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New York Comic-con advance presentaion on ‘The Avengers’

MARVEL STUDIOS TO PRESENT EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS AT NEW YORK COMIC CON Producer Kevin Feige and Select Cast Members to Appear Saturday, October 15th in the IGN Theater – Presented by Sprint! New York Comic Con (NYCC) is proud to announce Marvel Studios, for the first time ever, will participate in this October’s NYCC. Marvel Studios will …

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’30 Minutes or Less’ November Blu-ray announcment

Hilarious All-Star Cast Features Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari and Nick Swardson From the Director of Zombieland Outrageous Special Features Include Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes and a Picture-in-Picture Cast & Crew Commentary! Action-Comedy of the Year Arrives on Blu-ray and DVD November 29th Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland) and Danny McBride (TV’s “Eastbound and Down,” Pineapple Express,) …

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Blackmail (1992): Sometimes a Cigar is a Hitch(c**ktail)

Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail marked the first time, in British cinematic history, that sound was used for an entire feature film. The infamous American musical The Jazz Singer (1927) has been cited as the first film to use dialogue; however, Al Jolson’s notorious film barely passes as a “talkie” as it incorporated only a “few” lines of dialogue. When considering the inability to …

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Game Review: X-Men: Destiny

X-Men: Destiny Release Date: September 27, 2011 Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS Publisher: Activision Developer: Silicon Knights Genre: Action RPG X-Men: Destiny follows the story of one of three mutants new to the hero business. Aimi Yoshida is a mutant refugee from Japan. Adrian Luca is the son of a anti-mutant advocate, and he must therefore keep …

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Comic Review: Hellblazer – Issue 283

Issue: Hellblazer #283 Writer: PETER MILLIGAN Artist: GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI and STEFANO LANDINI Publisher: Vertigo Release Date: September 2011 Pages: 32 Price: $2.99 “New storyline: “The Devil’s Trenchcoat.” When Gemma Masters punishes her uncle by auctioning off his trench coat, she ignites a horrific chain of events. Now Constantine must adjust to life without his smelly old coat, while its new …

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Horror Author Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Novel Becomes Free Online Comic

Horror Author Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Novel Becomes Free Online Comic Book Los Angeles, CA. October 2011. Horror Author and indie Film Producer Lia Scott Price has turned her Vampire Trilogy novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion” (amazon.com) into a free online comic book at http://liascottpricecomics.blogspot.com. She and her co-artist Wendell Nelson are the illustrators. It’s part comic book, part …

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Book Review: The Crow Special Edition – Author James O’Barr

Many of us became familiar with “The Crow” thru the glory of Hollywood. That controversial Brandon Lee incident and that wonderful gothy movie. However, it was the early graphic novels of James O’Barr that captured the original essence of the Crow legacy introducing to us a rather haunted, tortured soul who was bent on vengeance for being wronged by the …

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Politics of the Dead

Growing up as a horror fan living in New Jersey meant that I was inundated by Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma films, a ridiculous amount of zombie films and, of course, Jersey Devil films. Since I had long ago adopted the typical horror fan’s code of skepticism (that is, many of us have a tendency to reject mainstream thinking and authority figures – …

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