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OH SNAP! Sound the alarms! Mortal Kombat is allegedly coming back with more gore, more violence, new plot, better cinematography and Michael Jai White.


...and oh yeah it comes out in 2013.

I've scoured the internet for information on the upcoming flick and so far, what I've found are two possible theories:
this is a short intended for the director to film the third installment
this is for real

If you check out IMDB it's slated as in-production with lots of legal drama with Warner Bros., whatever the case, the film should be rolled out. With this gritty look it's sure to get MK fans riled up for the next game (slated 2011) and it looks WAY better than the last MK film which was the biggest ball of crap I've ever seen in my life. And dude, Johnny Cage getting decapitated? Save no one, this looks like to be sheer unadulterated bloody fun just like the original franchise.

Hopefully we'll get to see Mileena as she was-soooo missing from the Annihilation clip and who doesn't want to see her steak knives smile?

Surprise surprise at Comic Con

Lots of juicy news came out of Comic Con this past weekend for Glee. Seems like we are going to get to see more Glee parents (and a sister)-- including Idina Menzel as Shelby, Kurt gets a boyfriend, Tina falls out of like with Artie, and minor characters are to get more involved in the story. Can I get a wo0t? Wo0t!

Most importantly Chris Colfer gets his wish of doing a tribute to cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Colfer talked about wanting to do a Rocky Horror episode in interviews before and was surprised right along with the fans during a panel at the San Diego Comic Con.

Other spoilers include, and Britney Spears episode and a second Power of Madonna episode. Needless to say, next season is going to be awesome.

Run for the hills!

So, Poutz and I are not attending this year's comic-con. I know, sadness. But, that has not stopped us from getting news of some of the wacky hi-jinx and yes, shennantics that are taking place. It turns out that Westboro Baptist Church protested the Nerd extravaganza eleganza. They were protesting gay sex and once the church reached comic con grounds they were in for a surprise after being met by counter protesters with shouts of "What do we want? Gay sex! When do we want it? now!"

Oh Comic-Con you're never a surprise.

Be sure to bring your Ibuprofen: Inception review

Let me just start off by saying that Christopher Nolan is a bastard. A brilliant, genius, bastard.

Inception is the tale of Cobb (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his journey to try and get back to America, where he is currently wanted for murder, to see his children. While abroad Cobb takes odd jobs with Arthur (Joseph Gordon Levitt) hacking into people's dreams to steal important information.

The beginning of the movie Cobb and Arthur are hired by Ken Watanabe's character Saito to do inception which no one believes can be done to a rival business owner. The concept of inception is basically planting an idea in someones head and having them believe that is it purely of their own. To have this done they need a whole milieu of mind hackers to set this up. It's basically like a bank robber movie happening in someones head.

This is where Ellen Page's mind architect Ariadne and Tom Hardy's tricky Eames comes into play. Page basically creates the landscape of the dream, and Hardy's skill is that can impersonate anyone in the persons dream. Pretty nifty huh? Anyway, that's all the plot your getting :p

Now Gordon Levitt is slick in this movie. Just pure awesome in a nice suit. His fight scenes are the most memorable. From going one on one in a revolving hallway to an awesome albeit short stairwell face off, to blowing up an elevator he managed all the action while still looking dapper. Page is fantastic in the movie, taking on a more serious role. She works very well DeCaprio, her character seems to be the only thing keeping him sane at times.

The film is surprisingly easy to follow, even if it makes your head hurt a bit. It's just crazy good and you should turn off your computer now and go to the theater to watch it.

The dreamy confusion of Inception

(Above: Joseph Gordon Levitt floats in "Inception").

This movie review is going to need not one, but two reviews because it's that awesome and it's that confusing.

Inception, Christopher Nolan's lucid and mind-warping sci-fi-drama-thriller finally opened in theaters and opened to a warm reception. Standing out in the usual fare of blockbusters that treat audiences as if we had the mental capacities of four year olds, Inception challenges and almost demands for its viewers to think.

And for the duration of Inception you will be thinking so much that your head will hurt. From every angle of this film, with it's gorgeous shots of destruction (fans of disaster-porn like 'Life After People' will be thrilled) and painstaking attention to detail. Everything from Hans Zimmer's score to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's impressive wardrobe is pitch perfect.

As far as the plot goes, Inception is hard to really describe (in the movie when characters explain it--it's also difficult). In a nutshell the process of Inception, and the plot point is that the mind-criminals (Leonardo DiCaprio, Levitt, Watanabe and Page amongst others) go inside the mind of another person to plant an idea.

The human brain is a tricky, layered labyrinth of memories and emotions which make the process of Inception so difficult.

Nolan has done a really excellent job of finding his actors, using Wanatabe and Cillian Murphy from Batman Beyond. It may also have been the start point for where the rumors that Levitt will play the Riddler in the upcoming third installment of the Batman flicks. Marion Cotillard is devastating as the mysterious ingenue, and Page leaves behind the quirky roles of Juno and Whip It and shows a level of maturity worthy to convert even her naysayers (I was one of them). The actors disappear into their roles and you feel Page's confusion when she asks "Who's subsconsicous are we in now?"

But the real promise of "Inception" is that long after its viewed, you will want to talk about it, navigate every twist and every turn that Nolan has set up. It's almost as if the dream is on the audience, with Nolan planting the idea to dream big in the viewer's mind.

World Cup winners rely on cephalopod

It seems that Paul the Oracle Octopus is at it again, making a prediction for the World Cup final this Sunday. Paul picks a winner by choosing between two boxes of food with each teams flag on the containers. As well as the World Cup final, Paul has also predicted the outcome of the third-place match on Saturday between Germany and Uruguay (needless to say Germany is the predicted winner there).

Paul has predicted that Spain will win over the Netherlands and with his 100% accuracy there seems little doubt. Another correctly guessing animal, Manny the predicting parakeet in Singapore however has chosen Netherlands to win. Still one has to question putting so much trust in and octopus and a bird.

Anime Expo Wrap Up

Anime Expo was over the July 4th weekend and like last year it was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event, which draws out thousands of fans and Otakus, coplayers and the casual attendee is known for it's main event and plenty of panels.

This year was a bit of a difference between this year and last year. Word on the gossip mill is that the con has a new CEO and that prices were spiked. What attendees felt because of this change was a change in the registration price, and a price on main event tickets. Main event performers were super group AKB48, Jpop singers, Mell and Beni and classic Jrock group Sophia.
While the main events were sure to bring in attendees, the expo was indeed smaller than last time, as the exhibitor hall was indeed smaller (could it be because of the price changes???) but cosplayers were abound. We attended the Pop Shock Masquerade panel which gives cosplayers a chance to show off their costumes/designs to their music of choice. Think of it as a runway without Karl Lagerfield.

A tip to surviving Expo is to bring your own snacks, brush up on some current anime (cosplay favorites this year were Black Butler and Ouran High School Host Club)and bring money in case you want to indulge and buy that Gundam Wing Model kit you were salivating over.