June 17, 2008 in Project: Shadow Informant Show Notes by Brian Logee
Moment of Silence | Super-Earths? | Steampunk Trike | Technorati Ad Network | Takedown Tiff | Get Smart | The Love Guru | George Lucas | Ninja Movie | Hobbit Rumors | 3 Stooges | Babylon 5 Scripts | Dr. Who DVD will be upgraded | Trivium | Last.FM | and Shine Like Thunder! Today on the Project: Shadow Informant.
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Movie
- Theater or Renter: Get Smart (dashPunk)
- Theater or Renter: The Love Guru (dashPunk)
- Tuskegee Airmen to be subject of George Lucas film (via Yahoo News)
- Wachowski’s Ninja Movie Plot Details Leak Online (via Cinema Blend)
- McAvoy Denies Hobbit Rumors (via Sci Fi Wire)
TV / Series
- Three Stooges Collection 1934-1936 (via Hulu)
- Babylon 5 Scripts: Other Voices Volume 2 available (via Worlds of JMS)
- The Invisible Enemy: Latest DVD release may be faulty (via BBC Doctor Who)
Music
- TRIVIUM: New Album Release Date Announced (via Blabbermouth)
- Last.fm Signs Video Deal With Universal (via Mashable)
Books
Game
- Wii-kly WiiWare And Virtual Console Update (via Gay Gamer)
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June 17, 2008 in Movies by Brian Logee
The Plot / Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus devotes his life to helping troubled couples. He returns to the States to get into the self-help business. He uses unorthodox methods to resolve his first challenge which is to settle the romantic troubles of a professional hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival lover (Timberlake) before the NHL Stanley Cup.
I gave the trailer a 5 out of 5. The trailer clearly conveys the story of the movie. It made me laugh and gave me confidence that this film was able to capture Mike Myers’ comedic sense. I found myself thinking about the jokes from the trailer at latter points throughout the day especially the joke about when he saw the inspirational message on the bathroom wall, demonstrating the trailers lasting ability. It also did not become tired, boring or annoying after watching it multiple times.
I think this will be a renter and maybe even an owner site unseen. I really enjoy Mike Myers’ jokes and I get the feeling that this film will be full of them. I’m not expecting a moving or compelling story from The Love Guru like we get from Shrek but expect this to be more along the lines of Austin Powers 
movies. This would probably be a great film to watch after The Happening though, so if you are going to catch The Happening this weekend I would recommend making it into a double feature.
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June 2, 2008 in Movies by Brian Logee
It’s time once again for our favorite game “Theater Or Renter?”
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then Put in your comments below the trailer: does the trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
For June we have eight movies: Mongol, Kung Fu Panda, The Incredible Hulk, The Happening, Get Smart, The Love Guru, WALL·E, Wanted
Mongol:
 Watch The Theatrical Trailer
Release Date: June 6th
Listed as: Drama, History
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Written by: Sergei Bodrov with Arif Aliyev
Produced by: Sergei Selyanov, Anton Melnik, and Bulat Galimgereyev
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun
The Plot / Story: Mongol looks at the life and legend of Genghis Khan. It follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood through to his adulthood and the battle that sealed his destiny as Genghis Kahn. (The Official Site) |
Kung Fu Panda:
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 6th
Listed as: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Mark Osborne John Stevenson
Written by: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Stars: Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie
The Plot / Story: Kung Fu Panda is about Po (Jack Black) who is a panda bear that is recruited by a team of Kung Fu masters to help protect the Valley of Peace from an evil snow leopard. (The Official Site) get your copy here |
The Incredible Hulk:
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 13th
Listed as: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Superhero Flix
Studio: Marvel Enterprises
Director: Universal Pictures
Produced by:
Written by: Zak Penn, Edward Norton
Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
The Plot / Story: The Incredible Hulk, also known as Hulk 2, is a tale about Bruce Banner the Geneticist and his quest for a cure for a condition that turns him into a raging monster known as the Hulk that lives within him. The military wants to learn how to control the Hulk and use Bruce’s research to create super soldiers. In the end they only create an even more deadly monster known as The Abomination. Even though this is the second in the recent Hulk series they are not ignoring the original nor continuing events put forth in that film. (The Official Site) |
The Happening:
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Release Date: June 13th
Listed as: Drama, Sci-Fi
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by:
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
The Plot / Story: Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and other people begin encountering breakdowns in human behavior in major American cities that lead to chilling deaths that seem to be willing suicides committed by the victims. Appearing to be a disease of some sort, the victims undergo a series of steps: loss of speech, followed by disorientation, and the third step is “fatal.” Moore flees from the crisis into Pennsylvania farmlands with his estranged wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), math teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) (via Wikipedai). (via Wikipedai) (The Official Site) |
Get Smart:
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Release Date: June 20th
Listed as: Action, Comedy
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peter Segal
Produced by: Alex Gartner, Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar
Written by: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember
Stars: Steve Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwane Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, James Caan
The Plot / Story: Control agent Maxwell Smart (Carrell) is sent on his first mission which is to stop KAOS in their latest plot for world domination. Agent 99 (Hathaway) is sent with him to keep Maxwell Smart out of trouble. (The Official Site) Get your copy of Get Smart here |
The Love Guru:
Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 20th
Listed as: Comedy
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Marco Schnabel
Produced by: Mike Myers, Gary Barber
Written by: Graham Gordy, Mike Myers
Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake
The Plot / Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus devotes his life to helping troubled couples. He returns to the States to get into the self-help business. He uses unorthodox methods to resolve his first challenge which is to settle the romantic troubles of a professional hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival lover (Timberlake) before the NHL Stanley Cup. (The Official Site) |
WALL·E:
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Release Date: June 27th
Listed as: Action, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Pixar
Director: Andrew Stanton
Produced by: Jim Morris, John Lasseter, Lindsey Collins
Written by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
The Plot / Story: According to John Lasseter:
WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and his programming was to help clean up. You see, it’s set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he’s left on Earth doing his duty all alone. He doesn’t know he can’t stop working. But it’s not a story about science fiction. It’s a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to recover the last plant left on Earth, which curious little Wall-E has picked up. He absolutely falls in love with her.
(The Official Site) |
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Release Date: June 27th
Listed as: Action, Thriller
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Produced by: Marc Platt, Jason Netter, Jim Lemley
Written by: Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Chris Morgan, Dean Georgaris
Stars: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Angelina Jolie
The Plot / Story: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge in the murder of his father, who was an assassin. Gibson is invited by his father’s partner, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), to follow in his father’s footsteps.[2] Sloan’s second-in-command (Angelina Jolie) mentors Gibson,[3] who follows the death orders issued by the Fates, weavers who read individuals’ destinies in fabrics produced by mystical looms (via wikipedia). (The Official Site) |
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