Riff on DC Comics, Win Superhero Swag
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Holy schwag, Bat-pals! DC Comics’ 75th anniversary party rolls onward at iTunes with new live-action and animated film and television downloads.
Want to score some superheroic freebies? It’s simple to enter: Let us know your favorite DC-based film or television show, and you could win one of several prizes from DC’s 75th Anniversary iTunes store.
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Screen Mogwai’s Concert Film Burning Online
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Scotland’s atmospheric rock band Mogwai specializes in cinematic riffage. See for yourself in the group’s first concert film, Burning, which screens for free online Tuesday at noon Pacific.
Directed by Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac and rendered in stark black and white, Burning doesn’t hit U.S. theaters until Aug. 23, but you can watch the [...] |
Video: Tera Melos Probes the Limits of Dork Horror
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Challenging math-punk trio Tera Melos takes dorks to the dark side in the hilarious but disturbing low-budget video for “The Skin Surf.” Its scattershot imagery, stuffed with suspicious liquids and mysterious meats, makes for destabilizing viewing, even though it seems to screen as tame as Super-8.
Tera Melos has ferociously explored the outer limits of bizarre [...] |
Trailer: Red’s Senior Spies Kick Major Ass
| Based on the cult DC Comics graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, Red is an explosive action-comedy starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren. |
Trailer: Zack Snyder’s Knock-Out Sucker Punch
| Baby Doll and her heavily armed female friends shake up the madhouse in this first look at the Watchmen director's upcoming action-fantasy film. |
The Story Behind Wookieeleaks, a Hash Tag With Legs
| Some of the Empire’s darkest secrets are being revealed on Twitter, thanks to Star Wars geeks who’ve jumped on the #wookieeleaks meme.
Tagged #wookieeleaks or #wookieleaks, the tweets include revelations like:
* Incompetence of Imperial Stormtroopers revealed in footage confirming, indeed, “These ARE the droids [we're] looking for.” –Jason Becker (@jasonpbecker)
* The Death Star has a serious [...] |  |
Tron: The Betrayal Comics Bridge Gap Between First Movie, Tron: Legacy
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A two-issue comic book series called Tron: The Betrayal will serve as a prequel to the Tron: Legacy movie due in December.
The oversize comics will feature covers by Salvador Larroca (The Invincible Iron Man), with various artists and writers contributing. The story will extend the Tron mythology, picking up in the aftermath of the 1982 [...] |  |
Gods Smile Upon Mighty Thor at Comic-Con
| SAN DIEGO — Any doubts about Thor, the upcoming movie based on the Norse god comic book character, got seriously hammered Saturday when Marvel Studios showed off a ballsy new trailer at Comic-Con International.
The filmmakers set the movie in two distinctively different worlds. In the desert of the American Southwest, a banished Thor (played by [...] |  |
Zombie Sharks and Double Rambos: The Best Booty From Comic-Con’s Secret Stash
| Wired.com patrols the show floor at the annual geek gathering in San Diego in search of Futurama, Shepard Fairey and more obscure finds. |  |
Is Comic-Con Still a Comic-Book Convention?
| This year's Comic-Con International in San Diego marked the 41st year of a comic book convention gone pop. Originally, Comic-Con consisted of a few nerds swapping comics, but now it's a multimillion dollar event. Wired.com asks Grant Morrison, Thomas Jane and others how the convention has changed over the years. |  |
Video: ‘Catception’ Cues Up Sci-Fi Feline
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If you saw Inception, Hans Zimmers’ bold, brawny score probably got your ears buzzing (perhaps literally, if you sat too close to the speakers).
In “Catception,” a short video by YouTube user Rickyohead, the music that drove Christopher Nolan’s cerebral sci-fi film lends a layer of brainy complexity to a dramatic feline.
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