VonGeekenstein

Geeky News, Reviews and More!

Browsing Posts in Movies

I’m not entirely sure WHY this is funny, but it makes me giggle incessantly. Thanks Josh for the tip.

Share

According to the good folks at Bleeding Cool, the good folks at Warner Brothers Animation — you know, the folks behind Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League and all of those direct to video movies — are working on an animated version of Frank Miller’s seminal comic masterpiece, The Dark Knight Returns. This makes sense [...]

Share

So you might’ve guessed by now that Black Dynamite has become my new favorite movie. This doesn’t happen very often. First, it was Airplane, then it was a tie between Airplane and Office Space, but they’ve both been dethroned. Looking back though, I recall when I fell in love with Airplane that I looked for [...]

Share

Living in Los Angeles allows one to do some very cool things, such as seeing a live Battlestar Galactica concert, a show from the Band from TV, or go to some awesome press events. Well, when I heard that local comic store Meltdown Comics was having a live taping of the Nerdist podcast to celebrate [...]

Share

My question today is…which kind of movies or TV shows that you already own on DVD will you double dip for to get a copy on Blu-ray? I ask because I was a Best Buy today to use a birthday gift card, and decided to double dip on Sin City and L.A. Confidential. Why? Because [...]

Share

This Saturday, in Los Angeles, there will be a midnight showing of “Transformers: The Movie”. No, not the Michael Bay pieces of crap, we’re talking the original 1986 animated film that many people in my generation consider a beloved and seminal piece of work…so of course I’m going. (Thanks to my friend Josh for the [...]

Share

I am an unabashed fan of Batman and DC Animation. If a show or movie has been released that has anything to do with Bruce Timm, Paul Dini or Alan Burnett, I own it. That bias aside, I was very excited when DC Animated announced Batman: Under the Red Hood. I’ve not read all of [...]

Share

According to an article on Ars Technica entitled, Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”, the Library of Congress has added a bevy of new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act altering the way we’re allowed to use much of the digital media and devices we have.

Share

There’s one main reason I went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. I mean sure it was done by the same folks who did National Treasure — which I loved — but that wasn’t it. I wanted to see how Dresden Filesey it was. What do I mean by this? Well, look at this still from [...]

Share

Fifteen years ago, we were introduced to Woody, Buzz, the Potatoheads, Hamm, Rex, Slinky and, most importantly, a little animation company named Pixar. Myself a recent high school graduate at the time, I went to see some strange movie called Toy Story full of equal parts curiosity and cynicism. 90 minutes later, I joined the [...]

Share