June 2012

Brave

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Brave
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brave-posterIt’s taken Pixar nearly two decades, and a dozen films, for the animation studio to give us their first attempt at a feature film centered around a female character. Merida (Kelly Macdonald), the fiery tomboyish Scottish princess certainly fits into Disney’s Princess franchise, but Pixar one-ups the house that Mickey built by giving us a story centered around a troubled, but loving, mother-daughter relationship (something Disney hasn’t been able to achieve in far longer than two decades).

Although I think Brave has a little too much of an American sensibility for an old world fairy tale (another first for Pixar), the film is gorgeous to behold. The story of a young girl attempting to change her fate may not rank near the top of Pixar’s best, but it’s definitely worth a long look and should find quite fanbase in both young and older female viewers who have been waiting patiently for the studio to deliver a character like Merida.

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Futurama – The Bots and the Bees

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  • Title: Futurama – The Bots and the Bees
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After an affair with the office’s new Slurm-dispensing beverage machine (Wanda Sykes), with whom he has been trading barbs with for days, Bender (John Di Maggio) is shocked to learn he has fathered a son. The gang decides to take the confused robot to the Robie D. and Robbie T. Robot Center to teach him where baby robots come from by sharing with him a special PSA entitled “Robot Sex Ed. Volume One Or Pants Full of Shame.” I like the second title better.

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Batman and Robin #10

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batman-and-robin-new-52-10-cover“War of the Robins” begins as Damian assembles all of Batman‘s former sidekicks together (minus, of course, a still un-rebooted Stephanie Brown) and announces his plans to defeat each of them proving himself to be the best Robin. He begins, not surprisingly with his most heated rival, Tim Drake.

The story certainly fits the character who has a need to live up to the legacy and prove himself worthy of the mantle (which, in Damian’s dickish mind means showing up each of the previous Boy Wonders). I’m also glad to see, at least in one of the other Bat-titles (other than Red Hood and the Outlaws), Jason Todd is sticking around for at least an issue or two.

The comic’s other storyline introduces a new villain named Terminus who prepares to kill the Batman before his own demise. Nothing special here, and Terminus is certainly overshadowed by all the Robins appearing in the same panel together for the first time in the New 52 (although we still haven’t gotten Batman and Red Hood together, yet). Worth a look.

[DC, 2.99]

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Kate Upton’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Bombshells

/ / Books & Magazines

In the July issue of GQ model and Internet sensation Kate Upton sat down for an interview with Mark Kirby where she discussed the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Internet Bombshells.

In the interview Upton discusses being discovered while doing “the Dougie” at a Los Angeles Clipper game, her two tattoos (a horseshoe and a cross), being kicked us out of the Santa Monica Pier for failing to properly cover-up after an unexpected wardrobe malfunction, her commercials for Carl’s Jr. and Zoo York, her recent tabloid ties to New York Jets quarterbacks Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow, how her racy “nun-kini” bathing suit in The Three Stooges drew the ire of the Catholic League, growing up in Florida, using Twitter, and her role as “America’s premier spokesperson for dude-friendly products.” Upton also posed for a cover photoshoot with Terry Richardson. You can find the pics, and behind-the-scenes video, after the jump.

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