Summer of the 80′s is a weekly column that will run until the end of August in which I watch a movie released during the summer movie season of the 1980′s that I’ve never seen before. Every Friday, I’ll write about an 80′s movie that came out on the same day, or near the same [...]
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Summer Of The 80′s: Conan The Barbarian
Summer of the 80′s is a new weekly column that will run from now until the end of August in which I watch a movie released during the summer movie season of the 1980′s that I’ve never seen before. Every Friday, I’ll write about an 80′s movie that came out on the same day, or [...]
Popcorn News – May 11
Rebecca Hall (The Town, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) is now in talks to join the cast of Iron Man 3 after Jessica Chastain had to bow out due to a conflicting schedule. She would play a scientist who plays a pivotal role in creating the Extremis nanotech that ends up being sold to terrorists. (Variety) Guillermo [...]
Tenacious D Returns With Rize Of The Fenix
Tenacious D, a band of legend, is making their triumphant return with a new album, Rize of the Fenix, next week on May 15. If you are unfamiliar with the D, their (very) raunchy brand of humor is mixed with some legitamitely awesome rock music featuring Jack Black’s impressive vocals and Kyle Gass’ exalted acoustic [...]
One Year Anniversary Post: Sharing Our Love Of The Movies!
Monster Popcorn is one year old today! I’m incredibly excited about MP’s first anniversary and thankful for each and every one of you who read the site! Seriously, I give my most heartfelt thanks to all of you! Without your support, I wouldn’t have been able to grow the site into what it is now [...]
A Must Watch Nerdist Show: Ain’t It Cool With Harry Knowles
So the Nerdist channel has premiered and there is a lot of great content to be seen, with even more to come, but there is one show in particular that I feel is hands down the best offering from the Nerdist and that is Ain’t It Cool with Harry Knowles. Over the past couple weeks [...]
Report from Horror Hound Weekend Columbus 2012
Horror Hound Weekend Columbus was this past weekend and I had the fortune of attending the event. This was the first time that the show had come to Columbus, usually sticking to Cincinnati and Indianapolis in the past, and I was curious what the turn out would be. This also marked the first time I’ve [...]
Spotlight: Geek & Sundry
In the second spotlight of the week, I’m going to focus on another new YouTube channel that you should absolutely be sure to check out, Geek & Sundry. This new channel comes from the geek-minded internet queen, Felicia Day. Day is the creator/writer/star of the very popular web series The Guild which has had five [...]
Spotlight: The Nerdist Channel Comes To YouTube
I’m a regular listener of Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast. It’s often funny, insightful and interesting. In fact, I’m listening to the new episode with Neil Patrick Harris right now and it’s a really good listen so far. Hardwick has grown his podcast empire to include a variety of other podcasts in the Nerdist network. Now, [...]
Giveaway! HBO’s Game Of Thrones On Blu-ray!
Contest is now closed. Congratulations to Erik Bowers (@Fluffy776) for winning the blu-ray set. Thanks to all who entered! Continue to follow Monster Popcorn for more news, reviews and future giveaways! It’s giveaway time again! This time I am giving away a brand new copy of HBO’s Game of Thrones, season 1, on blu-ray! One lucky [...]
