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Movie Review: ‘Olympus Has Fallen’

Posted on March 22, 2013

Die Hard on a White House.

That’s basically it right there. You have your former law enforcer — here his name is Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) and he used to be Secret Service assigned to protect the President (Aaron Eckhart). During a snowstorm, Some Damn Thing hit the Presidential Limo’s windshield and fishtailed the car nearly off a bridge. Banning was able to save the President, but not his wife, and since the President can’t stand to be reminded of that night, he has Banning reassigned.

Okay, then you have your terrorists commandeering a building — here they attack the White House in a cargo plane the same day the President (whose name is Benjamin Asher, and whom I’ll be referring to as Asher for the remainder of this), Vice President, and Secretary of State are meeting with the South Korean Prime Minister.

As the gang retreats to the Presidential Bunker, one of the PM’s aides reveals himself as Kang Yeonsak (Rick Yune), a North Korean terrorist with a backstory that blah, blah, blah. He shoots a lot of people in the head and wants to blow up things. That’s all we need to know.

You have your former law-enforcer invading the building — in this case, Banning storms the White House after Kang’s goons take out every Secret Service man and Marine on the premises.

TV RECAP: ‘Arrow’ Episode 117 – ‘The Huntress Returns’

Posted on March 22, 2013

A man is offered a dance at a strip club, and when he gets to the VIP room, the dancer is actually Helena. The man turns out to be her father’s lawyer. He doesn’t know where her father is being held, as he is in protective custody. She believes him, but kills him anyway.

Quentin meets with Laurel, thinking she wants to patch up their differences. He apologizes to her for what he has done, and she apologizes to him. Then her mother (Quentin’s ex wife) arrives. She explains to Quentin and Laurel that she believes Sarah is still alive. She has a picture from one of the random islands near the where the ship wrecked, and the photo resembles Sarah.

Quentin is upset at both of them, insisted that Sarah is dead. He just wants to move on with his life, and leaves. Laurel later visits Quentin at the precinct and convinces him to at least think about looking at the evidence that his ex wife has. Quentin eventually sits down with his ex wife and asks to see the evidence.

Movie Review: ‘Spring Breakers’

Posted on March 22, 2013

Lest we forget, Spring Breakers writer/director Harmony Korine is the guy who got his start writing Larry Clark’s Kids, a film whose characters drank, did drugs, had sex, beat up strangers — all very adult things — and was slapped with an NC-17 rating and a heap of controversy because its characters were all, well, kids. Eighteen years later, the kids aren’t much older, they engage in the same activities, and yet it’s a comedy.

Apparently Korine decided to write and direct a movie about Spring Break because he missed out on it in his youth. So why the sudden change of opinion? Is it because Spring Break is just that — a break from real life where we can expect, if not forgive, hedonistic expression and temporary neglect of duties and responsibilities?

For the kids in Kids, every day of their lives was Spring Break, and if it’s the only thing you have in your life, its consequences are going to be catching up very soon. However wild the girls may go in Cancun, there’s at least some grudging respect for responsibility. Or maybe Korine is aging in reverse?

At 18, when he wrote Kids, he was just coming out of his teens, and being that close to the source, he ws tired of it, ready to take it down. Now he looks back on it with a sense of nostalgia, trying to relive all those moments he missed out on, perhaps.

Whatever the reason, Spring Breakers is just a lot of fun.

‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’ Gets Season Pass and Black Adam and Raven

Posted on March 22, 2013

After NetherRealm’s success with their DLC packs for Mortal Kombat, its no surprise that they are already planning out the DLC for their upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us. And what better way to distribute DLC than with a season pass. It was announced yesterday that the season pass for Injustice: Gods Among Us will include four new characters and a special exclusive costume pack.

Also announced as a member of the Injustice roster, who you can check out in the trailer below, is Raven. Most well known for her role in founding the New Teen Titans. Adding another female to the roster, Raven’s mythical powers give her distinct advantages against even powerhouses like Superman. She will also have the opportunity to face off against former teammates like Nightwing and Cyborg.

For the Love of the Game – Issue #3: The Costume

Posted on March 22, 2013

Don’t forget to get your questions in by emailing me at Kelly@theflickcast.com!

My girlfriend and I have been together for a few months and everything has been going good. She always asks me if there is anything I “Want to try”. I know it sounds cliche but I want to have her dress up as Slave Leia for me. How do I make this happen without coming across as weird or creepy? – HanNotSolo

Okay, ﬁrst thing ﬁrst: It isnʼt weird OR creepy to want to role-play and use costumes in an intimate relationship, especially one that is comfortable and going really well overall. In fact, itʼs completely normal. Sex in a healthy relationship should be about exploration.

Get Your First Look at AMC’s ‘Low Winter Sun’ With Mark Strong and Lennie James

Posted on March 21, 2013

AMC has become one of the best networks for edgy and entertaining drama on TV. And now, a new show is joining the ranks occupied by such excellent programming as Breaking Bad and Mad Men.

The new show is called Low Winter Sun and features Mark Strong, who reprises his role from the British version, and Lennie James, who’s recently appered in The Walking Dead. To help start the interest-generating maelstrom, AMC released a trailer for the show today and we, of course, have it for you.

According to AMC, Low Winter Sun is “a contemporary story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption in a world where the line between cops and criminals is blurred. I begins with the murder of a cop by a fellow Detroit detective. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter the detective’s life, and pull him into the heart of the Detroit underworld.”

Sounds cool. Check out the trailer after the break and let us know what you think. Look for Low Winter Sun to arrive this Summer.

Google Launches ‘Google Keep’ Note App

Posted on March 21, 2013

For the record, we use a variety of note taking apps here at The Flickcast. The most popular, though, is Evernote.

It works well and offers a lot of features. It does cost money, however. Now Google has released its new note taking app and its simplicity (and the fact that it’s free) has piqued our curiosity, to say the least.

The new app is called Google Keep and it looks very promising. It allows you to make notes, add pictures, checklists and even take notes by voice, and all of it is securetly synched to your Google Drive in the cloud.

At the moment, you can access the notes, pictures, and more with the new app or on any computer from the webpage they have set up. Full integration with Google Drive is expected shortly.

Sadly, this new app does have one big drawback, at least for some: It’s currently Android only. We can only hope an iOS version is forthcoming. . . soon. Until then, it can’t really be a viable alternive to a lot of users.

More on Google Keep from the official video after the break.

Op-Ed: Senator Wants to Pass Laws Because Parents Can’t Handle the Job

Posted on March 21, 2013

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, people have been looking for someone, or something, to blame. Back in January, I wrote an editorial in response to the NRA trying to place blame on the video game industry for the violence that occurred in Newtown, CT. In it, I didn’t try to place blame unfairly because at that point, and still today, I don’t know all the facts about the case, nor do I claim to be an expert in it.

What I do know, though, is the old school mentality of placing blame and trying to pass a law to put a quick fix on something isn’t the way to solve the greater problem. After a recent report claiming that the Sandy Hook shooter was a “deranged gamer”, United States senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) stated that it is the entertainment industry’s responsibility to tone down the levels of “obscene violence” in their games.

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