Are you tired of reading the same old crap on movie news site after movie news site with no wit, insight, or opinion to be had? Then it’s time you stepped up and joined The Flickcast as a dedicated contributor!

We’re looking for a few good geeks in the realm of Movies, TV, Comics, Tech, and Video Games to help us bring in the new year with some fresh perspectives and opinions.

Think you got what it takes to spread the news, opinions, and crucial information for the exciting things that the upcoming year has to offer? Then let us know! Send a brief email with attached writing samples to writers@theflickcast.com and let us know why you’d like to write for us.

While there are plenty of fancy paid jobs out there, TheFlickcast offers you something better than that. We can offer tons of review copies of upcoming films, TV shows, video games, music, or tech products as they come to us, and possibly even make enough contacts to be a force unrivaled with in the pop culture news game.

Depending on the workload, we are also able to offer access to some of the hottest conventions and festivals these fine United States has to offer such as C2E2, Fantastic Fest, Emerald City Con, CES, and the mother of them all: San Diego Comic-Con.

So if you think you’ve got what it takes to join the ranks of these fine digital halls, feel free to reach out at writers@theflickcast.com and we’re happy to have you help out!

In the United States, this is the time of year when Hollywood virtually shuts down and people leave town to visit family and friends. Plus, the staff here at The Flickcast actually has family and friends as well and many of them are doing the same.

So, for the next week or so we will have a reduced posting schedule. Of course, if anything big happens, we’ll bring it to you. Also, be sure to look for our “Best of 2011″ articles covering movies, TV, comics, games and all things geek before the end of the year as well.

In the meantime, from all of us here at The Flickcast, we wish all of you the very best for this holiday season and happiness, health and luck for 2012.

Today is a holiday here in the United States which honors those who, well, labor. So, to commemorate this great feat, we will be giving the fine folks who write this site the day off. Expect to see a few articles today, but not as many as we usually bring you.

Of course, if something major happens, we will bring it to you. Otherwise, expect our usual brand of humor, articles, interviews, reviews and more to return refreshed and ready to roll tomorrow.

We wish you a happy holiday and we’ll see you on the other side.

This week, Chris and Matt tackle the hot-button subject of Nerd Girls and Matt explains his editorial from earlier this week in which he calls out top-level models and actresses for pandering to the ever-loving nerd community.

Click here to see the editorial rant that started it all.

Also, the duo discuss a uninspiring episode of Smallville from last week, get ready for the upcoming finale of next week’s Smallville, and gush about how excited they are for the Paintball finale of Community this week.

As for their picks, the boys went a little more obscure this week. Matt dug deep into his knowledge of Ozploitation films to pick the 1984 Philippe Mora classic The Return of Captain Invincible, a musical comedy starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. Chris also went old school and picked the first season from the original Twilight Zone series, which is currently available on Instant Netflix.

Take a listen to the podcast below, and don’t forget to comment and subscribe on iTunes!

Seeing as this is a holiday weekend that honors people who labor, we won’t be having a regular schedule here at The Flickcast. Instead, we will be taking some much needed time off and will return to our normal schedule next Tuesday.

Of course, if something major happens over the weekend, we will bring it to you. Otherwise, expect our usual brand of humor, articles, interviews, reviews and more to return refreshed and ready to roll next week.

We wish you a happy holiday weekend and we’ll see you on the other side.

Do you love movies, TV, new media, comics, games, and all thing geek? Do you spend lots of time on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites sharing info and opinions with friends? Are you a good writer with a passion for sharing your insight and opinions in a comprehensive and cohesive manner? If so, we might just have a job for you.

Due to increased demand we are looking for writers to contrite to the site and to pending others. It doesn’t matter where you live (although candidates in LA or New York are encouraged to apply) or what you do for a living, if you love movies, TV, new media, comics, games and all things geek and want to write about them, we want to hear from you.

Drop us a line at the following email for consideration: jobs [at] the flickcast dot com and please include two sample posts in The Flickcast style or a link to your own previous work for consideration. We’ll get in touch with you if we think you’ve got what it takes.

Thanks.

Some of the team have already arrived and many more will be in San Diego shortly. We are, of course, here to cover the San Diego Comic-Con. To help bring you as much of the fun excitement, thrills, chills, tastes and smells of the Con we have a fearless team of intrepid reporters converging on the convention center who will be in San Diego for the next five days.

We plan on extensive coverage of all the events at the Con as well as our usual interviews, reviews, news, video and galleries that will help you join in all the exciting Con action. To follow along at home, look for our official Comic-Con Tag: SDCC10, as well as the usual Category of: Comic-Con.

Also, be sure to follow along on The Flickcast’s official Twitter and Facebook as we bring you everything you could ever want to know about the Con.

For this week, our Comic-Con team consists of Matt Raub, Sebastian Suchecki, Elisabeth Rappe, Jennifer Tomooka, Cortney Zamm, John Carle, Erik Jensen, Diane Panosian, Joe Gillis and Chris Ullrich.

In addition, Shannon Hood, Bob Starr and Nat Almirall are manning The Flickcast Fortress to bring you even more info about the Con and other events throughout the week that our intrepid team on the ground can’t get to.

Be sure to follow our individual team members on Twitter as well for all of their own unique perspective and news on Comic-Con. With these folks, you never know what you’re going to get.

And, if you see something you like, be sure to let us know. Or, if you want to know something or want something covered during the week, let us know that too and we’ll do our best to bring it to you.

Feel free to leave us a request in the comments and also, be sure to hit that “Like” button below and Retweet it on Twitter. We would appreciate it.

Now, on with the show!

As you may have heard on this week’s edition of The Flickcast podcast (if you aren’t listening to it, you should be), the next edition of the the show will feature the first installment of the Mailbag. What’s that mean? It means that we are inviting questions and comments from our readers and listeners to participate in our weekly podcast. Just email mailbag [at] the flickcast dot com with literally anything you want to ask.

The best question which will be answered on the April 14th edition of the podcast will be awarded a free download code for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′s Stimulus Package for the XBox 360. All we ask is that you keep it clean and only one entry per person. Other than that, there are no limits. We want to encourage you to be a contributing member of our site community and being a part of our weekly podcast is a great way to do that.

After hitting a momentous fifty episodes of the podcast, over 2000 articles and being online for a full year, you readers and listeners are what matters most to us and having you as a part of our show and giving you guys prizes is just our way of saying “thank you.”

Due to much of The Flickcast team (including Chris) being in Austin for SXSW and the power outages on the East Coast, sadly we won’t be able to bring you a new episode of The Flickcast this week. However, don’t despair as we’ll be back next week with an all-new episode featuring great info from SXSW, the Syfy upfronts, Emerald City Comic Con, Captain America and a whole lot more. It should be a rocking episode.

In the meantime, check out some of our favorite episodes from the past to help you handle the waiting until next week. And don’t worry, seven days really isn’t that long.

The Flickcast – Episode 39: First Flight

The Flickcast – Best of 2009 Special

The Flickcast – Episode 36: Avatar Schmavatar

The Flickcast – Episode 32: Eclipse

The Flickcast – Episode 31: Attack of the Clones

Do you love movies, TV, comics, games, gadgets and all thing geek? Do you spend tons of time on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites sharing info and opinions with friends? Are you a good writer and have a passion for sharing your insight and opinions in a comprehensive and cohesive manner? If so, we might just have a job for you.

Due to increased demand and for upcoming site changes and launches of new content, we are looking for writers to contrite to the site. It doesn’t matter where you live (although candidates in LA or New York would be greatly appreciated) or what you do for a living, if you love movies, TV, comics, games and all things geek and want to write about them, we want to talk to you.

Drop us a line at the following email for consideration: jobs [at] the flickcast dot com and please include two sample posts in The Flickcast style or a link to your own previous work for consideration. We’ll get in touch with you if we think you’ve got what it takes. Thanks.

As families shop for gifts, travel to be with loved ones and make final preparations for the holiday season, we here at The Flickcast are doing the same. In order to let our contributors have some fun during the holidays and spend time with their families, we are taking some time off during the next couple weeks.

Consequently, we will have a reduced posting schedule for articles. Of course, if any breaking news hits, we’ll bring it to you. Also, we will have more in our series of “Best Of 2009” articles covering topics such as movies and games, so be sure and watch out for those.

In addition, we won’t be having a podcast this week. However, we will return next week with our “Best Of” edition of The Flickcast podcast where we will discuss everything movie, tv, comics, games and geek we thought was the best of 2009 and of the decade. So, be sure to check that out next Wednesday right here and in iTunes.

For now, we thank you for being here and from all of us at The Flickcast, we wish you the best for the holiday season and for the new year.

Here’s to a happy, healthy and even better 2010!

Here in the United States, where our intrepid team work daily to bring you the best in content covering movies, tv, comics, games and all things geek, it is a holiday week. Thanksgiving is just around the corner (in fact, tomorrow) so that means many of The Flickcast team will be joining family to celebrate this event. That also means that due to the holiday we will have a somewhat limited posting schedule.

This is only temporary, of course, and in a few days we will resume our usual frantic posting pace brining you all kinds of new and cool coverage of your favorite movies, tv shows, games, comics and more. Until then, be sure to check out upcoming articles from some of our contributors who don’t live in the States, which we will be bringing you during the rest of the week. Also, take a look at some of our recent articles by clicking in the list on the right of this column.

We will be back to business as usual on Monday, November 30th. Until then, Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at The Flickcast.