Sideshow Collectibles is taking pre-orders for their AragornasStridertheRangerThe Lord of the Rings 12-inch Figure. It's scheduled to ship in the third quarter of 2006 with a price of $64.99. The 12-inch Aragornfigure includes:Authentic likeness of ...
Boasting the best-selling action figure series in America, Bandai is celebrating their 2006 Anniversary with 6.5-inch mock-ups of the Red Power Ranger from six different morphin, monster-fighting seasons. Premiering after Power Rangers in Space and before...
Sideshow Collectibles and New Line Cinema will release later in the year their second entry in the series of The Lord of the Rings Dioramas. The Walls of Helm's Deep Diorama captures Aragorn in the heat of battle, as he turns from one attacker to ano...
You know those gushing reviews treating Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of THE LORD OF THE RINGS like it's the greatest thing to come along since the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's revered trilogy in the '50s? Those "We're not worthy" love letters ...
TOY STORY 2 should really be subtitled: `The Little Movie That Could.` The sequel to the computer-animated landmark blockbuster almost never became the can`t-miss hit of this year`s holiday season, which it now seems poised to be. When the original TOY S...
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Sequel. Studio: New Line Cinema. Production Company: Wingnut Films. Project Phase: In the Can. Who's In It: Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn); Ian McKellen (Gandalf the White); Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins); Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee); Orlando...
What They SayNana is a multifaceted girl, but she never dreamed that her facets would develop minds of their own! As each of the seven Nanas take turns attending school, each one uses her unique abilities to handle classes, bullies and their secret crush....
Director Peter Jackson has changed the face of genre filmmaking with the success of his LORD OF THE RINGS movie trilogy. Based, of course, on J.R.R. Tolkien's ever-popular book series, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS and THE RETURN OF THE KING ...
We all have our guilty pleasures: series or movies we take joy in but are hesitant to tell even other fans about. Some people have tapes of the complete series of MISFITS OF SCIENCE hidden away in their homes. Others can't get through a week without tunin...
Strike Season by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Tue 02-19-2008)
The strike is over. TV will continue. Well, most of it anyway. Okay, so it isn’t all roses but some shows will return with a slight break and then squeeze out a few more episodes and then be back in the fall. Hopefully. So I star...
BABYLON 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski must still be reeling from the out-of-the-gate cancellation of his last B5 series, CRUSADE. This new property, THE LEGEND OF THERANGERS, is quite clearly crafted as a pilot for a new series (it even has an episode...
More and more horror "B-movies" are receiving deluxe treatment on DVD, but for every cult classic being reborn on disc there are dozens of less worthy titles sitting in the vaults. Some are worth seeing, but just not as sought after, or else pristine elem...
Elijah Wood has been riding high for the past year since his film THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING proved to be such a huge success in 2001. Now the second picture in the RINGS trilogy, THE TWO TOWERS, is set to premiere next Wednesday, a...
What happens when one of the highest grossing movie series teams up with one of the largest collectable producers in the industry? Limited Edition 12” Lord of the Ring Figures from Sideshow, that’s what. This series includes li...
OPINION: I knew I should have stayed out of the Thor/Superman conflict. Several of you had quite strong responses to last week's column, and in the last week I've been labeled both a Superman-hater and a Thor-hater (neither of which is true, by the way). ...
Starting next week Warner Brothers will have a plethora of superhero DVD tie-in titles to coincide with The Dark Knight. Yet, this week Anchor Bay is releasing the best DVD tie-in of the month. This hero isn’t a rich business man and he doesn’...
Swamp life sure ain’t easy. Why you done got gators, and skeeters and I reckon a whole lot of other critters that’ll just plain eat you down to the bone if’n they get a chance. Yeah the Okefenokee sure ain’t for City folk, they just plain get killed. Best...
What They SayThe school year is just about up, and it won’t be long before all the Nanas will boil down to one! But first, Evil Nana, has some unfinished business with the object of Yoichi’s affections! That means it’s Nana against Nana ...
Sideshow Collectibles, in association with New Line Cinema, is currently producing a line of LORD OF THE RINGS Premium Format figures. This 1:4 scale figure line follows a very successful Lord of the Rings collectibles line, created when Sideshow Collecti...
Leave it to the comics industry to drop about three things at once in around one week, all worthy of discussion in this week’s Comicscape. DC’s Countdown reached its half-way point last week, World War Hulk wrapped today, and Marvel very ...
What They SayNana\'s grandfather always wanted to capture the rainbow. After years of tinkering, he finally found a crystal that separates light from a rainbow into its seven basic colors. The experiment only needed to bake for a few more seconds. That\'s...
This has never happened to me before.Being a game reviewer is an enviable job. Think about it, you get a chance to look at the greatest (and worst) games ever and then write about them. It requires the ability to be objective when you look at a game, rega...
Open Season by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Thu 09-21-2006)
Thank you for tuning into this edition of the Countdown. I have been overwhelmed with games for the last week, and trying to complete a bunch of reviews for the site. It feels that if I take a break for a day they will bury me. In any event I enjoy the ch...
British actor Robbie Coltrane is a veteran performer, having appeared in films like HENRY V, FLASH GORDON and THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. He's now featured in one of the biggest films of his career though, playing Hagrid in HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S ST...
Afraid I'm going to have to come out swinging this week. Last week's column of course highlighted the DVD release of KING KONG, and as always seems to happen when you bring up this movie, a few readers jumped on the boards to chime in with their opinions....
EQUINOX was a bit of an event for the Monster Kids that read about it in FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND magazine, as it featured stop-motion monsters created by fellow readers and the buzz was hot. Released in 1970 when fantasy films were scarce, peppy TV ad...
ReelArt Studios has teamed up with Bret Blevins to create the wildly retro ATTACK OF THE BRAIN MONSTER collectible statue.Shawn Nagle sculpted thefigure based on Blevins' original art. The 1/6th scale painted statue pays a campy homage to those the low b...
Vampires, apes and ghosts, oh my!No, the aforementioned weren't the cast of the latest monster movie spoof, but part of the guest list at FANGORIA's 15th annual Weekend of Horrors convention, held in conjunction with Creation Entertainment August 11-12 in...
Since the debut of Peter Jackson's long-awaited filmic LORD OF THE RINGS adaptation, the bickering has begun. We tend to forget that adaptations of beloved books are not the books themselves. They're more like coffee-table books or even albums of music in...
Peter Jackson is whetting the appetites of fans around the world for the next chapter of THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, THE TWO TOWERS. As if that's necessary. In a recent interview, Jackson revealed the production has reshot 25 minutes of the film, as aw...