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Did you remember that Dean went to Purgatory at the end of Season 7 of Supernatural? I know I forgot this, but it quickly came back to me when the show opened with Dean scaring some campers and him looking like hell, blood everywhere. It wasn’t exactly a shock to see him make it back, for one the show wouldn’t exist without him, but the Winchester boys have gone below and come back before. However, … Read more
I have been wanting to add more rich media here on DragonBlogger.com for a while and flirted with a podcast back in 2008/2009 only to get too busy and focus on video tutorials and other efforts. Well after talking with one of my recent staff members Brian Alford who used to run a video game podcast with his friend we have decided to put together a DragonBlogger Podcast called “The Dragoncast” this will be a … Read more
When Once Upon a Time debuted last year I thought it was an interesting concept for a TV series. A town with well-known fantasy story characters who did not know what they really were due to a spell. It had the potential to take children’s stories in a new direction, and in a way it did. So when it got renewed, despite the fact that everyone figured out who they were at the end of … Read more
Tim Burton is famous for stop motion-animated films due to Nightmare Before Christmas and his newest edition to this history will be Frankenweenie. This movie is actually a remake of a short film Burton created with the same name in 1984. The 3D movie is in black-and-white to pay homage to the original Frankenstein film and book by Mary Shelley, although it’s a parody. In Frankenweenie a boy named Victor (haven’t we heard this name … Read more
What do you get if you mix time-travel with action, a movie called Looper. This SciFi action film, due out on September 28, combines these two elements in this new film which might make you think about what would happen if you mess with the future in the past. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd Rock from the Sun and 10 Things I Hate about You fame) as Joseph Simmons, who is a mafia paid … Read more
The Cabin in the Woods releases on DVD and BluRay on Tuesday September 18 and if you think this is just another teen slasher flick, well you are wrong. The movie, co-written by Joss Whedon, is definitely a slasher style film but it also a comedy and probably not what you expected from the trailer. I know I was surprised. The basic plot of the story is about five college-aged friends who take a trip … Read more
Revolution, the newest brainchild of J.J. Abrams, is going to change up how we think a post-apocalyptic show should be. In this new science fiction drama show for NBC, something caused electricity to stop working. Something we have lived with and been almost completely dependent on for over 100 years is simply gone, and we have to learn to work without it to survive. The show will being fifteen years after this phenomenon with most … Read more
I went to see Resident Evil: Retribution opening tonight and decided to see it in 3D Imax. Let me just say that there is no other way to see this flick! The 3D images are even better on an Imax screen because they really pop out at you. Before I digress too much, and gush on and on about the imagery, let me say this is the only spoiler alert you will get. If you … Read more
When I first heard about the remake of Judge Dredd I was appalled. My thought was “can’t they come up with an original idea?” Well after seeing the preview and reading about this upcoming film, I see now that it is not a remake after all. Announced in 2008 that the movie was in the writing stage, it was stated it would not be a remake of the 1995 film that starred Sylvester Stallone. This … Read more
The original Resident Evil film brought to life a video game that was extremely scary. Now the fifth movie in the series is about to be released, Resident Evil: Retribution, showing Alice’s ongoing survival. The new movie is going to bring back several old characters and add some new ones as well. The premise behind this new movie revolves around Alice awakening in the heart of an Umbrella base and discovering more of her mysterious … Read more
True Blood has ended for this season and fans won’t see it again until 2013; probably after the next season of Game of Thrones. Part of the season ending was quite shocking and part was not. Like most season finales of this show, based loosely off the books by Charlaine Harris, fans are left wondering just what in the heck will happen to their favorite characters. While the first season followed the first book fairly … Read more
With the first two opening episodes of Grimm viewed and the third shortly to be televised, you have to be thinking that this season will be even better than the first one. After the first two episodes, that were a long two-night premier, we have more questions than answers and learned some things that were extremely surprising. You can tell that Nick is definitely more comfortable in his skin as a Grimm and ready to … Read more
The Hunger Games movie, if you did not know it, is based on a book of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The movie is the first of series released in theaters and on DVD and Blu-ray August 18. When released in theaters, The Hunger Games set opening day and opening weekend records for a movie that was a non-sequel. In fact, the film is listed as having the third-largest opening weekend in the US. … Read more
Is Hollywood truly so out of ideas that they have to remake everything from the last 20-30 years? With many of the movies which have come out in the last year or so, and upcoming, it certainly seems like it. Or have directors and writers become so lazy they don’t want to try something new? Sure taking a gamble is scary but come on Hollywood, this remaking of movies is getting, well old. In the … Read more
Note: Episode review contains minor spoilers. Charleston here we come! The 2nd Mass had to throw their roughest Hail Mary to date and scramble to make it to the promise land of Charleston. Tom (Noah Wyle) took more of a backseat in the action and we got to the Mason kids run quite a bit of the show. Of course things couldn’t be all hunky dory for the Masons and they had to stick the … Read more
Note: Episode review contains minor spoilers. Happy fifty-first birthday Heisenberg, make a wish. If you thought Heisenberg was gone for good, you were dead wrong. Like Samson growing his hair back, Walt (Bryan Cranston) was truly reunited with the one thing that made his bid for drug lord supreme…the black fedora hat. This development of course slips by poor Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), who is unfamiliar with daddy’s line of work, and is ecstatic to get … Read more
The second season of Grimm will premiere on August 13. For a supernatural drama show that started slow but then gained a huge audience, an early premiere is quite a feat. Anyone who missed the first season, or those that just want to catch up, can find all of season 1 on NBC’s website. What will the new season be like though? Before we look ahead, you can do a quick recap with this seven-minute … Read more
Warehouse 13 arrived with a bang last Monday in the season premier where the gang had to find something that reversed time to make the warehouse not blown up. On one hand, the episode was intense because their numbers kept dwindling as they went from place to place but on the other, it was predictable because if they hadn’t found the components there would have been no warehouse and thus no Warehouse 13 show. However, … Read more
I finally broke down and purchased my 4th Roku device about a week ago and this time I got a Roku 2 XS as I needed the USB slot which the lower end models do not have. For the same price that the Roku XD used to be you get a much more functional device with the Roku 2 XS and even though I have seen and read reports that they may be slower, I … Read more
The Emmy Award nominees were announced this week and HBO’s series Game of Thrones received several. Perhaps not nearly as many as fans of the show, based off the George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire novels, would have liked but any recognition is better than being shut out completely. The competition in several of the categories is fairly still, unfortunately, so Game of Thrones may not walk away with too many of these … Read more