My Geek Confessions

Welcome to our episode for November 06, 2015!

We’re back from our Halloween break and lucky for us it was slow. Star Trek is coming back but not the way we want, the Hunger Games theme park multiplies, and brand new trailers arrived for your enjoyment. Then in Talk Nerdy to Me, Funimation announces its Broadcast Dubs for Fall 2015 and Activision Blizzard wants a Cinematic Universe.

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* We had quite a few trailers drop over our break, with Disney’s Alice Through The Looking Glass (which isn’t even made by Tim Burton this time!), the first Warcraft trailer after it being teased so many times at cons, and a Japanese trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens that provides never before seen footage! Tell us which one you liked the most in the comments!

* The lovely gals over at the Creature channel on YouTube have made one of my favorite Halloween videos of the year with a fantastic Golden Girls parody simply titled “The Golden Ghouls.” What makes this video great is the near shot for shot recreation of the opening (complete with credits) and then a short scene that sounds like it would have totally fit in. Props to the Creature channel!

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for Oct 23 – 25, 2015

Box Office Mojo for Oct 30 – Nov 01, 2015

In Theaters – October 30, 2015

In Theaters – November 06, 2015

New Releases for October 27, 2015

New Releases for November 03, 2015

Movie News

Pacific Rim 2 Is Now In the Hands Of Movie Executives

Nicole Kidman Joins the New DC Universe With A Role In Wonder Woman

Bieber quits concert because fans won’t listen to him

Irish actress Maureen O’Hara dies; ‘Parent Trap’ actress was 95

‘Ocean’s Eleven’ all-female remake casts Sandra Bullock to lead

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Welcome to our episode for October 23, 2015!

We review Part 1 and Part 2 of the live action Attack on Titan movies and Goosebumps! Then we quickly rush through the rest of our news with Donald Trump is Biff Tannen, a new Tower of Terror movie is being planned, a real Jessica Jones trailer, and Amazing Stories may be returning (I’m excited).

Then in Talk Nerdy to Me, the Marvel Phase 2 box set is announced as an Amazon exclusive, Tenchi Muyo is back after 10 years, and Arina Tanemura’s shonen project may have been announced!

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* We’d be terrible if we didn’t include some of the biggest news of the week with Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer that forced nerds everywhere to watch Football or wait for the trailer on YouTube (like we did).

* Here is a new trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though we don’t know if it’s the international version or something else because it seems like it is drastically different in tone to the one we last featured.

* After all the teasers, we finally have a full trailer for Jessica Jones, the new Marvel Netflix series. This time showing Jessica Jones’ struggle against the Purple Man. It looks even more intense than we thought!

* It’s been awhile since we featured How It Should Have Ended but this HISHE for Ant-Man has some great moments. I don’t agree with everything that was in video but HISHE doesn’t disappoint in its Superhero Cafe bit at the end.

* The guys at Screen Junkies never quit and we want to feature their Honest Trailers for Aladdin and Jurassic World.

* The lead up to Goosebumps had Jack Black making all sorts of cameos all over YouTube, but this team up with Nerdist for a Goosebumps music video is probably the best one. Bumps Gonna Goose Ya!  with Jack Black also is great in that it also uses the theme of the Goosebumps TV series as the background music.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for October 16 – 18, 2015

In Theaters – October 23, 2015

New Releases for October 20, 2015

Movie News

‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie Casts a Black Ranger Who’s Big in China

Chris Rock to host ABC’s Oscar broadcast next year

Jon Chu Wants to Make a GI Joe/Transformers/Jem Crossover Movie

Welcome to our episode for October 16, 2015!

We’re back after a week hiatus due to a family function but ready for a huge show! This week we review Bridge of Spies and The Martian, giving high marks to both. Plus we round-up a lot of the news out of New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2015! Disney’s announced a bunch of movie release dates for Marvel and Disney, Playboy goes PG-13 because of too much porn, and ABC Family is changing to Freeform (yeah we think it’s bad too).

The real action begins in Talk Nerdy to Me where western artists take on Attack on Titan, the 2011 Hunter x Hunter is licensed and will be dubbed, Netflix expands their anime reach with the Seven Deadly Sins anime,  Free! Eternal Summer changes its released date for the better, and lots of other anime and nerd news from NYCC!

Be sure to check out Krista’s review of Maze Runner: Scorch Trials and the excellent Food Wars: Shokugeki No Soma (seriously this has been one of my favorites over the summer).

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* It has been a long time coming but we finally have the first teaser trailer for the probably improved version of Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This already looks more fun then we thought and better done than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

* The trailer for the new movie Hail, Caesar! by the Coen Brothers set in the 1950s that looks like a pretty fun portrayal of old Hollywood with lots of famous playing a bit against type. It definitely looks to be more on the silly side, which makes the omission of saying they made O Brother, Where Art Thou? (which I think has been one of the Coen Brothers best comedies) very interesting. Still the trailer for Hail, Caesar makes us very interested! What do you think of the trailer?

* Netflix keeps pumping out the trailers for its new Jessica Jones Marvel series before its premiere in late November. This one slightly trippy/creepy one features a bit of David Tennant as the villain Purple Man.

* We kind of forgot that the Ratchet and Clank movie was happening, but a trailer has finally been released. Now there have been some complaints from what we’ve heard that it looks too much like the Ratchet and Clank video games, but considering it’s based on the games this seems like a good thing to us. But since neither of us have played the games, are we missing something?

* While it’s almost time for the present to become the future and we actually hit the real date for when Back to the Future Part II took place. We’ll be celebrating in our own way (and feel really old at the same time) while others are getting in on the fun before we hit the date. First is Pepsi who released a special edition “Pepsi Perfect” which was featured in the movie. They are ultra limited edition for $20.15 (2015 LOL) but unfortunately they are only plastic bottles and mostly available only online. It’s too bad since made of glass or some kind of special material and it would be a cool collectible. At least the commercial is cool. The second video is from the upcoming 30th anniversary of Back to the Future part II which includes a fake trailer for “Jaws 19” that was featured in the movie. There’s definitely some strange sequels to get to 19.

Welcome to our episode for October 02, 2015!

This week we review The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, but otherwise it’s a slower week thanks to all the fall premieres happening. Matt Damon makes the late night rounds, Mark Wahlberg apologizes to the Pope, the Serial Podcast becomes a TV series, and Marvel gets a new TV addition in a Damage Control sitcom.

Then in Talk Nerdy to Me, Attack on Titan had an attack on subtitles, Manglobe goes bankrupt, and Magi gets a prequel with the Adventures of Sinbad.

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* Even though FOX decided to break it into two halves, here is the full X Files Trailer for the new event series that premiered last week.

* Matt Damon has been making the rounds to the different talk shows to promote The Martian. First up, Matt Damon and James Corden team up to act out scenes from all of Matt Damon’s movies. Second, after 12 years Matt Damon tries to sneak onto Jimmy Kimmel as Dr. Phil (very poorly disguised) so he can finally become a guest on Jimmy Kimmel. It then shows that Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel have been going through couple’s therapy that hasn’t been that successful THEY BOUGHT A ZOO AND HE NEVER EVEN SHOWED UP!

* The Daily Show returned with Trevor Noah as the new host and had a great segment comparing Donald Trump to an African President (really dictators). It sadly is an uncanny comparison, especially when some of the quotes are almost too close for comfort.

* Netflix has released two very short trailers for the new Jessica Jones Marvel series that will be coming in the end of November. We still don’t know too much about her from these trailers other than Jessica Jones likes to drink and sleep in and destroy her alarm clock.

* Here’s the latest Honest Trailer from the guys at Screen Junkies put out the Honest Trailer for the Avengers: Age of Ultron just in time for its release on home video.

* DC and Warner Bros. have finally come out with their toy line for girls with the DC SuperHero Girls Super Hero High. It mostly features both heroes and villains redesigned to be in High School but even from the quick short we think it has some promise.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for September 25 – 27, 2015

In Theaters – October 02, 2015

New Releases for September 29, 2015

Movie News

Mark Wahlberg to Pope: Please forgive me for making ‘Ted’

Vin Diesel planning to make 3 more ‘Fast & Furious’ movies

TV News

Olympic-Level Troll Hijacks HLN Segment on Edward Snowden to Defend Edward Scissorhands

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Welcome to our episode for September 25, 2015!

TV season is underway so it’s a shorter week! There’s trouble for the Prometheus 2, Men in Black, Gambit movies; we cover the Emmy’s and Nickelodeon nostalgia with the Splat and a Kenan & Kel reunion.

In Talk Nerdy to Me, DC finally does something right by Bill Finger with Batman, Happy Birthday lyrics are public domain, Free! movie updates, and the final episode of Blood Blockade Battlefront is announced.

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* This seems like years too late to capitalize on the Angry Birds craze but here is the teaser trailer for The Angry Birds Movie set to arrive even later past the point of caring in May 2016.

* As part of his beginning of his time as the new host of The Late Show on CBS, Stephen Colbert has started to start a lifestyle brand. He’s calling it Covetton House and captures cheesiness of people trying to sell themselves as brands and the items that go with them.

* This Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies is one of the reasons we love them so much. This time they are taking on the original Disney Peter Pan and help us remember just how…timely some of the old Disney cartoons really are.

* The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon had some great bits this last week. First is Kenan & Kel reunion in a Good Burger sketch which is short but definitely brings back memories. The second is Ragtime Gals with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jimmy Fallon singing “Bitch Better Have My Money” by Rihanna.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for September 18 – 20, 2015

In Theaters – September 25, 2015

New Releases for September 22, 2015

Movie News

Gambit Production Runs Into Another Problem: No Director

Independence Day Is Getting a Comic Series to Tie the Films Together

Prometheus 2, Which Has Nothing to Do With Alien, Is Now an Alien Movie

Men in Black Isn’t Getting a Sequel, So Now It’s Getting a Remake

That New, Official Harry Potter Play Will Come In Two Parts

Sigourney Weaver joins ‘Ghostbusters’ cameo roster with Bill Murray

TV News

CBS Charts A Course For The Island Of Doctor Moreau

Welcome to our episode for September 18, 2015!

We have the new Disney’s Jungle Book trailer, Mary Poppins gets an ill-advised sequel, and Charlie’s Angel’s gets a reboot. In TV news, The Mist becomes a TV series, Sharknado gets a mockumentary, and Schwarzenegger takes over the Apprentice.

Then in Talk Nerdy to Me, Mario’s name is confirmed as Mario Mario, Ace Attorney gets an anime, Tomorrowland makes a clever promo for ToxiCosmos, and Honest Trailers and How It Should Have Ended serve up some great content.

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* Disney finally released the first trailer for their live action version of the Jungle Book. This is opposed to the other live action version of Jungle Book being produced, the previous live action Jungle Book that Disney did in the 1990s and the Jungle Book cartoon that this new movie is based on.

* While I still think that Tomorrowland was the number 1 most underrated movie of the summer and that everyone should go see it as soon as it’s on video, this promo for the movie on video is extremely meta but fascinating and hilarious. You see, in the movie Tomorrowland, to show that humanity has become obsessed with negative and depressing things, including in entertainment, it’s shown in the background several times that the movie ToxiCosmos 3 is soon being released in theaters. This is a trailer for the fake movie, but the trail gets even more interesting from there. You see, the channel is for ToxiCosmos3, and links you to their site (which also shows you that you can follow their twitter and even buy themed T-shirts). It’s revealed that ToxiCosmos is produced by Quarter Minus Entertainment which not only is the opposite of the group Plus Ultra in Tomorrowland, but also uses Plus Ultra’s logo upside down! Add to that, the trailer says that audiences chose the depressing, post apocalyptic films of the summer over the more positive Tomorrowland by actually showing footage of the some of those films. Honestly I think it’s a brilliant piece of guerilla marketing, along with a lot of what they had done with the lead up to the movie that I think was so fun but sadly missed by the general public.

* The guys at Screen Junkies are back again with two new Honest Trailers. The first one is the Honest Trailer for Furious 7, which explains just how ridiculous the movies have really gotten and that they’ve had “one last ride” for seven movies. The other is for the Frozen Fever short which is nearly as long as the short itself, that made me realize that they reused many of the same shots to save on rendering time and that still nobody understands Elsa’s powers.

* This next video isn’t directly an Honest Trailer but does feature the voice behind the series in a very clever ad promoting Hotels.com being incredibly meta and funny that is effective advertising

* How It Should Have Ended is celebrating 10 years (that makes me feel old) with a great parody of Batman V Superman (and Superhero Cafe in general) AND Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood by mixing in characters from many of their greatest hits over the years into the great music video.

Welcome to our episode for September 11, 2015!

It’s a double episode as we return from AnimeFest 2015. Wes Craven and Dan Jones pass away, Borderlands may become a movie, we’ve all been saying Voldemort wrong, and Chris Evans may stay as Captain America. Then in TV news, Colbert returns to Late Night, trailers galore, and George RR Martin is a zombie.

In Talk Nerdy to Me, Dubsmash Wars are back, the dubcast of Durarara continues, Archie invades other comics, and Pokémon are coming to the real world.

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* Stephen Colbert kicked off his tenure on CBS on the Late Show with a nationwide performance of the National Anthem including a stop in Fort Worth and a special appearance from Jon Stewart.

* While we were gone, the trailer for The Flash Season 2 premiered and they even since released a new extended trailer that you should check out.

* MTV finally dropped a trailer for their TV series adaptation of The Shannara Chronicles based off the Shannara series of books. Color us surprised when the trailer actually looks really good and makes us think that this may be a great adaptation. If they can keep up the quality shown in the trailer, I will be mightily impressed. The series is still misplaced but at least it looks like MTV is putting their budget behind it.

* Marvel and Netflix finally released a trailer for the new Jessica Jones Marvel series that looks a little strange but also said that the series would be ready for binge watching on November 20, 2015. Especially after how great Daredevil was, we’re definitely excited.

* When we originally heard about Miraculous Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, we thought it was a pseudo French anime a la “Totally Spies” but it appears that it is a dual production between Zag Entertainment in France and Toei Animation in Japan and together bringing it to Nickelodeon in December.

* What’s sure to be a huge hit on the internet once it hits, Nintendo has teamed up with Niantic (formerly under Google before it was restructured under Alphabet and makers of the augmented reality game Ingress) have teamed up together to create an augmented reality game for Pokémon, called Pokémon Go! that is scheduled to be released in 2016 on both iOS and Android devices. We’re sure this will definitely create some neat events at conventions and maybe be the new street pass but time will tell. In the meantime, watch the trailer for the game.

* Lastly, Screen Junkies has released their newest Honest Trailer. This time it’s for The Happening, which is a movie I absolutely hate and think no one should see. Only watch this Honest Trailer or a RiffTrax version and spare your sanity.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for August 28 – 30, 2015

Box Office Mojo for September 04 – 06, 2015

New Releases for September 01, 2015

New Releases for September 08, 2015

Welcome to our episode for August 28, 2015!

It’s a little slower week as we await our time at Anime Fest 2015. Man of Steel 2 is likely no more, we see the new assassin for the new Assassin’s Creed movie, and the sides of Civil War are revealed. Sadly there was a shooting on live TV that affected other TV programs out of respect, Galaxy Quest is coming to Amazon, and BK makes a terrible decision.

Also be sure to check out Krista’s review of Show By Rock!! and Funimation’s Broadcast dub!

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* Here’s another look at the new Starz series of Ash vs Evil Dead with another trailer. I get more excited for the series with everything I see.

* Here’s a great fan edit with If Harry Potter was The Villain. I say even without some of the creative editing there might be a pretty good case for it.

* A very interesting video posits that in the Karate Kid, Daniel is the real bully of the movie and that Johnny is actually trying to turn his life around. I must admit…the argument does definitely have its merits. Right up when they called Mr. Miyagi a “Demon Sorcerer.”

* Burger King had an epic fail. It took out a full-page ad in The New York Times and made these videos and more, to try to convince McDonald’s to partner with them to make a McWhopper on International Peace Day on September 21st. They wanted to have one temporary store in Atlanta with co-branding everywhere. However, McDonald’s turned them down pretty quick, even calling out their lack of doing anything other than creating “awareness” and for trying to make McDonald’s look like a fool and instead telling Burger King to try a phone call next time. It still remains to be seen if McDonald’s or someone else will step up to join BK. But for now it just looks like Burger King made a bad PR move without thinking things through 100%. If you want to check out the site they made to try to promote the McWhopper, follow the link to www.mcwhopper.com.

* The guys at How It Should Have Ended made another edition of The Villain Pub to make a few jabs at the new version of Joker for Suicide Squad. As they should.

* Screen Junkies is back again with another great Honest Trailer, this time for Mad Max: Fury Road. They bring up some of my biggest points about the movie with a gratuitous amount of water being wasted when there is a water war.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for August 21 – 23, 2015

In Theaters – August 28, 2015

New Releases for August 25, 2015

Movie News

Vin Diesel confirms ‘xXx 3’ on Instagram, filming begins December 2015

The Extended Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Will Be R-Rated, Somehow

Welcome to our episode for August 21, 2015!

We review Fantastic 4 and Assassination Classroom. We cover all the news from D23, there’s some more potential bad ideas out of Hollywood, DC is planning a superhero Office type sitcom, the RED movies could be getting a spinoff, there are changes coming to Starling City on Arrow, and that Agent of SHIELD spinoff is in the works again.

In Talk Nerdy to Me, Marvel TV’s Dubsmash Wars is back in a big way, Air New Zealand does Men in Black, there’s Jurassic World in LEGO, plus much more!

It’s an extremely video heavy episode, so we apologize in advance.

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* This week is Trailerpalooza with tons of new trailers for your amusement! We have two different Victor Frankenstein trailers (that makes them look like different movies), a very NSFW Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, The Final Girls (a very fun looking movie), The Martian, and even a trailer for the American release for Attack on Titan.

Warning: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse trailer is NSFW.

* Jimmy Kimmel roasts Donald Trump in the best way possible by having the “voice of an angel” Josh Groban sing Donald Trump tweets and show just how insane he really is.

* In a very strange muppet video, they do a dramatic reading of “It’s a Small World” but Animal not understanding the word “small.”

* Air New Zealand is back with another interesting safety video, this time with an AWESOME parody of Men in Black, this time with Men in Black: Safety Defenders.

* Here’s the Marvel DubSmash War between Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter and more for charity announcement video that we talked about in podcast. Make sure you check it out!

* Make sure you watch this great 90 second recap of Jurassic World in LEGO.

* Hang’em Hyrule is a great well produced fan film that has Zelda in a western style shootout against Ganondorf as she tries to save Link from being hanged.

* Lastly, here’s the latest from Screen Junkies with the Honest Trailers: Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for August 14 – 16, 2015

In Theaters – August 21, 2015

New Releases for August 18, 2015

Movie News

Please Let This What We Do in the Shadows Sequel Happen

What’s Coming from Pixar and Walt Disney Animation!

“Stand Out” with A Goofy Movie’s 20th Anniversary

Warner Bros. is developing a Carl Sagan biopic

Welcome to our episode for August 14, 2015!

It’s a short week right before D23, but we still review Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and compare it to Man from UNCLE. There’s more Batfleck movies on the way, plus a Baywatch movie and Kindergarten Cop 2. Constantine is coming to Arrow, evil IKEA is becoming a TV series, and we may be getting a new ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’.

In Talk Nerdy to Me, Resurrection ‘F’ is climbing the charts and Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! is back for a second season!

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* First up is the trailer for Hateful Eight, the new movie by Quentin Tarantino that’s set to hit theaters by the end of the year. It looks like it will be just as full of over the top violence as his other movies but I have to say I’m already excited with the additions of Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell.

* We mentioned the Westworld series trailer before that was released during Comic-Con but it’s finally been released to the public and you can see that so far they’ve updated it fairly well.

* Also up, is a new trailer for Supergirl. This one honestly has me a bit more excited because it looks like it’s bringing in the right amount of corny to fit in the new crop of DC TV series and reminds me a lot of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which is a good thing in my book.

* CW and the Flash continue to hit it out of the park, especially with this new tease for the second season with a fantastic recreation of a classic Flash comic book cover.

Get ready for worlds to collide when Jay Garrick arrives on #TheFlash! @teddysears @grantgust pic.twitter.com/gq5EaIC6cQ

— The Flash (@CW_TheFlash) August 11, 2015

Box Office

Box Office Mojo for August 07 – 09, 2015

In Theaters – August 14, 2015

New Releases for August 11, 2015

Movie News

Report: Affleck to star in 3 stand-alone Batman movies

Bill Murray To Appear In Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters

The New Jem Movie Trailer Still Isn’t Truly Outrageous, Just an Outrage

Will Arnett’s Lego Batman Will Face Lego Joker, Voiced by Zach Galifianakis

Zac Efron in talks to join The Rock’s ‘Baywatch’ movie