The hard rock documentary Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, which takes a look at the badass Motörhead frontman, makes its cable television debut tonight at 11:30PM (10:30PM Central) on VH1.

TiVo that shit!!!

Do you think I like Motörhead? Hmm…

Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son Of A Bitch will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 15, 2011 and contains tons of bonus features [...]

We’ve seen a trailer and impressive first images from Rockstar Games’ upcoming title, L.A. Noire. We’ve also seen a video showing off the astounding technologies behind the game, which create shockingly accurate facial expressions and lip-to-word synchronization.

All of these previews of the game have been created using in-game content, but what we had not yet seen was true gameplay — what it will actually look like when we get this bad boy in our hands and begin our adventure in 1940s post-World War II Los Angeles.

Rockstar has now release just that and as you might expect, it looks pretty incredible. As you’ll see, it does look like a Grand Theft Auto-style game, but mixed with these awe-inspiring new performance capture effects and the added crime-solving elements that require you to interrogate suspects, read their expressions, and find evidence, L.A. Noire is no doubt going to be a top contender for game of the year.

You can see the new gameplay trailer by clicking over to the other side now! [...]

AC/DC’s 1980 concert film Let There Be Rock is finally making its way for the first time to DVD and Blu-ray on June 7, 2011.

There will be three versions of AC/DC: Let There Be Rock available for purchase: a Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray Combo Pack; Limited Collector’s Edition DVD; and Concert-only DVD.

The Limited Collector’s Edition, which will be released through Warner Home Video, comes packed with tons of bonus features, including 85 minutes of never-seen-before featurettes, as well as extra goodies like a 32-page tribute book, exclusive souvenir guitar pick, collector card set, and more. See list of songs, bonus features, and packaging extras here [...]

Cold Weather
Directed by Aaron Katz
Starring: Chris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raul Castillo, Robyn Rikoon
Release date: February 4, 2011 (limited)

The title of Aaron Katz’s third feature film, Cold Weather, should not be misinterpreted as being a film about unique snowflakes, blizzards, or sub-zero temperatures, though the film’s setting in Portland does show consistent rainfall and gloomy days, evoking a distant sense of coldness and poignant beauty. It is, after all, traditional Portland weather. But Katz embraces a perspective that showcases his keen eye for finding resemblance in opposite entities. His direction here allows him to intertwine weather and humanity, making them coincide respectively. He draws comparisons from the naturalistic environment he is working in with those emotions that are running rampant within his characters. As Cold Weather is inclined to drain the life out of all plants and make living beings think twice about being out in it, Katz perceives this harsh coldness dwelling within individuals, rendering them emotionally numb and dislocated from the world they inhabit.

There is no doubt that the characters in Cold Weather desire to have their numbness relieved. They are desperately searching for any form of encouragement that has the potential of elevating them out of their current state of uneasiness. In the film’s wonderful opening credits the camera is fixated on a windowpane abundantly covered by raindrops. Slowly do the hundreds of drops cry down the window, slowly dripping away into oblivion. They are fragments looking to be engaged, for no matter how short a period of time, with other drops that would allow them to connect. An engagement is what these drops want [...]

Our friend Mark Carras over at Rock My Monkey pointed out that the new Motörhead album, The World Is Yours, is streaming online for FREE right now at AOL Music.

Seriously, give it a listen — it’s FREE, and it’s the entire album, which was released in the U.S. on February 8, 2011. I’m not familiar with AOL’s CD listening parties, so I’d recommend checking this out right away, since I’m not sure how long it will be streaming for free.

The new album is awesome. When I listened to The World Is Yours, I felt like I did back in 1987 when I first heard Rock-N-Roll… it’s sooooo good [...]

For those of you just dying to feast your eyes on the first images of the cast of The Hobbit in costume, proving once and for all that yes, they are really making this movie…well, you’re going to have to wait a little longer.

Instead, 14 members of director Peter Jackson’s cast — 13 of which will be dwarves, 1 a familiar hobbit — met together for a press conference before filming begins on March 21. Attendees included star Martin Freeman, who’s set to play the main hobbit himself, Bilbo Baggins. He was joined by the likes of James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, William Kircher, Rob Kazinsky, Peter Hambleton, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, and Adam Brown, among others.

At the meeting some images were snapped, naturally, giving us one of our first cast photos, which you can see above. You can also find out where to see a video of the press conference by continuing on below now [...]

The first trailer for director Matthew Vaughn‘s comic book adaptation, X-Men: First Class was released online today, and it’s ready and waiting for you to take a peek and share your thoughts below. It’s unclear how good the movie will be, but this should make up for any images that might not have been received too highly.

The movie is set in the ’60s and is produced by Bryan Singer, who directed X-Men and X2: X-Men United before handing off the reigns to Brett Ratner for X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s adapted from the comic book series of the same name and stars (Michael Fassbender) as Magneto, (James McAvoy) as Professor Xavier, Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert, January Jones as Emma Frost , Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, Jason Flemyng as Azazel , Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Lucas Till as Havoc, Zoe Kravitz as Angel Salvadore , and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique.

X-Men: First Class will hit theaters on June 3, 2011, and you can check out the first trailer right now by clicking on over to the other side [...]

With the 11th Southern Vampire Mysteries book, Dead Reckoning, arriving this May, author Charlaine Harris is starting to think about putting an end to the series, which spawned the popular HBO television series True Blood.

In a recent interview with Hero Complex, Harris confessed that the property has taken over her life and that she’ll probably only do two more books in the series, which is also referred to as the Sookie Stackhouse or True Blood series.

“Truthfully, the next two books will probably be the last two books in the series,” Harris said last week. “I still love Sookie, but I’m beginning to want to write something else, and Sookie’s kind of taken over my life. I was able to write other things for the first few years I was involved in Sookie, but then after the start of the television show she took over so much of my time because of my increased publicity obligations that it’s been very hard to write other things, and I really need to do that.” […]

Glennz Tees is offering up the Doctor Who-theme t-shirt “Time Travel Convention,” available for purchase right now for $19.95 at the Glennz Shop.

It might not look much from the outside, but what better place for the who’s who of time travel to congregate. Spend the weekend moving between the conference facilities, hotel, restaurants and bars all located inside. Once again a very popular concept so we sent it straight to print.

The shirt comes in Slate in men’s sizes through 3XL; women’s sizes through XL [...]

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a zombie-themed shirt called “Zomblite.”

The tee, by artist TJ Mapes, went on sale at RIPT today, Thursday, February 10, 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 is based on a weapon called the Zomblite, which can be used to kill zombies. The shirt has an image of the weapon of choice, along with details all about the Zomblite and the survival rating [...]

A new writer is set to take on Summit Entertainment’s remake of the 1986 fantasy favorite, Highlander, which tells the story of a group of immortals who can only kill each other via decapitation, and acquire their foe’s powers whenever they take their life.

The studio has entered into negotiations with Melissa Rosenberg to craft the latest draft of the script, which has seen a few writers work on it already. Rosenberg is best known for her work on The Twilight Saga, where she penned the scripts for Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and both parts of Breaking Dawn.

This may make Highlander fans uneasy and worried about a remake they likely don’t even want to see to begin with, but fear not. While the Twilight franchise is a painful blemish on cinematic history, Rosenberg has some much better credits to her name, namely the eleven episodes of Dexter that she has written.

The first attempt at the script was handled by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, followed by another draft by Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Sellek Wibberley. [...]

A couple of significant bombs were dropped earlier today during Activision’s quarterly financial conference, where reports swirled that massive layoffs at multiple divisions were handed out and that some of the company’s bigger titles were being ended.

As popularity in the music video games genre has slowly diminished, the studio has decided to shut down two of their popular titles including DJ Hero and the juggernaut that once was Guitar Hero, which had a new installment planned for 2011. At the moment Rock Band is the top title in said genre, so it only made sense for Activision to pull the plug and move on. And if the decline in popularity continues, the same fate is likely not too far off for Rock Band as well.

In addition to this, it was announced that the development of True Crime: Hong Kong has been scrapped as well, killing off what was supposed to be a reboot of the franchise. [...]

For a limited time, Amazon is having a sale on the Blu-ray editions of The Twilight Saga: Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. The deal expires on February 14, 2011.

Twilight [Blu-ray] – $23.99 [31% off the list price of $34.99]

The Twilight Saga: New Moon [Blu-ray] – $23.99 [31% off the list price of $34.99]

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Single-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) – $26.99 [34% off the list price of $40.99]

Currently, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is part of Amazon’s “Buy This DVD and Watch it Instantly” program. That means with the purchase of any version (on DVD or Blu-ray), you will be able to watch the movie instantly through Amazon’s Video On Demand (see more details about this below).

There’s tons more Blu-rays on sale until February 14, so check out the main Deals page for discounts on titles like Watchmen, Superman II, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and many more […]

And here we are again!

Upcoming films based on the tale of Snow White are all moving their pieces into place in an attempt to keep up with their competitors. We’ve heard about Universal Pictures’ Snow White and the Huntsman lining up stars such as Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart for potential roles. Then came word that Disney, who’s coming back with another take on the story they used for the 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs titled Snow and the Seven, had hired the writer of Toy Story 3 to pen their script.

Being sure to keep pace with the others, Relativity Media’s adaptation of the tale, titled The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, has acquired the services of a big name talent. In a press release sent out by the studio, they’ve announced that Julia Roberts has joined their film, and she will be playing their Evil Queen character. [...]

At the end of 2010, a nifty little item arrived from Quirk Books, the publisher of such titles as Dracula’s Heir, Night of the Living Trekkies, The Encyclopedia Shatnerica, and of course, their most popular offering, the zombie/classic lit mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: a Mix Tape!

The image above was on the cover of the cassette case (click image to see the full view, including the actual tape), and inside was what looked like a cassette tape, but upon further inspection, I saw that it was actually a USB flash drive. A message inside explained that because the good folks at Quirk Books love me soooooo much, they put together a mix of songs as a thank you [...]

Ever since the announcement trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was presented, fans of the epic video game series have been flying sky high with anticipation. The studio behind the game, Bethesda Softworks, has put incredible amounts of effort into making the biggest and best game we’ve ever seen, and the title’s November release date simply can’t arrive fast enough.

The first big unveiling fell to Game Informer magazine, whose February issue contains a massive amount of coverage on the game including many details about the production and some screenshots and concept art to tease your eyes. You can see a ton of this great coverage by heading to their Skyrim Hub and reading/watching everything. Seriously, you want to see it all.

In addition to all of that information, Xbox Magazine has their own coverage of the game on the way and they’ve got some brand new screenshots to show off as well! You can see a pile of the screens and some concept art that have been released by continuing on now. [...]

Artist Bob Canada has created a wonderful Doctor Who infographic with lots of great details about each of the eleven doctors and the Doctor’s background, as well as information on the TARDIS and more.

Along with the info comes the illustrations, which are awesome (it’s got that Hanna-Barbera feel to it).

The image above is a snippet from the infographic, so click it to see a larger, full view, and be sure to visit Bob Canada’s Blogworld site to see the highly readable super-sized [and printable, I'd say] version of it, and to read the artist’s thoughts on this project [...]

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Star Trek-inspired shirt called “Original Space Drunk.”

The tee, by artist D4N13L, went on sale at RIPT today, Wednesday, February 9, 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 is a parody of the Captain Morgan rum label, replacing the swashbuckling rum mascot with Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk, who here has his foot up on a downed Red Shirt with the Enterprise starship in the background. Original Spiced Gold becomes Original Space Drunk, and the text underneath tells us all about how Captain Kirk is “boldly going anywhere, banging anything, and getting red shirts killed in the process” (which is pretty spot on) [...]

I know this is coming late in the day, but I couldn’t let this occasion pass without mentioning it: Today marks what would be Jules Verne‘s 183rd birthday.

As with many special occasions, Google has created one of their popular doodles in celebration, this one being an interactive nautical theme referencing the author’s popular novel, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

There’s a lever on the right side of the logo that allows you to control the doodle submarine, but what I didn’t realize is that, according to The Telegraph, if you view it on an iPad or iPhone, you can tilt the device to have the water level move in any direction you want! [...]

Amazon is currently running a special where if you purchase Disney’s Tangled Combo Pack, you can get $10 off another select Disney title.

Check out the Disney Deal page for a list of the eligible select Disney titles, which includes Beauty and the Beast.

Note, this deal is valid through April 4, 2011. Tangled is available for pre-order right now, and will be released on March 29, 2011 [...]