Category: Geek News
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New Marvel’s Avengers Themed RIDEZ Coming to RIDEMAKERZ!
Marvel and RC car fans will be delighted to learn that RIDEMAKERZ is expanding its live of marvel RIDEZ. Beginning on April 24th, R/C builders/drivers will be able to assemble their own Avengers Corvette or Hulk Blitz. Each of these vehicles may be purchased and assembled for $35. They are the newest Marvel additions to a…
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Hatbox Ghost, Meet Ant-Man – Geeks Corner – Episode 428
Welcome to this week’s episode of Geeks Corner! We have a TON to cover this week but before we get into that, let’s take a moment to welcome Jessica Prell to the show as this week’s guest host. Make sure to check out her blog and find her on twitter/instagram/and facebook. Now, let’s get to…
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The Great Arizona Picnic Shows Why The Phoenix Food Scene is Great!
Greetings Foodies! The Scottsdale Culinary Festival wrapped up this weekend! As I mentioned in my recap of the Wine and Chocolate Event, this year they celebrated their 37th anniversary, which makes it the longest running event of its type in the nation. The Festival hosted over 35,000 guests, 20 events, 100 restaurants, dozens of top…
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New Trailer Released for Marvel’s Ant-Man
This morning a brand new trailer was released for Marvel’s Ant-Man. The movie stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, and Michael Douglas. Watch the first trailer here: The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man.” Armed with the…
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Daredevil on Netflix – First Impressions
Marvel Studios is expanding the cinematic universe, and especially with its second television outing. Daredevil premiered today on Netflix. First, the great thing about it being on Netflix is that the full season is available all at once. No need to wait a week between. The second thing great about this series is that it…
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Culinary Cameo- Chef Christopher Gross
Greetings Foodies! Welcome to our latest Culinary Cameo featuring James Beard award winner Chef Christopher Gross. I had the pleasure of meeting Chef Gross at Check, Please! Arizona Festival after his panel with other James Beard award winners from Arizona. His unique attitude towards food, the culinary industry and life in general intrigued me (not…
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Olive Blossom Festival Comes to Queen Creek Olive Mill
Queen Creek Olive Mill, 25062 S. Meridian Road, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 is hosting their annual Olive Blossom Festival with special weekend events, live music, and great food April 11 – May 10. “April is the best time to visit the Olive Mill – the weather is great, it’s our 10th anniversary and the festival…
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Decadent Delights Wow at Scottsdale Culinary Festival’s Wine and Chocolate Event
Greetings Foodies! The Scottsdale Culinary Festival has begun! This year they are celebrating their 37th anniversary, which makes it the longest running event of its type in the nation. The Festival hosts over 35,000 guests, 20 events, 100 restaurants, dozens of top chefs and countless fine wine and spirit selections. The six day festival offers…
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Afterlife – Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD S2E16: Review
Alrighty, Agents. This was a HUGE episode, with far-reaching connections. Remember #ItsAllConnected? In spades, I tell you. Spades. So if you’ve ever missed an episode of SHIELD, go back and catch up, and then it might be safe for you to continue reading this. Also, there’s a crackpot prediction at the end. I’ll warn you…
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Disney Animation to Live-Action – Geeks Corner – Episode 427
Welcome to this very rainy edition of Geeks Corner. If we did our job right though, other than a few clues we hope you can’t tell (hopefully it didn’t come through the microphones)! There is a lot going on this week and we decided to cram most of it into one episode. Disney in the…
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Jurassic Park Collection Coming to Blu-Ray and Digital HD
Jurassic World is just a few short months away from being released. For many fans, it is now time to start gearing up for this new primeval flick by watching the three movies that lead up to it. Soon this will be able to be done in HD with the movies looking and sounding better…
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Star Wars Available for Digital Download April 10!
Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox Announce The most iconic movie collection of all time Becomes available for the first time On Digital HD on April 10, 2015 Now the Force will be with you – everywhere! BURBANK, Calif. – April 6, 2015 – As anticipation builds for the December release of…
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Christopher Lloyd and More Coming to Phoenix Comicon 2015
With Phoenix Comicon 2015 just under two months away, more and more guests are being added to the line up! Here’s a recap of recently announced media guests attending the Convention. Christopher Lloyd Christopher Lloyd is best known for playing Doc Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams…
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One Door Closes – Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD S2E15: Review
Okay, Agents. So half this episode takes place in a flashback to the day SHIELD fell at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the spirit of clarity and stylishness, I’m going to put the flashbacks in italics so we all can keep track of which story we’re talking about. Good? Good. One Door…
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What if Disney-Pixar did Star Wars? Fan Made Disney-Pixar’s X-Wings Answers This Question.
What if Disney-Pixar were to explore what happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away? Big Gee Studio decided to answer this question comedically by creating a parody trailer for a Star Wars X-Wing movie inspired by the creators of Cars and Planes. Disney/Pixar’s X-WINGS Movie Trailer The trailer is accompanied by this…
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Star Wars: Kanan – The Last Padawan #1 Review
Marvel Comics has expanded the Star Wars Universe with their recent offerings of comics. One that is one of the best additions (to me) is Star Wars: Kanan which had the first issue released this week. The comic will unveil the history of Kanan, who is one of the star characters of Star Wars: Rebels…
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High Tech Love Explored in Artoo In Love
Let’s face it, love isn’t easy… especially if you are one of the most famous and outspoken droids in the universe. That’s right, I’m talking about Star Wars’ R2-D2 and his quest for love. This amorous quest takes place on the beautiful streets of San Francisco as the beloved astro mech struggles with his romantic endeavors.…
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Tomorrowland Marvel Universe – Geeks Corner – Episode 426
Welcome to Geeks Corner! This week Mr. DAPs, Johnny 5, and Hayley the Hatter have a lot going on as there is a lot of Tomorrowland news, Marvel Universe Live stuff to talk about, Knott’s Berry Farm Boysenberry Festival, and even a new Geek of the Week! Here’s a rundown of what is covered in this…
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Disney's Tomorrowland – "The One"
“The future is running out.” He thinks you can fix the future. More of the setup for what Disney’s Tomorrowland will really be about has been unveiled in a brief trailer called “the one.” In it, Frank (George Clooney) attempts to recruit Casey (Britt Robertson)to come to the future and change it. Take a look…
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Jurassic World – New Attraction TV Spot
A new TV spot has been released for Jurassic World. In it, a new attraction is unveiled that predictably leads to chaos. This spot, while short, definitely gives a look at the ‘villain’ of Jurassic World… and she looks terrifying! Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park…
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Meet Quicksilver & the Scarlet Witch – Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron – Featurette 1
Marvel has released its first featurette for Avengers: Age of Ultron. This video introduces Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch with some commentary by Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson where they share about their characters. There are also some interesting plot details revealed in this quick video. Meet Quicksilver & the Scarlet Witch – Marvel’s Avengers: Age…
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Disney Film Spot: Fantasia
Fantasia is an interesting film in that it came right after Snow White and Pinocchio and set out to be so different from the usual Disney product that nobody really knew what to make of it. An entire feature-length film devoted to classical music? Coming off the Great Depression and in the midst of World…