Author: Nigel G Mitchell
I know this is super late, considering “Jessica Jones” was released last year on Netflix, but I finally just got through the first season. I’m not a binge watcher, usually. I can’t just watch the same show hour after hour non-stop without getting tired of it, and going off to surf the Web or write or watch a different show. It’s the rare show that holds my attention enough to binge-watch. One of them was AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” Another was “Marvel’s Daredevil.” “Jessica Jones” was definitely on the opposite column. It took me days just to get through a single…
Who will play Black Lightning and Miles Morales? What C-level superhero is getting her own TV show? Find out in this week’s Geek Bits! ITEM! Of course, the big news this week is that the teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is finally here!* Feast your eyes on the first glimpses of the next stage of the “Star Wars” saga… ITEM! It’s been confirmed that Spider-Man will be getting an animated movie in theaters, and that Spider-Man will be Miles Morales. Yes, Miles Morales will finally hit the big screen in animated form. Okay, we wanted to see Morales…
There was a time when minorities in America believed that becoming more a part of mainstream society was inevitable, that progress would inch forward in all areas of society until prejudice was just something we read about in history books. That time was the 1960s, and the year is now 2017, and that dream has yet to be realized. In fact, it’s more like two steps forward and three steps back. Case in point, Marvel Comics was rapidly leading the way in comics, introducing a host of what it called “legacy characters” who tended to be minorities or women or…
With “Logan” now in theaters, we’re saying goodbye to Hugh Jackman’s epic run playing the indestructible clawed mutant Wolverine. To honor his memory, Maurice has created a supercut of all of Wolverine’s slashes in the movies from “X-Men” to “Logan.” The video counts down every time he slashed someone or something. What do you think of the supercut? Will you miss Hugh Jackman? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below to tell your friends about this post! Follow…
They don’t have touchscreens in the future? A new “Star Trek” captain, a new teaser for Wonder Woman, and Chewbacca’s pants. Welcome to this week’s long overdue Geek Bits! Fans created a Kickstarter to give Larry Hama, the creator of the backstory to the classic G.I. Joe action figures, his own action figure. The circle is now complete. The captain of the new TV show Star Trek: Discovery has been announced, Jason Isaacs. We’re disappointed the captain’s not Angela Bassett, but it’ll do. The teaser for the trailer for the Wonder Woman movie was announced. No word on when the…
“Game over, Man.” Sadly, Bill Paxton died on February 25, 2017 from complications during surgery. While many are mourning Paxton by remembering his starring role in the HBO series “Big Love,” the science fiction community is mourning the loss of a quirky mainstay of the genre. Here are Paxton’s roles in some of the best sci-fi movies ever. 6. The Terminator (1984) The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton),…
In 2015, Spinmaster released the Legendary Yoda toy action figure. Capable of voice recognition, speaking over a hundred phrases, and engaging in lightsaber duels, it was pretty cool if you had two hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket. Well, YouTube user DIY Prophacks found some knocked down in price to $20, so he bought them and decided to see what would happen when three of them interacted. What follows is an epic animatronic duel between three powerful toy Jedi warriors. Of the toy duel, what did you think? In the comments, let us know. Please be mindful of…
If you haven’t seen SNL’s “Space Pants” sketch, you need to fix that right now. When Peter Dinklage hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016, this one sketch stood out above all others. It begins in kind of a stereotypical way with two guys meeting tough mobsters over some money that’s owed, all very tense and gripping, until the meeting is broken up by the most distracting thing you could possibly imagine: Peter Dinklage walking out in a white wig and singing an 80’s-style New Wave song about “Space Pants.” It’s one of the most bizarre and hilarious sketches we’ve seen…
“USS Enterprise” in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” There’s a reason that “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” has been nicknamed “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” by fans. Gene Roddenberry apparently took his cues from movies like “2001” to fill the gaps and plot holes in the thin story by padding it with unnecessarily long special effect shots and unnecessary story lines. What if you took all the important plot points and put them all together without the filler? You’d get about five minutes of actual movie. At least, that’s the premise of this video by Omega Ordained on YouTube who…
Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) Like the rest of the geek community, we’re greatly saddened by the loss of Carrie Fisher, the actress best known for playing Princess Leia Organa on Star Wars. She died this week of a sudden and unexpected heart attack. It’s been amazing to see the outpouring of love towards her death, and we’d like to add to it. It’s not just the fact that a geek icon has died. I mean, let’s be honest, lots of geek icons die. And it’s not just that she was hot, and a lot of nerds had crushes on her.…
“Captain America: Civil War” gave us a taste of the new Spider-Man, but Jimmy Kimmel Live was able to provide the first official trailer for the 2017 movie, “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” In the trailer, we get to see the conflict between Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Iron Man, our first glimpse of Michael Keaton as the Vulture, and Zendaya as his possible love interest. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is set to premiere on July 17, 2017. What do you think of “Spider-Man: Homecoming?” Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you…
With “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” now in theaters, it’s reminded us of some of the awesome Star Wars videogames we’ve played over the years. There have been some incredible games spanning the decades, delivering our dreams to be a part of the epic battles on the screen. So far, there is no “Rogue One” video game in stores (unless you count the DLC for Battlefront), but we have plenty of other games we’ve enjoyed. Here’s our rundown of the fifteen greatest Star Wars games ever. 15. Star Wars Episode I: Racer Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom…
It’s always fun to look at how a superhero’s costume has evolved over the years. Characters change based on the writer’s conception or an artist’s ideas, sometimes radically. One of our favorite superheroes is Daredevil, and Shirts.com has put together a great infographic of his costumes. Click the link below to see the Man Without Fear go through his different duds. Infographic Created by Shirts.com Which is your favorite Daredevil costume? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please use the buttons below…
Hello, what have we here? Star Wars.com has announced that Donald Glover is going to be playing that double-crossing swindler Lando Calrissian in the new “Han Solo” standalone movie coming in 2018! In case you didn’t know, Disney is planning to release another Star Wars anthology film that will be a prequel about a younger Han Solo, played by Hans Ehrenreich. This is big news for several reasons. One is that we know Lando will be in the new movie, which will probably show how Han got the Millennium Falcon from Lando in a game of sabacc. Two is that Donald Glover…
Rhino in “The Amazing Spiderman” game Every superhero video game needs supervillains, and Rhino is a villain who’s shown up in many of them. In 1966, Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. created the supervillain with superhuman strength, speed, and bulletproof skin. Since then, Rhino has fought Spider-Man and the Hulk lots of times in the comics, and he’s often used as a boss character in Marvel video games. We noticed that boss fights against the Rhino in video games tend to go this way: Rhino charges at the hero, the hero jumps out of the way, and the Rhino…
We recently talked about the new Iron Man, who will be a young black girl named Riri Williams (her name will be Ironheart, in case you’re wondering how a female can be an “Iron Man”). While that brought the usual controversy over a female minority taking over a white male role, a new controversy has erupted over one of the variant covers for her first issue. Marvel released this cover for “Invincible Iron Man” #1: Just a day after its release, the flood of complaints caused Marvel to pull the cover. While many people in the comments underworld of the…
“Sweet Christmas. Did I do that?” That’s what you’ll be thinking when you see this hilarious mash-up of “Luke Cage” and “Family Matters.” Even if you haven’t seen Netflix’s “Luke Cage” (and you should), we think you’ll appreciate this re-edited intro to the series. Created by Zach Ace, it’s a shot-for-shot recreation of the original opening for “Family Matters,” using clips from “Luke Cage” instead. On Reddit, Zach explained: I edited this together over the course of a week really, but “over the weekend” sounds more effortless and cool and like I have better things to do than cut together…
When the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot movie came out, fans had a lot of complaints. We want Shredder to be more of a villain. We wanted Bebop and Rocksteady. We wanted to get rid of the turtles’ freaky nostrils. We wanted to get rid of the living mannequin Megan Fox as April O’Neill. Well, Michael Bay was listening, and he delivered in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Shadows. That is to say, he ignored everything we wanted, except he put in Bebop and Rocksteady. He also somehow managed to make a TMNT movie that had even more…
Black Lightning via FOX Black Lightning is one of the first major African American superheroes in comic book history. Originally created in 1977, the electrically powered superhero has inspired numerous other minority heroes with electric powers. Now he’s finally getting his own TV show. Variety announced that Fox will be developing a Black Lightning TV series. The show will be about Jefferson Pierce, who has retired from his career as Black Lightning years ago. But “with a daughter hell-bent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he’ll be pulled back into the fight.” It will…
Marty (Michael J. Fox) as the “spaceman” in “Back to the Future” Back to the Future is a great title. Let’s not even dispute that. It’s provocative and mind-twistingly literal. It’s also tells you it’s a time travel movie, and kind of hints at what the story will be about. But not everyone liked it, particularly the head of Universal Studios, Sid Scheinberg. At one point, he proposed a different and thoroughly horrible title for different and thoroughly horrible reasons. Especially in hindsight, it’s just mind-boggling how bad it is. Network Notes revealed the ridiculous memo: Studio notes to Spielberg over…
I spent the entire movie staring at Shailene Woodley’s nose. Her nostrils are huge and weirdly shaped. Very distracting. Shailene Woodley…seriously, look at that schnoz Anyway, Insurgent is the sequel to Divergent, the movie that’s supposed to remind us of Hunger Games, only not as good. Insurgent is set in a future Chicago where everyone is divided up into factions like the whole world is a high school cafeteria, and everyone sticks to their own cliques. All the factions have names no one but English majors would ever use like Abnegation and Candor, and none of them seem like factions anyone would…
Luke Cage is coming to his own series on Netflix, and Marvel released a couple of awesome trailers to whet our appetite. If you haven’t seen Luke’s appearances on “Jessica Jones” or you have no idea who he is, get ready for three minutes of school. And if you want to see Luke Cage in action, check out this teaser where Cage is brawling and bouncing off bullets. Are you looking forward to Luke Cage? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please…
I’m a huge fan of the Tick. I started out reading the original comic books back in the eighties, watched the cartoon show in 1994, and watched the live-action show in 2001. I was really excited about seeing the Tick return in a new Amazon Pilot. But this is not the Tick I knew and loved. In some ways, it’s better. In some ways, it’s lacking. In case you’re not familiar with it, Amazon creates original TV shows like Netflix and Hulu, but they work differently. Instead of creating a full season, they work more like traditional TV in creating…
I’ll say this for Marvel. They have some problems, but they’re also leading the way for diversity in comics right now. Their willingness to take beloved white male superheroes and transform them into minority and female superheroes is almost startling. They broke ground with an African-American teenage boy as Spiderman with Miles Morales. Then they created a female Wolverine, a female Thor, an African-American Captain America, an Asian-American Hulk, a female Muslim Ms. Marvel, and now the role of Iron Man will be taken over by Riri Williams, a teenage black woman. According to the announcement by Brian Michael Bendis…
Good news, everyone! Futurama is back! Well, sort of. It’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. A while back, we profiled a makeup creation of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. Well, someone has gone full walrus with a live-action version of Futurama called “Fan-O-Rama.” “Fan-O-Rama” has all the major characters, using makeup to bring Farnsworth, Leela, Bender, Zoidberg, and even Hermes into the real world. It looks like it’s even doing it without CGI, using practical models. The project is led by Dan Lanigan, with special effects by Martin Moonwalker Meunier, Kody Frederick and Katie Lanigan to co-star and co-write, and Eric Diaz…
There’s an action comedy out called Central Intelligence starring Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. They’re high school buddies who become a special agent and an accountant who team up. It’s not a scifi movie, but there is some interesting science behind-the-scenes. There’s a flashback where it’s revealed that Dwayne Johnson’s character used to be an awkward fat kid in school. It shows Johnson singing in the shower to En Vogue’s “My Lovin’,” and subjected to a cruel prank of getting thrown into the gym naked. For all of the Rock’s fans, the results are pretty startling: via GIPHY The…
One of the great moments in Avengers: Age of Ultron came when the Avengers took turns trying to lift Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir. As anyone who’s been following Thor knows, his hammer can only be lifted by those who are “worthy.” Considering for a brief period of time, even Thor himself was considered unworthy, it’s safe to say only a select few can do it. Now we get to see the test in real life, thanks to a little engineering instead of mystical power. On the YouTube channel Sufficiently Advanced, a guy created his own version of Mjolnir. Instead of an…
How It Should Have Ended returns with their take on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The creators wrote: “With 3 years of hyping BvS we know this episode was a long time coming. We wanted to give you as many scenes as possible making it the most epic of all epic HISHEs in the land. We got to 8 minutes… so I hope that is enough.” How do you think BvS should have ended? Please be mindful of our comment policy when making comments. Abusers will have comments deleted and may be banned If you enjoyed this, then please…
If you’ve seen The Force Awakens (and you should), you probably noticed Kylo Ren’s lightsaber looks and sounds different than any other lightsabers we’ve seen before. You may be wondering why it sputters and has those two crossguard beams coming out of the sides. Here’s the answer, thanks to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary. It goes back to the Knights of Ren, the group who (apparently) lured Kylo to the dark side. While they haven’t been fully explained, the key to remember is that they are not members of the Sith. In the new universe, the Sith no longer…
Erik Bauersfeld, who performed the original voice of Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, died on Sunday April 3, 2015. He was 93. According to Hollywood Reporter: He also voiced Jabba the Hutt’s staffer Bib Fortuna in the same film. He returned to voice Ackbar in last year’s J.J. Abrams-directed blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Bauersfeld’s other roles include voice work in last year’s Guillermo Del Toro film Crimson Peak and Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. “The voice work I did in movies was accidental,” wrote Bauersfeld on the website for his non-profit, Bay…
