Tuesday, February 19, 2008
'Mummy 3’ Teaser Trailer Coming Soon
Cast Revealed for Teen Vampire Flick 'Twilight'
My 14-year-old niece text messaged me a few weeks ago to tell me that she read this teen vampire book by Stephenie Meyer called Twilight
DVD Review: Jakers! Treasure Hunt on Raloo Farm
Voice cast: Mel Brooks, Charles Adler, Pamela Adlon, Melissa Disney, Maile Flanagan, Nika Futterman, Peadar Lamb, Tara Strong, Russi Taylor
Paramount Home Video
Available Feb. 19, 2008
Jakers! Treasure Hunt on Raloo Farm collects four of the Emmy Award-winning episodes of the Jakers! cartoon from PBS Kids. Featuring beautiful CGI animation, imaginative stories, and memorable characters, the show is clever entertainment of the highest quality for kids and adults alike...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
DVD Review: Kurt Cobain - About A Son
Documentary, 135 minutes
Directed by AJ Schnack
Shout! Factory/Sidetrack Films
Available Feb. 19, 2008
“Kurt Cobain was a person just like everybody else, he cried, and laughed, loved his child, loved his wife, and was frustrated, and happy, and crabby, and jovial, and all those things. I think a lot of that has been taken away from him in the intervening years since his death. He’s just become an icon, an enigma, dehumanized.” -- Michael Azerrad, author Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Kurt Cobain is very well known but not completely understood. His life and career can be categorized as brief, poignant, and tragic. Told entirely in his own voice taken from over 25 hours of previously unheard interviews given to Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, the autobiographical film Kurt Cobain - About A Son details the life and influences of Kurt Cobain, frontman of the 1990s chart-topping grunge band Nirvana. His story is woven into a commentary by AJ Schnack about the presence and absence of such a great artist...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Monday, February 18, 2008
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' Casting News
There's Wolverine movie news popping up all over the 'net!...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
DVD Review: 'Walker, Texas Ranger' S4
The Fourth Season
Starring Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, C.D. Parker
Paramount Home Video
Available Feb. 19, 2008
I’m sure that some out there might disagree, but I find it difficult to not like Chuck Norris. Or maybe I mean Cordell Walker. At any rate, certainly Chuck Norris as Cordell Walker...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
DVD Review: Margot at the Wedding
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black
Paramount Home Video
Available Feb. 19, 2008
When I was younger a friend of mine had his birthday party over a weekend at his parents’ house. A bunch of us spent the night watching movies, playing video games, and eating pizza -- standard fare for the time and not unlike any other time we had done the same thing. But this one particular time we were all hanging out watching a movie and his parents got into some kind of argument in the next room. We all tried to ignore it by turning up the TV but no one was even paying attention to that anymore. My friend was understandably embarrassed which, in turn made us all a little uneasy, but through the whole event, no one ever really stopped listening to see what was going on. Watching Margot at the Wedding gave me that same feeling of uneasiness...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Three Actors Step into Heath Ledger's Role in 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'
DVD Review: American Gangster
2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition
Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, RZA
Rated R
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Available Feb. 19, 2008
“More important than any one man’s life is order.” -- Dominic Cattano (Armand Assante)
Maintaining law and order has been important from the beginning of time. However, when breaking the law and disrupting order becomes suitable and degrees of acceptability erupt, a truly tragic figure blossoms -- Frank Lucas. Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) is a paradox. He is sensitive yet violent, he has ethics but is immoral, and completely composed yet explosively volatile. It is Frank Lucas’s oppositional code of life which led him to control the heroin drug kingdom from the late 1960s to early 1970s. With his new, almost 100% pure product and his structured drug council, Frank Lucas took the illicitness and covertness of drug trafficking to a new level...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Movie Review: In Bruges
Directed by Martin McDonagh
Starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clemence Poesy
Rated R
Release date: Feb. 8, 2008
“I've decided what to do with my life. I wanna be a cleaner.” -- Mathilda from Leon (The Professional)
“This is madness, I've had enough of this "Crime and Punishment" bollocks. I'm happy here.” -- Gary “Gal” Dove from Sexy Beast
“If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't.” -- Ray from In Bruges
In Bruges: The Killing Spirit Goes On Holiday...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Movie Review: Jumper
Directed by Doug Liman
Starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane
Rated PG-13
Release date: Feb. 14, 2008
One of the cardinal rules of good filmmaking is to not underestimate the intelligence of your audience. There are different levels, but it makes you wonder which is the bigger crime: not trusting your audience to figure out a movie on its own without being beat over the head with the answer, or thinking they aren’t smart enough to notice that they could have known the answer if given a plot to do so. One of the first lines in Jumper told me all I needed to know about the intentions of the film:
“It didn’t used to be this way. I used to be a regular chump. Like you.”
Great...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
New Screenwriters for 'Hellraiser' Remake
First, it's release is being pushed back four months from September '08 to January '09.
Second, STYD reports that those two dudes who wrote Project Greenlight's Feast, and more recently Saw IV and the upcoming Saw V, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, have been signed on by the Weinstein Company to throw their odd brand of clickty-clack onto the upcoming Hellraiser remake...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!
Movie Review: Rambo
Written & Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Graham McTavish
Rated R
Release date: Jan. 25, 2008
Here’s a fun fact of Sly that some of you may have not known -- before he became known for his roles in Rocky and Rambo, he was a porno star in a little film called The Party at Kitty and Stud’s or better known today as Italian Stallion.
Now I ain’t ever seen Kitty and Stud before, but from what I heard, after his success in Rocky, they edited Kitty and Stud down a lot… a LOT… and slapped it with the title Italian Stallion. This means that...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Movie Review: Definitely, Maybe
Directed by Adam Brooks
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks
Rated PG-13
Released date: Feb. 14, 2008
“You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?”
“I'd say more like one out of a million.”
“So you're telling me there's a chance.”
We all make choices in life, every day. Some are smaller and have little or no impact on the grand scheme, and some shake us to our foundation and alter the very balance of power in our lives and completely change the game. For one reason or another a few months back I embarked on a quest to find the first good romantic comedy of the season. I didn’t mean to, but after seeing so many bad ones, I imagined there had to be one out there sooner or later that didn’t make me want to reject my trade. Regrettably, my stubborn nature took over...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Comic Review: Midknight #2
Written By Paul Ens
Art by Tom Hodges
Colors by L Jamal Walton
Letters by Troy Peteri
Red 5 Comics
Cover price: $2.95; Available now
Red 5 Comics continues to impress me with the wide range of titles they're publishing, and the skill they put into every title. They've got a pulp adventure comic (Atomic Robo), a fantasy-action comic (Neozoic), and now a straight up superhero comic in Midknight. What impressed me most with this is the unique hook that this series has, which I have never really seen before in a comic...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
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