Rather than a long and possibly boring typed out review I’ve decided to switch things up a little and bring you a video review. So sit back, relax, and don’t hate me for the Depp Hate. Please?

It is a dark time for our country. We are in a recession. People are struggling to survive. Rising crime rates, bank foreclosures and evictions are happening all around. Martial law has been enforced. Who will save us from these tough times? None other than Lex Luthor, newly elected President of the United States.

This is the beginning of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, the sixth movie in the DC Universe Original Animated Movies. Fans will be happy to hear Kevin Conroy as Batman as well as Tim Daly as Superman and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor. The voice acting by them is superb and one of the reasons is much of the voice over work was done with the actors in the same room so they can play off one another.

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Located off the coast of Boston, Ashecliffe Hospital is home to the criminally insane. Residents here include mothers that have killed their children, husbands that have killed their wives, pyromaniacs and the list goes on. Emphasizing that they house patients, not prisoners, the purpose here is to cure. The only way on and off the island is through the ferry. Welcome to Shutter Island.

Going into the movie, I knew little about the story other than what I saw in the trailers. If you’re one of those people who like to do research by reading reviews or plots summaries be careful! I’ve checked some out and they may ruin the movie for you. I have purposely tried to limit what I say and you’ll be happy to know that this review contains no spoiler alerts, so you may proceed.

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What do you do with a monster that’s impossible to control, so dangerous that not even Iron Man and the members of S.H.I.E.L.D. can stop him? Exile him to another planet. And what do you do if you’re the one being exiled? Well if you’re the Hulk, you bust open the ship in transit and crash land on a different planet altogether. These are the opening scenes of the recently released animated DVD Planet Hulk.

The original plan was to send Hulk away to a deserted planet full of vegetation and game and with no intelligent life forms. He can’t hurt anyone there and no one can hurt him. Needless to say, Hulk is not happy with this, and like I said, destroys the ship in transit and crash lands on a planet named Sakaar.

Upon landing he is captured and thrown into gladiator games where he must kill or be killed. If he can be triumphant in three games, then he wins his freedom.  All of this is done for the enjoyment of the Red King, who rules all, and the inhabitants of Sakaar. While fighting in the games, he befriends his fellow captives and works together with them to get through the first couple games.

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There have been plenty of Wolfmen throughout movie history and now we can add Benicio Del Toro to the list. He joins greats such as Michael J. Fox, the guy from American Werewolf in London and even the Twilight guys just to name a few. Despite not having seen Twilight, I think it’s safe to say that Del Toro is the most badass out of all. The Wolfman was released on February 12^th and I had a chance to check it out.

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With nine nominations for Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama) and $2,105,517,744 gross earning worldwide, there’s no doubt Avatar has been a commercial and critical success. Directors, audiences, and critics alike have all sung its praises. The more honest among them have been willing to concede much of its appeal is derived from its genuinely gorgeous visuals, but some have also praised its storytelling and characterization- a positively mystifying conclusion.

Avatar tries to set up a basic struggle between the primeval forces of an unspoilt alien world and the mechanistic, industrial forces of its Terran exploiters. (Given the attention the movie has garnered, Avatar’s story should not be a surprise to anyone, so I won’t bother to hide it.) It’s an age-old theme, usually setting noble surrogate aboriginal types against decadent industrialists, and one particularly evocative in our own times of environmental crisis.

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We learn that Bill doesn’t like Twilight. He would rather break his hand than watch it. But that didn’t stop Andrew and I from talking about Twilight: New Moon. We also talked about:

• Our favorite cereals
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Movies adapted from Video Games
• Xbox Live VS PlayStation Network
• World of Warcraft turns 5 years old and still pwning

Oh, and btw. The Zombie Shooter 2 contest will be open until Wednesday. Send in your Haikus!

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Calling this list the 10 best anime titles of all time may be a misnomer. The original comparison was the top 10 visually stunning pieces, outshining Disney/Pixar’s body of work. The list presented by Screenhead is as follows:

10: 5CM Per Second (2007)
9: Cowboy Bebop (2001)
8: Tokyo GodFathers (2003)
7: Princess Mononoke (1997)
6: Paprika (2006)
5: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
4: Ghost in The Shell (1995)
3: Grave of The Fireflies (1988)
2: Akira (1988)
1. Spirited Away (2001)

Now, admittedly I am a Miyazaki fan, but this list was a bit heavy on his works. Leaving out works like Perfect Blue, and Robot Carnival (once of the first I ever saw) isn’t understandable for me. I have yet to see 5CM Per Second, but will be adding this to my near range to-see list for comparison.

For the anime movie fans out there, what would is lacking from this list that you have seen?

[via Screenhead]

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Welcome back to another SPOILERTASTIC edition of Geek Movie Reviews. Warning: the following review contains heavy spoilers of a 1980’s movie that you should have already seen. PixelatedGeek.com is not liable for any spoilers you may be exposed to during the course of this article.

Meet Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox), your regular 17 year-old high school student. He has ambitions of becoming a musician, has a girlfriend who absolutely loves him, and a family he’s not particularly proud of. Life is pretty normal for Marty, except for the fact that he spends his time with an aging inventor, Dr. Emmett Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd, a scientist who Marty affectionately calls “Doc” and whose life’s work revolves around time travel. So, after a late-night meeting with Doc, in which he unveils his latest invention, a time machine built into a DeLorean DMC-12. And, after an altercation with Libyan terrorists (that’s right, terrorists), who Doc swindled in order to get a hold of the plutonium necessary to power the time machine, Doc is murdered and Marty drives away in the DeLorean, unintentionally activating the time circuits and blasting him back to November 5, 1955. Upon arriving in 1955, Marty meets his parents in their younger days and interrupts a pivotal event in their courtship, causing a chain reaction, which will cause Marty to disappear from existence. Unable to return to the present, due to his current predicament and the fact that he left behind the case of plutonium necessary to power the time circuits, Marty enlists the help of a younger Doc Brown, who plans to use the energy of a bolt of lightning set to strike the Hill Valley clock tower on November 12th to send Marty back to 1985.

More of this time-bending review after the break.

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