I’m one of those cable cutters; I do not have subscription cable TV. I have a cable line running into my house, but it only provides me with Internet. I use Hulu and Netflix, and I have pretty much ripped all my DVDs or Blu-rays and store them on a Hard Drive on an inexpensive Mac Mini “Media Server”. When I purchase these days, I purchase almost all my movies, TV shows ¹ , and music through iTunes. The reasons for this are simple, it’s fairly future proof, I can re-download the media from iTunes in the Cloud anytime I want or need to, which also makes it always available via streaming to…

“Shakespeare in the park” was a line that Whedon threw to Downey on the day of filming. Downey then ad-libbed “Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?” Similarly, the shawarma aside came up when he asked Whedon for more material following his revival. The director gave him a few options, shawarma among them, which Downey then took and ran with to its glorious conclusion. Saying that the arc reactor was a “terrible privilege” was also an addition of his that Whedon loved.

One of many great little tidbits. The geek in me is loving this!

Also this:

The intention was to impart that…

Even if you’ve already seen “The Avengers” a thousand times by now, here’s a reason to push that tally to 1,001: the Joss Whedon commentary track.

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Whedon has a thing for knocking Norse guys out of the frame. “It’s always fun to do that,” he confessed, regarding Thor and Loki’s propensity for getting spontaneously slammed out of scenes.

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The director is also extremely proud of how Hulk manhandles Loki at the film’s climax. “If I did nothing else for the last two years, if I literally sat on my bum doing nothing, and I made that little scene? I would feel that I had…

Today is announcement day

We have run the course of the active contest, and the winner has been selected to get a Blu-ray edition of the newly released Avengers film!

The Winner is…

Our very own Random-bot chose a name out of the machine, and that lucky winner is:

Karen Che

Karen, you know what you are? You’re special! You are awesome because you like The Avengers nearly as much as TJ. Like you said in your comment on the contest entry:

I’d love to win The Avengers on Blu-Ray because this is my new favorite ensemble superhero flick! The cohesion between character stories is…

Duhamel, as firefighter Jeremy Coleman, is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and sees a hulking psychopath – D’Onofrio – shoot and kill someone in a convenience store. Duhamel picks the brute out of a police lineup, and a classic game of cat-and-mouse ensues. He goes into witness protection, his identity is erased, he becomes “a ghost,” and Rosario Dawson shows him how to shoot a big big gun.

This looks like it could be interesting. On the other hand, this is a straight-to-DVD movie so I’m not sure what that says about it. Still, I may check it out sometime.

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Fire up the Bat-signal: Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has a home video street date of December 3, which means Christmas is coming early for the kids, the action fans, the Bat-fans, pretty much all grown adults, Christian Baleheads, Tom Hardyites, Nolanazis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s transmedia empire, Furries who count Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman getup, freeclimbing enthusiasts, and those Warner Home Video suits awaiting their piles of cash. Mark your calendars!

Marked!

We’re so surprised to learn that the director who doesn’t do directors or extended cuts is continuing to not do directors or extended cuts for the disc release of his latest film. While rumors recently flew that Christopher Nolan would reinstate up to 30 minutes to the home release of The Dark Knight Rises, turns out they’re just not true. The 165-minute version of the film that was in theaters is the version of the film, whether it was exactly what Nolan wanted, or if he cut scenes to fit IMAX running times, or any other reason.

Like I said, it doesn’t seem like something Nolan would…

The release date of Season 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation has been released to retailers, which means the word got ’round quickly to the Internet. The release date is now known to be December 4th in the U.S.A.

Awesome.

Also awesome is this:

The highlight of the extras are “hybrid extended” and full HD extended versions of the episode The Measure of a Man recreated from original elements.

Audio commentary on the extended The Measure of a Man with writer Melinda Snodgrass, director Robert Scheerer, and Mike Okuda.

The first two seasons were real hit and miss in finding the…

“I don’t suddenly turn into a warrior,” says Stewart in this exclusive look at one of the behind-the-scenes features on the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman Blu-ray (out this Tuesday, Sept. 11). “She hasn’t learned how to fight, and she doesn’t want to.”

Click through to see the clip.

Blu-ray comes out tomorrow. This was a great film and I’m looking forward to seeing it again.