The Flickcast

Check Out These Screenshots and Trailer for ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilate’

Posted on June 17, 2011

Normally, I like to weave in a little commentary with these posts and also bring you the cool photos, screenshots and trailers you really want. However, today I’m just not in the mood for all that and instead, will just cut to the chase.

Soon we will see the release of another expansion pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops. This next one, called Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation, is chock full of cool new ways to blow stuff up.

Plus, it features the ever-popular zombie levels sure to please fans of wasting the undead. We’ve got new screenshots and a trailer for this pack for you today, so click through to enjoy them.

The Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation content pack comes to Xbox Live on June 28th. Rock and roll.

By clicking through you certify you are 18 years of age or older. Yeah, they make us say that.

Film Score Friday: ‘Green Lantern’ by James Newton Howard

Posted on June 17, 2011

UGH!

Allow me to start my review with a bit of onomatopoeia that demonstrates my frustration with this score. Green Lantern is supposed to be an epic space sci-fi adventure. This score does a poor job of relaying that message. It is just one misstep after another, but perhaps I am getting ahead of myself.

James Newton Howard is a fantastic composer, so when I heard he was going to be writing the music for Green Lantern I was thrilled. He has a great ability to turn even horrible movies into amazing scores, which I guess comes from being M. Night Shyamalan’s go to composer.

Giving the score duties to Howard makes a lot of sense as he collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the two previous Batman films. Unfortunately instead of letting him write music in his own style, we get a Dark Knight apping score that sees Howard doing his best Zimmer impersonation.

I might be a bit hard on the music here, it does have some really decent tracks that by themselves are quite nice. It also tries to develop it’s own iconic hero theme more than the Bat films did, so I applaud the effort. The biggest problem is that the music just feels lazy, like some one along the process just gutted the enthusiasm from the people making the music.

Save Your Files in Brightest Day or Darkest Night with MIMOBOT’s Green Lantern USB Drives

Posted on June 17, 2011

Ryan Reynolds may be running around in a computer-generated suit all weekend on the big screen, but you don’t need to rush out to the theaters to join in on the Green Lantern Corps fun, because MIMOBOT has got you covered with their brand new line of Green Lantern-themed USB drives.

With characters like Hal Jordan, Tomar-Re, Sinestro (seen here) and Kilowog, you can purchase all of your favorite Corps members and have them storm your data storage dilemmas with their capacity of up to 16GB.

The drives also come with some pretty sick features already pre-loaded, such as tons of wallpapers, icons, avatars, and even a killer animated desktop screensaver for you diehard fans out there.

These drives can carry some of your most important and bulky files, and they even come at a pretty decent price. Ranging from 2GB all the way up to 16GB, you can get these from anywhere to $22.95 to a solid $59.95 for the top-line capacity drive.

You can pick these drives up right away over at the MIMOBOT website, and check out some of the high-res images of each character after the jump. Green Lantern’s Light!

Film Review: ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’

Posted on June 17, 2011

Okay, okay, there aren’t many summer movies that you’re willing to take the younger kids to, and something has to fill that void, so Mr. Popper’s Penguins is pretty much your only non-animated choice.

It’s odd, because I don’t think of Jim Carrey as being much of an attraction for kids, but it’s likely intended as a draw for the 30-something parents looking for a non-panda-centric film to placate their brood. Or for those who loved the 1938 book as kids themselves, though I never read it, and, from what I gather, it’s vastly different.

Carrey plays Popper, a semi-weasel (would that make him a ferret?) of a real estate agent with a golden tongue and flair for convincing hard cases to sell their property to his high-risin’ New York firm. In this, he’s ably aided by his alliterative assistant Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond), an adorably saucy little Brit with an impediment that causes her to pepper her speech with a proliferation of p’s. One day Popper receives a crate from his recently deceased father, a world-renowned explorer who never had time for his son, and in it is a penguin, which proceeds to destroy Popper’s apartment and provide the first in a series of unnervingly graphic defecations.

The Newest ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2’ Trailer Promises Epicness

Posted on June 17, 2011

Harry Potter has been a generation defining cinematic event. Never before has a film franchise gripped the collective imaginations of so many for nearly an entire decade. Since 2001 there have been 8 Harry Potter movies, all of them have been well received, some are bordering on classic of an age. Today Warner Bros. released the latest and likely last trailer for the final chapter.

Apple has the new trailer and it delivers on just about every note. Showcasing large battles, epic moments and even some love sprinkled in for the ladies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is primed to be the most exciting Potter movie yet.

The trailer plays heavy on the idea that this is not just the last movie in a series, but it is the finale of one the biggest things ever on the big screen. There are elements of past films in the trailer that really sell the notion that something bigger than a standard blockbuster is at play here. Also seeing as many of the side characters as possible getting screen time in the trailer is such a fitting way sell the best cast fantasy franchise this side of middle earth.

Check out the trailer after the jump.

Watch The Action-Packed Prologue For SEGA’s ‘Captain America: Super Soldier’ Game

Posted on June 17, 2011

Now that E3 is becoming more and more of a distant memory, we’ve got some goodies that folks who couldn’t attend may have just missed. One of which ties in with one of the most anticipated superhero movies of this year, Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger.

Though the title is different (the game gets Super Soldier as the subtitle), there are still some great similarities to the film, such as the look and even the voice of Chris Evans himself.

The first ever video game based solely on Cap, this one is expected to be a pretty fun and impressive gaming experience, giving the user full capacity to utilize that Super Soldier syrum running through Steve Roger’s veins.

We’ve got the prologue movie from the game itself, which has some of the better graphics we’ve seen in superhero games of the last few years. In it, we even get a look at the film’s (and definitely game’s) main antagonist, The Red Skull.

Take a look at the prologue trailer after the jump, and be sure to grab your shield and helmet when you pick up Captain America: Super Soldier for all next-gen systems on July 19th.

New Trailer for ‘Moneyball’ Arrives

Posted on June 16, 2011

The upcoming film Moneyball has already had its share of problems. After being shutdown only days from shooting in 2009, the film finally found its way back into production with a new director, Bennett Miller, and will be released later this year.

As the release is getting closer, we’ve got the first trailer for the film today from the folks over at Yahoo Movies. In this one we get an earnest Brand Pitt and a rebellous and wisecracking Jonah Hill.

Together, they make an unusual odd couple but at least in the trailer, the odd pairing seems to work. Now if the film can only live up to all the hype surrounding it and Pitt and Hill can really pull things off.

Well then, friends, we may just have a homerun on our hands. See what I did there? Sports metaphors and all that. . . nevermind.

Moneyball, which in addition to Pitt and Hill features Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt, hits theaters on September 23rd. Check out the trailer after the break.

Film Review: ‘Midnight in Paris’

Posted on June 16, 2011

There’s a moment in Radio Days when a young Allen and his parents have a chance encounter with a “Whiz Kid,” one of those freakish adolescents who spend every moment of their day memorizing trivia. Allen’s parents are in awe of the kid’s diction and “intelligence” while to Allen and ourselves he comes off as a stuffy automaton.

That single scene exemplifies the theme of Midnight in Paris: (and I take this line from Tyler Cowen’s excellent summation) “if we somehow managed to meet the cultural titans of previous eras, how many of them would come across as blowhard hacks, if only because their own subsequent work has made their personae obsolete?”

The Allen surrogate is Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), an American Hollywood hack in Paris with his shrewish fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) and her disapproving parents John (Kurt Fuller) and Wendy (Mimi Kennedy). Gil, currently engaged in his novel, longs for the Paris of the 1920s and, after a walk one night, meets a cab that whisks him back in time to a party with F. Scott (Tom Hiddleston) and Zelda (Alison Pill) Fitzgerald.

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