With people wildly predicting a $200m weekend, a $1 billion gross, Oscars, and giving it four/five star reviews all over the place, I think it’s safe to say that The Dark Knight is officially the most overhyped and already overrated film of the year, which has to be some kind of record. Kudos to the [...]
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Got to say, I really like the simplicity of this. Feels almost…classy? Regal?
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Looks like Mr. Whedon and crew might have accidentally-by-design taught Hollywood a little lesson this week. Per the Chicago Sun-Times:
The first act in the 40-minute, 3-part musical premiered today and proved to be so popular, the official Web site (www.drhorrible.com) crashed due to the traffic (it’s subsequently been restored).
Act Two premieres Thursday and the final [...]
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On the one hand, I can kind of understand how parents might misconstrue the Black Canary costumed Barbie there as being some kind of S&M outfitted dominatrix. On the other, Black Canary is one of the super heroes I’ve been actively trying to teach my daughter to recognize by sight, and really, this outfit is [...]
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One of the most aggressively (and successfully) online marketed films in recent memory has to be Frank Miller’s The Spirit, which bows in theaters this Christmas and is sure to consternate Will Eisner die hards everywhere.
Either way, the movie has a spiffy new website that includes a whole bunch of goodies, including a somewhat random [...]
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The Wii (and the 360 and the PS3) gets all the press, but is Nintendo’s DS technically the most successful system of all time? I have no idea of the numbers, but tellingly, it sounds like most of Nintendo’s big announcements at E3 had more to do with the DS than the Wii.
The DS’s sales [...]
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E3, the video game mega-conference, has returned. (You can always tell it’s E3 by the sound of disappointed fanboys everywhere, who look forward to this thing for months on end, and then get angry when the show inevitably does not meet their expectations.)
Anyways, I watched all the console makers’ press events so you [...]
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