Research in Motion (RIM) and AT&T recently announced the new BlackBerry Torch, which will be available Thursday, August 12th for $200 with a two-year contract. Here’s a quick overview of the phone and its capabilities.
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Comics on Our Pull List 8/4/10
Tomorrow is Wednesday. Plan accordingly. Make time at lunch or after work. Cut class. Make your list. Excuse yourself. New comic books are bearing down on us. Here are five comics that will be coming home with me. Visit us here at Techland for Panel of the Week and Comic Book Club later this week. Everybody is doing it.
Marvel …
Spike Jonez And Arcade Fire Team For “Science-Fiction B Movie”
Calling all hipsters: Arcade Fire and director Spike Jonze are coming to make science-fiction just for you. In an interview that the band’s Win Butler gave to Pitchfork, he revealed that the Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind and Where The Wild Things Are director has shot a “a science-fiction B-movie companion piece” for the band’s …
The Fan Girls of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comics
This year’s Comic-Con was squirming with female nerds. TIME’s Vanessa Kaneshiro pulled some aside at the convention center in San Diego to find out what piques their interest. See what they had to say in the video above.
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Kick-Ass: Director Matthew Vaughn Talks Extended Scenes & The Greatness Of Hit Girl
It quenched even the most insatiable thirsts for violent action – mostly through an 11-year-old assassin with thing for weaponry. It was Kick-Ass.
Just in time for the film’s release on DVD ($17, Amazon) and Blu-ray ($23, Amazon), director Matthew Vaughn caught up with Techland to talk the brilliance of Chloe Moretz’s Hit Girl, …
CBS Shows Going to Hulu Plus?
Apparently CBS is in talks with Hulu to feature its shows on the new $9.99 per month premium Hulu Plus plan. Said CBS CEO Les Moonves,
“Are we having discussions with the Hulu subscription service? Yes we are. Our goal is to get paid for our content in as many different ways as we can without hurting the mother ship. The key here is
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How To Understand Inception, In One Easy Chart
Sure, Inception may have been great, but didn’t you feel like it was the kind of movie where you needed a chart to keep things straight (well, another one)? Well, thanks to dehahs on DeviantArt, now you have one:
He explains,
As most people agree, Inception was fantastic.
Instead of mapping the entire movie with the countless
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Spot the Gadgets in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film …
Why The Clone Wars is The Work Of The Sith
Here’s the secret about Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the CGI-animated television series that fits in between movies of George Lucas’ grand generational saga that takes place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, etc. etc.: It may be the most truly cruel, bordering on outright evil, show on television.
Oh, sure; you can’t really …
Poll: Star Wars In 3D? Yay Or Nay?
We know, we know. You hate people (cough*George Lucas*cough) messing with the original Star Wars trilogy. So do we. (Han shot first!) But sometimes the idea of watching it all in 3D is intriguing, at least. What say ye, Star Wars purists? Would you wear the funny glasses to have that prologue scroll out at you?
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Kick-Ass 2: Matthew Vaughn Talks Sequels
Evil may get a second ass-kicking sooner than we’d hoped.
While chatting with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn, we learned that the much speculated “on again, off again” sequel plans are almost certainly a go. “We have lots of amazing ideas for a sequel,” Vaughn told us, “but nothing confirmed yet. We don’t have a shoot date or a …
User Submissions Wanted! What’s Your Favorite Star Wars “Fan Film”?
Time.com is looking to get in on the Star Wars celebration this month, as all you nerds out there commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back (and here on Techland we devote the entire month of August to Star Wars coverage).
Check out the video above where Time.com Arts Editor Tim Morrison asks users to submit their …