August 2008

American Teen

  • Title: American Teen
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“You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.  But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princesss, and a criminal.”
The Breakfast Club

A familiar pose
The documentary by Nanette Burstein follows a small group of diverse high school students from Warsaw, Indiana, over their final year through graduation.  Burstein’s chosen subjects run the gamut from the high school basketball stud trying to land a scholarship and the most popular (and nastiest) girl in school, to your typical band geek and the lonely art student who wants nothing more than to get as far from Indiana as possible.

Events over this year include each of the subjects dealing with relationships, both romantic and platonic, fears about the future, the awkwardness of adolescence, bad choices, and a cruelty that can only be found in American high schools and Turkish prisons.

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2008 Olympics

It’s Summer Olympics time people!  That’s right the Games of the XXIX Olympiad are about to begin.  If you look below you will find a schedule for every day of the games breaking down which days you can find the sport you want to watch.  From archery to wrestling 10,500 athletes will compete in more than 300 events from 34 different sports.  On NBC’s official page you can also check out the TV listings and athlete profiles of this summer’s Olympians.  More than 1,400 hours of TV coverage kicks off Friday night when the opening ceremonies begin at 7:30/6:30 on NBC.

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Comic Rack

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls.  Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at feet of the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, WildStorm, Vertigo, IDW Publishing, Dynamite Entertainment, Devil’s Due Publishing, Archie, and Image Comics.

This week includes The Boys, BtVS Season 8, Detective Comics, Final Crisis, Hack/Slash, House of Mystery, Hyperkenetic, Invincible Iron Man, Red Sonja, Robin, Spike: After the Fall, The Sword, Ultimates 3, and the first issues of The Authority and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane.  Also don’t forget the truckload of new graphic novels including Brit Vol. 2, The Complete Zombies vs. Robots, The Flash: The Wild Wests, Grendel: God and the Devil, Runes of Ragnan, Spider-Man J: Turning Japanese, and much, much more.

Enjoy issue #82

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Look Forward

  • Title: DC Super Heores: The Filmation Adventures
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If you’re a late night viewer of Cartoon Network or Boomerang or were a kid in the mid-60’s you’ve no doubt seen these clasic Filmation cartoons starring Green Lantern, the Flash, the Atom, Hawkman, the Teen Titans, and the Justice League of America.  18 of these 60’s adventures, which originally aired between episodes of the The Superman Aquaman Hour of Adventure, are collected on two discs and will hit stores on August 12th.  Fans of the cartoons can also find the intro for the Flash inside.

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Coming Soon to Theaters

  • Title: Twilight
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It seems fans of the Stephanie Meyer novels went ga-ga for the short look they got at Twilight based on the first book of the series about a vampire (Robert Pattinson) who falls in love with a teenager (Kristen Stewart).  I don’t know about you, but to me this sure looks a dumbed-down lame tween version of the Buffy/Angel relationship.  Check out these clips and interviews from the San Diego Comic-Con courtesy of the good folks from G4’s Attack of the Show.  The movie is set to start sucking (heh, vampire humor) at the box office on December 12th. 

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