Based on the Adam Rex book The True Meaning of Smekday, the Dreamworks Animation version is called Home, and it is scheduled to be in theaters on November 26th. This one looks like it will be a lot of silly fun. This particular short, Almost Home, was already on the big screen in front of the feature animation Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
The winner this time is X-Men: Days of Future Past, and I think the folks running the franchise made an excellent choice. By selecting the 1980 Days of Future Past comic book story line, they get to merge the cast from the three original X-Men movies with the reboot of the franchise from First Class. I like the thought that we haven’t seen the last of the original lineup yet, and I have to appreciate the timing, since the future they traveled back from in the original story was 2013. Also this week we finally get the much-delayed The Prototype… or do we? It is not very promising when the movie home page took down the trailer video; I am thinking this one might still not be available.
In movies Vampire Academy is based on the bestselling books by Richelle Mead, and tells the story of a secret school of Moroi (mortal, peaceful Vampires) and Dhampirs (half-vampire/half-human guardians), and their ongoing battle with the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires). Yes, it is a YA oriented film and book series, and it also has a great soundtrack. The other movie out this week is the historical fantasy Pompeii, about a few folks fighting to save their loved ones and survive the death of their city.
In TV, Warehouse 13: Season Five brings the series to an end, which means you can also order Warehouse 13: The Complete Series if you don’t have any of them yet. Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World becomes available on DVD for the first time ever, and in fact was unseen from the time of its first broadcast in 1967 until it’s rediscovery when some missing episodes were found last year. Also ending with this season, Nikita: The Complete Fourth and Final Season finishes the tale of this spy and assassin.
In Anime, Fairy Tail – Part 10 brings us up to episodes 109-120, and the Fairy Tail Guild will have to work together better than ever to defeat the enemy or risk seeing the golden age of magic destroyed forever. Of course, they STILL have a lot in the way of collateral damage going on, so every time they fight they are as dangerous to those they are trying to protect as to the evil ones they defeat.
I have no clue what made them call themselves Bump of Chicken, but their music is fun. These tracks also feature Hatsune Miku, a virtual idol and computer-generated diva.
The folks over at Sabayon have two attitudes that make me appreciate their Live Discs; they want it to “just work” right out of the box, no questions asked, and they are constantly updating to the latest and greatest versions of the software in the package. They have now released a series of variants on version 14.05. They are live DVDs, in 32 or 64 bit mode (only get 32 if you have an older computer) and come in Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and a minimalist variant that runs smaller desktops like Fluxbox or Openbox. The exciting part is the KDE and Gnome versions are optimized for Steam, meaning they are setup for some serious network gaming. If you want to you can install them to hard drive or memory stick, as well, but they do everything I want them to do booting from the disc. Like almost all Linux builds, they are a free operating system filled with tons of free, open source software programs, so you certainly can’t beat the price.