The final Dark Knight trailer is here, and so is the next Bat-Villain!

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Warner Brothers has released the second and final trailer for its summer smash hit sequel, The Dark Knight. I must say, it makes me excited and sad at the same time. Excited to see the film, but saddened to know that Heath Ledger is no longer with us. However, there is still a laundry list of villains in the Dark Knight’s rogues gallery. In much the same vein as the last film, the ending to this film will bring us Batman’s newest foe. If you want to be surprised, then I suggest you read no further. Otherwise, click the link below to see the next villain!

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Rest in Peace Jeff Healey

jeffhealey.jpgJeff Healey passed away March 2nd, succmmbing to cancer. He was 41. The Toronto native was known around the world as a first class blues and jazz musician, making a name for himself as The Jeff Healey Band. The band released their first album, See The Light, in 1988. The masses got their first look at Jeff as “Cody” in The 1989 cult classic Road House, starring Patrick Swayze. Healey’s story is one of triumph over tragedy. After losing his eyes at the age of eight months to cancer, Jeff took up the guitar at the age of three. Jeff’s unique style of playing (sitting the guitar on his lap flat) and bluesy tones developed from his love of musicians like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, as well as the great Stevie Ray Vaughn. He had the chance to play with Vaughn on several occasions before his death. His band enjoyed a strong and loyal fan base for his entire career. In recent years, Healey turned to playing classic jazz, incorporating the trumpet into his repertoire. Jeff Healey’s final battle with cancer began in January of 2007, after having tumors removed from his legs. His last album, Mess of Blues, will be released next month. It is his first rock album in eight years. His death serves as tragic irony, as close friend and Road House co-star Patrick Swayze announced this week that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Swayze says that his prognosis is good, and plans to fight it every step of the way. Rest in peace, Jeff. Get well, Patrick.

Review: Cloverfield

film_cloverfieldRelease: January 18, 2008
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Written by: Drew Goddard
Genre: Action/Horror/Monster
Rated: PG-13
Country: USA

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I managed to know very little about Cloverfield before it was released. The few bits of information regarding the movie that I had picked up previous to viewing it yesterday were as follows.

1. It has a monster in it. The monster is mysterious. It smacks the head off the Statue of Liberty and into the streets of Manhattan.

2. There are littler monsters. They look like the bugs in Starship Troopers.

3. Something about “Slusho!”.

4. Twenty-somethings at a party. Handheld camera. Possibility of motion sickness.

I assumed that keeping myself in the dark as far as the vast viral marketing campaign unfolded might make the movie more fun for me. The less I know going into a movie of the sort that Cloverfield looked to be, usually the better. If you feel the same way and have yet to see the movie, stop now. Everyone else…here’s what the movie is about.

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I killed Heath Ledger

heath_ledger_dead.jpgI feel it’s probably my fault that Heath Ledger is dead. I’ve always maintained that his best work had yet to arrive. Once it was announced that Ledger would be the new Joker people balked, but I clearly saw the potential of a stellar performance. Once the first images of the Joker and the first The Dark Knight teaser hit the theaters it was clear that Ledger was the Joker and Nicholson was merely a place holder. Today, January 22nd, 2008 Heath Ledger was found dead. Probably and an overdose, definitely a calamity in regards to what he could have brought to movies. The Dark Knight is now just a little bit darker. Which in some bizarre way is my fault as anything I’ve remotely liked typically stumbles into an early grave. Firefly, Quantum Leap, Arrested Development, Greg The Bunny, Futurama, The George Lopez show, The Tick and so on… However, in this case the chance of direct to DVD release will hardly fix the situation.

Either way, I’ll miss the guy. 28 years old is too young to appear in an obituary.

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Product Review: Oppo DV-980H 1080p Upconvert DVD Player

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As someone with no real need for a Blu-ray or HD-DVD player at the moment, I was looking for the best upconvert DVD player I could find for the money. I purchased the Oppo at Amazon for $170 and have now tried it for a week.

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HD DVD going the way of Betamax? Has Blu-ray won the format war?

bluray.jpgWarner Bros. studios have announced that they are officially backing the Blu-ray DVD format for their future releases. With Disney solidly in their corner, and New Line following suit, it is looking more and more like Blu-ray is here to stay. “A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry,” announced Warner president Kevin Tsujihara. Unless Toshiba and Microsoft come to some sort of deal, it looks like their HD DVD brand might be phased out altogether.

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Review: Hotel Dusk: Room 215

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Developer/
Publisher: Cing
Genre: Adventure, Detective
Players: 1
Rating: Teen
Release Date: 01/22/2007

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Kyle Hyde, a disgraced New York detective turned salesman, arrives at a run-down Los Angeles inn called Hotel Dusk. Once there, Kyle soon becomes involved in a 30-year-old mystery that involves lies, betrayal, kidnapping, and murder. And over the course of the night, he will also discover something very special about Room 215, a room that is said to grant wishes. But who is Kyle Hyde? Why does his past haunt him? And what happened in Room 215? Only by taking a stylus in hand and navigating through the story’s twists and turns can you learn the answers.

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Smile, there’s a new Dark Knight trailer!

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Warner Brothers has released the newest Dark Knight trailer online. I must say that I am really liking what I am seeing so far. I was slightly skeptical with the casting of Heath Ledger as The Joker, but this trailer leads me to believe that he may be the right man for the job after all. His manic nature, cruel expression, emaciated appearance, and drooling lunacy are drawing me in.

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Print is dead, thanks to Kindle

kindle.JPGAmazon.com has taken the next step to making the printed page obsolete. Their new device, called Kindle, is a portable one stop shop and storage unit for the latest bestsellers, magazines, blogs, and newspapers. Kindle is completely wireless, about the size of a dime paperback (weighing in at 10oz), and can store thousands of pages of material. The price of the average wireless novel purchase is $9.99 (more than 50% off the average print bestseller price), and users do not need a computer to run a Kindle. It also has key features such as an MP3 player for some background reading music, search and bookmarking tools, and access to a dictionary and Wikipedia. The device costs $399, and does not require any sign-up for service. It looks like Inspector Gadget was right, because computer books are no longer fiction.

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Grape stomp face plant

Hilarious footage of a TV reporter (on the left) filming a segment about a festival being held at a local vineyard. The woman on the right is explaining the weekend’s events while the two ladies stomp grapes. The TV reporter tries to be cute and cheat, leading to a hysterical accident that sounds even worse than it looks.

Zune Orginals: music for both ears and eyes

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There’s no doubt about it, Microsoft is serious about the Zune. In it’s newest iteration, the Zune has truly become a thing of beauty. From the choice in colours to the design and user interface, everything works harmoniously and artistically. Now couple that with the Zune Originals site, which allows you to customize the aluminum backing of your Zune 4, 8 or 80. For a limited time you can get these customizations for fee with your purchase of a Zune from the Zune Orginals site, meaning that buying sooner saves you cash. View more images and artwork after the break.

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Safe to eat New Jersey Squirrels again

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Good news for folks living in the Garden State, it is once again safe to eat squirrels. Oh sure, there was that nasty scare involving a toxic waste site, squirrels and the fear of lead toxicity, but it was all for naught. It was a false positive caused by a faulty blender used in the testing of squirrel tissue samples. Hunters and urban survivalists (aka homeless people) can once again dine on man’s favourite rat.

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X Files sequel, stat!

thumbnailIt seems the rumors of another X-Files movie have turned up legit. Variety has confirmed that a second film is in the works and will in fact reunite the original flummoxed duo in a storyline unrelated to the main plotline of the show and first film. It sounds like a big-budget episode, which may work pretty well. Thing is…it’s scheduled for release on July 25th, 2008. So, they just finished the script and now they’ve got T-eight months to bang the thing out and get it into theaters? Hrmm…I like my movies like I like my pot roast: put together by loving hands, slow cooked for as long as possible, and served with a side of green beans. This production is distinctly lacking in both the slow cooked and beans categories. Also, how much interest is still out there in another film? Are there enough people out there ready to line up for another outing? Especially one that was put on the ultra-express train to the cineplex? We shall see. Anyway, I personally think Mulder and Scully’s best storyline as already been told.

Street Fighter HD Remix first screen shots

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Despite being work in progress screen shots, the newest images from the Capcom Digital Blog give us the first real look at what the final game will look like. View all the images after the break.

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Dumbledore gets outed by Rowling

dumbledore3.jpgDuring a stop in New York, Harry Potter creator JK Rowling dropped a bombshell on an audience of thousands at the famed Carnegie Hall. Rowling, on her first book tour in America since 2000, shared that beloved Wizard Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, is gay. After a series of gasps and applause, the author revealed that Dumbledore had a crush on rival wizard Gellert Gridelwald, whom he later defeated in a battle between good and evil. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” said Rowling, and the episode left Dumbledore feeling ”horribly, terribly let down.” For years, fans of the series have questioned the sexuality of Dumbledore, as he had no close ties to women with the exception of his sibling-like relationship with professor Minerva McGonnagall. Rowling believes that this revelation will give radical Christian groups more fuel for their campaign against the series, and she is just fine with that.

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Another day, another Dune

Hi, I'm Peter Berg! YOU'RE MINE!When I was 12 years old I picked up a copy of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” because it’s supposed to be “one of the monuments of science fiction” and generally one of the best damn things since sliced pie. I hated it. I hated it because I was 12, and who would win in a fight between the geopolitical ramifications of resource starvation within a galactic economy and a TIE fighter? (hint: it’s the one with the lasers). So, after having tossed the book over my shoulder with a “Pfft, ain’t no F@%&# lasers” at an early age, I picked it back up years later and I loved it. Couldn’t put it down. Funny how that works. It quickly became a favorite of mine, and I truly believe it could make a good movie one day.

The intuitive reader could garner from that last sentence that I’m not a fan of David Lych’s 1984 film adaptation. They’d be right. Way to intuit! Just because a story takes place in a desert setting doesn’t mean that every single thing on the screen needs to be the color of turd. Also, he’s responsible for putting Sting in his underpants and filming it, and that’s not right in any galaxy. I can say all this without fear of being attacked by David Lynch fans because the only person who likes David Lynch’s “Dune” less than me is David Lynch.

Years later, the Sci-Fi channel produced a mini-series based on the book, and although it is technically more accurate in its telling, it’s much more “meh”. It can’t even commit to being awful, and although the story’s closer in it’s details, the acting is blander than Hayden Christensen eating tofu in a white room. It’s definitively mediocre; the Mellow Yellow of sci-fi film adaptations.

So, here we are, 2007, and there are whispers in Hollywood (if you can hear them over the shouts of “Strike!!”) of another possible big screen version being in the works. Seems a director has been interested in the project for quite a while, and since producers have figured that if computers have reset buttons then film franchises must as well, we may get yet another swing at the same story. So who is this mystery director? Who’s the person with the magical film karate to bring this story the cinematic delivery it deserves? That director is…Peter Berg? As in, Peter Winkler Berg, director of Friday Night Lights and that vehicle for The Rock? Really?? If you say so, Hollywood. Admittedly, he also directed Very Bad Things, which I liked a lot, and the newly released The Kingdom, which I haven’t seen, but I just get the feeling this idea may be either a) poor, b) horrible, or c) scorpions-in-your-ass awful. Does he have the chops to make this, or should they even try it again? Sci-fi is a very tricky genre, and things usually end up being either seminal works that triumphantly show the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit, or “The Island”. So, what’s your opinion? Can it be done, or should Hollywood keep their meddling mitts out of Arrakis for good?

Capcom releases Street Fighter IV teaser trailer

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After twenty years, Capcom finally manages to count to four in the classic fighting series Street Fighter. After the break view the teaser trailer and ponder at what it all means. The big question looming, “Will this new iteration bring 2D hand drawn sprites or 3D models to the newest chapter of Ken & Ryu?”

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Free Wii Remote Jackets from Nintendo

wii_remote_jacket_sm.jpgLooking something like a condom crossed with an inflatable raft, the new Wii Remote jacket from Nintendo promises to save you from yourself. Which means, to prevent any possible lawsuits from you idiotically flinging your Wii Remote into your television or grandmother, Nintendo will be offering these new jackets with all Wii units and Wii Remote packages. Early adopters will not be left jacketless as calling 1 (866) 431-8367 or visiting here will get every Wii owner up to 4 free jackets for their currently naked Wii Remotes. Just be sure to have your serial number handy when you order.

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Radiohead new album costs whatever you’d like

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In Rainbows, the new Radiohead album download has the perfect price. It costs whatever you’d like to pay. Pay nothing if that’s what you think is fair. Honestly, Radiohead doesn’t need the money and releasing the album without a record label gives them the flexibility to do what they want. Oh, I’m sure selling as physical collector’s version for $80 will help offset any loss bringing cheap downloads to any and all fans or potential fans out there. After the break get the track listing.

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Cammy in Street Fighter II Remix

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A new update at the Capcom Digital Blog brings us the sexiest soulless doll to ever Frankenstein a world warrior. Dressed in the sharpest pixels that 1080p can provide, our dear Cammy White aka “Killer Bee” has never looked better. Also in the update is Vega M. Bison’s psycho crusher which is nice, but the lack of blonde pigtails makes it a tad less interesting. View the full image after the break.

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