You gotta love the LEGO minifig, even if you never played with LEGO sets as a kid (but who the heck hasn’t). This series is packed with as much fun and excitement as the previous two (although this time around LEGO group wised up and removed the not-so-secret UPC code off the back. The figures [… read more]
No word as to whether or not they will work with popular constructions sets like LEGO or MegaBloks, but one can dream. Major building project for Doctor Who! A new construction toy range has just been unveiled by toy company Character Options that will see the Doctor, Amy Pond and many of their enemies quite [… read more]
Lighter Side of Scifi: Twiki Meets ALF
Foxtrot Xmas Redshirts
Bear McCreary Helps the Nerd Steal Christmas
BEAR MCCREARY HELPS THE NERD STEAL CHRISTMAS ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD’S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL FEATURES ORIGINAL MUSIC BY BEAR MCCREARY (Los Angeles, CA – December 16, 2010) Hot off the airing of the season finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead, film, television and video game composer Bear McCreary’s latest project is a gift to the fans. [… read more]
Machete on DVD and Blu-Ray
Hitting Blu-ray and DVD January 4, 2011 From Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment WARNING: Los Angeles (November 2, 2010) – The out-for-revenge, action-driven MACHETE is ready to serve up some justice with guns blazing and bloody blades slicing. On January 4, 2011 keep an eye out for MACHETE on Blu-ray and DVD courtesy of Twentieth [… read more]
Movie Review: Inception
Think The Matrix. Think Ocean’s Eleven. Think Dreamscape. Think Solaris. Then think again. Inception is all of these and none of these. And more. Much more. With the record-breaking heat and constant humidity, it’s a good thing there are quite a number of good movies to go to this season in the cool, climate-controlled air [… read more]
Movie Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
In a summer full of potential blockbuster films with big stars, big names and big budgets, it’s relieving to find one or two of those films that are actually worth the admission ticket for theater viewing. So far this season this reviewer has seen two of them. Iron Man 2 was one of them. Toy [… read more]
In setting out for my first Wizard World, I had only a vague idea of what to expect – and what I actually found went far beyond my expectations. The Convention Center in Philadelphia was veritably under siege by costumed fans and excited con-goers, with the line in the morning on Saturday stretching almost completely [… read more]
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
This is probably the hardest movie for me to review because of the first two films being so near and dear to my heart. It was five years between one and two and ten years from #2 to now, so the wait has been long and, at times, impatient. I have traveled with the Pixar [… read more]