May 2011

Flashpoint #1

/ / Comics

flashpoint-1-coverBarry Allen wakes in his office in Central City only to realize it isn’t his Central City. He’s not the Flash, and the world around him isn’t his own.

Alternate reality comics are a staple of the business (just ask the X-Men who have been doing this on a regular basis for decades now). They’re also severally limited. Nothing that happens in this reality matters outside of it. And usually few, if any, characters remember the events which took place in the other reality.

As alternate stories go Flashpoint isn’t awful. The first issue does a good job setting up the differences in the world. There is no Superman, no Justice League, Abin Sur never died bequething his ring to Hal Jordan, and Batman isn’t the Wayne we know.

This world is trapped in wars with both Wonder Woman and the Amazons and Aquaman and the Atlateans. And the closest thing the resistance has to a leader is… Cyborg. Oh, that can’t be good.

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Fright Night (2011)
  • IMDB: link

Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and David Tennant star in this remake of the 1985 film about a teenager who learns his neighbor is a vampire. If you care to compare, you can check out the trailer for the original after the jump. We’ll see if this new Fright Night can take a bite into the box office staring August 19th.

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Comic Rack

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It’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! 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 offer you this quick list of all kinds of comic book goodness set to hit comic shops and bookstores this week from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Batman, Booster Gold, Darkwing Duck, Fables, Hellblazer, Jughead, Power Girl, Silver Surfer, The Spirit, Supergirl, Thunderbolts, Transformers, Witchblade, X-23, Young Justice, Zatanna, the first issues of Batman: Gates of Gotham, Drums, Rocketeer Adventures, Snake Eyes, Star Wars: Jedi – The Dark Side, Vampirella and The Scarlet Legion, and the final issues of The Darkness: Four Horsemen, Hawkeye: Blind Spot, and Transformers: Dark of The Moon – Foundation.

Enjoy issue #128

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Everything Must Go

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Everything Must Go
  • IMDB: link

everything-must-go-posterNick Halsey (Will Ferrell) is having a really bad day. In the first few minutes of the film he loses his job, his wife locks him out of the house and leaves town (first throwing all his possessions on the front lawn), his car is repossessed, his bank accounts are locked out, and he falls off the wagon and begins drinking again.

Unable to deal with the situation Nick begins living on his front lawn, drinking all day long, and pretending to hold a yard sale to keep the police from arresting him. During his plummet to rock bottom he meets a new neighbor (Rebecca Hall), befriends a neighborhood kid with little direction (Christopher Jordan Wallace), and discovers a few tawdry secrets about his neighbors (Stephen Root, Rosalie Michaels).

The script from writer/director Dan Rush (based on a short story by Raymond Carver) isn’t all that original, but it is told well. We’ve seen the tale before, perhaps not as ridiculous as this (really? he has no recourse to access his bank accounts?) as he discovers, both literally and figuratively, Everything Must Go.

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