Here's a picture of Viggo Mortensen looking gruff and sporting a thick neck beard. There's nothing special about that. What is special about this photo is that it's the new poster for the movie The Road, which releases on Oct.16. The movie, based on the Cormack McCarthy written post-apocalyptic tail, which you can see a trailer for here, has already recieved a few negative nods. But I'll try and stay optimistic about this one considering the source material is so highly revered.The poster seems rather bland and familiar. The lead...

The Fourth Kind: In theaters Nov.6.In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document…until now. Structured unlike any film before it, The Fourth Kind is a provocative thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska,...

HD, 1080p, 240hz, what's next? 3D? Well, actually, yes. Sony announced Wednesday plans to blanket the globe with 3D televisions by the end of 2010 rendering millions of HD television, including yours, boring and flat. Don't think you need a 3d TV? Consider this, Sony is moving aggressively to establish 3D multimedia across many different platforms, including but not limited to their Vaio series, the PS3 game console and of course Blu ray movies which means that something you'll want will be offered in 3D. Of course the situation...

I'll make this quick, because I've written about it before. Recently, I was listening to a favorite movie podcast of mine, which I won't name because I think they do awesome work and I'm not really trying to start a net beef. Anyway, during this podcast they decide to semi re-kindle that Games-as-Art debate. They were, and I hope this is not giving too much away, talking about, and I'm paraphrasing here, how Bioshock is the one of the only games that comes close to becoming an art form, or for that matter proving that games can be...

What was your most magical special FX movie moment? For me, it was seeing the Brachiosouras for the first time in Jurrassic Park. It gave me chills. Still does. As a child, I remember wanting to capture my amazement at that seen in put it in a bottle. It was truly magical. Maybe because it was so new at the time. Unfortunately, we're all pretty used to rubbery CG and grand vistas now. And the time where we could truly suspend our disbelief and be amazed has passed, and in its place a more critical or, for that matter, cynical mindset...

Do we, the American public, have a pernicious tendency to escape into illusionary activities when the going gets rough? Do we have an unhealthy obsession with perfection, reality tv, and all other forms of fatuous entertainment? Are we consuming too much and spending way too much money, that we possibly don't have, in light of our grim economic situation? Are our academic institutions loosing there moral integrity and their drive for truth and intellectual knowledge through corporate takeovers? Do mega corporations have our best interests...

One might consider musical icon Bob Dylan to be somewhat of an Ebenezer Scrooge judging by his chilly demeanor in numerous tv and magazine interviews, but apparently, like most of us, he too gets a little bit of the holiday spirit. At least this year he does.He's releasing a Christmas album.That's right, a Christmas album, folks. And all the profits will be going to the charity Feeding America.The songs featured will be holiday classics like "Little Drummer Boy" and "Winter Wonderland". The latter song , coincidentally, I remember saying...

Apparently Avant-Dude rocker Andrew W.K. is big in Japan. So big that for the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam, he is releasing an album of nothing but English-language covers of popular Gundam songs.This album cover is truly epic. Kinda makes me want to jump into a mech suit and PAR-TAY!Gundam Rock will be available for sale in Japan on 9/9/09, so look for it on a torrent tracker near you(just kiddin...