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Review: Campers Beware Of NECA's Latest Jason Voorhees Figure

Posted 9/13/12 2:00 pm EST by in Horror, NECA, Reviews, Toys


It is now Thursday the 13th, and I'm celebrating with a review of Jason Voorhees' latest action figure from NECA! He's based on his appearance in Fri-- crap. "FRIDAY the 13th!" Well, I'm still doing this review, regardless! As I was saying, the unstoppable killing machine is based on his appearance in "Friday the 13th: Part 3." There was a regular and "battle damaged" version of the figure on the racks, and I bet you can guess which one I'll be looking at today! I know quite a few Jasons and they're all bad eggs, so join me as I delve further into the details of the worst/best Jason of them all!

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DC Zero Month, Week Two Reviews: Suicide Squad, Superboy, and Team 7

Posted 9/12/12 5:17 pm EST by in Comic Books, DC Comics, Reviews


This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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Book Review: A Paul Tobin-Created Superhero Must 'Prepare To Die'

Posted 9/12/12 3:00 pm EST by in Books, Reviews


The cover for Paul Tobin's debut novel "Prepare To Die" from Night Shade Press bills it as a book about "Superheroes, sex, and secret origins." And broadly, this book by by the frequent "Marvel Adventures" writer is about those things, but it's also about very adolescent power fantasies: what would it be like to get super powers (and more importantly, what would the sex be like)? What kind of badass things could you or would you do if you knew you were going to die? Would the girl you loved in high school still want you?

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DC Zero Month, Week Two Reviews: Green Lantern Corps, Grifter, Legion Lost, and The Ravagers

Posted 9/12/12 2:26 pm EST by in Comic Books, DC Comics, Reviews


This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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DC Zero Month, Week Two Reviews: Batgirl, Batman, And Batman & Robin

Posted 9/12/12 10:00 am EST by in Comic Books, DC Comics, Reviews


This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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Review: Canales And Guarnido Do Animal Noir In The Big Easy With 'Blacksad: A Silent Hell'

Posted 9/11/12 1:44 pm EST by in Comic Books, Dark Horse, Reviews


The writing-art team of Juan Diaz Canales and Junajo Guardino's "Blacksad" gets a second English-language volume in the U.S. thanks to Dark Horse. The publisher released the first volume of hard-boiled crime stories back in 2010 featuring the post-WWII anthropomorphic animal detective stories featuring the titular feline lead in the Blacksad. Over the summer, that volume was joined by "A Silent Hell" which, if I'm reading the copyright correctly, was originally released in Europe back in 2003 by original publisher Dargaud.

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Review: Get Your Ticket To Surreal Hammer Horror 'Vampire Circus'

Posted 9/7/12 4:33 pm EST by in DVD and Blu-ray, Horror, Movies, Reviews


Calling a movie "nuts" isn't really an adequate descriptor of its merits (or possibly lack thereof, depending on the movie) but man is "Vampire Circus" nuts. The 1972-released second feature from steady TV director Robert Young came out of the same equally troubled and brilliant period at Hammer Films that gave us "Twins of Evil." But where the 1971 film ratcheted up the sex and violence to the enduring Hammer formula of well-staged, breathless period horror, Young and screenwriter Judson Kinberg, either by design or accident, made something like an art film.

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Review: In '[Rec] 3: Genesis,' The Bride Wore Blood Red

Posted 9/7/12 1:03 pm EST by in Horror, Movies, Reviews


Five years after their found footage horror film "[Rec]" trapped us in a Spanish apartment building with its increasingly cannibalistic tenants, and three years after the excellent "[Rec] 2" came back to the same night to spin those same events into something more unsettling and supernatural, co-directors/co-writers Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza have parted ways, with Plaza going solo on the latest film in the series up for discussion today, which remixes the formula yet again.

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Review: 'Small World Realms' Keeps A Modern Classic Fresh

Posted 9/7/12 11:35 am EST by in Hobby Gaming, Reviews


"Small World Realms" is an expansion that can be used with the original "Small World" or its 2011 follow-up "Small World Underground" (or both sets combined). If you haven't played "Small World" before, stop reading this review right now and go play it. If you're skeptical, you can read my original review of "Small World," one of the first I ever wrote. Since that time, and 50+ other games reviewed, "Small World" has grown to become one of my favorites.

"Small World Realms" uses the same basic rules as the games it expands, but offers up plenty of gameplay twists to keep things fresh.

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DC Zero Month, Week One Reviews: Stormwatch, Swamp Thing, and World's Finest

Posted 9/6/12 9:30 am EST by in Comic Books, DC Comics, Reviews


This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

STORMWATCH #0
Written by Peter Milligan, Art By Will Conrad

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Blu-ray Review: 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits in 3D'

Posted 9/5/12 4:17 pm EST by in Animation, DVD and Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews


If nothing else, I can say that Aardman's latest is one of the best-looking movies I've seen in 2012. Now, it should be said that I'm biased here, being partial to stop-motion in particular, specifically the way that this style of animation has a level of texture and depth that CG hasn't quite reached yet. Pirates! Band of Misfits, from Aardman director Peter Lord (he wrote and directed Chicken Run and numerous stop-motion shorts over the last 30 years) is populated with distinctive characters and it's nuts to think how much time and effort has gone into bringing them to the screen along with backgrounds filled with all sorts of cute little side jokes.

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Blu-ray Review: Daniel Lee's 'White Vengeance'

Posted 9/5/12 2:30 pm EST by in DVD and Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews


White Vengeance Blu-ray Trailer

It's about halfway into Daniel Lee's historical epic White Vengeance (aka Hong men yan) that its true leads emerge, and then another quarter of the movie still before they recede into the background. In the battle of military forces and wits, the true protagonists aren't seemingly upstanding rebel soldier Liu Bang (Leon Lai) or his ruthless, power-hungry brother-in-arms Xiang Yu (Feng Shaofeng); no, the real persons of interest are Zhang Liang (Zhang Hanyu) and Fan Zeng (Anthony Wong), advisers to their respective proxies in a battle of wits over the control of the imperial throne of China.

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Review: We Take On All of McFarlane Toys' 'Halo 4' Series 1 Action Figures

Posted 9/5/12 2:00 pm EST by in McFarlane Toys, Microsoft, Reviews, Toys, Video Games


As the release for Halo 4 reaches ever closer, like the Covenant's control of space, the anticipation for another mission for John-117 is becoming almost too much to bare! Thankfully, a s**tload of merchandise has started amassing on store shelves, including a ton of action figures and vehicles, of varying scales, from Halo mainstay McFarlane Toys, and they recently airdropped a full regiment of Halo 4 Series 1 action figures for us to review!

We know you're probably screaming at your screen,"Can they really be that much different from everything else McFarlane has put out before?" Well, read on to find out!-- and quit all that yelling! You're gonna freak out your co-workers.

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DC Zero Month, Week One Reviews: 'Action Comics,' 'Animal Man', and 'Batwing'

Posted 9/5/12 9:22 am EST by in Comic Books, DC Comics, Reviews


This September, DC Comics is turning it all the way back to zero, taking a look at what went on in the DCU before the New 52. Like we did a year ago with the first month of DC’s new universe, we’re going to give you some looks at all the "Zero Month" titles coming out over the next few weeks.

So here we go:

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Review: 'Lizzie Newton' Needs to Take a Chill Pill

Posted 9/4/12 4:04 pm EST by in Manga, Reviews


Lord knows I love a good mystery, and the puzzle at the heart of the first volume of Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries is a decent one, but this teen-girl manhwa (Korean comic) makes you plow through a lot of silliness to get to it.

The story is set in 1864 among the British upper crust, and it makes the most of both the period setting and Victorian attitudes toward women. In fact, it leans way too hard on those attitudes, presenting Lizzie as a smart, independent woman who spends so much time fuming at her sexist contemporaries that it takes away from the story at hand.

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