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Month: April 2011

Giveaway: The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes – Volumes 1 & 2 on DVD! (Giveaway Ended)


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AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!


Marvel’s newest animated series, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, is arriving on DVD with TWO new releases!

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ComicsOnline’s Summer Movie Preview (Part 1)

Hammer! Hammer! Hammer!
 
by Gema Luna, Reporter & Reviewer
 
The beginning of the end is near. The end of laughter, tears, back pains due to sitting in concrete for hours on end, not to mention the waiting and more waiting. The end of everything we have been waiting on for days, months, even years, has finally arrived. The summer-mega-blockbusters that we have been waiting for have finally arrived.
 
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Blu-ray Review: Tron 2-Movie Collection


T’nod tegrof ruoy ytitnedi csid!

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

Greetings, programs! The original Tron has been hard to come by lately, but now it’s back in Blu-ray format alongside Tron Legacy in the Tron 5-Disc 2-Movie Collection!


TRON


“Won’t that be grand? The computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” -Dr Walter Gibbs

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Blu-ray Review: Benny & Joon


Thanks for the couch. Um… Mike made me sleep under the sink.

By Caleb Paullus

Not being a Johnny Depp fan – oh who am I kidding, Depp is a dreamboat, even when he is portraying an eccentric cinemaphile in this romantic comedy film. Benny & Joon, originally released in 1993, is now digitally remastered in high resolution blu-ray glory! You can see every beautiful pore on Johnny Depp’s gorgeous face. I know what you are thinking, “Caleb has a boy-crush on Johnny Depp”. No that’s not the case, I’m actually the one that got a restraining order placed on him before he got one on me.

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DS Game Review: Johnny Test

 

“I’m sorry, but your Gil is in another castle.”

 

Gameplay

Johnny is your typical hyper active kid.  He’s usually the lab rat in the experiments of his two sisters, Mary and Susan. When he intervenes in another one involving a new high-tech gadget, he frees Mr. Wacko, Bling Bling Boy and Brain Freezer and altered Porkbelly, the town they all live in.  The bad guys kidnap the sisters’ neighborhood, crush Gil Nexdor and Johnny is sent to save him.

DVD Review: Scar 3-D

by Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline.com



Some scars never heal.


“This is how the game works”


“It’s not a game”


“If you don’t want me to cut you, just say, kill her”


Cries, screams, blood, and scalpels.


“Let me kill Joan”


“No”


Pours alcohol on cuts.


“Can I kill her?”


No”


“This can keep going for a very long time”


Enter staple gun.


“Look at your thighs.

DVD Review: Prowl

by Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline.com



She was running from her life. Now she’s running for it.


Remember all the things we were told by our parents? Don’t swim for an hour after eating. Don’t make faces like that or it’ll freeze that way. Don’t take candy from strangers. Don’t sit so close to the TV, you’ll ruin your eyes. Don’t take rides from strangers. So, how many of these are really dangerous?


The premise of Prowl has Amber (Courtney Hope – Mob Rules), who is bored with her small town life, her job as a butcher, and is being pulled to the big city life.

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Movie Review: Hanna

 
Hanna, the new film from Director Joe Wright, is now in theaters!
 
“One flip and there is no going back”. That’s what Hanna’s dad, Erik, says to her before activating a super-duper-homing-device, which will alert the minions of the C.I.A. to call out the hounds, including deadly C.I.A. agent Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett). Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) and her dad Erik Heller (Eric Bana) have been living in a snowy wonderland, somewhere near Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.

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WonderCon 2011: Video Game Preview: Spider-Man: Edge of Time

Last year, Activision and Beenox brought us a interesting take on the spider man universe by showing us 4 different and unique takes on everyone’s favorite webslinging hero in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. This year the developers take a more refined look at two of the versions of Spidey they toyed with last year with both Spider-Man 2099 and Amazing Spider-Man returning in Spider-Man: Edge of Time.

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Blu-ray Review: Mad Men – Season Four

You may have to wait until 2012 for Season Five of the acclaimed AMC series Mad Men to return, but you can catch up on the Blu-ray edition of Mad Men – Season Four right now!

Mathew Weiner has not just lovingly and meticulously recreated the fall of 1964 and rest of l965 in the Fourth Season of Mad Men. He has created a thirteen hour movie.  As it languidly unfolds it provides a window into the past giving us clues regarding the directions that the characters who inhabit this world are going to take.  It just takes time, and alot of it. By the time it concludes, everyone and everything in this corner of universe will be accounted for.
 

Episode Highlights:

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TV Review: Nikita – “Covenant”


Nikita has been a fairly inconsistant show since it began, but recently it has started to become a bit more solid. “Covenant” helps continue the consistency with a pretty interesting mid-season break return episode. This episode features the murkily-alligned Michael and his previous relationship to Nikita.


Nikita is going after the black boxes she so desperately desires once again, and to do so, she needs to capture drug lord Kasim (who has quite the past history with Michael… who wants him dead for what he has done), and trade him to Michael for one of the aformentioned black boxes. This plan quickly goes south when Kasim is not all what he seems to be (As no one really is in this show).