Horrible Bosses is the new film from Seth Gordon who previously directed the hysterical documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and the horrendous Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon disaster Four Christmases. The film is carried by a cast of actors mainly known for their television work including Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston along with Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in bit parts. The film benefits from the audience’s previously established affection for the main actors. There’s no way this movie would be nearly as watchable with a cast of unknowns.

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The BBC’s popular Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood, is making a move to the Starz network premiering this Friday, July 8th at 10PM ET. The move took me a bit by surprise, and the press release for the premiere described the new show as a “reimagining of the original UK sensation.” I’m happy to say that this is not entirely the case as the show’s history is being preserved, but early indications suggest it will be very different in tone and presentation from earlier episodes.

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We have a home phone. Weird, right? It was included in the package and when you are paying $50/month for everything under sun from Verizon, you just take it. So we got a single corded phone for $14 from Best Buy and plugged it in. The phone calls we get are so odd. I forgot what telemarketers were like. Today, ptb was so amused by my side of a call he requested a transcript for MLD.  Read more of this article »

It’s been a crazy few weeks for DC Comics fans with the reveal that the current series Flashpoint would lead to a complete relaunch of the entire DC Universe in September as the company will be releasing new first issues for fifty-two titles. Interestingly, DC has promised a reimagined DCU featuring in many cases younger, more modern takes on their classic characters and a more diverse line overall in terms of both the ethnicity of their characters and the genres of books they publish. A previous attempt to comment on this news when very little was really known about the relaunch resulted in what amounted to a nasty letter to comic fans about their phony outrage and their tendency to rush to judge was out-of-date before I had typed the last word. As a result, I’ve recruited PTB to help keep the discussion grounded and offer his perspective as a non-DC fan.
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DC Comics’ Flashpoint series is in full swing and the impact of the series looks to be huge in light of the recently announced restructuring of the publishing line in its wake. Before September hits, the Flashpoint continuity is being fully explored in a wide array of tie-ins and miniseries shipping through August. Normally, these type of books appear to be nothing more that attempts to capitalize on event branding, but we’re seeing that some of these books have some real substance in the early going.

Spoilers for a number of Flashpoint series will follow, but you should see them coming.

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