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Your Geek News + The BSGcast Battlestar Galactica Video Podcast Episodes - | ASTRO BOY REVIEW: Onward and Upward | Play in Popup. | http://YourGeekNews.com for more! After having our hopes for a good Japanese cartoon adaptation dashed by the Wachowski’s Speed Racer, our hopes were high for Imagi Studios to bring us some good old-fashioned CGI manga true to the original. And bring it they did. In the form of a very well made kids movie that brought us both back to the early 80’s. And treated us like we had the same brainpower we had in the 80’s. A childrens’ movie 100%, Astro Boy fires on all cylinders for kids, and gives parents a good excuse to watch a cartoon inspired by their own childhood. So if you don't have any, go borrow some kids from someone you know, and you’ll look right at home in the theatre!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast: Season 4.5 DVD Box Set Review | Play in Popup. | It's taken quite a while to pour over the hours and hours of featurettes, commentaries, videoBlogs, deleted scenes and of course, Extended Episodes on this, the final DVD Box-Set we'll ever see for Battlestar Galactica. Not to mention getting it signed by President Laura Roslin herself. And at last, we announce the winner of the Mary McDonnell signed Season 4.5 set, along with our thoughts on the DVDs themselves. Hot on the heels of this baby is our review of The Plan, along with details on how you can win dinner with Admiral Adama!~Matt + Nat |
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| REVIEW: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | Play in Popup. | We both had very mixed about Wild Things. But even with Nat not finding anything to sympathize with in the character of Max, and Matt finding the narrative run out of steam halfway through, we still couldn't find it in our hearts to dislike this movie. It's just somehow very special in spite of any faults is may have. Between the gorgeous effects work, incredible voice talent and breathtaking cinematography of a world we've never really seen before, Jonze did manage to capture something with this movie. That something just wasn't a perfect film. ~Matt + Nat |
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| ZOMBIELAND PREVIEW: Horror/Comedy/Buddy/Road-Movie | Play in Popup. | Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg look like they make an incredible comedic duo in Ruben Fleischer's directorial debut, Zombieland, but there's a delicate balance to ride between that comedy and the horror elements that makes Zombie movies really knock it out of the park. We're both easily as excited about this one as we were about any summer movies that came our way, whether that's because Matt loves him some Sam Raimi-style horror/comedy or because Nat has an abnormally active imagination when it comes to surviving a Zombie pandemic, you can bet we'll be inline for the midnight screening! ~Matt + Nat |
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| SURROGATES REVIEW: Where's Steeplejack? | Play in Popup. | Did Bruce Willis and Jonathan Mostow do justice to the critically acclaimed five-part comic written by Robert Venditti? You already know from the trailers that the stakes have gone up from the comic plot: now the operators die as well when the surrogates are fried. But did that ruin the entire motivation of "Steeplejack"? Or does this change in the plot give a whole new and higher message to Surrogates? Check out our review, it's Spoiler-free at first and then quite Spoileriffic as we examine Surrogates as a standalone film, and then as an adaptation. ~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast: Interview with Kandyse McClure | Play in Popup. | Everyone seems to have loved our interview with Mary McDonnell so much, that we decided to keep it up! So at DragonCon we managed to sit down and chat with a few more of the incredible actors that brought us some of the characters we know and love from BSG, to get a bit of insight into how they experienced the show from their perspective. First up, Matt chatted with the beautiful and talented Kandyse McClure who played Anastasia Dualla for almost the entire run of the series... almost. So consider this your spoiler warning! From her thoughts on the growth of her character, to what she's up to now, Kandyse gives us a great peek into what makes her, and Dee, tick!~Matt + Nat |
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| INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS PREVIEW: Tarantino's Macaroni Combat | Play in Popup. | Quentin is bringing us something the world hasn't really seen in theatres since the 70's -- a spaghetti western style World War II movie set in Nazi Germany behind enemy lines. With Brad Pitt... that part's new. With a great cast of international talent, at least three languages and more Nazi scalping than you can put in a single movie trailer, it looks like Tarantino's latest is a sight to behold. At least, that's what the folks at the Cannes Film Fest thought. What about you? Let us know what you're expecting! Another piece of genius from the world's biggest movie fan? Or a disappointing over-the-top action movie from a screenwriter whose greatest asset lies in dialogue? ~Matt + Nat |
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| TRANSFORMERS 2 PREVIEW: Revenge, Anyone? | Play in Popup. | If you go back to our 2007 review on http://YourGeekNews.com, Matt was on a bit of a tirade about how terrible of an adaptation Michael Bay’s first Transformers film was. Now that all the wounds have healed, Bumblebee is a Camaro, Jazz is dead and Optimus has flames on his trailerless tractor trailer, it’s time to see if this re-imagined Transformerverse has a good story to tell in it. We’ve got three scenes to share with you that give you an idea of what to expect from the T2… wait, that acronym is already taken. Either way, we hope you enjoy our take on almost 5 minutes of theatrical footage from the film! ~Matt + Nat |
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| STAR TREK PREVIEW: Exclusive Scenes and Interviews | Play in Popup. | Shatner's out, Picard hasn't been born yet, Odo is still a pile of goo and Janeway? Who's that? J.J. Abrams has taken Star Trek into the realm of James Bond, Doctor Who and Batman, making Kirk, Spock and Bones larger than the actors who play them. Yes, he's re-cast every single role in an attempt to breathe new life into one of the longest running film and tv franchises in history. We've got an exclusive first look at scenes from Star Trek, as well as interviews with J.J, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the all-new cast of the original series. Matt's a HUGE trekkie, and Nat not so much, so there will be PLENTY to look forward to in our review next week! ~Matt + Nat |
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| WOLVERINE REVIEW: Multiple Endings = Multiple Viewings? | Play in Popup. | To say that Wolverine has multiple endings isn't exactly correct, but it does have multiple post-credit bonus scenes. Much like the post-credit Nick Fury scene in Iron Man, or the Tony Stark scene in Incredible Hulk, X-Men Origins: Wolverine gives you a reason to sit through the credits… and it’s hard to know which one you’ll be getting since Gavin Hood has put at least two different versions out in theatres, that we know of. We’ve seen two different endings, one that’s Deadpool-centric and once that’s Japan-based, but it won't take long to get to the bottom of how many there are, and to see them all! ~Matt + Nat |
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| WOLVERINE PREVIEW: Turns out Hugh Jackman actually IS Wolverine | Play in Popup. | With interviews with Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Henney and director Gavin Hood, the advanced preview clips we've got for you from Wolverine are high octane, funny, and classic Wolverine; just the thing to make Matt want to grow a mean set of mutton chops year round!It's been three movies of watching Logan share the screen with other mutants while we pretended he wasn't the main character... and now we don't have to pretend anymore. X-Men Origins: Wolverine centres on everyone's favourite Candian Ball of Berserker Rage, and makes no apologies for it. With Hugh Jackman producing the film as well as starring, it looks like the man who might just know Logan best is shouldering a lot of the responsibility in bringing us his origin story well. ~Matt + Nat |
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| CapriCast - Matt + Nat Review the Pilot | Play in Popup. | It is upon us.The Direct-To-DVD release of Caprica was April 21st and with the Blood, Boobies and Human Sacrifice that we’ve been privy to seeing so far, it looks like Ron Moore managed to skirt the TV-Gods and Censors quite elegantly by releasing in on DVD first. There have been quite a few times in his podcasts that he mentioned how the TV version of a Battlestar Episode wasn’t quite his ideal cut (for either time or network restrictions) but with Caprica available for first viewing as an unspoiled DVD version, we’ll be sure to watch what Ron wants us to see Battlestar is over, long live Caprica! ~Matt + Nat |
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| REVIEW: "X-Men Origins - Wolverine" Workprint | Play in Popup. | Thanks to an industry contact who has to remain nameless, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy of the much publicized Wolverine Workprint… and boy do we have some things to say about it! Some good, some not so good, but this version is by no means the final film we’ll be seeing in theatres in May. It, in fact, is the version that lead to Fox commissioning millions of dollars in re-shoots and changes. Will that make it better? Worse? There’s no way to know yet, but this will give us some rare insight to the process of making a blockbuster!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast LIVE: 4.22 "Daybreak Part 2" Panel Review | Play in Popup. | This is it… let the sobs of joy and sadness begin. Our beloved show has come to an end in a two-hour TV event that none of us are soon to forget. And how did it end? With a bang or with a whimper? Let’s start discussing it!We had a great time at the Sports Centre Cafe downtown Toronto, and shot an immediate LIVE BSGcast, post-episode, to get some fresh reactions from Melissa TheTelevixen, Rambling Russel Hale, Tamika, Tim and Steve 'Snowball' Saylor! Make sure your Alienware-eligible comments are on this episode, because our FINAL regular season BSGcast will be shot on WEDNESDAY of this week, where we’ll be giving our final thoughts on the series finale, and announcing the winner of the Alienware Gaming Machine!!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast 4.19 - "Someone to Watch Over Me" | Play in Popup. | This episode gave us shivers in all the right places and all the wrong places… it’s been a while since Battlestar delivered SO solidly on both stories in an episode, but in this run up to the end, we can definitely expect more of it. Between the Helo/Boomer/Athena affair and Starbuck playing piano with her head-father, “Someone to Watch Over Me” Has definitely given us a serious tee-up for the next three episodes to come! Since we were just in Orlando for MegaCon this weekend, we have a nice added gift for the “Fan of the Week” from this week’s comments, so have a look, make a comment, and hopefully you’ll win! ~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast 4.18 - "Deadlock" | Play in Popup. | This week's episode featured a stellar performance from Michael Hogan during the plot about Tigh and Six's baby in the wake of Ellen's return, and curious side-plots about Baltar's Harem and Galactica's paint drying... yet we couldn't help but feel like this episode came up short on actual plot. Compared to "No Exit" last week, virtually any episode would feel like it's standing still, but with only 4 episodes left and SO much more to be explained, by the end of "Deadlock" we were both pretty underwhelmed. ~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast: 4.17 "No Exit" | Play in Popup. | Word Salad. No other term quite sums up this exposition-heavy BEAST of an episode. With many long-standing questions answered and a few more posed, Ellen's return and Anders' brain-bullet managed to cause a virtual deluge of mythos from the origin and travels of the final five to the end of the first cylon war, the source of resurrection technology and skin jobs... the list goes on. Needless to say, if you've not seen the episode yet, GO WATCH IT!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast LIVE: cPanel FlatPanel Winner Announced! | Play in Popup. | It’s been two weeks since BSGcast LIVE in Pasadena, California, and it’s time to announce the winner of the cPanel Flatpanel 32″ HDTV plucked from the comments on the five episodes that were recorded LIVE at the Battlestar Auction for the premiere of the back-10 of the season! We’d like to extend our thanks to cPanel for being such a great supporter of Battlestar Galactica, and of the BSGcast… we couldn’t have had that amazing Frak-Party or gotten all these great interviews without them. If you’ve got a website, run some websites, or have a webhost, check out cPanel and show this kick-ass bunch of guys some love! ~Matt + Nat |
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| UNDERWORLD RISE OF THE LYCANS: Review + Preview | Play in Popup. | Since we got all the goodies from Sony so late, we weren't able to make a proper preview for Underworld, so we've incorporated a few words of wisdom from the cast and crew into our regular review style. What did we think? Well, we knew what we were getting, not only because it's a prequel and the story was already given away back in 2003, but because we know what to expect from an Underworld movie: Vampires and Werewolves taken deadly serious no matter how absurd the story. And we love it that way. Sure the second film in the series was an ungodly piece of crap, but hey, not everything is Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. ~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast LIVE: INTERVIEW with Glenne Campbell | Play in Popup. | Nat chats with Battlestar Galactica's revered Costume Designer, Glenne Campbell, as to find out about the challenges and highlights of working on the entire series, and touches a bit on her upcoming work on Caprica! This is Episode #4 in the cPanel Flat Panel Giveaway!! So watch what Glenne has to say, and give us your opinion in a great comment; we’ll be choosing the best one on each of the FIVE LIVE BSGcast and randomly selecting one of those five to win a 32″ LCD TV courtesy of cPanel, the Leading Web Control Panel!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast LIVE: INTERVIEW with Richard Hatch | Play in Popup. | Nat sits down with Richard Hatch, the actor behind Tom Zarek in the current Battlestar Galactica and Apollo in the original, to try and get some information about the rest of the series, and specifically what's in store for his character. Little does she know, with Richard Hatch, information comes at a price.This is Episode #3 in the cPanel Flat Panel Giveaway!! So watch what Richard has to say, and give us your opinion in a great comment; we’ll be choosing the best one on each of the FIVE LIVE BSGcast and randomly selecting one of those five to win a 32″ LCD TV courtesy of cPanel, the Leading Web Control Panel!~Matt + Nat |
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| BSGcast LIVE: 4.13 "Sometimes a Great Notion" Review | Play in Popup. | WOW! What an incredible Frak-Party! With over 300 fans in 2 days of partying, a killer prop Auction from Propworx, getting to hang out with the cast and crew of the show, and literally THOUSANDS of dollars raised for charity with our own little silent auction, we can’t call the Pasadena Frak-Party anything but an insane success. Best of all was meeting you, and getting to hang out and chat about Battlestar all weekend long!We couldn’t have done it without our amazing sponsor, cPanel, and thanks to them, we’re giving away a TV!We’ll be posting our BSGcast LIVE Episode in just a few hours, and the best comment will go into a very small hat of only five names to win the 32″ cPanel Flat Panel Television… so think hard about the episode, and about the BSGcasts we’ll be posting over the next week, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll have one heck of a Frak-Party of your own when you watch the Series Finale on this beautiful Magnavox!~Matt + Nat |
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