When the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing moved from a release date this past April to October, the project seemed to fall off the map (perhaps to Antarctica?). Fortunately, Universal has melted the ice and given us a trailer in what’s been a trailer-crazy week so far.
It seems that nothing pertaining to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises can truly happen unless it goes viral. That’s also the case for its teaser trailer. Set to hit theaters on Friday with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, some eager movie theater employees have done us the “favor” of checking out the real ahead of time, and you can check it out below along with some commentary.
It’s a clash of the colons
this week on Player Affinity with our featured trailer slinking its way in with
the sequel to the Christmas hit, Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows reuniting Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as the
oddball sleuths. After last weeks War
Horse, Steven Spielberg has unleashed his second movie clip of this year’s
upcoming holiday season in the motion capture adventure The Adventures of Tin Tin: The Secret of the Unicron. Then, before The Dark Knight Rises finally whets our
salivating palates, the animated origin tale Batman: Year One makes its way to home video, followed with a cringe-worthy
offering with the latest Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill (this time with the comedian sporting a wig and a
false bosom). Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a bunch of movie news;
it’s Trailer Tracker.
Ms. Splosion Man packs a tremendous amount of fun into a downloadable ten-dollar game. Perhaps that high-pressure fun is what makes her so explosive? Actually, she’s splodey because she was developed by Twisted Pixel, the madmen behind the 2009 XBLA hit Splosion Man. The Girl Power sequel is not only better than the original game, but it will also teach you everything you need to know about women.
The premise behind this book is that spontaneous combustion can really happen to people, but that there is a dark force that is behind it. The stories main character Melvin has been affected by this all his life and has dedicated himself to finding out more while hiding a secret of his own. The second issue opens with a flashback of Melvin’s childhood in which a bully is calling him Kelvin Melvin. It’s mostly harmless until the bully throws matches at him and a sinister voice only Melvin can hear tells him to “Show them all.”
Those horrible, evil scientists at Big Science are at it again. Back in 2009 they created an insane, mutated exploding man named Splosion Man, but this time around they’ve mixed sugar, spice and everything nitroglycerin to make the exploding woman called Ms. Splosion Man. Note the neo-feminist “Ms.” instead of the old-fashioned “Miss” like in Miss Pac Man. Yes, Ms. Splosion Man is one of them liberated dames, and she’ll probably blow you up if you call her a dame to her face.
The finale of one of cinema’s best-executed franchises in “Harry Potter” comes out next Friday and we are going to continue with our countdown with No. 5 on our list of least to most enjoyed, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. A break from the first two films in the series, this entry offers all the wizardry we would expect thought perhaps not the punch we wanted.
As every grizzled space marine knows, July 7th is Bungie Day! The Halo Developer is fascinated on the number seven. Every year on July 7 they celebrate. This year, Bungie Day is extra special because it is Halo Developer’s 20th anniversary, and Halo’s 10th anniversary. Throughout the day, Halo Reach will have special events and prizes.
This year got off to a great
start with Dead Space 2 standing
out in January as an early contender for Game of the Year. Yet, the following months fizzled with
highly anticipated games like Dragon Age 2 disappointing fans, while critical
darlings like L.A. Noire stubbornly refused to appear on PC until later this
year. Fortunately the PC indie
scene coughed up a couple of great games in the first half of this year, giving
PC gamers something to tide us over until the blockbuster glut in the fall. Our PC Department of
Fergus Halliday, Ari RunaninTelle, Jonathan Gann and Charles Battersby panned
the river of mediocrity to find the Three Best Games of 2011 (so far).
December is no longer the only time an independent movie can succeed. Art-house cinema is a year-round enterprise, and in 2011, business has been booming. Here are some of the most respected indies of the year thus far, and their chances for Oscar recognition in 2012.
