September 25, 2008 – 11:00 am
Cthulhu Tales is a Lovecraft-inspired anthology comic series published by Boom! Studios. Each issue presents dark tales of the Elder Gods and other creepy, tentacled menaces from beyond. The newest issue hit this week, and here’s my review.
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September 23, 2008 – 10:58 am
With the start of Heroes’ third season being such a big topic this week, we’re running not one but two reviews. Here’s a second take (again, with spoilers), this time from John, on the first two hours of Heroes: Villains.
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September 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Heroes S03E01 and E02: The Second Coming / The Butterfly Effect
The third season of Heroes has begun, and I have a need to pour out my reactions while they’re fresh. Celeste and I will be discussing the two-hour premiere in next Monday’s podcast, but here are my thoughts immediately after watching, and they’re spoiler heavy.
With so many things happening to so many characters, the only way I can really cover it all is to break it up by characters or character sets.
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September 22, 2008 – 8:30 am
X-Men Legacy #216
Writer: Mike Carey
Pencils: Phil Briones
Inks: Scott Hanna
The newest issue of X-Men Legacy hits stores this Wednesday, and here’s an advance review (with spoilers) of what happens when Emma Frost takes a stroll through Professor X’s cranium
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September 18, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Daredevil #111
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Pencils: Clay Mann
Inks: Stefano Gaudiano
I was able to get my hands on a copy of the newest Daredevil a week early. Here’s my review, with spoilers, of the first issue in the Lady Bullseye arc.
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September 17, 2008 – 11:00 am
Zombie Tales is an anthology comic series published by Boom! Studios that gives us brief looks into the lives and unlives of people living and dying in the time of the zombie apocalypse. The newest issue, Zombie Tales #5, is in stores this week, and here’s a look at the three tales it offers.
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September 15, 2008 – 11:00 am
Burn After Reading
Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, J.K. Simmons, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt
Written and Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen
SYNOPSIS: A burned out CIA Analyst, Osborne Cox (Malkovich), quits the agency and opts to drown his sorrows in booze while writing his memoirs. When Cox’s wife Katie (Swinton) conspires to leave her husband for Harry Pfarrer (Clooney), she digs up dirt on her husband for her divorce lawyer by saving it on a CD along with Osborne’s memoirs. Through a seemingly ridiculous set of circumstances the memoirs end up in the hands of Chad and Linda (Pitt and McDormand), a pair of gym employees of questionable intelligence who attempt to make a profit from Osborne’s memoirs. What transpires next is a chain of events so confusing and bizarre that even the CIA can’t even figure out what’s going on!
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September 9, 2008 – 8:30 am
Back in July, I posted a review of the Too Human demo that released onto the XBox Live Marketplace. The game failed to impress me, and I had no real intention of playing the final version. As luck would have it, I forgot to remove the game from my GameFly queue, so it ended up arriving at my house anyway. So, after playing the final version, is it any better than I predicted, based on the demo?
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September 8, 2008 – 11:06 am
A few weeks back you stood in awe as The Cinema Doctor examined the ailing Aeon Flux. Now he’s back with a far more difficult case. This time he dares to stare into the terrifying faces of 20th Century Fox, Sean Connery, and Alan Moore as The Cinema Doctor examines his latest patient.
TODAY’S PATIENT:
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September 5, 2008 – 11:00 am
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
From: Lakeshore Records
By now it’s common knowledge that one of the essential components of any film, be it action, comedy, horror, et cetera, is the score. It’s the composer’s duty to set music to a film which will make the emotional impact of each scene all the more rich and poignant. When a motion picture score is lauded, it’s usually the score for some epic adventure or sweeping romance. It’s actually quite seldom that the score for a comedy has quite the same impact. It’s with that in mind that we now direct our attention to the original motion picture score for Ben Stiller’s savagely funny Hollywood satire, Tropic Thunder.
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