There is a new Blink-182 album, Pokemon is everywhere and here’s our first look at the new “Power Rangers!” Bryan Cranston, playing “Zordon” in the new movie, said we can expect it to be a little darker comparing it to the Christopher Nolan “Batman” series. The PR reboot will hit theatres in March of next year.
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“Making a Murderer” is coming back to Netflix, the network announced Tuesday. The new installments will plop us back into the emotional roller coaster that is the post-conviction process, following convicted murderer Steven Avery and his nephew and co-defendant, Brendan Dassey, as their legal teams try to fight the system and challenge their convictions. (MORE HERE)
I was just glad that the premise wasn’t Steven Avery as a new cast member on Orange Is the New Black. – marconi
Despite being told otherwise, Brian & Lou are convinced Jay is doing his best Denzel impression…
We’re getting one last taste of what we’ll see in “Suicide Squad” on August 5th.
Here’s the final trailer:
“Heathens” from Twenty One Pilots really is the perfect song for this movie!
Coldplay showing some BTTF love during their stop in New York. It was pretty much the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. They broke out “Earth Angle” and Johnny B. Goode” and even had Marty McFly himself on stage. Yup. Michael J. Fox.
Wonder if Chicago will get the BTTF treatment this weekend? You can still score your way into a private soundcheck party with the band HERE.
After 13 seasons in the NFL, mostly spent with the Bears, Charles “Peanut” Tillman is hanging ’em up. Always a class act on and off the field. He came put together a video showing how he’ll be incorporating the “Peanut Punch”into his life outside of the NFL.
Yes, that game that everyone is playing a.k.a the new supreme ruler of the world Pokemon Go has proven in less than two weeks since it’s release to be a huge money maker for Nintendo. Bloomberg reported the Japanese video game company had the biggest turnover on the Tokyo Stock Exchange trading $4.5 Billion worth of stock on Friday. Overall it’s a 71% rise in one week.So does this mean that when Nintendo has it’s holiday party that Super Mario will be drinking in the corner, while everyone is talking to Pikachu and Squirrtle?
Nintendo is not the only company to benefit from this titanic move that has everyone trying to ‘catch them all’. Niantic, the mobile game developer behind the game and of course the Pokemon Company will eventually reap the rewards of the PkGo mania. But the buck does not stop there, as many advantageous entrepreneurs have created businesses off the game as detailed by here Game Zebo.
We’ve been covering the Pokemon craze all week so whether your enjoying the game as a distraction from reality with ‘augmented reality’ or you just laugh at people walking into things with their face in their phone, check out these stories looking into the whole thing.
1. Awolnation – Run (Beautiful Things)
2. Brand New – I Am A Nightmare
3. Bad Suns – Disappear Here
4. Bob Moses – Tearing Me Up
5. Kungs – This Girl
6. Trapdoor Social – Sunshine
7. Miike Snow – My Trigger
8. Zipper Club – Going The Distance
9. Run River North – Run Or Hide (Queued Up Artist Showcase – 7/19)
10. Switchfoot – Float
11. Arkells – Private School
12. Powers – Sunshine
13. BØRNS – American Money
14. Descendants – Without Love
15. M83 – Go!
16. Two Door Cinema Club – Are We Ready
1. Grouplove – Welcome To Your Life
2. Judah and the Lion – Take It All Back
3. Bronze Radio Return – Only Temporary
4. The Wombats – Be Your Shadow
5. Bleached – Wednesday Night Melody
6. Night Riots – Contagious (Queued Up Artist Showcase – 7/19)
7. Local Natives – Fountain Of Youth
8. The Hunna – You & Me
9. Weezer – I Love The USA
10. Coin – Talk Too Much
11. Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
12. The Struts – Put Your Money On Me
13. The Naked and Famous – Higher
14. The 1975 – Somebody Else
15. The Moth & The Flame – Red Flag
16. Blink 182 – Home Is Such a Lonely Place
1. Oasis – Supersonic
2. Erasure – Chains Of Love
3. Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
4. Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Passenger
5. Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
6. Radiohead – Paranoid Alien
7. The Rentals – Friends of P
8. Squeeze – Is That Love
9. Urge Overkill – Positive Bleeding
10. Less Than Jake – History of a Boring Town
11. The Church – Under The Milky Way
12. Teenage Fanclub – The Concept
13. Sublime – Badfish
1. Social Distortion – I Was Wrong
2. ABC – The Look Of Love
3. Breeders – Cannonball
4. U2 – Trash, Trampoline and the Party
5. R.E.M. – Finest Worksong
6. Kim Wilde – Kids In America
7. CIV – Can’t Wait One Minute More
8. Love and Rockets – So Alive
9. Candlebox – You
10. The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
11. Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
12. The Replacements – I Will Dare
13. The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You
14. Everclear – Heartspark Dollarsign
15. Jane’s Addiction – Standing In The Shower… Thinking
There are animals online with more followers on social media than we could ever rationalize, but for some reason this cat riding on the back of this hipster’s scooter just makes sense. Let it calm you as you begin your work week. – Kevin
A SEINFELD VIDEO GAME?!
Australian game developer Jacob Janerka created these wonderful mock-ups of a potential game based on the greatest TV sitcom about nothing in particular, and they look better a fresh bowl of Crabs Bisk soup. Janerka who also made the online game Paradigm, apparently crafted this game-in-the-works to look like classic 90’s pont-and-click computer games. I wonder if you can double dip a chip or get into other classic situations Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer? It just looks really fun. Maybe this can save just a few lives from the all-consuming monster that is Pokemon Go at the moment.
Yesterday was a busy day in the city, not only did Chicago hold its annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, but it also held its first ever Pokemon Go meet up. You are probably wondering, where in the world did we hold this meet up and what do you do during one of these events that have taken over the world?
The Pokemon Go meet up was held yesterday at The Bean where there was a Facebook event page setup. At one point 12,000 people RSVP’d to the meet up to go around Chicago and catch as many Pokemon as possible. There is no official word on how many people actually showed up, but I think its safe to say not all 12,000 people showed up.
During one of these meet ups people go around the surrounding area in search of rare Pokemon that they can then catch and battle other Pokemon Goers with. Yesterday though at The Bean, the main purpose was to pin Pokemon against Pokemon in what they call a Pokemon Gym. Just think of it as a big boxing gym, except for Pokemon.The good news though is Chicago did something that no other meet up in the United States has been able to do before.
During the Chicago meet up at The Bean, there were so many people on the Pokemon Go servers at once, that they actually crashed it for the rest of the United States for a few minutes. During the meet up people were even dressing up as characters from the actually card game and TV show. Along with dressing up as characters, people were also gathering and sitting based on what team/house they are a part of in the game.
It’s safe to say that Pokemon Go has officially taken over the world and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. I would fully expect there to be more Pokemon Go meet ups in the Chicago area very soon. If you were at the Chicago Pokemon Go meet up on Sunday, let us know how it went!
Call it overkill, but a mobile game has taken over lives of millions in just over a week. Pokemon Go apparently caused a near stampede yesterday in New York City when a rare character in the game was sighted in Central Park. The video above posted on Facebook by a tour company that offers city tours for PkGo players (yes, that’s a real business now) shot the video and even they found the humor in all these people trying to ‘catch ’em all’. Players in the famous park heard someone call out ‘VAPOREAN!’ and it started a panic.
This is just another example of how big PkGO has become in such a short time, as it’s currently most popular mobile game across multiple platforms.
So if your not playing and just annoyed by all this, at least it makes for good people watching right?
@kevkellam
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I’ve been making daily videos on my own YouTube channel for 3 years but I’ve never had so much fun creating #FreshContent with my co-workers as I am now.
Netflix today added a feature this week to their life-consuming VOD service that you may think was already available but is not, until now. Sold simply as “Like a Mixtape for Netflix” , Flixtape is a new feature that allows you to title and assemble specific lists of shows to share with friends.
You could do a whole group of Holiday themed episodes of sitcoms or just the episodes of ‘Family Guy’ where Stewie and Brian go on an adventure. The possibilities are huge for Netfix fans to make a fun way to keep a certain mood or tone over a specific session of TV watching. A service that is already flexible to it’s user, is now able to modified even more by users.
There is several big changes coming to Netflix as well. As we reported in June, the company is flirting with the idea of letting users download their shows in some way in the future. And they scored a win recently that will upset a lot of ex-boyfriends or roommates you don’t live with anymore, when it was ruled in federal court that sharing your password was a ‘federal crime’. So hang in there, the video on-demand world is a ‘changing.
And of course, Netflix will never stops it’s content shuffle of adding and dropping movies and TV shows. Fun news for comedy fans recently was the announcement that legendary writer and actor Albert Brooks will have his films on the Net very soon. This announcement video is worth the watch, especially if you enjoy dark humor.
In Toronto a city famous for great comedy and being the site of Wrestlemania VI, now has another claim to fame. A mysterious ‘Maksed Bride’ is sitting in public spaces and leaving cryptic notes in public spaces. People have posted about seeing her all over the city, sitting with no interaction to anyone around her, and leaving crumbled notes at her feet. The notes are pretty out there with odd references to alt rock great Nick Cave and partial phrases in French. So hopefully she is not late for her wedding or maybe she missed her wedding…or is she running away from a wedding so she’s wearing a mask?! So many questions left unanswered.
Theories locally are running rampant. Some think it’s an elaborate performance art piece or a gorilla marketing campaign of some kind. Whatever it is, it’s weird and intriguing for sure,
TV and Radio student Robert Wharry caught video of the Masked Bride when working on a project in the street. He has stated he is connected to the Bride in anyway, but felt compelled to film when he saw her randomly writing notes in downtown Toronto.
Our hearts go out to the victims of today’s attacks in Nice, France who suffered an apparent terror attack today which killed 80 people when a truck rammed into a crowd during the late hours of a Bastille Day celebration where many had gathered to watch fireworks. CNN reported the occupants of the truck then exchanged gunfire with police. Information about the situation is still coming out.
In these times we can collectively feel the need to reach out and help. You can donate to efforts with the French Red Cross here. If you know someone who may be effected by this attack and need information, the U.S. State Department has a online resource here
In Paris tonight a large explosion near the Eiffel Tower occurred, yet is not terror-related according to local offiicials. That incident is being attributed to a malfunction with fireworks meant for Bastille Day celebrations. This attack in Nice occurred 8 months after an attack on a rock club in Paris where alternative band Eagles of Death Metal were performing.
Bastille Day is the French equivalent of our 4th of July. It is a celebration of the French people and their history as democratic country.
