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Walter White Is The New Lex Luthor?

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According to a website called Cosmic Book News (yeah I have never heard of it before either but outlets from Rolling Stone to The Daily Mail are reporting the story ), WB has signed BREAKING BAD’s Bryan Cranston to a multi-picture deal to be Lex Luthor. Cranston was on my list of candidates for the gig so I am going to be quite pleased if this turns out to be true. I wonder how Cranston’s hiring will effect the opinions of the rabid anti-Affleck freak shows.
Click the jump to see a cool fan-made pic of what Cranston’s Luthor may look like.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: R.I.P.D.

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 11% (Critics) / 43% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Schwentke
Written By: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi and David Dobkin
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker and Kevin Bacon
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. – (Source)

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This T-Shirt Shall Be Mine!

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It’s an Adventure Time Lords tee! Why has it taken this long for someone to think of this? And how soon can the BBC and Cartoon Network greenlight an Adventure Time/Doctor Who crossover between the two shows?
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: You’re Next

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Adam Wingard
Written By: Simon Barrett
Starring: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen and Barbara Crampton
Studio: Lionsgate

Synopsis: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back. – (Source)

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Ben Affleck Is The New Batman. Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That

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So Warner brothers has announced that actor/director/screenwriter/husband of Jennifer Garner/BFF of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck has been cast as the new Batman who will be facing off with Superman in the upcoming MAN OF STEEL sequel. And like any other announcement steeped in geekiness, it has caused the collective Internets to shit themselves in fits of over-exaggerated apoplexy. Twitter is on fire, the message boards are exploding, Facebook is melting, petitions are being started (with over 20, 000 signatures…nerds I am so ashamed of you!), all due to Mr. Affleck being named as the new Dark Knight.
Well I will give four reasons why Affleck’s casting is not the worst thing since GIGLI was foisted upon an unsuspecting populace.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The World’s End

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Edgar Wright
Written By: Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman and Pierce Brosnan
Studio: Focus Features

Synopsis: The third installment of director Edgar Wright’s trilogy of comedies starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, following the successes “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and “Hot Fuzz” (2007). In “The World’s End,” 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind’s. Reaching The World’s End is the least of their worries. – (Source)

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Short Shrift Theater: Abe

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Waking up in a serial killer’s kill room is pretty crappy but when that serial killer happens to be a robot it gets just a bit creepier than you could possibly imagine. That is what we get in the short film ABE where a servant robot with severe emotional problems takes to murder to try and find out why no one loves him. The concept is insanely inventive and the execution is great especially the overly calm British voice of ABE that sounds like Paul Bettany or Jude Law after taking mood stabilizers.
Hollywood must think this is a pretty novel concept too since MGM has acquired the rights from creator Rob McClellan to make a feature film based on this short.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Beneath

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 43% (Audience)
Directed By: Larry Fessenden
Written By: Tony Daniel and Brian D. Smith
Starring: Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, Chris Conroy and Jonny Orsini
Studio: Chiller Films

Synopsis: Six high school seniors celebrating with day’s excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore. – (Source)

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Trailer of the Day: Squirrels

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When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds his mom’s sleazy new boyfriend, a natural gas company buying up the town, an angry female sheriff who happens to be his ex-girlfriend, and an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their path due to an erosion of their food chain as a result of environmental destruction by the gas company. – Bleeding Cool

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Cover Me Monday: Pump Up The Jam

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Now I know what you are thinking…who in the right mind would waste their time covering Technotronic‘s “Pump Up The Jam” of all songs? And their is no way it could possibly be any good, right?
Well the cover artists are a jazz trio from Canada called The Lost Fingers and they made the overly produced, synthesized dance hit from the 90s into a swinging, full-bodied jazzy barn burner that would get the flappers flapping in any speak-easy in the 1920s.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Ooga Booga

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 0% (Audience)
Directed By: Charles Band
Written By: Kent Roudebush
Starring: Wade F. Wilson, Ciarra Carter, Gregory Niebel, Karen Black and Stacy Keach
Studio: Full Moon Features

Synopsis: Ooga Booga follows an innocent African American boy who is brutally murdered by dirty cops, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure named Ooga Booga. With on his tribal spear and old girlfriend to help he takes to the streets and trailer parks to find the men that ended his once bright future – (Source)

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