CA – Nobody’s Smiling Signing

Meet Common and get his new album signed at Amoeba Hollywood on Wednesday, July 23 at 7:30 pm! Two-time Grammy Award-winning Chicago rapper and actor Common releases his tenth studio album, “Nobody’s Smiling,” on July 22nd. The concept-driven project was executive-produced by No I.D.

** Signing is limited to one CD per person for the first 200 purchasers of the album.
** Fans may purchase “Nobody’s Smiling” beginning July 22nd.
** The album is available as regular and deluxe edition CD.
** Signing line will form on Ivar side of Amoeba starting at 6pm Wednesday.

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Amoeba Music 
6400 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 245-6400

MA – Falling Skies Screening

Moon Bloodgood hosts a special screening of TNT’s new show FALLING SKIES at AMC Boston Common on Monday June 6, 2011 at 8pm! RSVP your full name, age, and number of guests in your party to fallingskiesboston@gmail.com for more information!

AMC Boston Common
175 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02111-1009

Aliens vs. Robots

Like most of Geek America, I was eagerly anticipating Terminator Salvation and Star Trek to open in theaters. When Star Trek came out, I was blown away. Great cast, solid cinematography, and great script. Granted it’s considered to be “Ultimate Star Trek” due to the alternate realities and cheap cheat tricks by alternate Spock to progress the story faster. For the most part though, Star Trek was a solid film, and it made me wonder what Terminator had up its sleeve.

While Terminator received mixed reviews, I personally loved it. The robots were designed very well and looked very slick. Kudos to McG for catering to his strengths. Although there were some weaker points in the movie (did anyone else roll their eyes when Moon Bloodgood’s character wanted to snuggle with Marcus just for warmth?), I thought the movie accomplished what it set out to do. It portrayed the world starting to be taken over by Skynet, and the human resistance struggling to defeat the enemy, as well as John Conner’s rise to power as leader of the resistance. It’s not quite the hopeless future that was once predicted in previous Terminator movies because IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET! I hate that people think this Terminator movie was bad because it didn’t portray the future being that bad. I believe this will come to pass in future movies as it gets worse and worse.
While Christian Bale does an adequate job as John Conner, this movie was more Marcus’ story. From his horror at realizing what’s happened to him and his path towards redemption, Sam Worthington did a fantastic job as Marcus and portraying his humanity. The ending may have been a bit cheesy but showed hope that perhaps mankind will persevere in the end. And I can’t wait to see what Transformers 2 comes up with next.