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Archive for August, 2007

Party Favors: Living & Dying In A Kid Nation

Posted Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 2:30am

Joe bitch slaps CBS over their unbelievably ill-conceived reality show, KID NATION…

QSE News: Week In Review - 8/31/2007

Posted Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 2:16am

Quick Stop Entertainment News - Your source for news and notables of the week that was…

Trailer Park: BALLS OF FURY

Posted Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 0:07am

Christopher Stipp pings and pongs with Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant at the SDCC before having a suprise guest at the end…

Weekend Shopping Guide 8/31/07: Holding Out For A Hero

Posted Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 0:02am

It’s time once again for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted… This week featuring a cheerleader, Queen Elizabeth, Will Ferrell, Nick Frost, Robbie Coltrane, Helen Mirren, Marlo Thomas, and more…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/31/2007

Posted Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Scrubs Blog: My Wind Tunnel

Posted Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 14:33pm

Season 7 is still under wraps, so here’s another blast from the recent Season 6 past, as a mighty wind blows through episode 6×18, “My Turf War”…

The Balls of Fury Contest!

Posted Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 14:30pm

Quick Stop Entertainment is giving away some Balls of Fury swag. If you want to win said swag, go and enter the contest now.

Toy Box: Batman Black and White - Alex Ross

Posted Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 1:23am

If you’re a fan of the artwork and style of Alex Ross, then you should be checking out this week’s Toybox, as Michael looks at the latest Batman Black and White Statue based on his art…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/30/2007

Posted Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/29/2007

Posted Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/28/2007

Posted Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

SModcast 26

Posted Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 0:09am

SModcast 26: Beware The Hobo - In which a special guest fills in for one of our heroes, prompting a heavy bout of reminiscences about what kind of purchases can set off parental fisticuffs, how metal is metal, what it means to be man-friends in Jersey, and saying goodbye to 42nd Street - all of which is interjected by a discussion of nature’s most evil arachnid.

Comics in Context #191: You Are My Lucky Star

Posted Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 0:05am

This week, Peter unreels his thoughts on the big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s STARDUST…

Monkey Talk with Paul Dini: Stuffed Animal Stand-Up with Rashy #7

Posted Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 0:02am

monkeytalksm.jpgPaul Dini’s “Monkey Talk” (co-hosted by his irrepressible sock monkey son, Rashy) returns with Rashy’s continued attempts to break into the dog-eat-dog world of Stuffed Animal Stand-Up…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/27/2007

Posted Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

QSE News: Week In Review - 8/24/2007

Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:36am

Quick Stop Entertainment News - Your source for news and notables of the week that was…

Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review - Close-Up 2

Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:23am

D. K. Holm explores a revolutionary new approach to film studies, and interviews two of its practitioners…

Trailer Park: DEATH SENTENCE

Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:16am

Christopher Stipp continues with his Comic-Con footage and interviews James Wan, director of SAW, about his newest - DEATH SENTENCE - and also chats with co-star Garrett Hedlund…

Weekend Shopping Guide 8/24/07: Written By Manatees

Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:02am

It’s time once again for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted… This week featuring Peppermint Patty, Cartman, David Bowie, Rowan Atkinson, Ugly Betty, Dr. House, Octavius Caesar, Paul Feig, and more…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/24/2007

Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/23/2007

Posted Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Scrubs Blog: My Magic Forest

Posted Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 at 3:21am

Season 7 keeps rolling along, but since most of that would be far too spoilery at this juncture, how about a magical interlude from Season 6, as we journey to the enchanted forest of episode 6×19, “My Cold Shower”…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/22/2007

Posted Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 at 0:36am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Game On! 8-21-2007: BIOSHOCK indeeed…

Posted Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 16:03pm

Ian Bonds returns with a glint of hope for the gaming season, as well as hope for the undersea world of Rapture, with BIOSHOCK, released today…

Party Favors: Mayberry Joe

Posted Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 0:02am

Joe practically stalks Andy Griffith at the Piggly Wiggly, barely mourns JOHN FROM CINCINNATI, checks out Bravo, flicks Glick, uncovers the term “taint lift”, becomes MySpace’s bitch, and more…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/21/2007

Posted Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Toy Box: Legendary Comic Book Heroes - Series 1

Posted Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 22:58pm

I like my comics the same way I like my women - independent. Marvel Toys likes them independent too, and are producing the Legendary Comic Book Heroes based on them. Today I’m looking at Savage Dragon, Judge Dredd and Ripclaw, and they should make the fans of the comics very happy…

Widge Goes Off #2.2: Don’t Make Me Separate You Two

Posted Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 3:12am

widgesm.jpgWidgett Walls returns to harp on copyright and why everyone’s wrong. He also discusses the “Creative Singularity” and other phrases which he coins and tries to imbue with power because they just sound cool.

Comics in Context #190: Pop Eye-Con

Posted Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 0:02am

Peter gets his hands on the wonderful new POPEYE cartoon collection from Warner Home Video, and lays down his appreciation of the spinach-chowing sailor man…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/20/2007

Posted Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

SModcast 25

Posted Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 23:40pm

SModcast 25: Lynching Vixen - In which our heroes spend an unhealthy amount of time deconstructing a Rankin Bass classic, do a “Midnight Express” with a pre-street-date DVD, kill a franchise, lament the loss of holiday-programming luster, fail to enjoy adolescent keggers, get the blues at a strip club, miss opportunities to smoke on campus, have their bagged-and-boarded books threatened, and explore the thickest, strongest apron strings in central Jersey.

Monkey Talk with Paul Dini: Stuffed Animal Stand-Up with Rashy #6

Posted Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 23:38pm

monkeytalksm.jpgPaul Dini’s “Monkey Talk” (co-hosted by his irrepressible sock monkey son, Rashy) returns with Rashy’s continued attempts to break into the dog-eat-dog world of Stuffed Animal Stand-Up…

Trailer Park: MONSTER SQUAD

Posted Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 1:11am

EXCLUSIVE! Christopher Stipp starts off his Comic-Con video coverage with MONSTER SQUAD director Fred Dekker and actors Ashley Bank, Andre Gower and Ryan Lambert…

Weekend Shopping Guide 8/17/07: Something Better

Posted Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 0:24am

It’s time once again for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted… This week featuring Rowlf, Peter Bagge, The Amazing Jonathan, Doctor Who, Rodney Dangerfield, Alexis Carrington, Master Shake, and more…

Trailer Park: Just Laying The Groundwork

Posted Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 0:03am

Christopher Stipp gets political for a moment and then sneaks a peek at the trailers for RISE: BLOOD HUNTER, THE BROTHERS SOLOMON and THE DARJEELING LIMITED…

QSE News: Week In Review - 8/17/2007

Posted Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 0:02am

Quick Stop Entertainment News - Your source for news and notables of the week that was…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/17/2007

Posted Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Win the Harry Potter and the Phoenix Game!

Posted Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at 4:30am

Quick Stop Entertainment is giving away copies of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix games. Enter to win.

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/16/2007

Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 23:50pm

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Monkey Talk with Paul Dini: Stuffed Animal Stand-Up with Rashy #5

Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 1:44am

monkeytalksm.jpgPaul Dini’s “Monkey Talk” (co-hosted by his irrepressible sock monkey son, Rashy) returns with Rashy’s continued attempts to break into the dog-eat-dog world of Stuffed Animal Stand-Up…

Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 0:54am

D. K. Holm catches up with the career of Samuel Fuller, thanks the new Eclipse DVD set of the director’s first three films…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/15/2007

Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 0:45am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/14/2007

Posted Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 23:49pm

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Win the Muppet Show on DVD!

Posted Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 13:49pm

Quick Stop Entertainment is giving away copies of The Muppet Show: Season Two. Enter to win.

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/13/2007

Posted Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

SModcast 24

Posted Sunday, August 12th, 2007 at 21:32pm

SModcast 24: Rigg-er, Please! - In which the manager of a comic book emporium and a Canadian infamous for overstatement join forces with a newly-minted senior citizen to discuss past mistakes and the fallout of waging body parts, robotic scat games, hipping-up that which doesn’t require hipping-up, a drug-free “Underdog”, lying to customers, unlikely music to shop/screw to, the average length of straight sex vs. gay sex, and wax rhapsodic about one of the greatest action-movies-starring-a-guy-who-later-went-bat-shit ever made.

Scrubs Blog: Back In Production

Posted Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 23:04pm

Hey Scrubs fans! We are indeed back from hiatus, and shooting episode 7×01, and if you don’t believe us, here’s the proof…

Weekend Shopping Guide 8/10/07: Light The Lights

Posted Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 0:10am

It’s time once again for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted… This week featuring Miss Piggy, Bart Simpson, Harry Potter, Flash Gordon, Peter Graves, Ninja Turtles, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Milton Caniff, Roseanne, Batman, The Tick, and more…

Comics in Context #189: Woody’s Woodpeccadillos

Posted Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 0:07am

It’s the Woody Woodpecker show, as Peter dives into the manic bird’s new DVD set…

Trailer Park: See SUPERBAD Next Weekend. It’s Good Just For McLovin.

Posted Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 0:03am

Christopher Stipp takes a deep breath before diving into his Comic-Con coverage with looks at the indie comedy CHALK, the very western 3:10 TO YUMA and the simply creepy NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/10/2007

Posted Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/9/2007

Posted Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 3:55am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Interview: Derren Brown

Posted Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 4:09am

We chat with the mentalist/magician, whose combination of “magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship” has made the journey from the UK and premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in the form of Derren Brown - Mind Control

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/8/2007

Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 23:50pm

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

SModcast 23

Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 4:26am

SModcast 23: Good Vibrations - The re-return of the distaff, in which our heroes discuss Canadian lockdown & toilet hijinks, reminisce about coming for the first time and losing it in a small town, get all “Sex And The City”, cross the point of no return, make note of body types and what city is best for them, decry the bane that is Star Tours, discuss how many kinds of wonderful the “Simpsons” premiere was, and find new lines to cross.

The Art Of Travel Blog #4: The Darien

Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 1:14am

Quick Stop presents the exclusive web only trailer and fourth of seven behind the scenes webisodes for the independent film THE ART OF TRAVEL…

Toy Box: FANtastic Exclusive 2 - The Gauntlet of Vaskkh

Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 0:48am

Once again this year, the Four Horsemen involved their collectors and fans in the process of developing their FANtastic Exclusive for SDCC. Michael checks out one of the nine (yes, nine!) versions tonight when he reviews the Gauntlet of Vaskkh!

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/7/2007

Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 0:46am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Widge Goes Off #2.1: Are You Going to Eat That?

Posted Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 1:11am

widgesm.jpgWidgett Walls returns with a brand new job title, a new direction for the podcast, but I know you’ll be disappointed to hear: the host has not improved in the least.

Party Favors: Pay Cable Evil

Posted Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 0:05am

Joe lists The Top Ten of HBO’s Diabolical Decade, chugs Vitamin Water, visits Dan Marino’s restaurant, and more…

Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4, Part One

Posted Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 0:02am

D. K. Holm takes a preliminary look at film noir and the FILM NOIR CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL. 4, in the first of a five part series…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/6/2007

Posted Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Monkey Talk with Paul Dini: Frozen Treasure

Posted Sunday, August 5th, 2007 at 23:52pm

monkeytalksm.jpgPaul Dini’s “Monkey Talk” (co-hosted by his irrepressible sock monkey son, Rashy) returns as Rashy embarks upon a life of piracy - with Paul and Calla as his next mark…

Trailer Park: Buying My Time

Posted Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 1:41am

Christopher Stipp takes a week to gather his thoughts before unloading his Comic-Con coverage but takes the time to give it up to SICKO, ONCE, I AM LEGEND and BRATZ…

Weekend Shopping Guide 8/3/07: Rarebit Fiends

Posted Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 0:10am

It’s time once again for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted… This week featuring Winsor McKay, Popeye, Bone, Simon Pegg, Woody Woodpecker, Mythbusters, Alan B’Stard, Ray Harryhausen, and more…

Scrubs Blog: My Mailbox Stunt

Posted Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 0:08am

The Scrubs Blog is back with a look at the mailbox stunt from 6×16, “My Words Of Wisdom”…

Comics in Context #188: D’OHME!

Posted Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 0:05am

Peter takes in the first big screen adventure of THE SIMPSONS, plus Droopy on DVD, and his completely surrenders to Spongebob…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/3/2007

Posted Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Win Popeye the Sailor on DVD!

Posted Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 12:15pm

Quick Stop Entertainment is giving away copies of Popeye the Sailor Man, 1933-1938 Volume 1. Enter to win.

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/2/2007

Posted Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…

Toy Box: This Year’s Top 10 From SDCC

Posted Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 0:13am

Couldn’t make it to SDCC this year? Michael gives you his quick rundown of the top goodies from the show!

Game On! 7-31-2007: Game Related

Posted Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 0:11am

It’s a look at GUITAR HERO ENCORE: ROCKS THE 80s, MK: ARMAGEDDON on the Wii and… The HOT FUZZ DVD?… this week with Ian Bonds…

Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Hot Fuzz, James Ellroy: American Dog, Rebus: Set 2, Starter For 10

Posted Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 0:05am

D. K. Holm immerses himself in crime, both serious and comical, with reviews of HOT FUZZ, REBUS, JAMES ELLROY: AMERICAN DOG, and for the heck of it STARTER FOR 10, all on DVD…

Quick Stop Thingamabobs: 8/1/2007

Posted Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 0:01am

Today’s links to our favorite finds around the web…