Entries from June 2008

Upcoming Appearances

June 23rd, 2008 by sime0n | No Comments

Upcoming Appearances

Here is my upcoming schedule of appearances.
Spocon August 1 Talking upcoming games and movies
http://www.spocon.us
V-Con
Saturday Oct 4th
Movies and Games of the next Four Years.
www.v-con.ca
Orycon
November 21
Movies of the next 3-5 years
http://orycon.org/orycon30/
Movies of The next 3-5 Years


Comedy Great George Carlin has Passed Away

June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Comedy Great George Carlin has Passed Away

From Reuters News
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital Sunday, a spokesman said. He was was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PT […]


Uwe Boll on his Feud with Michael Bay and POSTAL Censorship.

June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Uwe Boll on his Feud with Michael Bay and POSTAL Censorship.

Recently I got the chance to speak with controversial Director Uwe Boll about his feud with Michael Bay as well as the stop Boll Petition and his new film “Postal” and the controversy he has generated. I want to thank Uwe for answering our questions in this exclusive interview and his first since the Banning […]


Iron Man

June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Iron Man

The summer 0f 2008 movie season kicks off in a big way with the release of “Iron Man”, the latest in a long line of popular Marvel Comics superheroes to make the leap to the big screen.
Robert Downey JR. stars as Tony Stark a Billionaire […]


Guild Wars Factions Hands On

June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Guild Wars Factions Hands On

On a cold and gray evening in Seattle, WA, the folks at ArenaNet warmed things up with a look at their new game Guildwars Factions. Factions is both a stand alone game as well as an addition to the popular MMOPG Guild Wars which has garnered legions of fans thanks to its catching gameplay and […]


Kal Penn Talks The Namesake and Harold and Kumar 2

June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Kal Penn Talks The Namesake and Harold and Kumar 2

Recently I had the chance to interview Kal Penn about his film “The Namesake” as well as his pending projects such as the new Harold and Kumar film.
GVK: What attracted you to the part and what did you do to prepare for the role?
K: I had read the book a few years before […]


Fat Albert

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Fat Albert

In the time-honored Hollywood tradition of remaking the past, comedian Bill Cosby has at long last seen his standup and cartoon character Fat Albert arrive on the big screen.
In the live action version of the classic series which ran in the 70’s Fat Albert (Kenyan Thompson), is once again playing with his friends in […]


The Alamo

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

The Alamo

The classic siege of the Alamo comes to the big screen yet again this time with a mega-budget in “The Alamo”. The film stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston and Billy Bob Thornton as Congressman Davie Crockett and chronicles the events that would forever etch the name Alamo into American lore.
While many people know of […]


Pursuit of Happyness

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Pursuit of Happyness

By Genevieve Mc Bride
There are a few different messages one could contemplate after watching “Pursuit of Happyness” (misspelling intentional, and explained in the movie). It could be taken as an ode to the me-generation extremes of the 80s, a nod to the idea that money just might buy happiness or a salute to the dogged […]


Oceans Thirteen

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Oceans Thirteen

Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is not a man to back away from a challenge. So when greedy real estate developer Willie Bank (Al Pacino), cheats Danny’s friend Reuben(Elliot Gould), in a major business deal which leaves Rueben incapacitated, there is only one thing he can do, seek revenge.
Danny gathers his gang from his last […]


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Since audiences last visited the crime busting quartet, the group has become media darlings, and the impending wedding of two of the team members, Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), and Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), has become media frenzy.
As plans for the wedding move forward, and Sue is confident that the wedding will not be postponed […]


1408

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

1408

For writer Mike Enslin (John Cusack), ghosts and the supernatural are simply myths people use to bolster the local economy with tourism dollars. Mike has made a career of evaluating and debunking so called haunted inns, hotels, graveyards, and locales all over the nation.
While his books do well enough for his editors to be […]


Evan Almighty

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Evan Almighty

Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is a man who is going places. When last we saw Evan in “Bruce Almighty”, he was playing the foil to Jim Carrey and having one of the most spectacular on air meltdowns ever recorded.
In the new film “Evan Almighty”, Evan has left his job as a Buffalo anchorman to […]


Live Free or Die Hard

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Live Free or Die Hard

Computers have become such a mainstay of modern life that few of us even stop to imagine just how much of our lives are affected by them. In the course of a standard day, everything from the lights at the corner, offices, banks, and even the cars we drive are all governed in some ways […]


Transformers

June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments

Transformers

Based on the popular line of toys and animated television series from the 80’s. Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay have teamed up to create a mega million FX extravaganza that will delight fans both old and new.
The story involves a group of sentient machines who have battled for centuries in an effort to locate […]