This week on The Flickcast Chris and Matt welcome back recurring guest co-host Elisabeth Rappe and dive head first into a bunch of new topics including potential Star Wars prequels and sequels, Clint Eastwood’s latest film Invictus, the latest Kick-Ass character posters, Clash of the Titans and Sam Worthington, the success and animation style of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, and the family history of Lando Calrissian.

They also made some great picks yet again this week including Matt’s pick of the series Legend of the Seeker, Elisabeth’s pick of the musical Oklahoma! featuring Hugh Jackman and Chris’ pick of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourios Basterds, which is now on Blu-Ray.

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While Thanksgiving is right around the corner, Christmas is coming up right behind it and will be here sooner than you think. In fact, there are only 35 shopping days left before Christmas so if you haven’t started shopping yet for the geeks on your list, you better get to it.

Besides, geeks love Christmas which is great, considering Wired has pointed us in the direction of the coolest desk ever: “The Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite” desk. Not only will this desk make you the coolest person at your office or in your home, it’ll be a great distraction from whenever you don’t want to do work. It’ll also please any overweight gangsters you might know who are owed money by Han Solo.

You’ll have to pay Jabba a steep U.S. $5,500 bounty for this desk, but it’ll surely be worth it. Check back with The Flickcast all this month for some more awesome holiday gift ideas for your favorite geeks.

Our team here at The Flickcast has worked in online media, the film and tv industry, the comics industry and radio and has quite a bit of experience in those areas. So, it’s sometimes difficult for us to see a film, video, comic or other piece of entertainment and say “Wow, that’s really fun and original.” These days, it just doesn’t happen all that much.

But then, fortunately for our collective sanity, it actually does happen. Case in point is CBVee’s this spot-on and often hilarious comparison video between the title sequences of two television shows. Both shows are, of course, about fictional characters. However, one was real, in the case of Magnum, PI starring Tom Selleck, and one is completely made up, in the case of the other show known as Han Solo, PI.

Even if you’ve never seen Magnum, PI, the video is still funny and even caused several people here at The Flickcast HQ to laugh out loud. Its videos like this that make us happy to live in a time where the means of production are in the hands of so many different people. Sure, lots of the time you get crap. But sometimes you get gold.

Check out the video after the jump. You’ll be glad you did.

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