Here are the official show notes for Episode 109 - The Pupils Need Some Cukes.
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Episode 108 Notes
Here are the official show notes for Episode 108 - A Million Ways To Penpal in the West.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Geek News You Should Know: 5/29/14
I am proud to say that this little website of mine has crossed 10,000 page views and just want to thank everyone for checking out. Hopefully you enjoy coming here and checking out the stuff I've been writing. And on that note, how about some geek news?
1) It seems like every time I push the publish button on article recently, the days biggest news story breaks and then I have to cover it in the next days news. Last night it broke that Hulu might have some interest in bringing Community over to it's platform for a sixth season. Hulu has wanted to expand it's original television programming and much like Netflix did with Arrested Development, this would be a great way to make an impact on that landscape. Dan Harmon sounded like he was done with the show but hopefully a deal can be worked out as more Community would be a fantastic thing.
2) In reboot news, it was announced that they are planning a remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone mountain climbing movie Cliffhanger. Also, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who are currently working on the Independence Day sequels which they are saying will shoot back-to-back, are also planning to reboot the franchise that started their careers Stargate. While Stargate only had one money, it spawned multiple TV series, no word on if anything previous will be considered canon but many think this will be a clean refresh of the Stargate-verse.
3) James Cameron is teaming up with Cirque Du Soleil to bring a Live Avator tour that will debut in late 2015 which means it'll start before the three Avatar sequels are released in theaters. Sounds like an interesting and unique way to experience Avatar if you are a fan of the movie and/or Cirque Du Soleil.
4) A trailer was released for the movie What If, which is a romantic comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe and Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan, who are a couple that are basically perfect for each other, except for the fact she already has a boyfriend. While, it's looks a little stereotypical romantic comedy I'm all in. Check out the trailer below.
5) In probably the strangest news in a while, Marilyn Manson will be appearing in the final season of Sons of Anarchy this fall in a recurring role as prison-yard white supremacist. I'm sure he'll be fine on the show, just seems a little out of left field for the casting considering he doesn't have a lot of acting experience.
1) It seems like every time I push the publish button on article recently, the days biggest news story breaks and then I have to cover it in the next days news. Last night it broke that Hulu might have some interest in bringing Community over to it's platform for a sixth season. Hulu has wanted to expand it's original television programming and much like Netflix did with Arrested Development, this would be a great way to make an impact on that landscape. Dan Harmon sounded like he was done with the show but hopefully a deal can be worked out as more Community would be a fantastic thing.
2) In reboot news, it was announced that they are planning a remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone mountain climbing movie Cliffhanger. Also, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who are currently working on the Independence Day sequels which they are saying will shoot back-to-back, are also planning to reboot the franchise that started their careers Stargate. While Stargate only had one money, it spawned multiple TV series, no word on if anything previous will be considered canon but many think this will be a clean refresh of the Stargate-verse.
3) James Cameron is teaming up with Cirque Du Soleil to bring a Live Avator tour that will debut in late 2015 which means it'll start before the three Avatar sequels are released in theaters. Sounds like an interesting and unique way to experience Avatar if you are a fan of the movie and/or Cirque Du Soleil.
4) A trailer was released for the movie What If, which is a romantic comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe and Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan, who are a couple that are basically perfect for each other, except for the fact she already has a boyfriend. While, it's looks a little stereotypical romantic comedy I'm all in. Check out the trailer below.
5) In probably the strangest news in a while, Marilyn Manson will be appearing in the final season of Sons of Anarchy this fall in a recurring role as prison-yard white supremacist. I'm sure he'll be fine on the show, just seems a little out of left field for the casting considering he doesn't have a lot of acting experience.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Geek News You Should Know: 5/28/14
1) We have a Daredevil. British born actor Charlie Cox will be playing the blind lawyer from Hell's Kitchen in the upcoming Netflix series that takes place in the official Marvel cinematic universe. Charlie Cox is probably most commonly associated with playing Owen Slater on Boardwalk Empire, but has also been in Downton Abbey as well as the movie Stardust. It was announced over the weekend that executive producer Drew Goddard was stepping down from the show and being replaced by Steven S. DeKnight.
2) Team Unicorn is Adult Swim's newest show and is a hybrid cartoon/live action show being produced by Robot Chicken's Matthew Senreich and Seth Green, with Green directing the pilot. Team Unicorn is like Sailor Moon meets The Powerpuff Girls and will star Clare Grant (Seth Green's wife), Rileah Vanderbilt, Milynn Sarley, and former Attack of the Show host Alison Haislip. Meanwhile, Jane Lynch will voice the villain on the show, Alan Tudyk voices her sidekick, and Tara Strong will voice Billy, who has the power to summon Team Unicorn. This should be an interesting show and sounds like it would be right up Anthony's alley. Here's a picture of the cast.
3) Earth to Echo is a really cool looking family movie coming out this summer about an ET-like robot creature that lands on Earth and meets some kids. A new trailer was released today and just sells this movie even more. Can't wait to check this out when it is released July 2.
4) After weeks of rumors, Apple officially announced that it will be buying the Beats brand for $3 billion and co-founders Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop legend Dr. Dre will be joining Apple in some capacity. Apple claims that it will be keeping the Beats brand alive and keep releasing their headphones and speakers, but will also integrate the Beats brand into their own products down the road.
5) Take a look, it's on Kickstarter, it's Reading Rainbow! Lavar Burton plans to revisit Reading Rainbow and distribute it to classrooms all across the country and is looking for you to help him. He has set a somewhat lofty goal of $1 million dollars and is amazingly only about $30,000 away from reaching it at the time this is being written. It's a really cool idea to spark interest in reading for children. The plan is to make an online reading experience that will extend to apps and reach children in home and in the classroom. You can check out the Kickstarter here and view the video below.
2) Team Unicorn is Adult Swim's newest show and is a hybrid cartoon/live action show being produced by Robot Chicken's Matthew Senreich and Seth Green, with Green directing the pilot. Team Unicorn is like Sailor Moon meets The Powerpuff Girls and will star Clare Grant (Seth Green's wife), Rileah Vanderbilt, Milynn Sarley, and former Attack of the Show host Alison Haislip. Meanwhile, Jane Lynch will voice the villain on the show, Alan Tudyk voices her sidekick, and Tara Strong will voice Billy, who has the power to summon Team Unicorn. This should be an interesting show and sounds like it would be right up Anthony's alley. Here's a picture of the cast.
3) Earth to Echo is a really cool looking family movie coming out this summer about an ET-like robot creature that lands on Earth and meets some kids. A new trailer was released today and just sells this movie even more. Can't wait to check this out when it is released July 2.
4) After weeks of rumors, Apple officially announced that it will be buying the Beats brand for $3 billion and co-founders Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop legend Dr. Dre will be joining Apple in some capacity. Apple claims that it will be keeping the Beats brand alive and keep releasing their headphones and speakers, but will also integrate the Beats brand into their own products down the road.
5) Take a look, it's on Kickstarter, it's Reading Rainbow! Lavar Burton plans to revisit Reading Rainbow and distribute it to classrooms all across the country and is looking for you to help him. He has set a somewhat lofty goal of $1 million dollars and is amazingly only about $30,000 away from reaching it at the time this is being written. It's a really cool idea to spark interest in reading for children. The plan is to make an online reading experience that will extend to apps and reach children in home and in the classroom. You can check out the Kickstarter here and view the video below.
Movie Reviews: 5/28/14
3 Days to Kill is the most recent in a seemingly endless string of movies co-written by Luc Besson, seriously it seems like he has at least 11 of these movies every year. In this action-thriller Kevin Costner is a retired spy who tries to reconnect with his family but needs to take one last job to have access to an experimental drug that could save his life. This is not a bad movie and something that I could easily see having a good cable audience. This tries to be The Professional with the father-daughter relationship but it just never comes close to touching those levels in story telling.
2 Estranged Father-Daughter Relationships Out of 5
Pompeii is easily the most head scratching movie of the year so far. It's a love story inside of a Gladiator-style movie, inside of a disaster movie. Nothing seems to really click and at the end of the day, I didn't really feel anything for any characters when they all meet their demise. Is that a spoiler? The entire premise of the movie is a giant volcano that murders everyone so I don't think so, but expect about as happy of an ending as a movie like this can have. Kiefer Sutherland is in this movie and as much as I like Jack Bauer, he should not have been cast in this as he felt completely out of place. I'm not sure what audience this was going for, there's too much violence and death for this to be a chick flick, and I'm not sure it'll ever find much of one because it's just not a very good movie.
1 Ancient Civilization Destroyed By a Volcano Out of 5
Vampire Academy sadly is just not a very good movie. This movie is like if Twilight took place inside of Mean Girls, but unfortunately just never really clicks. It's not funny/clever enough to really make a lasting impression and the teenage vampire love story seems a little tired at this point. The acting performances weren't all bad as I thought Zoey Duetch carried this movie, but her co-star Lucy Fry just never seemed anything other than bland.
1.5 Half Human-Half Vampire Races Out of 5
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Geek News You Should Know: 5/27/14
Not a lot of news over this Memorial Day Weekend, so sorry for the updates. Covered most of the weekend news on Episode 107 of the podcast, so if you haven't listened to that, you really should.
1) X-Men: Days of Future Past looked on pace of breaking $100 million domestically this weekend (which has yet to be done in 2014) but fell short bringing in $91.4 million, although it did hit $111 million including Monday. This was the fifth-largest opening ever on Memorial Day weekend behind Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Indiana Jones 4, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Fast & Furious 6. Meanwhile, Blended flustered a bit this weekend bringing in only a little over $14 million. Here are the official 4-day Memorial Day Weekend Box Office numbers courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com.
2) While it was largely just an Internet rumor, it seems as though Alfonso Cuaron will not be directing Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, as he is burned out on big visual effects for the time being and needs a break.
3) The new game for PS3, PS4, X-Box 360, and X-Box One Watch Dogs hit store shelves at midnight tonight and looks pretty awesome. If I wasn't blowing my video game budget on Mario Kart 8 this week, I would definitely consider picking this up. Recently, Conan featured this game on his Clueless Gamer segment on his show and it was hilarious per usual. Check it out below.
4) Nia Vardalos is looking to spray a little Windex on her career as she has written a sequel to her 2002 independent smash-hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The sequel will be based on her experiences with motherhood and John Corbett will be coming back as her husband. I hope this can recreate the magic the first movie possessed.
5) In addition to the news that season 2 of True Detective will take place in California and feature 3 lead characters, there was a trailer sent to our attention by listener Erica for Nicolas Sparks' Lifetime Backdoor Pilot, Deliverance Creek. The two-hour movie, that could lead to a series, is Nicholas Sparks' first foray into television stars Lauren Ambrose as a Civil War era widow who has to protect her children at any cost.
1) X-Men: Days of Future Past looked on pace of breaking $100 million domestically this weekend (which has yet to be done in 2014) but fell short bringing in $91.4 million, although it did hit $111 million including Monday. This was the fifth-largest opening ever on Memorial Day weekend behind Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Indiana Jones 4, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Fast & Furious 6. Meanwhile, Blended flustered a bit this weekend bringing in only a little over $14 million. Here are the official 4-day Memorial Day Weekend Box Office numbers courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo.com.
| 1 | N | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Fox | $110,576,604 | - | 3,996 | - | $27,672 | $110,576,604 | $200 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Godzilla (2014) | WB | $38,437,298 | -58.8% | 3,952 | - | $9,726 | $155,785,665 | $160 | 2 |
| 3 | N | Blended | WB | $17,735,205 | - | 3,555 | - | $4,989 | $17,735,205 | $40 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | Neighbors | Uni. | $17,123,730 | -31.7% | 3,266 | -45 | $5,243 | $116,803,595 | $18 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Sony | $10,010,639 | -40.4% | 3,160 | -831 | $3,168 | $187,111,831 | - | 4 |
| 6 | 4 | Million Dollar Arm | BV | $9,168,641 | -12.8% | 3,019 | - | $3,037 | $22,703,446 | $25 | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | The Other Woman (2014) | Fox | $4,505,727 | -28.6% | 2,154 | -900 | $2,092 | $78,604,149 | $40 | 5 |
| 8 | 7 | Rio 2 | Fox | $3,410,700 | -8.8% | 1,701 | -670 | $2,005 | $122,508,740 | $103 | 7 |
| 9 | 15 | Chef | ORF | $2,975,784 | +319.9% | 498 | +426 | $5,975 | $4,264,085 | - | 3 |
| 10 | 6 | Heaven is for Real | TriS | $2,790,006 | -36.3% | 1,720 | -1,173 | $1,622 | $86,590,084 | $12 | 6 |
3) The new game for PS3, PS4, X-Box 360, and X-Box One Watch Dogs hit store shelves at midnight tonight and looks pretty awesome. If I wasn't blowing my video game budget on Mario Kart 8 this week, I would definitely consider picking this up. Recently, Conan featured this game on his Clueless Gamer segment on his show and it was hilarious per usual. Check it out below.
4) Nia Vardalos is looking to spray a little Windex on her career as she has written a sequel to her 2002 independent smash-hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The sequel will be based on her experiences with motherhood and John Corbett will be coming back as her husband. I hope this can recreate the magic the first movie possessed.
5) In addition to the news that season 2 of True Detective will take place in California and feature 3 lead characters, there was a trailer sent to our attention by listener Erica for Nicolas Sparks' Lifetime Backdoor Pilot, Deliverance Creek. The two-hour movie, that could lead to a series, is Nicholas Sparks' first foray into television stars Lauren Ambrose as a Civil War era widow who has to protect her children at any cost.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
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