Kaine‘s past finally catches up with him as the Assassin’s Guild send several of their most skilled killers to Houston to kill the new Scarlet Spider over an old grudge. Kaine, however, has other plans.
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I looks like Regis Philbin has a new game show.
Yes or No Game Show (with Regis Philbin)
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Here’s the first look at Disney’s new animated ten-part Tron inspired animated series which follows the adventures of a computer programmer named Beck (Elijah Wood) who becomes a leader of a revolution in The Grid. Mandy Moore, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Bruce Boxleitner, and Paul Reubens also lend their voices to the project. Set between the events of Tron and Tron: Legacy, Tron: Uprising will premiere on Disney XD in June.
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Shane Glines is a cartoonist and designer from the Pacific NW. Check out more of his work on his blog and in his deviantART gallery.
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After traveling to Moscow only to get screwed out of a lucrative business opportunity Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) run into an attractive American twenty-something (Olivia Thirlby) and her Australian friend (Rachael Taylor) at a swanky Russian bar just hours before the Earth finds itself invaded by aliens seeking to drain all electric conducting minerals from the planet.
The aliens appear as near invisible glowing clouds of light which can instantly burn through and disintegrate matter on contact. The foursome find themselves stuck in the storeroom of the club for days with the Swedish businessman (Joel Kinnaman) who screwed them over. With their rations exhausted finally the five journey out into a world vastly changed from the one they left only a few days before. Can they make it to safety? Will they find a way to fight back? Which ones will die? If only we cared.
Traveling only at night and carrying various elecronic devices which give away the closeness of the aliens, the group attempts to stay alive while crossing the near deserted streets of Moscow where they meet a group of street warriors (Yuriy Kutsenko, Nikolay Efremov, Georgiy Gromov, Artur Smolyaninov), a mad Russian inventor (Dato Bakhtadze) and a teenage girl (Veronika Ozerova).
For a horror movie the film is pretty basic, relying far too much on coincidence and characters continually acting stupid when the movie decides it needs to kill one of them off. Casting well-known young actors with no experience in the genre is an interesting choice, but the script doesn’t give us any real reason to root for them. With forgettable characters and average (at best) stunt sequences and effects, The Darkest Hour doesn’t really have anything to hang its hat on.
The design of the aliens is intriguing, but goes nowhere. They seem like forces of nature just out to destroy, but by giving them a larger plan (which is nearly impossible for them to carry out since they are little more than balls of gas and gears) the story opens up several new plot threads it has no intention of investigating.
Extras include a short film featuring other survivors fight off the aliens, audio commentary by director Chris Gorak, a behind-the-scenes featurette on the film’s special effects, deleted and extended scenes (with optional director commentary).
[Summit Entertainment, Blu-ray $30.49 / 3D Blu-ray $34.99 / DVD $26.99]
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The Flaming Lips and New Fumes have teamed-up for the Heady Fwends Record Store Day with this NSFW video for “Girl, You’re So Weird.”
The Flaming Lips and New Fumes – Girl, You’re So Weird
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Ashley Judd, Michelle Trachtenberg, Katy Mixon, and Eliza Coupe weigh in on Rick Santorum Aborting his Presidential Campaign.
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While reeling from the news of Marshall (Frederick Weller) and Abigail’s (Rachel Boston) engagement, the attentions of a handsome single dad (Josh Hopkins), and the unexpected return of Raphael (Cristián de la Fuente) and his new wife (Vanessa Lee Evigan) to town, Mary (Mary McCormack) takes on her newest witness – a drag queen (Robert Sella) whose unwillingness to give up his stage persona is likely to get him killed.
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Sideshow Collectibles is putting out a new Luke Skywalker (Bespin Outfit) figure complete with lightsabers, blaster pistols, interchangeable “battle damaged” clothes, head, and limbs (including a “interchangeable severed right forearm stump”), and the Darth Vader head from the cave on Dagobah. It’s still pretty pricey at $300, but it looks like you’re getting your money’s worth here. Buy me one you should.
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Written and directed by Johannes Hartmann Halbschlaf centers around a young couple (Nils Althaus, Nina Buehlmann) returned home having one last drink before reality starts to fall apart.
Halbschlaf from Decoy Collective on Vimeo.
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