Month: July 2014

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Batman: Assault on Arkham – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: Jay Oliva, Ethan Spaulding
Written By: Heath Corson
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Matthew Gray Gubler, Giancarlo Esposito, Neal McDonough, John DiMaggio and CCH Pounder
Studio: Warner Brothers Pictures
Synopsis:Being locked away in Arkham has little effect on Joker and his latest desire to detonate a dirty bomb within Gotham. The clock begins to tick and a deadly triangle unfolds as Amanda Waller unleashes Task Force X to save the day…while Batman has his own plans for salvation. – (Source)

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If They Existed At The Time, ‘The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ Would Have Been My Favorite Books As A Kid

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UK artist Joebot has a bucketload of these re-imaginings of beloved pop culture properties as children’s books and while all of them are great my faves have to be the ones he did of Edgar Wright’s ‘The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZZ and THE WORLD’S END). Click behind the cut to see them in all their glory.

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Trailer of the Day: Mad Max – Fury Road

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An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There’s Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Frighteners

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 64% (Critics) / 71% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Written By: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, Chi McBride, Dee Wallace and Jeffrey Combs
Studio: Universal
Synopsis:Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn’t use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Astin) into staging hauntings and poltergeists in the homes of likely marks. Bannister’s world turns on its head when he starts noticing real hauntings around town — ghostly assassinations that seem to be tied to the execution 20 years earlier of a brutal serial killer. Lucy Lunskey (Trini Alvarado), the wife of one unlucky victim, teams up with Bannister to get to the bottom of the killings and find out what shut-in Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace Stone) and her witchy mother (Julia McCarthy) have to do with the sinister spree. – (Source)

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I Have A Feeling Mike Tyson Mysteries Is Going To Be My Favorite New Show

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Yahweh bless the folks over at Adult Swim who had the foresight to put together this cartoon, in the classic Hanna-Barbera style, that features Mike Tyson, his adopted Korean daughter, a ghost and a drunken pigeon solving mysteries. Does that not sound like the greatest thing since the invention of the light bulb?

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Matt Reeves
Written By: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Mark Bomback
Starring: Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kirk Acevedo, Toby Kebbell and Andy Serkis
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species. – (Source)

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I Never Thought I’d Be So Excited To Watch A Crappy Cell Phone Video

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During the DC panel at San Diego Comicon, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN director played a clip that was filmed for the movie to the delight of the fans assembled in Hall H. Here’s the set-up:

It’s raining in Gotham City…Batman is in his full THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Bat-Armor…He pulls the cover off the Bat-Signal and then turns it on…the signal lights up the sky and right in the middle of the Batman symbol…Superman! He’s floating there looking pissed off with his eyes flashing bright red…zoom in on Batman staring up at him

Nerdgasm!!!!! Click the cut to see the video and a few pics!

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Dead Snow 2

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Tommy Wirkola
Written By: Vegar Hoel
Starring: Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr, Jocelyn DeBoer and Ingrid Haas
Studio: IFC
Synopsis:If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: The Walking Dead Season 5

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After learning that Terminus was nothing but a trap, Rick and the group must do whatever it takes to escape. – IMDb

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Purge – Anarchy

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: James DeMonaco
Written By: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez and Michael K. Williams
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis:The New Founders of America invite you to celebrate your annual right to Purge. The Purge: Anarchy, the sequel to summer 2013’s sleeper hit that opened to No. 1 at the box-office, sees the return of writer/director James DeMonaco to craft the next terrifying chapter of dutiful citizens preparing for their country’s yearly 12 hours of anarchy. – (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Under The Skin

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% (Critics) / 62% (Audience)
Directed By: Jonathan Glazer
Written By: Walter Campbell
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay
Studio: A24
Synopsis: An alien in human form is on a journey through Scotland . – (Source)

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