Horror movie lovers will finally get to see Adam Green’s Hatchet II when it arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on February 1, 2011.

The sequel to 2007′s Hatchet was scheduled to get a limited theatrical run in AMC theaters back in October, which is unheard of for movies with an NC-17 rating. Surprisingly, AMC then pulled the film from theaters soon after its release [Read: Adam Green’s 'Hatchet 2' Pulled From AMC Theaters … But Why?].

Now, we’ll finally get to see Hatchet II in its original unrated and uncensored cut. See synopsis and DVD/Blu-ray bonus features here below.

The film stars Danielle Harris (Halloween), Tony Todd (Candyman), Kane Hodder (aka Jason Voorhees), Tom Holland (Director of Child’s Play), and R.A. Mihailoff (aka Leatherface), and sees the return of slasher Victor Crowley [...]

Entertainment Weekly and The Doctor Who News Page are reporting that Lauren Ambrose from Six Feet Under has joined the cast of Torchwood: Miracle Day, and will be portraying a character named Jilly Kitzinger. According to the EW report the character is “a sweet-talking PR genius with a heart of stone who’s just cornered the most important client of her career… and maybe of all time”.

Filming and production has officially begun on Torchwood: Miracle Day in Los Angeles, and Ambrose now joins a cast that includes John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Mekhi Phifer, and Bill Pullman. The new season is expected to be broadcast on BBC and Starz in July 2011.

Torchwood is a spin-off series from Doctor Who, that follows the immortal Captain Jack Harkness commanding the Torchwood Institute; an organization established to investigate alien involvement and appearances on Earth. [...]

The big new reboot of Spider-Man for Sony and Columbia Pictures was obviously going to draw a lot of attention, and many photographers are itching to snap some sneaky shots of anything going on with the production.

First we saw some spy pics of stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and love interest Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy hanging out on what looks like high school football field bleachers. That was followed by the much less sneaky and much more official first image of Garfield in partial Spider-Man costume.

Now comes some more sneaky shots, as someone was able to get a few good looks at Denis Leary, who was cast back in November, as Gwen’s father, Captain George Stacy.

You can see a few of these shots of Leary in costume on the set of director Marc Webb‘s new Spider-Man by continuing on below now. [...]

Fans of the Vertigo series 100 Bullets will be please to learn that the creative team behind that book, Brian Azzrello and Eduardo Risso are teaming up again for a new series coming from Vertigo comics this year. The series will be titled Spaceman, and that’s about all we know at this point. If you go to DC’s blog The Source, you can see a conversation between Azzarello and Editor Will Dennis about the series, as well as some preview art.

While details may be in short order at this point, the creative team alone has me excited to read this. 100 Bullets is a great series (especially at the start, the series does get a little confusing in the middle) and Azzarello and Risso have teamed up on other projects (Batman: Broken City, Wednesday Comics) to decent results, so I have no reason to think this will be bad. I’m sure we’ll learn more about the series as it gets closer to its release, but if we’re lucky we’ll get another great series out of it.

As you know by being a great reader of this site, we reported on Thursday that DC Comics released several teaser banners for the upcoming Flashpoint event from writer Geoff Johns and artist Andy Kubert. The banners didn’t have any specific images, just the Flashpoint logo, along with several taglines containing clues about the upcoming event.

But on Friday, DC released teaser images that added a little bit of clarification on some of the more mysterious taglines.

Let’s take a look, shall we? [...]

It’s not always easy to get excited about new images when a trailer has already been released, but for those of you excited about Thor, director Kenneth Branagh‘s contribution to the Marvel Studios parade of movies leading up to The Avengers, you might get a kick out of seeing this new image.

The picture shows star Chris Hemsworth, in full Thor gear with hammer in hand, and he doesn’t look all that pleased about something. He’s angry. Livid, even. Perhaps this comes from the confrontation with his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins) that we saw in the first trailer, or maybe someone just asked him what time he’s heading out trick or treating — one way or another the God of Thunder wants to strike someone, clearly.

You can see the new image of Thor by heading on over to the other side now! [...]

Some major news on Ridley Scott‘s much-discussed Alien prequel has come down the pipe — news that should fetch some interesting reaction from fans who may or may not have been looking forward to another adventure in that world.

After all the things we’ve been hearing about an Alien prequel, from Sigourney Weaver first talking about a fifth movie back in ’08 to first hints that Scott might actually do it. Then the confirmation that the movie was happening with a new director instead of Scott to Scott choosing to do it himself, and that it would be a two-part prequel. Finally, we found out that LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof was re-writing the script, and that Ridley was possibly going to present a storyline that showed the alien creatures from his classic 1979 horror were actually genetically engineered as weapons.

After ALL of that, it sounds like Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel might not be a prequel at all, and that the story they’ve created has evolved into something completely unique. Something called Prometheus. [...]

Game publisher EA hit the twitterverse the other day to release a new video titled “Last Call” from game designer Epic Games’ new game, Bulletstorm. The video is a spoof of the Halo 3 ad titled “Believe,” using action figures a la Robot Chicken to show characters from the game.

At first I thought Epic was being tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at the ads they had made for the Gears of War games. Which I thought was weird since they have one more game to go. Then I realized that I’ve seen that advertising style before, in Halo. Now if they were making fun of Halo with a Gears ad it would make sense. They are both Microsoft Game Studio published games and Xbox exclusives, however Bulletstorm is being released by EA for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. I wonder what Microsoft thinks of all this? Both videos are embedded below for your viewing pleasure. [...]

Tying a necktie has never been a task that has come easy to man. It takes a lot of practice — practice that most men are not willing to dedicate themselves to, often looking to a talented friend to help them out.

But who needs to know how to tie the boring old traditional tie? College Humor has put together a helpful guide for some new and innovative ways to set yourself up for a fancy night on the town. One of which is a homage to the feared H.P. Lovecraft beast, Cthulhu.

You can check out this guide to your very own Cthulhu tie by clicking over to the other side, and head on over to the above link for even more fun tie ideas! [...]

Last week I wondered, do people who work at Disney theme parks are excited about their jobs or do they end up hating Disney?

I really wanted to know because I’m a great fan of theme parks, especially Disney’s, and in my heart I truly hoped that working at a Disney theme park is just as magical as I’d imagine it to be (yes, work is work, but there’s no denying that some jobs are more enjoyable than others.)

Now, a former Disney World employee has posted a video with his confessions of what it was like to work at the Orlando theme park. His video comes complete with some real funny stick figure artwork. Definitely check out the 11-minute video here [...]

Doctor Who fans, as well as some of our younger readers, might be interested in a new online Flash game released at the BBC website. The game focuses on The Sarah Jane Adventures, and is entitled Defending Bannerman Road.

Essentially, the game is like Angry Birds, with the exception that you’re shooting out rocks and objects to squash aliens from the Doctor Who universe including the Sontarans, the Judoon, and the Slitheen.

In addition, there’s also an online motion comic that follows the story of the game, as well as a video of tips from Daniel Anthony, who plays Clyde Langer in The Sarah Jane Adventures [...]

There’s no doubt that Law & Order is one of the more popular TV franchises to ever be produced. Even so, the question remains: how can American audiences enjoy the British version of the show, Law & Order: UK, if they happen to have access to it?

A special and quite informative little video was created by Joe Sabia for BBC America to help our nation’s viewers learn the UK ways, enabling them to better enjoy the latest episodes of Law & Order: UK…which also stars Battlestar Galactica alum Jamie Bamber, by the way.

You can see this video and learn the ways and cultures of our brethren across the pond by hastily clicking on over to the other side now! [...]

‘Tis the season for your very best snowman art, and after the storm that bombarded many states recently, people are getting their icy cold geek on.

Someone somewhere decided to take advantage of the snow by doing something you’d think we would see a whole lot more often, but haven’t: a nice, big snowman version of the infamous Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters!

This bad boy looks like it wasn’t easy to put together, and it stands pretty tall. You can see for yourself by heading on over to the other side now! [...]

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is the Star Wars-inspired “Vader Inked.”

The tee, by artist free_agent08, went on sale at RIPT today, Friday, January 14, 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 has everyone’s favorite baddie Darth Vader rendered as a traditional full-color flash tattoo with a banner on it that reads “May The Pigment Be With You.” [...]

We’ve seen a few peeks at the upcoming Marvel Studios film, Captain America: The First Avenger, including some Geeks of Doom exclusive shots from the set, but little has been seen of the Captain himself.

We’ve seen star Chris Evans in normal clothes and we’ve gotten a few teases of his World War II look, but a brand new image making its way around may be the best one yet.

Entertainment Weekly has yet another shot of Evans as Captain America, this time wearing a nice helmet, holding his shield, and standing in front of some intimidating gentlemen.

You can click on over to the other side to check out the image now, and again, don’t forget this is set during WWII for the majority of the film. Don’t expect to see some fancy modernized Captain America get-up…yet. [...]

The reunited Soundgarden announced today the release of their first-ever live album, titled Live on I5, which will be released March 22, 2011.

The album will contain 16 live tracks recorded during the west coast leg of the band’s 1996 tour. The band states that they had always intended to release the recordings as an album. Pre-order details are still to come.

See here below the album’s full track listing, which includes the date and venue information for where each song was recorded [...]

Is this the future? Some wild technology is here right now, and it could just be revving up to change the world as we know it.

At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, many demonstrations were shown off. One of them involved a new wireless technology that would deliver a whole new type of power source to our homes and beyond.

For the demonstration, Fulton Innovation — the technology’s creator — brought along some shelving and surfaces that look pretty much like any other shelving or surface you might look at. What’s not seen, however, is power surging through these surfaces, which makes some very interesting things possible. The most entertaining of these, for those who aren’t interested in the scientific stuff, are cereal boxes; they look just like regular cereal boxes, naturally, but when placed on these special surfaces, the cereal boxes illuminate playfully. Something sure to catch the eye of any passing child. But that, my friends, is just the beginning.

You can see a much more in-depth video of these crazy-cool cereal boxes and the even crazier technology behind them, as well as read about some more useful possibilities by heading on over to the other side now. [...]

The brilliant minds over at College Humor have done it again, this time with a Star Wars-themed music video parody of the song “Empire State of Mind” by the artist Jay-Z.

Watch the video here below for “Galactic Empire State of Mind.”

This video starts with the 20th Century Fox fanfare, then launches right into a rapping Darth Vader, as scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy play in the background.

During the chorus there is an audio track of Vader breathing while we see Leia playing Max Reebo’s piano and her earphones are her famous swirl bun hair. This video not only jokes about the original trilogy, but it also pays tribute to it as well. One of the best jokes in this music video are the breakdancing Stormtroopers and Ewoks along with Rebel pilots. It also features the singing “Leia” character wearing the famous “slave” outfit from Return of the Jedi [...]

Amazon is currently running a deal on Superman: The Complete Animated Series DVD set for only $20.99 (that’s 61% off the list price of $53.98).

The 7-disc DVD set contains all 54 episodes of the animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000, and had the voice cast of Tim Daly, Dana Delany, David Kaufman, and Clancy Brown.

Superman: The Complete Animated Series DVD comes with audio and video creator commentaries, making-of featurettes, pop-up trivia track, and an exclusive bonus disc with the all-new retrospective, “The Despot Darkseid: A Villain Worthy of Superman.” [...]

Flashpoint is coming to the DC Universe later this year and it will be the next big event to look forward to. All day today, DC’s blog The Source has been posting a series of teasers that give us a look into what the series will be about. Each image has a slogan that points to an alternate reality for DC’s biggest heroes.

The whole line of teasers is titled “Whatever Happened to the World’s Greatest Super Heroes” (a nod to Alan Moore’s classic Superman story “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” and Neil Gaiman’s more recent “Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader”).

As of this posting four teasers have been released [...]