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YouTube Tuesday: Darkness Falls Across The Land Edition

June 30, 2009 by Dave

Say what you will about the man, he did give us dancing zombies, which lead to the above.

Filed Under: Movies, Music, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: michael jackson, thriller

Transformers 2: Expectations?

June 24, 2009 by Bartoneus

In what is a rare occurence for my wife and I, we did not go to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at a midnight showing last night. It’s not because of the Tuesday night issue, we went to see The Dark Knight at midnight on a Wednesday (though the day of work afterward was very tough), and it’s definitely not an issue of us not being excited about it. Honestly I can’t tell you why for sure, maybe it’s because we’re finally getting a bit more mature (or lazy).

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: expectations, movie, revenge of the fallen, transformers 2

Inq. of the Week: Quinto vs. Quinto

June 22, 2009 by Bartoneus

A while back, over two years ago it seems, we had an epic showdown Inquisition between Ian McKellen and Ian McKellen…errr, I mean between Gandalf the White and Magneto! The mysterious White Wizard ending up kicking considerable ass in the poll, but it generated some interesting debate about who would actually win in a fight.

Filed Under: Featured, Humor, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Television Tagged With: fight, gabriel gray, heroes, Inquisition of the Week, star trek, sylar, young spock, zachary quinto

YouTube Tuesday: In Brightest Day, and Blackest Pony Edition

May 26, 2009 by Dave

Two fake trailers for existing properties: above, the My Little Pony movie trailer that takes a different tact than you might expect, and below, a Green Lantern trailer thatputs the emerald ring on the capable hands of Nathan Fillon.

Filed Under: Comics, Humor, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, YouTube Tuesday

Marvel’s X-Men Movie Mistakes

May 22, 2009 by Bartoneus

Stemming from some of the comments on Darth Cthulhu’s ‘controversial’ Star Trek post, I started thinking about the first X-Men movie and its relation to the rest of the franchise now that X-Men Origins: Wolverine is out.  One commentor related the first X-Men movie, Ironman, and the first Spiderman to Star Trek as examples that […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Movies Tagged With: Comics, critique, marvel, Movies, x-men

The Contrary Opinion – J.J. Abram’s Star Trek (With Spoilers!)

May 18, 2009 by DarthCthulhu

If one takes the glowing reviews of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek as a representative sample of the populace, most people love this movie. I am not most people.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Fascinating, Captain

May 14, 2009 by Dave

As I sat watching Star Trek on Sunday, I was struck with a strong (but familiar) thought: “damn, I really want to run a campaign set in this. ”  About 4 years back now, I tried starting up a Star Trek campaign using d20 Modern/d20 Future and a few house rules (mainly for playable races). I […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Movies, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: star trek

Inq. of the Week: The Stars Are Trekkin’

May 11, 2009 by Dave

Over the weekend, I caught the newest entry in the battle between Star Wars and Star Trek, as the Federation Strikes Back with the new update, featuring a rebooted franchise and cast (with one exception). I was not alone in this, as many showings were sold out as everyone and their mother (literally) sought out the new adventures of Kirk and Spock. Thus, for all you new and old Trek fans alike, to balance the scales of last week, I present to you the following query…

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television Tagged With: star trek

YouTube Tuesday: The Preciousss Edition

May 5, 2009 by Dave

Above is the trailer for The Hunt for Gollum, a 40 minute fan-made prequel to the Lord of the Rings movies, and it looks pretty darn good. If you like the trailer, you can watch the full thing only online. I haven’t gotten a chance to see the whole thing through myself, but I can’t […]

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: gollum, lord of the rings, rangers, smeagul is your friend, strider is a badass

Inq. of the Week: The Stars are Warring?

May 4, 2009 by Bartoneus

It happens to be May the 4th, and a Monday, so I couldn’t let this go by without doing a Star Wars based inquisition of the week. With what could possibly be one of the corniest geek habits of using dates to make inside jokes, “May the 4th be with you” is apparently something that isn’t going away anytime soon. It occured to me that we have never done a poll about the Star Wars movies, which I am correcting today.

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

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