Archive for the ‘College Life’ Category
Zombie Mascots #1 – Ohio State Buckeye
January 19, 2011 4:37 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamersDue to the overwhelming fan reaction to our zombie outbreak infographic, we’ve decided to give you more of what you want… ZOMBIES! To go with the NCAA basketball season currently underway, we start with the number one-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.
Read More »Winners announced for College Life’s Scary Story Contest 2010
November 1, 2010 10:37 am College Life, ContestsAnother great Scary Story Contest–our biggest yet, actually. Thanks to everyone who entered and gave us the heebie-jeebies in the process. We wish we could treat you all. Unfortunately, only one person could walk away with the Amazon Kindle. And that lucky person is…
Read More »Top 5 Superhero Battles of All Time
October 5, 2010 12:45 pm College Life, geeks and gamersIn the history of superhero comics, there have been a multitude of superhero fights. You could argue that these have become overdone, written into comics mostly to boost sales. Let’s ignore that for the moment, and instead, let’s check out the five best superhero fights…
Read More »Harvard Nerds & Vampire Girls: Movie Weekend Preview (October 1st-3rd)
October 1, 2010 11:12 am College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, Hi-Tech Student, Humor, movies and celebritiesKicking off four weeks of intentionally and unintentionally terrifying movies this weekend are two big releases: Let Me In, which examines the horrors of adolescence through the lens of a vampire tale; and The Social Network, which confronts the horrific truth that socially inept geeks were the masterminds behind the digital powerhouse that is Facebook. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Read More »Let Me In Review: Twisted Young Love Sheds New Light on Horror
October 1, 2010 10:58 am College Life, Entertainment, movies and celebritiesDirected by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) Let Me In is a remake from the 2008 Swedish romantic drama/horror Let the Right One In. Even though I usually frown on remakes, Reeves film looks solid. In the clips and trailers, it is obvious the acting is good and the visual effects are stunning. So much so that it scares me.
Read More »Owls, Gekkos, and Betty White – Movie Weekend Preview: September 24-26
September 23, 2010 2:18 pm College Life, Entertainment, movies and celebritiesIt’s a busy week at the movies–especially for september. To get us caught up, Sandy Schaefer provides previews of three of this week’s biggest releases.
Read More »Marvel Studios President talks Iron Man 2 Alternate Opening
September 23, 2010 2:02 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebritiesYou would think since I was chatting with the Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, I would offer my film resume in hopes of landing an ideal job with Marvel Studios. But it is not a blogging matter. It’s a profound, incredibly unfair advantage backed by almost 70 years of Marvel comic book material. “All [...]
Read More »Ultimate X-men #41 and Born-again Fandom
September 23, 2010 12:23 pm College Life, geeks and gamersI love starting with a generalization, because they’re mostly always true. It seems today that almost everyone reading comics has a “getting back into comics” story. It’s no secret that the Nineties weren’t the Shakespearian era of comics, and so everyone except those who collected gatefold covers got out and didn’t look back for about ten years or so. I have one such story…
Read More »Superman Today, Gone Tomorrow
September 20, 2010 10:22 am College Life, geeks and gamersIt’s not easy for me to talk about, but I’m going to take you back to a traumatic time in my life. Perhaps you’ve shared this experience. I was innocently going to the movies. It was 1998, and I had no idea what awaited me. I stood in line, carefully concealing my box of Mike [...]
Read More »Disney’s Secretariat-An Impossible True Story
September 16, 2010 11:15 am College Life, movies and celebritiesRacehorse stories make the best movies, especially if they are true stories. When I first heard about Secretariat starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich, I made a decision that I will see it the first day the movie opens, which is October 8, 2010. Disney’s Secretariat is a true story about a racehorse, the spectacular [...]
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