Star Wars: The Fan Games

How bad is the need for new Star Wars games? Ask these fans who have taken matters into their own hands. Fan videos recreate and remix classic scenes. Fan fiction writers create new scenes, and cosplayers live them. Fan creators dig deep into every corner of theStar Warsuniverse even video games. The last original console title wasThe Force Unleashed 2in 2010. The promising1313was cancelled when Disney purchased LucasArts, butBattlefront 3is newly scheduled for release in 2015 from DICE....

April 9, 2014 · 2 min · 372 words · Angela Young

Can we abandon the all-action ending to blockbuster movies?

We’ve seen plenty of people hitting each other. As audiences, aren’t we ready for something else? Give us themes such as those over the hollow core ofWild Wild Westany day, thank you. Action To be clear on something first: I love action cinema. I love really good action sequences. I just despair that most big films seem to have no other way to conclude their stories. Ad content continues below...

April 8, 2014 · 3 min · 450 words · Andrew Ramirez

Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Can Superhero Movies Get Smaller?

Captain America: The Winter Soldier does its best work when it keeps things relatively simple. Do superhero movies need to get smaller? This article contains spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America: The Winter Soldieris currently the subject ofconsiderable praiseandunprecedented April box office success. In that regard, they have achieved somewhat mixed results. Batmanwas quickly followed by 1990sDick Tracy. But while Batmans production design recalled Fritz Lang and even hints of H....

April 8, 2014 · 2 min · 264 words · Lindsay Reynolds

Captain America: The Winter Soldier – The Comic Book Story That Couldn’t Be Told

This article contains spoilers forCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. It was the story that shouldnt have worked. There were certain sacred cows in mainstream comics, certain stories a writer just didnt undo. Or so everyone thought. Everyone except writer Ed Brubaker, who dared to ask Why? Now, many of those the story beats informCaptain America: The Winter Soldierat the movies. Not bad for a story that no one thought should ever be told....

April 7, 2014 · 3 min · 444 words · Katherine Huang

Game of Thrones: Two Swords Review, Season Premiere

Well,Game of Throneshas come again, and it is a tantalizing glory to behold. But even after such bloodied and sacrilegious misuse, it belonged still to Robb Stark by rights. It is a powerful, cinematic scene to open any episode, especially the Season 4 premiere. Martins third book,A Storm of Swords. As directed by one of the series two co-creators and showrunners, D.B. However, this moment is not about the swords themselves....

April 7, 2014 · 3 min · 504 words · Timothy Ramirez

Looking back at Alan Dean Foster’s Alien novelisation

Celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, Ridley ScottsAlienremains a timeless exercise in atmosphere and suspense. In terms of structure, FostersAlienhews closely to Ridley Scotts movie. What Kane ultimately finds, of course, is quite the opposite of a crate of diamonds. What happens next is the stuff of movie legend, and Foster synthesises it well in prose form. The alien, as Foster rightly puts it, leaves an unclean wake. In it, Ash makes erase the full duplicity of the crews employers....

April 7, 2014 · 1 min · 202 words · Andres Harris

Shameless: Lazarus Review, Season Finale

Like Lazarus, indeed. But before we talk about how it ended, we must go back to the beginning. The loss of Jimmy in those cold, cold waters has created remarkable new possibilities for Fiona Gallagher. Her hero complex also led to the self-annihilation that came with a bender that ended in Wisconsin. Ad content continues below However, this experience has been rewarding in a way. These were her decisions, and she is past the point of self-pity....

April 7, 2014 · 3 min · 518 words · Mathew Lewis

Star Wars: Amy Hennig and Feminism in Gaming

Uncharted writer Amy Hennig is working on Visceral’s Star Wars game. She joins many other exemplary women in the Star Wars gaming industry. Kennedy was promoted from co-chair to president when the company was sold to Disney. One of the other best-known women in gaming is Kiki Wolfkill, executive producer of theHalofranchise. And the producer forThe Force Unleashedwas a woman named Isa Anne Stamos. The treatment of fictional females is important to consider, too....

April 7, 2014 · 1 min · 205 words · Dr. Andrew Webb

Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Silver Lining Part 1 review

The Silver Ranger makes his debut on Power Rangers Super Megaforce. Here’s Shamus' review of Silver Lining part 1. We dont even get a good look at his face until the very end of the episode! Although if we remember what Andros said during theIn Spacepremiere, Not all humans are from Earth. It may seem repetitive to some, but its a pretty damn effective plan. It certainly worked for Trakeena in the Lost Galaxy finale and Divatox in the Turbo finale....

April 5, 2014 · 2 min · 249 words · Erica Bernard

Captain America: The Winter Soldier review

One of Caps greatest stories comes to life and ups the stakes for Marvel Studios. team leader on various covert counter-terrorism missions. With Cap suddenly on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D. The plot also reaches back into the history of the world and S.H.I.E.L.D. It also raises the stakes tremendously for all the major players while adding new wrinkles to their characters. And then theres Captain America. Like us onFacebookand follow us onTwitterfor all news updates related to the world of geek....

April 4, 2014 · 1 min · 91 words · Andrew Torres

Gareth Evans & Iko Uwais interview: The Raid 2, violence and more

Weve specifically marked spoiler bits you may want to avoid. Ad content continues below A logical place to start, I suppose, is with violence. Could you talk about the planning process behind the fight scenes this time? Was it more elaborate to stage this time? Gareth Evans:It depends on the fight scene. With something like the prison riot, its a lot faster because its split up into sections. There are multiple fighters, so you’re free to break it up a bit more....

April 4, 2014 · 7 min · 1357 words · Mr. Stanley Pearson

Looking back at Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

Theyd managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth too shocking to screen. Rumours persisted: a Peruvian broadcast, a missing castmember, skulduggery in high places. Finally, in 2004, Channel 4 did the decent thing. Writer of countless bestselling chillers, the mans brilliant careers won him acolytes and enemies in equal measure. Inevitably, his every venture has been dogged by controversy....

April 4, 2014 · 2 min · 282 words · Bradley Solomon

Robot Chicken Goes Rogue With DC Comics Special II

The DC Comics rogues gallery is out in force on the latest Robot Chicken special. Another one this time focusing on the bad guys. This is great, recalls Green. Sometimes theyre just looking for better parking. Theres an energy that you often dont get in any other context. Molina says he always relishes the chance to portray an evildoer. The villain has no such restrictions. The list of villains ranges from such iconic figures as Luthor, Sinestro and Captain Cold to Mr....

April 4, 2014 · 2 min · 328 words · Kendra Perez