According to Radio Times, there are now a series of three different wines with Star Trek labels on them. Named after three fan favorite TOS episodes, The Trouble with Tribbles, Mirror, Mirror and The City on the Edge of Forever, each sports a label image reminiscent of their story. Radio Times is a UK publication, but I figure they have to be available in the US as well.
101 pictures of C’Thulhu? Yep, not the band, but images from the books written by the guy they named themselves after, have been collected up over at The Lovecratfs Man. I have played with the big green guy a bit myself (OK, sometimes he’s red), here is an image and an animation I put together…
If you are not already a fan of this Australian Indi band you should check them out, because Operator Please has some tasty music. My favorite track by them is Song About Ping Pong, but all their songs are good. Their official home page seems to have evaporated so they may not be a band any more, and the one time I know of they appeared on US TV was in season 4 of Chuck, in the episode Chuck Vs. The Fear Of Death.
While I am not a Parks and Recreation fan, I did enjoy the Star Wars filibuster that Patton Oswalt ran, and somebody in Europe has built the perfect animation for it. OK, maybe in Europe and maybe not, there was a whole question about not being able to upload it from a specific country. This is hysterical, thank you Worlds Without End for the heads up on this one!
This week we get the Smith family in After Earth, the second movie this summer to show planet Earth abandoned by humanity. These is another one that looks interesting this time around Now You See Me, about stage magicians who pull off robberies in the middle of their act and give the money to the audience. Not exactly genre, but the trailer makes it look like fun.
Not much in genre movies this time beyond AE: Apocalypse Earth and Battle Earth, both direct to DVD. The first at least has actors I like and an actual web page.
We do much better in TV, with Doctor Who: Series Seven, Part Two coming out. Looking around Amazon I found a listing for the complete Series 7 costing twice as much as the first two parts combined, and with no release date listed. That tends to make me wonder if they have plans to bundle it together with all the different 50th anniversary specials and bring it out in November for the anniversary itself, or possibly Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, Doctor Who: The Snowmen is also out on disk this week.
In Anime only one entry this time around: Phi-Brain: Puzzle of God: Season 1 Collection 2, bringing still more deadly puzzles along for our protagonist to resolve. Kaito doesn’t really want to solve these puzzles, but they are all deathtraps which will kill him and his friends if he fails to figure them out. This series is different in that the person with the brain is the hero, rather than the one with the biggest muscles or best school of Kung Fu, and I quite enjoy it. If you don’t know it already, bop over to Crunchyroll and watch some episodes (the link takes you to the start of the first season, so you don’t drop into the middle of the series).