Guillermo del Toro Gives The Simpson a Fitting Horror Tribute
Our favorite director/monster designer, Guillermo del Toro, graced us with this year’s intro to this year’s “Treehouse of Horror.” The Simpsons have enjoyable couch gags, but with their Halloween episode it’s brought to a whole new game. And seriously del Toro just sprinkles enough of his own work as well as homages to great horror movies in the intro.
Honestly, if the episode is as good as this then it may become one of my favorite episodes.
Look past the jump for the video… IF YOU DARE!
CYaN Podcast Episode 75: Bad Jokes & Worse Segues
A brand new week means a brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. On this episode; Danny and Ricky talk about the major Valve news, other video games topics and two of our favorite pilots this week.
Game Show Night at PAX Prime 2013
I know I’m late with this video, but it’s still good.
Ricky and I along with my friend JJ and some friends we made in the line for the panel were lucky enough and picked to play as part of Game Show Night at PAX Prime this year. The game we played was Family Feud, just like the TV show. The basic rules are that random people are given several questions and we would have to figure out which answers would give us the most points.
Head past the jump to watch as we try our best to guess what the general audience voted for.
CYaN Podcast Episode 74: Fall TV Special
A day late but not a dollar short in this brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. On this week’s show; Danny and Ricky talk about some of the Fall TV shows that we are looking forward to (some of which are airing this week!).
“Animate” Loot Crate Unboxing
The “Animate” Loot Crate dropped on my doorstep the other day, filled with goodies to play with.
Leap past the jump to watch the video of the unboxing.
Do Toys and Batman Ruin Female Super Hero Movies?
A little while back, I had a conversation with some friends about comic book movies. It stemmed from Iron Man airing on TV; which led to someone mentioning how much they disliked Pepper’s portrayal in Iron Man 3 as the “damsel in distress” until the climax of the film. They argued that the movie fails to optimize her character in lieu of a trope, but let’s put aside the fact that Pepper has almost always been an ancillary character.
The conversation then moved on to “Why are there no comic book movies featuring a female heroes?”
Where am I going with this? Well, with recent news that Katee Sackhoff may play a major role in an upcoming Marvel Studios film (which is hopefully as Captain Marvel); I thought I would give my thoughts as why there have been no successful comic book movies featuring a female hero and how the sales of toys and success of Batman hinders a movie coming out.
Fly past the jump to read what I have to say. [Warning: I’m going to be wordy.]
Review: Don Jon
I haven’t done one of these in a while; but I could not pass up sharing what I thought about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s feature length writing/directorial debut. Not to mention it is the first film to come out from HitRecord, which is the production lovechild of JGL. Natalia and I went to a screening last night and here are my thoughts on the movie.
Click past the jump to read the review.
CYaN Podcast Episode 73: Cock Crap
It’s a brand new week and a brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. This episode; Danny and Ricky talk about Pokemon, Legend of Korra, some trailers and other news. Give it a listen.
CYaN Podcast Episode 72: Innocent Racism
I swear it’s not as bad as it sounds! We have a brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. After the PAX special; we slow down on the video game talk and get into other things that have lingered especially some movie news and the two big events from the Big Two in comics.
CYaN Podcast Episode 71: PAX Prime ’13 Special
Well, this week’s podcast was a little late but we had a good reason! We were at PAX Prime in Seattle and had a lot of fun. Listen as we talk about some of the games we played this past weekend.
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