Free Comic Book Day – Loot!
Free Comic Book Day / California Bookstore Day has come and gone and I must say we made out like bandits. The bookish awesome kind of bandits anyway. This year the CYaN staff took it to the next level and hit up independent bookstores and the local library sale to celebrate. As you can see from the picture the selection is pretty varied. (click on the links to see what was available and more info on what we got).
Click the jump to see what my favorite pieces this year were: Read More…
The Amazing Spider-Man Review…2
SPIDER-MAN 2 REVIEW
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of the most anticipated movies of the year and last night, this lucky girl got to watch it on a big-ass IMAX screen.
Spider-Whats-it? You’ve been living under a rock? Oh, lemme give you a quick summary.
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is Spider-man, a masked hero that uses his new abilities to save the city from villains. He lives with his Aunt May who is his only living family. He has a girlfriend, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), who knows his identity and understands the sacrifice that comes along with being a vigilante. She lost her father in the last movie during the climactic villain fight scene. Her father was the police chief and a big deal because her father put the kibosh on Gwen dating Peter because he knew that he was Spider-man (Spider-man is really bad at keeping his identity a secret).
Peter Parker’s life is just as busy as Spider-Man’s because other than normal post-high school living, he spends his time trying to unravel what caused his parent’s deaths. In the last film it was revealed that his father worked at Oscorp and developed some genetic tech that caused the transformation of Peter into Spider-Man. His father had a formula that would have taken the research to the next level and it cost him and his wife their lives.
In this installment of the Spider-man story, we meet new and exciting villains as well as important people in Peter Parker’s life. Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) comes into play as Peter’s friend and perhaps Spider-man’s next villain? *Cough Green Goblin Cough* (Not a spoiler, it says it right on IMDB).
If you have watched the trailer you must have seen the main villain of the movie Electro (Jamie Foxx). Jamie Foxx plays an insecure / delusional electrical engineer named Max Dillon. He suffers an accident and his body is negatively altered causing him to be reborn as the Super-villain Electro.
Will Peter Parker be able to juggle a normal life, a girlfriend, researching his parent’s work, AND his Spider-Man duties? Go to theatres this weekend to find out! Click the trailer to get pumped, then come back and click the jump to see what I thought of the latest from the Amazing Spider-Man….2.
My SPOILER-FREE review after the jump…
Sinister Six Revealed in Amazing Spider-Man 2 Theme Song
Sony apparently had the “smart” idea of teaming up with Shazam, the mobile app that tells you the artist and title of a song, to bring a true end credits scene to Amazing Spider-Man 2; releasing this Friday.
I’m not one to support pulling out a phone during a movie but the fine people at ComingSoon had a truly smart idea.
Swing past the jump to find out what I’m talking about.
Star Wars Episode VII’s Cast Officially Annouced
First they’ve dropped a photo then StarWars.com reveals the names to the actors present at the cast read-through.
Can you figure our who’s there?
Blast your way past the jump to find out.
CYaN Podcast Episode 105: Where DID the Soda Go?
We’re losing our minds on this new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. This week; we talk about a few game trailers, comic book news from C2E2, and a few more tangents and non sequiturs.
Truly Outrageous
If this happens I think I will forgive the universe for trashing my childhood through reboots.
Gone Girl – Book to Movie
Gillian Flynn really pulled out all the stops when she wrote Gone Girl. It is a story of a husband who is publicly accused of murdering his missing wife. There is more to the story, but it is worth a read and the small details really add to the suspense of the overall story.
The movie is rumored to deviate from the novel which for many of the fans is important. For the non-readers out there here is the trailer for the motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as main characters Nick and Amy Dunne. For those of you who have already read it stick around after the jump. Let’s discuss the mixed feeling we have.
Thar be spoilers ahead.
CYaN Podcast Episode 104: Ricky Needs to Let It Go
Happy Easter/Four Twenty, whichever is your preference. On this week’s episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast; we talk about comic book news, Days of Future Past trailer, Hearthstone, and other musings.
CYaN Podcast Episode 103: Drawing a Blank
Danny and Ricky bring you a brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast; where we talk about TV shows, movies, games and some other nonsense.
CYaN Podcast Episode 102: 90% of the Time I’m Always Right
No April Fool’s joke, we have a brand new episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd Podcast. This week; we talk about trailers, Raid 2 and Captain America The Winter Soldier.
Call Yourself A Nerd 