unfortunately, we didn't get to everyone, because the damn thing's made over $350 million worldwide. Now we must all live in fear of a sequel. Let's just hope Jason Lee got a big honking paycheck from it. Anyway, we much prefer the original Chipmunk Adventure, where our heroes take part in a hot air balloon race around the world. This is actually a two-disc set--disc two is the soundtrack. The only special feature is original artwork from the film. There's also Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies, which isn't a feature so much as some movie parody episodes from their cartoon. Neither of these, sadly, comes with a Neil Cicierega audio track. I think you know what I mean. (Click here to buy Chipmunk Adventure from Amazon. Click here to buy ...Go to the Movies from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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04.11.08 by Widge @ 4:29 am  So we put out the call: 2 Skinnee are reuniting for a one-off gig. Now it turns out it's a two-off gig, because A.J. "Stumpy" Johnson, the band's spiritual guru, the Splinter to their Turtles, has added a second date. This might be because the first date sold out in seven days. Might. The second show date is Sunday, August 10th. And tickets go on sale today at noon EST. You can snag them here. Oh my. I see this on that page: "Additional Information: Also Performing: TRAGEDY: A Metal Tribute to the BEE GEES." Wow. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.11.08 by Widge @ 4:21 am  Hey, folks. Two things. First: Amazon's got a decent sale on for Blu-Ray discs...I guess this is to celebrate the format war being over and all. Follow this link and you buy two, get a third for free. But here's the crazy thing--the first title I see when I go over there? Blade Runner. The five-disc set. On Blu-Ray. For $28. I showed this to Ken and he thinks there has to be a catch. I just think something must be screwed up because the normal price is $40. But it seems to be legit. So my take on it is this: if you think you might want the five-disc set of Blade Runner on Blu-Ray at any time during this life...grab it now before they come to their senses. You can even get Super Saver shipping and so the shipping's free. Crazy. And of course, if you take advantage of this deal, we get kickbacks. So thanks in advance! Categorized as: Headsup
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