Yes, the announcement has been made that Linda Hamilton will be Chuck’s Mom. I can’t wait for the new season to roll out!
There are a few good films coming out in August, starting with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a comic book movie I have been waiting about a year to see. The premise is simple; if it is really love, you will be willing to fight for it. The style is anything but simple; full blown comic book reality mode for this one.
Also in August, Tales from Earthsea is the US release of a Miyazaki animation of an Ursula K. Le Guin classic story. Except this time it is Goro Miyazaki, son of genius filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, in the directors chair. It took this Anime four years to make it to this country, but the wait is worth it.
I am somewhat curious as to just who thought a remake in 3D would salvage this film? I am referring to Piranha 3D, of course, also due out this month. I hold out a bit more hope for Vampires Suck, but only a bit. It is, after all, a spoof of the Twilight franchise, which was pretty bad before anyone decided to poke fun at it on film.
Topping the list of movies released to DVD this week is Kick-Ass, one of the more violent comics made into a movie for this year. I really do hope they make a sequel for this one, although I am not quite sure where else they could take the story. In the non-fiction department, Dragon Masters looks to be the film to beat.
I have been waiting for a decade or two to be able to add Max Headroom: The Complete Series to my collection. Depending which web site you believe, this will either be available the 3rd or the 10th of August, but that is a small detail compared to the 1984 to 1987 initial programming dates. As near as I can tell, this box set is only the 14 episode US TV series, which was much wimpier than the original BBC TV Movie, and completely different than the BBC TV series. But it is more Max Headroom than has ever been previously available, so it is a great start! Set your TVs for 23 minutes into the future. The other TV release worth noting this week is Heroes: Season 4.
On the Anime front, Naruto Shippuden Box Set 3 becomes available. I personally enjoy Shippuden more than I did the previous series with the younger characters, although the gap between what is out on DVD and what is legally streaming online is fairly large. Since I only started watching the streaming stuff in the last 6 months or so, I think there are still about a hundred episodes between the two segments I haven’t seen yet. The Sola box set is also available this week. This strange little story involves a boy with a secret he does not know and an addiction to photography, and a girl who can not coexist with the sun.
Princess Resurrection: Complete Collection is not one of your more upbeat Animes, what with the protagonist dieing at the start of the series. He is brought back to life, but only for as long as he will be the Princesses servant. This one is Subbed, not Dubbed, so you get to hear the original voice actors. If your aggressive side needs some exercise, the Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny complete box set hits the shelves. This one is a modern day retelling of the Romance of the three kingdoms story, with the high schools battling it out for supremacy.
Over the last decade I have linked to the Boilerplate website a number of times, since it embraces the Steampunk Robot movement, or even helps lead it. It looks like they are finally getting their just due; according to Heat Vision, JJ Abrams is doing the Boilerplate movie. I have a difficult time imagining what that will be like visually, but I look forward to finding out. On a completely different note, Pink Raygun has a good article and review of the Her Universe booth at Comic-Con. It comes with an online store, and is run for and by female sci-fi fans; great job!
Yes, another new trailer from Comic-Con, this one for the movie RED: Retired, Extremely Dangerous. This one is almost the last RED trailer I posted, but it does have a few new scenes. It doesn’t really matter to me how good this is; I will see any movie that includes Willis, Freedman, and Malkovich in the lineup.
Just to add to the confusion, there was another movie trailer for a film called Red at Comic-Con. In the other one, Felicia Day is a descendant of Little Red Riding Hood who hunts down Werewolves. Based on the obvious Graphics Novel, this is a Made for TV Movie from the Sci-Fi Channel, which normally would mean a really bad film, not even good enough to be a B-Movie. But there have been some exceptions, and I am really hoping this is added to their number, because I absolutely loved the comic book. Or am I confusing it with the one Ron Howard is turning into a movie?
There were a boatload of new trailers released at Comic-Con, most for movies I have been waiting on for a while. Somehow I flat out missed Sucker Punch, which surprises me. Based on the trailer, this one looks great!