Monthly Archives: July 2015
Gotham: DC Comics’ Silver St. Cloud Cast for Season 2
Young Bruce Wayne may be getting a love interest in Gotham's upcoming second season.
EW reports Natalie Alyn Lind (The Goldbergs) has been cast as Silver St. Cloud, another wealthy orphan who, as a grownup, has traditionally been a love interest of adult Bruce Wayne's. It's through Silver that Bruce meets her uncle Theo Galavan, whom Bruce eventually forms a connection with.
Natalie Alyn Lind in The Goldbergs.
DC Movies, Deadpool and Star Wars Won the Week
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Welcome back to Keepin' It Reel! In this week's podcast, Jim Vejvoda and Roth Cornet bring you the latest in genre movie news.
This week's topics include our thoughts on what we saw from San Diego Comic-Con, including Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Deadpool, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Warcraft, The Hateful Eight, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Green Lantern Corps, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, and more.
New Documentary Tells the Story of Developer Midway
A documentary about Midway Games is currently seeking crowdfunding to tell "the untold story of the greatest video game studio of the '90s."
Called Insert Coin, the documentary is the brainchild of Joshua Tsui, a developer who worked at Midway during its golden age.
With Insert Coin, Tsui and his crew hope to dig into and document Midway's history, including the development of games such as Narc, Mortal Kombat, and NBA Jam, seeing how they created games in the back of a pinball factory, and even showing footage of games that were eventually cancelled.
The crew is seeking $75,000 in funding, which will be used for travel and production expenses. Tsui claims to have a background in film, calling this a "passion project of
Windows 10 Updates Will Be Mandatory for Home Users
Windows 10 isn't going to allow its home users to skip updates, which is great if you like to keep your system constantly updated. For those of you who like to download and install things at your own pace? Too bad.
The reveal of this particular news comes from the EULA attached to the recent preview release of Windows 10 (Build 10240), which was initially found by The Register. Skimming through the text makes it pretty clear that Windows 10 is going to take responsibility for any and all updates, whether people know they're agreeing to it or not:
Daily Deals: Fast and Furious Blu-ray Collection, Bluetooth Headphones, $15 Off Best Buy and PlayStation Gift Cards
Six Fast & Furious Movies For $30, Plus A Discount On Furious 7
You can pick the first six F&F movies for $30, which is the all-time low price for this set. Amazon will also let you pre-order Furious 7 for $17.56, which is a $5 discount. You don't have to pre-order Furious 7 to get the discount on the set though.
PlayStation Network Flash Sale
Marvel: Phase 2 Blu-Ray Set Announced
Disney is releasing a limited-edition 13-disc Blu-ray set that will collect all of Marvel's Phase Two movies. The announcement came with the following image, indicating that the set will (naturally) be encased within a replica of the Power Gem, which we all recognize from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Here's a breakdown of the set's contents, which include each of Marvel Studios' films from Iron Man 3 to Ant-Man, along with a mysterious "Top-Secret Bonus Disc":
NVC: Remebering Satoru Iwata’s Legacy
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A tribute to the great accomplishments of Nintendo's Iwata. Art by Pandamusk.
This week, the crew dedicates the first half of this episode to remembering Satoru Iwata, the late CEO of Nintendo who passed away this weekend. Join Jose Otero, Peer Schneider, and Brian Altano as they share their favorites stories about him. Iwata leaves a huge legacy behind, and a tremendous role to fill at Nintendo. NVC sends condolences out to his family and friends, and we try our best to honor his amazing contributions to video games.
App Store Update: July 17
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Impulse GP: Super Bike Racing – ($2.99)
Take the high-speed futuristic racing concept of games like F-Zero or Wipeout and swap in motorcycle riders instead – you've got Impulse GP: Super Bike Racing. Take a look!
Hitchhiking Robot Attempts to Travel Across the United States
A hitchhiking robot is actively checking off the boxes on its personal bucket list.
Appropriately named hitchBOT, this immobile, child-sized robot relies on the help of strangers to get around. Created by a team in Canada, hitchBOT's purpose is to examine how humans interact with robots, particularly when it is the robot that needs the human's help.
hitchBOT has traveled across Canada and Europe, seeing the sights and crossing thousands of miles with the help of enthusiastic strangers willing to give it a ride. It is equipped with a GPS device to allow its creators to track hitchBOT's journey, as well as a camera it uses to take pictures every 20 minutes to help document.
Suicide Squad’s Enchantress on How She Kills
Suicide Squad’s Enchantress, model-turned-actress Cara Delevingne, has opened up about her character’s killer moves in the film, and recalls her disappointment over losing the title role in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie.
Speaking to Time, Delevingne hyped the upcoming David Ayer-directed supervillain flick, saying, “
is going to be freakin’ awesome,” and went on to tease, “I kill people with my bare hands.”
The actress-model revealed that for her Suicide Squad audition director David Ayer asked her to perform the character of Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a role that she had played in a school production. But Ayer told her to forget everything she knew about the character and try reading it enough different ways that Delevingne wanted to "beat people up" by the end of the audition.