Marvel Entertainment Studios just released some high resolution images from their next two big budget films: Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.

The image of a very angry Thor, played by actor Chris Hemsworth, is now large enough for all you creative fanboy types to cut up into desktop wallpapers and such.

The two photo stills of Captain America (Chris Evans) follow suit, showing off the character’s costume in detail.

I’m still kind of peeved that there are wings painted on the side of Cap’s helmet instead of the actual tiny wings that he has in the comic books. I’ll reserve further judgment for the comment section.

Check out the images here [...]

J.J. Abrams has a good sense of humor despite the news that FOX has moved the Bad Robot-produced Fringe television show from Thursdays to a new Friday-night death slot.

Since the show is already rumored to be in danger of getting canceled, this kind of move could either be really good (lower expectations for ratings) or really bad depending on how many fans migrate over.

The first Fringe episode to air on its new Friday time slot is titled “Firefly” — also the name of Joss Whedon’s short-lived FOX sci-fi series that held the very same time slot [...]

If you’ve ever been confused about the character relationships within Marvel’s X-Men comics timeline, you may now have some much needed help.

To help promote his comic book shop, UK-based graphic designer Joe Stone has created an X-Men Family Tree to help navigate who’s related to who, who’s romantically linked to each other, and sets of prominent arch-nemesis.

Check out the image here at right (click for larger, full view).

I have at least a decade of dedicated X-Men comic book story reading under my belt and even I didn’t recognize all the character ties, which is why Stone probably added the text at the bottom that reads, “Confused? Read more comics.”

Can’t go wrong with advice like that [...]

Check out Episode 26 of the Flix of Doom podcast, the official movie podcast of Geeks of Doom, with Justin Vactor.

In this episode, find out our top films of 2010, and our thoughts on The Dilemma and The Green Hornet.

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The David Fincher-directed film The Social Network, which stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, is doing great this awards season, and there’s a good chance the film will take the Best Picture Oscar this year.

Right now there’s some great deals on the DVD and Blu-ray, as well as the film’s soundtrack, which won Best Score at this year’s Golden Globes.

– The Social Network Soundtrack, by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, on MP3 for only $5.00 and on CD for only for $9.99.

– The Social Network 2-Disc Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray for only $16.99 (that’s 51% off the list price of $34.95) and DVD for only $12.99 (that’s 55% off the list price of $28.96).

– Video On Demand: $14.99 to purchase; the 24-hour rental will be $3.99 (rental for this film will be available starting February 2, 2011). [...]

It always warms my heart to hear that another decent filmmaker isn’t interested in shooting a huge franchise movie in 3D, especially when that filmmaker is J.J. Abrams and the franchise is Star Trek.

Abrams said Paramount approached him about shooting the sequel to his 2009 revamped Star Trek film in 3D, but he wasn’t very enthusiastic about the idea, according to a recent interview.

“I have nothing against 3D in theory. But I’ve also never run to the movies because something’s in 3D,” Abrams told NY Mag. “[As for Trek], as soon as I read the script, if it says, ‘Somebody pushes a weapon toward the camera in a menacing way,’ and we think, ‘That’d be better in 3D!’… I dunno.” [...]

Steve Prestwich, who was the drummer for Aussie rock legends Cold Chisel, has passed away at the age of 56. He was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, but was unable to regain consciousness following surgery.

Prestwich, originally born in England, moved to Australia in the 1970s and eventually joined forces with Jimmy Barnes, Don Walker, and Ian Moss to form Cold Chisel. The band was a major influence on the hard rock scene in Australia (and indeed, on Aussie culture in general), and are often seen as one of many bands that helped bring Aussie rock to the world stage.

Cold Chisel was formed in 1973, initially as an early metal group performing covers of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Using their metal and hard rock influences, the band evolved with their own original material – coming up with a sounds that many people identified with “Aussie Pub Rock” and songs that many find to be anthemic and synonymous to aspects of Australian culture [...]

There’s no denying that the score for Jurassic Park from composer John Williams is absolutely amazing, especially the highly memorable piece, Theme from Jurassic Park.

Now, Sound Cloud user Birdfeeder has taken the classic track and slowed it down by 1,000 percent, and you can listen to it right here below.

It’s well worth a listen, as it sounds wonderful, but note, the five-plus minute orchestral song is now over 42 minutes long [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is the Evil Dead-inspired “The Order Of The Hand That Went Bad.”

The tee, by artist midgerock, went on sale at RIPT today, Sunday, January 16, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The design was inspired by the famous severed hand situation in Evil Dead II, and includes the chainsaw and shotgun used by the film’s main character Ash in the Evil Dead film trilogy. Also, the words “Klaatu Barada Nikto” appear, which is a famous line from the third Evil Dead film, Army Of Darkness (which was taken from the original The Day The Earth Stood Still) [...]

CBS announced a deal to renew hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for another three years through the 2013-14 television season.

The show, which stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, and Kaley Cuoco, has always been a hit with geeks for its witty, scientifically accurate dialog, and frequent references to pop culture. However, the last season has seen a huge ratings boost coupled with more media attention — making a long-term renewal a no-brainer for the studio.

It also helps that 2010 was a particularly good year for Parsons, who’s portrayal of Sheldon Cooper won not only a 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series but also a Golden Globe win this year for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical.

If you’ve neglected to watch Big Bang Theory in the past, I completely understand as I’ve never been a fan of sitcoms and even less a fan of any program that features a laugh-track. [...]

The $9 t-shirt deal of the day over at Teefury today is Doctor Who-inspired “Exterminated” shirt, by artist jimiyo.

The sale at Teefury began at midnight EST (Monday, January 17, 2011) and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it’s gone from the site for good.

The design is of a Dalek from Doctor Who surrounded by a scrape pile of popular robots, such as C-3PO and Bender, exterminated by the Dalek (Who fans know that the Dalek war cry is “Exterminate!”) [...]

The 68th annual Golden Globe awards ceremony was held tonight, and as always, we like to share with you the all of the big winners.

We know very few people even take the Globes seriously anymore, but if anything, it’s a good way to get a loose feel at what direction the upcoming Academy Awards might go in. And surprisingly, this year’s event was pretty entertaining. Host Ricky Gervais was hilarious yet again (he should really just host every year), and some deserving winners were crowned like Boardwalk Empire, Trent Reznor, and so on. Yes, there was a little too much Glee, but overall a decent show.

A bit of controversy did however arise at one point. It became apparent that Mr. Gervais had disappeared and had not returned in over an hour as Twitter collectively scratched its head. Then, as if nothing had happened, he returned! Quite strange.

You can see the entire list of winners by clicking on over to the other side. All winners have been bolded and starred! [...]

Here at Geeks Of Doom, we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of some of the great music that was released in 1986. It was a big year for music, notably the genre of metal, with major groundbreaking releases coming out from Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and much more.

Over the next few weeks, you’ll be seeing some 1986 music flashback-related posts popping up here at Geeks of Doom, and to help keep the theme going, we decided to join forces with the Social Blend and get some tunes crankin’ in the lead up to some of these upcoming posts.

Social Blend mainly focuses on news and stories posted at Mixx.com, but every couple of months we do a special music edition of the show called CRANIUMELODY. Essentially we try and select some obscure and underrated songs for people to check out, and other times we make selections based on a topic or theme for the show [...]

Earlier this month former Doctor Who star David Tennant and actress girlfriend Georgia Moffett announced their engagement, [READ: David Tennant Gets Engaged To ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’], but it seems there is another happy bit of news from them.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Moffett is apparently several months pregnant with Tennant’s child, although both of their publicists declined to comment.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Moffett is apparently several months pregnant with Tennant’s child, although both of their publicists declined to comment.

At the very least, a congratulations on the little Timelord (or Timelady) is in order to both of them [...]

A few days ago, a magazine scan of the first official image from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn hit the web, and it showed off Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in the nude after the much talked about sex scene.

Now this image has been officially released by Summit Entertainment in all its full-size high-resolution glory for you Twilight fanatics to drool over.

The two-part movie is written by Melissa Rosenberg and directed by Bill Condon, with part one set to be released on November 18, 2011.

You can get your eyes on the full first official Breaking Dawn image by heading on over to the other side now and clicking the pic! [...]

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, everyone! Some of here at Geeks of Doom are currently invading Disney World in Orlando, Florida, so we hope this contest is something that you’ll really love!

I happen to LOVE getting postcards from people from their travels, so if you’d like a postcard from us from Disney World, then go ahead and follow the instructions below to enter the contest. We’ll pick 25 people at random to receive the postcard, and then one of those winners will receive a special grand prize — a surprise souvenir from Disney World.

Since we want to actually send the postcards from Disney World, we’re making the contest only a few days long, so be sure to enter right away, and feel free to let us know your favorite things about Disney in the contest entry form in the “Optional Comments” section — you never know, you might get something extra special from us!

25 Winners will each receive:

– One (1) Postcard from Disney World

One (1) Grand Prize Winner

– One (1) Disney World Souvenir […]

As part of Entertainment Weekly’s First Look at many exciting upcoming films and TV shows, which has included peeks at both our best look at Chris Evans as Captain America and a glance at quite the angry Chris Hemsworth as Thor.

Next up comes another new image from the upcoming sequel, Kung Fu Panda 2, which shows Po (Jack Black) and a couple of his friends on their way to some animated shenanigans. Even better, Bleeding Cool was able to get their hands on a much bigger and much better quality version of the image for our eyes to enjoy.

You can check out the image, if you so please, by clicking on over to the other side now! [...]

Comic book creator Ty Templeton published a hilarious deconstruction of pop culture’s premiere superhero icon, Superman, on his blog recently.

The four-panel assessment pokes fun at the character by offering “a foundation to build from” for anyone who wants/has to write a Superman story [...]

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is the Jetsons-inspired “Greetings From Sunny Orbit City.”

The tee, by artist Andy Hunt, went on sale at RIPT today, Sunday, January 16, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The t-shirt is available in men’s and women’s sizes in red for $10 each. Kids sizes are $15 (Boys, Girls, and Toddler, all in red); Onesies are $18 (in red). You can also get the design on a Hoodie for $38 (in red in Men/Unisex sizes).[...]

The cast of NBC sitcom Community will soon be partaking in a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons in an upcoming episode later this season.

And when I say rousing, I mean there will be a bunch of people gathered around a table rather than a fully costumed-fantasy world, according to the show’s creator Dan Harmon.

Admittedly, I haven’t really ever followed Community, although many of my geekier friends speak very highly of it. I found it sort of suspect that the cast held a panel at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con. But, after watching the ‘Zombie’ Halloween episode and hearing this news, it may be enough for the show to earn its credibility with such a fan base [...]