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Supanova Expo Melbourne 2008

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Supanova is finally here. The Supanova pop culture expo will be at the Melbourne Showgrounds from 28th, 29th & 30th March, 2008. This great expo has been running in Brisbane and Sydney for many years and has now made the jump down to our great city. I will most definitely be there this weekend and I hope you will too.

The event will include TV/Movie guests (Jewel Staite, James Kyson Lee, and John Rhys-Davies, just to name a few), movie screenings, comic book artists and writers, and much much more. Check out a full listing of guests and events at the official site here.

Where: Exhibition Hall (via Main Entrance off Epsom Rd), Melbourne Showgrounds.

When: 10am to 6pm, March 29th and 30th, 2008.
Preview Night March 28th (6pm to 10pm – doors open 5.30pm)

Tickets: On sale NOW from Ticketek and at the door.

Parking: Parking is available for 1,200 cars on site. Road access is 15 minutes from the city via Flemington and Racecourse Roads, or off City Link at Racecourse Road.

Public transport: Tram number 57 leaves Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, and travels along Epsom Road to the Main Gate. Bus stops are conveniently located on Langs Road and Epsom Road. Bus service number 472 travels between Williamstown and Moonee Ponds via Footscray along Langs Road.

http://www.supanova.com.au/

Canned Geek Podcast – Episode 20: Worst. Episode. Ever.

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On the podcast we gush over Jamie Smart’s awesome new comic, Ubu Bubu before moving onto to discuss comic book adaptations of TV series, the works of Joss Whedon, a book about the year 2008 written in the year 1968. We also lament the futility of the governments planned discussion of introducing an R18+ rating for video games in Australia and tell you what events are happening in the coming week.

Note that this week we have a short, half hour show for you. We did record a full hour podcast, but it was just full of problems with audio levels, dead-end topics and far too many references. So we cut out 20 minutes of crap for your own good. Enjoy.

All hail Carl Barks!

Source: Canned Geek

Review: Drillbit Taylor

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Drillbit Taylor is about three kids who hire a bodyguard to protect themselves from a high school bully…and yet, it isn’t really about bullying.

I left the cinema entertained and having lol-ed a fair bit, but as someone who had to put up with numerous jerks through primary school and high school, I couldn’t help but wish Drillbit Taylor actually had something to teach kids about how to deal with bullying. It doesn’t, which is a shame because it absolutely nails the depiction of being a victim of bullying.

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Happy belated Saint Patrick’s Day!

Fun “Fact”: Muppets f’ing rule.

The Incredible Hulk teaser trailer

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The real deal has finally arrived, here is the brand new trailer for The Incredible Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk teaser trailer:
iFilm (HQ Flash, QuickTime HD)
MTV (LQ Flash)

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Anamorph trailer

Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall are starring in Anamorph, a murder thriller in the vein of SE7EN. SAW music in the trailer aside, this movie looks pretty good, especially considering it will only be released on DVD.

Fun “Fact”: This movie has nothing to do with Ice Man turning into an animal.

The Incredible Hulk teaser trailer teaser

Really? A teaser for a teaser trailer. God damn this teaser trailer better be some awesome shit.

Watch the site for trailer in the next couple of days.

Review: Soldier Of Fortune : Payback (PC)

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Developer: Cauldron HQ
Publisher: Activision
Available On: PC, PS3, XBOX 360

Everyone loves violence. Well, perhaps only the gun-toting psychopathic Americans the media and classification regulations seem to portray. Australians, we must be quite sane – with the OFLC sticking a pacifier down our barrels before we even get a chance to re-enact video game violence in real life situations.
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Watchmen character pics

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The Dark Knight may have the everyday comic book and action movie fans drooling in anticipation but the true comic book aficionados are holding out for the Zack Snyder (300) directed Watchmen. Based on a critically acclaimed and multi-award winning graphic novel, Watchmen is set in a 1985 alternative history United States where costumed heroes are real and the country is on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It tells the story of how these heroes react when one of their own is murdered. Check out the first ever pictures of the heroes below.

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Half-Life: What Has To Be Done

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Earlier this year a Half-Life fan fiction by a nine year old spawned a most ingenious machinma from Canandian filmmaker Djy1991. The film gained unanimous acclaim and delight dozens – nay, severals – of internet viewers. That film was Half-Life: Full Life Consequences. Its strong use of self-mockery, text, music and narration combined to create a masterpiece of comedic filmmaking.

So I think we’ve established that I really liked the first film, which is why it pains me so to say that the sequel, Half-Life: What Has To Be Done fails to live up to its processor.

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