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Pottermore Revealed!
by Erika Olson | June 23rd, 2011 | Filed under: News, Shiny ObjectsThe question “What in the heck is Pottermore?” was answered today — kind of — and then the site for J.K. Rowling’s latest venture was promptly (and unsurprisingly) overwhelmed by visitors and had to shut down its sign-up function. Watch the author introduce and explain (once again, kind of) Pottermore, and then we’ll discuss: Hmm. [...]
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The Year in Review: 2010 Video Mashup
by Erika Olson | December 31st, 2010 | Filed under: Movies, Other Bits, Shiny ObjectsThe team at redblog would like to wish you and yours a Happy New Year! There were a ton of wonderful movies that came out in 2010, and the video below features short clips of 270 of them, edited together in an utterly mind-blowing way by Gen I. If you’ve got six minutes to spare [...]
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Wanna Help Make (or Star In) a Movie?
by Erika Olson | July 7th, 2010 | Filed under: News, Shiny ObjectsOn Saturday, July 24, 2010 — that’s right, two and a half weeks from today — the folks at YouTube, along with Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, State of Play) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator) want YOU to be a part [...]
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The Fellowship of the Vuvuzela
by Erika Olson | July 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Shiny Objects, TrailersI went to start a post about a very different topic a few moments ago… and then came across this video that’s making the rounds because It. Rocks. It’s not going to make much sense to anyone who knows nothing about the World Cup, though. Well, I take that back. All you really need to [...]
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All Hail the Official Start of Summer Movie Season!
by Locke Peterseim | May 4th, 2010 | Filed under: In My Humble Opinion, Movies, Other Bits, Redbox Focus, Shiny ObjectsLike the winter holidays, Summer Movie Season seems to start earlier every year. Sure, officially the kick-off is still the first Friday of May—and there’s no doubt the arrival of Iron Man 2 this weekend has even—ahem—some of us more jaded, cynical critics doing an anticipatory dance of glee in our Under-Roos. But you can [...]
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Here’s Your Chance to BE Aragorn. Or Gandalf. (I’d pick the latter.)
by Erika Olson | April 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Shiny ObjectsI wouldn’t consider myself a “gamer” by any means, but I have been known to pick up the ol’ joystick (or whatever the controllers are called these days) when challenged to video game duels by my cousins or nephews over the holidays. So when I heard about a new LOTR video game debuting this fall, [...]
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A Halloween Treat for the Browncoats Still Survivin’ Out There
by Locke Peterseim | October 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Other Bits, Shiny ObjectsIt hasn't been a great month of news in the Whedonverse. First we learned from shocktillyoudrop.com that the release of Joss Whedon's feature horror film Cabin in the Woods has been bumped from February 2010 to January 2011 in order to render it into 3-D. Cabin is produced and written by Whedon and is being [...]
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Star Wars Potato Head Fans, Book Your Tickets to Orlando…
by Erika Olson | June 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: Shiny ObjectsIf you read the title of this post and thought, "What in the heck is a Star Wars Potato Head?", then chances are you're an adult who's only familiar with the classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head of yore — the plastic figures with removable googly eyes and hats and whatnot. Well, let me be [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | June 10th, 2009 | Filed under: Shiny Objects…And it's a freakin' video-game trailer. This week as my tech-savvy, cutting edge friends are all Facebooking about their lust for the new iPhone, my music-maven, pop-loving, and gaming pals are raving over the opening cinematic animation for the new Beatles: Rock Band game, set to arrive in stores in early September. (And some are [...]
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Because No One Has Enough Cool T-Shirts
by Erika Olson | April 8th, 2009 | Filed under: Shiny ObjectsWhen redblog was brand spankin' new, I wrote a post about some of my favorite movie-related t-shirts. One of them was "Tarantino Babies": Now SplitReason.com's designed a similarly-themed shirt featuring the Watchmen characters. Baby Rorschach's sign says "Nap Time is Nigh." Gotta love it. The same site also offers this funny take on Ghostbusters, with [...]
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