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GeekRest is offering three lucky fans a chance to win a Blu-ray copy of the “Robot Chicken DC Comics Special” [now available on both Blu-ray and DVD!] featuring over two hours of bonus content created by the special’s producers, including deleted scenes, commentaries, outtakes and more!

The list of special features included on the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Blu-ray and DVD include:

• The Making of Robot Chicken DC Comics Special

• Robot Chicken DC Comics Special’s Aquaman Origin Story

• Chicken Nuggets

• Writers’ Commentary

• Actors’ Commentary

• DC Entertainment Tour

• Stoopid Alter Egos

• Outtakes

• Deleted Sketches

• 5.2 Questions

Three (3) winner will receive:

– One (1) Copy of Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special courtesy of Adult Swim (as pictured on right)

Just follow this simple step below to enter!

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Title: Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Directed by: Seth Green Starring: (voices) Abraham Benrubi, Alex Borstein, Nathan Fillion, Megan Fox, Seth Green, Neil Patrick Harris, Breckin Meyer, Alfred Molina, Aaron Paul, Paul Reubens, Tom Root, Kevin Shinick, Matthew Senreich, Tara Strong, Zeb Wells Running time: 23 minutes, Rated TV-ma, Available on DVD Special Features: Chicken Nuggets; Stoopid Alter Egos; Rcdc’s Aquaman Origin Story; Tour of DC Entertainment; The Making of the Rcdc Special;Cast Commentary; Writer Commentary; Outtakes; 13 Cut Animatics; 5.2 Questions If you’ve never seen the stop motion animated series on Cartoon Network, and are a fan of parody comedy, what the hell have you been doing with your [ Read More ]

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It’s the best day ever for One Direction fans! After teasing the video for their latest single, ‘Best Song Ever,’ for an entire week, the band finally released the video on July 22!

There’s always high anticipation every time a future One Direction music video is announced. The band has been teasing the video for their newest single, “Best Song Ever,” for more than a week, and they finally premiered it on July 22! Watch it below.

One Direction Releases ‘Best Song Ever’ Video

The boys of 1D do a great job at getting fans excited for their videos, as they often tease the premieres with clips of behind-the-scenes footage to keep the anticipation high. They did it for their “Kiss You” video, and they did it again for the “Best Song Ever” video!

“It’s probably our best video yet,” Niall Horan said in one of the teasers.

Along with Niall’s thoughts,...

Robot Chicken has had some fun with the DC Universe ever since the series premiered on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. As a result, a DC-centric special was inevitable and it aired back in the winter. Now out on DVD from Warner Home Video, the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special is a fast-paced laugh riot for comic book fans.

The Rc crew, headed by cocreators Seth Green and Brecken Mayer are on hand, aided, abetted, and egged on by DC’s Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns. Interestingly, Zeb Wells, who normally writes for Marvel, never for DC, is ion hand to direct the special. On the surface, they cleverly make this appealing to mainstream viewers by basing the look, feel, and sound to mimic the Super Friends animated series, using sound effects from other animated projects. But once the special gets underway, you glimpse tons of characters only comic readers would know,...

Press Release:

No Superhero is Spared from Sketch Comedy Satire in the

All-New Adult Swim Blu-ray™ and DVD Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Iconic Superheroes Get Stop-Motion Skewering on Blu-Ray and DVD with Release of

Annie Award-Winning Special and Two Plus Hours of Bonus Features, Available July 9, 2013

This July, the Robot Chicken television series heads back to Blu-ray™ and DVD – and this time, the DC Comics universe is at the center of its Emmy® Award-winning stop-motion lampooning. Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, in partnership with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, continues to build its repertoire of dishing out hilarious sketch comedy parodies in the all-new Adult Swim Blu-ray and DVD release, Robot Chicken DC Comics Special. The special, which boasts an all-star cast as well as characters Robot Chicken fans have grown to love, provides a unique take on some of the most iconic superheroes from the DC Comics universe – along...

Hold me closer, tiny Dundie: The Office‘s series finale is now just one day away (airing Thursday at 9/8c on NBC). But thankfully, my personal Dunder Mifflin-themed kudos-fest is just getting underway, with two more fun-filled posts to go.

Video | The Office Series Finale — Honoring Dunder Mifflin With the Best Dundies Ever

Today’s award-ing walk down memory lane features a Jim and Dwight showdown, the return of Agent Michael Scarn, a Kelly Kapoor faux pas and more disdain of Toby Flenderson (who I’m still convinced is the Scanton Strangler). Has your favorite Office gem earned a nod yet?...

With great power, comes...a great many problems.

Independent movie studios may not have the budget for the kind of showy special effects that the major studios pour into their superhero movies, but they often make up for it by telling the kinds of stories that the majors avoid. Because of the need to appeal to a wide range of potential moviegoers and to appease die-hard comic book fans, the majors primarily concentrate on offering up stories involving relatively unconflicted, altruistic superheroes using their incredible abilities to do incredible deeds. Indie studios, on the other hand, are freer to deconstruct the genre, offering up heroes with more flaws and quirks. Hit the link below to find out about two indie superhero movies now streaming on Netflix that explore the absurd, scary and mundane aspects of superheroes and superpowers.

Next Showing: Alter Egos and Boy Wonder are now streaming on Netflix...

It's a pretty slow week for DVD and Blu-ray releases, which is somewhat surprising given that Black Friday is just a few days away and the holiday shopping season is about to get underway. The only major new release hitting store shelves today is The Expendables 2, which could make a perfect gift for the action movie addict in your life. Aside from that, however, new releases are essentially limited to the indie superhero comedy Alter Egos, Famke Janssen's Bringing Up Bobby starring Milla Jovovich, and Bruce McDonald's strange pseudo-sequel Hard Core Logo 2, which fortunately comes packaged with the original Hard Core Logo on Blu-ray. Catalog titles hitting Blu-ray for the first time include a newly restored version of Michael Cimino's infamous Heaven's Gate, Isao Takahata's anime classic Grave of the Fireflies, and the Tarantino Xx box set. Will you be buying or renting anything this week?...

If Clark Kent is dating Lois Lane, and Lois sleeps with Superman… is it cheating?

That's the kind of question that's on the mind of secret superhero Brendan in "Alter Egos," the Kevin Smith and Phase 4 Films-produced superhero comedy currently in limited theatrical release and hitting VOD today (November 20).

Brendan has a secret: by day he's an ordinary civilian, but by night he's Fridge, a superhero who can shoot ice out of his hands. When his girlfriend Emily sleeps with Fridge, Brendan has a meltdown, despite the fact that he and Fridge are the same person — a fact that hasn't gone over Emily's head.

Check out the "Alter Egos" confrontation in the exclusive Nsfw red-band clip above.

This week: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and more aging action heroes are back to blow things up in the explosive "The Expendables 2."

Also new this week is a collection of Quentin Tarantino movies handpicked by the filmmaker himself, the Blu-ray debut of 1975's "Zorro" starring Alain Delon and a Criterion Collection edition of the formerly maligned/recently praised 1980 Western "Heaven's Gate."

'The Expendables 2'

Box Office: $85 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 66% Fresh

Storyline: Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and the rest of the Expendables (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth and Dolph Lundgren) are sent by Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to Albania to retrieve an item from a downed plane only to lose one of their own in an ambush by an opposing group of mercenaries led by Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme). The action then moves to Bulgaria where...

Kevin Smith has no plans to direct any more films, mostly because he would rather produce and distribute other people's movies. Today we have a trailer for "Alter Egos," a low-budget superhero film that Smith's company has picked up for distribution. Check it out below. Plot: "Alter Egos" takes place in a world in which superheroes have recently lost all government funding and public support. It centers on an underappreciated superhero who jeopardizes a dangerous mission with his own emotional crisis . his girlfriend is cheating on him with his alter ego. The new movie is set to get a limited theatrical release on Friday, October 19th and will then be available on VOD on November 20th. Trailer:...

Considering Kevin Smith‘s enduring love of comic books, it’s a little surprising to realize he’s never actually directed a superhero feature. But he’s about to make a contribution to the subgenre in another way. Smith’s Smodcast Pictures is set to distribute Alter Egos, a low-budget indie about the rift between a man and his own [...]...

Here are the latest MPAA ratings from Bulletin #2233. After Dusk They Come Rated R For violence and some language. Alien Dawn Rated R For language and violence. Alter Egos Rated R For drug use, brief sexuality, language and violence. Amour Rated PG-13 For mature thematic material including a disturbing act, and for brief language. Release Date: December 19, 2012 Anna Karenina Rated R For some sexuality and violence. Release Date: November 9, 2012 The Bay Rated R For disturbing violent content, bloody images and language. The Campaign Rated R For crude sexual content, language and brief nudity. Release Date: August 10, 2012 Cargo Rated R For language, some violence and brief nudity. Dino Time Rated PG For some scary action and mild rude humor. Doggie Boogie Rated PG For mild rude humor. The Expendables 2 Rated R For strong bloody violence throughout. Release Date: August 17, 2012 Fire With Fire Rated R For strong violence, language and brief sexuality.

One thing that has become clear as Ricky, Edgar, Justine and myself work through the 396 page Fantasia program book (seriously this thing is massive) is that to pick your list of films to watch at Fantasia, you need a system.

As it happens, I have been going to Fantasia since the festival started in 1996 and over the years I have gotten pretty good at figuring out what I want to watch and how to build a schedule quickly. I have been known to go to Fantasia on the day that they start selling tickets, buy the program and figure out the 30 films that I was going to buy tickets for… while standing in line.

Now if you are only going to Fantasia to watch the animated films or to watch the martial arts films or to watch the horror films, than my system won’t help you and in fact...

What would you do if you knew that you could become a better version of yourself? If only the best parts, an alter ego if you will, would come out to improve your overall life, would you do it? What if it came at the risk of your life? These are the questions that the new film Limitless ask us, so in Wamg fashion, we used it to inspire this weeks top ten!

Top Ten Alter Egos

Now, these don’t have to be good. We are exploring the good, the bad, and the downright ugly… Enjoy kids!

10. Britt Reid / The Green Hornet (The Green Hornet 2011)

The Green Hornet was originally developed as a radio show in the mid 1930′s and under the vigilante’s mask was Britt Reid, a direct descendant of the Lone Ranger. After a few incarnations over the years (a Universal movie serial, a 60′s TV...

A look at Pink Friday star's highlights as 'Moment 4 Life' video debuts.

By Mawuse Ziegbe

Nicki Minaj

Photo: Christopher Polk/ AMA2010/ Getty Images

Nicki Minaj's "Moment 4 Life" is an inspirational joint in which the Queens Mc speaks with naked emotion about living out her dreams. The accompanying visual, which Minaj's Young Money labelmate Drake has called "a fantasy video," is slated to premiere Thursday (January 27) at 7:54 p.m. Et on MTV. In honor of the Pink Friday star's latest video, MTV News is taking a look at some of Minaj's real-life fairytale moments, from getting co-signs from Lil Wayne and Jay-z to scoring her own lipstick shade.

Weezy Introduces Nicki

After spotting the lyrical spitfire on a street DVD series, Wayne roped the promising Queens native into his Young Money collective. Minaj hit the road with Weezy on the I Am Music Tour and later dropped her breakout...

Why do singers come out with alter egos? First Garth Brooks, now Beyoncé. What is the point of it? —Kayla, Atlanta It's a safe way for a performer to explore an unexpected style of music without permanently alienating hardcore fans. Country star Garth Brooks grew a soul patch and declared himself Chris Gaines so that he could splash around in the rock-and-roll pool for a while, but Beyoncé's "more aggressive" Sasha Fierce barely tiptoes outside the R&B comfort zone, leaving little for teenyboppers to cower over. Speaking of cowering, bow down, fools, as my alter ego, the Answer B!Tch, slices and dices your every question in the latest installment of Burning Q's....

• Armed with caffeinated drinks and toothpicks (for closing eyelids) IONCINEMA’s Australian correspondent Samuel Hilton will be covering this very cool fest from the land down under……take it away Sam! The 52nd Sydney Film Festival was kicked off in style on Friday 10th June in the heart of Sydney city at State Theatre with the opening film, My Summer of Love. While it’s a shame that there wasn’t an Australian film of enough quality to open the festival, the British flick drew a large audience in for the beginnings of a highly promising festival. My Summer of Love’s lead actors Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt were both in attendance to open the film festival (while none of my pictures of them came out - here's one from the festival's site) This year the line-up, which includes independent films from Australia, Britain and the U.

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