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New Trailer Has Me Genuinely Looking Forward to the Evil Dead Remake
Okay, we’ve established the reasons to be wary: 1. Bruce Campbell’s performance was lightning in a bottle, and cannot/should not be replaced. 2. The poster (above) makes a really arrogant claim. 3. Remakes suck, lik...
Tintin vs. Dragon Ball?
Hell, why not. This isn’t as concise a joke as it might have been, and plays as far more knowing about Tintin than Dragon Ball, and sure, Bianca Castafiore’s lip-sync isn’t exactly virtuoso… …and y...
The Ten Best Geek Movies of 2012
And into the breach I step. It was not just a strong year for genre movies, but a year in which all types of filmed entertainment borrowed heavily from the geek worlds, with an Anna Karenina set in a TARDIS-like theater of infi...
Die Hard, Bay-Vision, Disappointing Trailer
Irish director John Moore tried being Richard Donner in his remake of The Omen, aped Frank Miller in Max Payne and now is apparently trying to be Michael Bay in the new Die Hard movie. I could be wrong, but seems to me the appe...
Online Gaming's Own Version of The Wizard?
Remember The Wizard? Of course you do. Road-trip movie starring Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis, about a cross-country trip to participate in a Nintendo competition, mocked at the time, loved semi-ironically by hipsters nowadays. N...
(Captain) America, F**k Yeah!
As much as I loved The Avengers movie, the toys were a pain in the ass, wanting me to play scavenger hunt on a ridiculous level. Marvel Select’s 7-inchers were mostly cool, but they didn’t bother with Thor or Cap, a...
Fanboys Is Really Happening, Only with Star Trek Instead
Remember the movie Fanboys, in which a group of friends tries to sneak into Skywalker Ranch in spring of 1999 to get their cancer-stricken friend a sneak-peek at The Phantom Menace? If you haven’t, you should – the ...
New Star Trek Images Show Familiar Characters Standing Around
Were you wondering if Captain Kirk would wear his Captain Kirk outfit? If anybody would pick up a phaser at any point? Or were you suspecting that everyone might sit down for the whole movie? If so, Empire magazine’s new ...
Falcon Crest: The Fan Construction Project of the Millennium
For over three decades now, children have waited patiently for Santa to bring them a Millennium Falcon. Initially, that meant the awesome-but-somewhat-inaccurate Kenner toy from the original movie; more recently, an upscaled Ha...
