THIS WEEK IN GEEK – Sept 24/08

• FILM: The new, sonically confusing Bond theme (Third Man Records)
• TV: Canadians finally get some HBO (TVGuide.ca)
• COMICS: Hulk… SIGN!!! (checksinthemail.com)
• GAMES: I don’t know about letting Bane play with my LEGO… (IGN)

Review – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

If you hate graphics, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Nintendo DS is your game.  Not only are the visuals horrible and antiquated, even by handheld standards, but you’ll spend most of your time looking down at the second screen anyway, choosing what you want your pixely Jedi to do.

Top Five Comic Book Conversations in Films

Including mundane, everyday conversation topics in the dialogue of films helps us little people empathise and relate to the big people on the screen.  Every once in a while, a film will give a shout-out to us geeks and include a conversation about comic books.  Here’s five of the best in recent memory:

Geektionary – “Cinemoment”

Cinemoment (noun) – The sense that, for an instant, one is living in a film.

It could be a particularly witty comeback.  Or the way the sun shines off your glasses and creates a “lens flare.”  Or maybe just the feeling that each step is taking you towards some inevitable climax.

This is your cinemoment.

(Feel free to post your cinemoments below!)

Let’s Give Shia a Hand

Shia LaBeouf was involved in an auto accident on July 27th and had his left hand crushed. There was a rumour circulating the web (mainly due to this article) that Shia would have his pinky finger amputated. While it seems Shia’s hand is intact, if the young actor did have to cut off his finger, why not go the whole nine yards? Or rather, the whole five fingers? In this age of ever-changing fads, Shia could be the first celebrity to spearhead fashionable limb replacements!

We’ve decided to give Shia a helping hand (sorry) and list the 5 coolest things to replace his pummeled paw!

Secret Warner Brothers Memo

Now that The Dark Knight has surpassed $500 million at the domestic box office, it was only a matter of time before Warner Brothers went mad with power.  Modern Geekery got a hold of this SECRET INTERNAL WB MEMO that should make for some interesting films in the near future. Read it now before we’re forced to take it down!

I’m really interested to see how these new ”guidelines” will affect one of the WB’s next films, “Nights in Rodanthe.”  What’s Diane Lane’s Bed & Breakfast viral website going to look like?! And what Rodanthe-related clues will it unlock?!?!