Review: Coraline
Written and directed by Henry Selick and based on the novel by Neil Geiman, this stop-motion animated feature film tells the story of a young girl named Coraline who has just moved into a dreary apartment with her parents. Coraline doesn’t much care for her new home or her weird neighbours – but then she discovers a portal to a place which seems to be a magical, amazing version of her own world. In this ‘other world’ everyone and everything is better than it was in the real world. There’s only one disconcerting quality about this other world – everyone has buttons where their eyes should be. This is the experience of watching Coraline: it’s absolutely wonderful, but with a hint of menace. Read more [+]
iDef and eGames 2009
The International Digital Entertainment Festival is on again this year hosting 3 great events across one weekend including Australia’s biggest gaming expo eGames. Normally home to other forms of art and nearby the Melbourne Museum, the Royal Exhibition Centre will house the convention this year opening it’s doors to a different kind of artistic connoisseur, the digital entertainment fan.
Taking place from the 30th of October to the 1st of November the gamer’s event of eGames partners well with the presence of the Digital Lifestyle Show and the Develop ICT Skills and Careers Expo so even if you’re not a gamer but just a fan of the digital art there’ll be a lot to see and do at this year’s iDef convention.
Zombieland R18+ Trailer
Like every other young geek on the planet I love zombies and when I saw the instant classic 2004 horror comedy Shaun of the Dead I thought, the only way another zombie horror comedy could be even close to this glorious masterpiece is if it included Woody Harrelson killing zombies in hilarious ways.
Ok so I didn’t think that, but only because my brain has trouble imagining the awesomeness that Zombieland appears to be. You can check out the R18+ red band trailer below and the theatritical trailer at Apple trailers.
*The trailer will play after you enter your date of birth in the boxes. The order is month, day, year.
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Planet Hulk Trailer
Marvel comics have been on a winning streak of crossover events for a couple of years and one of the biggest World War Hulk started with an epic Hulk story arc called Planet Hulk. Now Marvel is giving us this green gladiatorial smack down in a new animated film for release on DVD and Blu-Ray. Check out the full length trailer for Planet Hulk below.
Source: YouTube
Canned Geek Podcast – Episode 27: Twopplestorm
The Canned Geek Podcast is a monthly geek-culture podcast featuring Will Owen and Kyle Evans from Canned Geek and Myself.
Returning from a nine month hiatus, the Canned Geek podcast delivers length discussion on geeky topics. In this episode we review the first episode of Tales Of Monkey Island, reminisce about cheating in high school, figure out Dreamworks’ secret method of coming up with their animated movies and assess the trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
You can download the podcast and see the full show notes at the Canned Geek website.
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