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Happy Father's Day From GeekWeek

This weekend brings Father’s Day, a celebration of all that is Dad: barbecues, beer, golf, questionable taste in shirts and ties and the Manliest of all movie genres— The Western. This year, we bring you two classic, underrated Westerns, a sci-fi variant on the great genre (and its outer-space sequel)...

VIDEO GAMES: Solace In Gaming ~ 5 Exciting Upcoming Titles

Using the Internet for entertainment is becoming a bit of a hassle these days, with new stories breaking all the time of some government or private organization violating privacy. Unfortunately, we're at a point at which we as individual citizens probably just need to accept that nothing we put on...

GAMES: Slot Machine Branding - A Brief History

A slot machine - also known as a fruit machine in Blighty - is the most common gambling machine in casinos and accounts for 70% of the revenue of the average US casino. And it’s come a long way from when they were known as one-armed bandits - a name...

Next Sunday, A.D. - Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XXVI

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is the granddaddy of laugh-at-the-screen comedy shows — its protégés range from the Sklar Brothers to “Doug Benson’s Comedy Interruption” to Rifftrax (complete with MST3K’s Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) — and Shout! Factory soldiers on with XXVI, the 26th (for those of you...

Theme Parks: First Look at Disney's STAR WARS Weekends 2013

Disney just released the first look at the lineups for this year's STAR WARS Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. This is of course the first since Disney bought the Star Wars property and the 30th anniversary of RETURN OF THE JEDI (30 years ......

Red Band Trailer: KICK-ASS 2 Premiere - NSFW

KICK-ASS 2 will be released by Universal Pictures on August 16, 2013. I think we have a contender for the movie quote of the year ..."Yeah, there's a dog on your balls." Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog

COPRA #4 Review

"COPRA" is a 24-page monthly comic and a force of nature. It proves that sometimes the best thing to do is to do it yourself. That is what Brooklyn cartoonist Michel Fiffe has concluded. He is on a quest to create something different and compelling. It is a journey that...

Toys & Collectibles: HCG Releases UNDERWORLD Lycan Statue

Following on from the release of Selene's Death Dealers this week and the pre-order for their 1:4 Scale Selene Statue, Hollywood Collectibles Group announced the 1:4 scale Lycan statue from UNDERWORLD was available for pre-order. For more images and details, including their favorable payment plans go to https://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/underworld_lycan_exc.html. The exclusive...

IRON MAN 3: Final Global Theatrical Trailer

2:31 of joy and goodness ... in theaters May 3, 2013 via movies.yahoo.com

App Review: APPEAK POKER (iOS)

Games are the king of iOS apps. Online poker is also huge business in both the real money and social media realms. While Zynga is easily the king of social media online poker, a new challenger is beginning to make some noise with their new app for iOS devices. Appeak...

110th TOY FAIR 2013 Opens In New York

Despite the weather, Toy Fair 2013 is open and I am sad I had to miss it. That being said, I will be excitedly gathering pictures over the next few days and compiling my must have toys. Already leading the pack are the BATMAN Original Series range from Mattel and...

DC's BLACKEST NIGHT or BRIGHTEST DAY? Geoff Johns Leaves GREEN LANTERN for JUSTICE LEAGUE

For many decades, I never used to pay much attention to anything in the DC Universe unless it involved Gotham City or Metropolis. That changed with BLACKEST NIGHT when my weekly comic bill skyrocketed out of control. I don't think BLACKEST NIGHT was perfect, but what it did was reopen...

Merry Craptacular Christmas

Christmas Eve is upon us and with it comes a cavalcade of holiday classics, cast-offs and crap. For every White Christmas, A Christmas Story or Elf, we get a dozen Lifetime movies starring Valerie Bertinelli or underwhelming big-screen fare like Deck The Halls. But it takes the discerning Christmas viewer...

MAN OF STEEL: Official Trailer

I believe we may be about to get the Superman movie we have all been waiting for ... watch, be amazed and feel free to shed a tear or two of joy.

Laughs And Tears: Mel Brooks And "All In The Family"

Taking the same sort of odds-and-sods approach to Mel Brooks the way they did with Steve Martin (with the Steve Martin: The Television Stuff box), Shout! Factory brings us The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection Of Unhinged Comedy. The five-DVD (plus one bonus CD) set is a treasure trove...