Top Tube Picks: Lawmen Who Are Justified

posted 03-07-11 by Max Tedaldi

Justified premiered a couple weeks ago on FX and is definitely worth a view, especially when you can watch the pilot episode for free on itunes. Included is a list of lawmen with ice running through their veins.

A Quick Look at a Year in Internet Piracy

posted 12-16-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

We talk a lot about piracy here on 30Ninjas. We consider hackers and homebrewers in a larger scope than “OMG THIEF” and we examine some of the best and worst ways to combat piracy in an upcoming digital distribution world. However, regardless of our borderline obsession with the world of piracy and hacking, Torrent Freak, [...]

Light the Fire! Firestarter — One of Our Favorite Girl-Killer Movies — Getting a Reboot

posted 12-14-10 by Julina Tatlock

Dino De Laurentiis and Universal are teaming up to reboot the Drew Barrymore film, Firestarter with Mark L. Smith is signed on to write the script.

Kevin Feige on Thor and Marvel

posted 12-10-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

OH MY GOD INFORMATION DUMP!!! Collider recently posted a series of interviews about the upcoming Thor movie, and my brain is now saturated with comic trivia and movie lingo. I have never seen any movie makers be this cooperative with an interviewer, and as a journalist I am insanely jealous of the guys over at [...]

We Know What You Want For Christmas! Another Version of Robin Hood, This Time From Wachowski Siblings!

posted 12-08-10 by Julina Tatlock

All snark aside, the Wachowskis are pairing with Warner Brothers to create a modern, urban version of the Robin Hood myth and talking to Will Smith about the part. More after the jump

Man Gets Arrested For Selling Stolen PSP Back to Owner

posted 11-09-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

Since game-related crime keeps making the news these days, let’s talk about a game crime story that is so bad it’s funny. Dateline, Japan. Twenty-five-year-old Masashi Osawa breaks into a parked car and steels a PSP and several CDs all together totaling roughly four hundred and seventy three U.S. dollars worth of damage. Spotting a [...]

Tuesday in Action — Green’s Lantern, B Trailers, and the Origins of Shockwave and Scorpion

posted 10-19-10 by Max Tedaldi

The Story Behind Green Lantern The news, video, and images surrounding The Green Lantern has been so sparse that we almost rented Wolverine just so we could see Ryan Reynolds as a superhero, almost. As the old adage goes, when the green lantern shines, it shines brightly (that is a saying right!?). Anyway here is [...]

Trolling in Film & Television . . . Problem? Trolls 1-5

posted 10-04-10 by Max Tedaldi

In The International Review of Law, Computers & Technology Robert Bond desribes the typical behavior exhibited by a troll: The content of a “troll” posting generally falls into several areas. It may consist of an apparently foolish contradiction of common knowledge, a deliberately offensive insult to the readers of the news group or a broad [...]

Black Dynamite Is Back and Out of Sight On Adult Swim

posted 10-01-10 by Max Tedaldi

What could we possibly expect from a Black Dynamite television show? How about some of this . . . and how about a pinch of this as well . . . Blaxploitation fans can rejoice because their beloved 2009 throwback homage Black Dynamite will not be forgotten in the annals of exploitation lore. So all [...]

5 Ways To Make Zombies the New Vampires

posted 09-20-10 by Max Tedaldi

1. Sexify! The Genre If there is a lesson to be learned about from the Twilight series and throwaway television shows like The Vampire Diaries it’s that vampires and angsty sex go together like zombies and decaying flesh. By capitalizing on the demographic of pathetic tween girls who would like nothing more than to be [...]

Fantastic Four Reboot — Casting Rumors

posted 08-23-10 by Max Tedaldi

August 23rd, 2010 Update On at least ten separate occasions over the course of the past three years I have had debilitating night terrors. I wake up covered in sweat. I shout, I scream, I wail, I cry, it’s truly horrible. I have this reoccurring dream that Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer was [...]

Underworld 4 Gets Delayed

posted 08-18-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

Sorry to tell you Underworld fans … wait a minute, do Underworld fans still exist? Well anyway, sorry to tell you hypothetical Underworld fans but you are going to have to wait before Kate Beckinsale creeps into your perverted vampire fantasies again. You see Underworld 4 has been pushing forward for some time now, but [...]

Things Are About To Get Heavy for Alfonso Cuarón in Gravity

posted 08-11-10 by Max Tedaldi

Alfonso Cuarón has always tread a thin line between fantasy and reality. Almost all of his previous projects combine fantastic and realistic elements to create all encompassing and creative worlds. Over the past twelve years Cuarón has moved from Great Expectations and Y tu mamá también, to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and [...]

Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars

posted 08-03-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

On my second day of Otakon, I was already dead tired due to the usual first day shenanigans. To get some much needed rest I decided to duck into the first Anime room I managed to come across. How could I have known that this anime room would be showing an exclusive release day screening [...]

New DMCA Rules Support Hacking!!!

posted 07-27-10 by Angelo D'Argenio

How many of you out there have a jailbroken iPod? How many of you own a Wii with the Homebrew Channel installed? How many of you have unlocked your cell phones? In the past, these activities were a part of the underbelly of the technology world. They were all instances of “hacking” supported by no [...]