Conan O’Brien’s The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour

By Paul Martin March 11th, 2010, under Conan O'Brien, TV

Conan O’Brien’s The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour has been announced.  Not only is Conan’s tour missing Michigan, but the two Chicago shows sold out pretty much instantly.  The only tickets left are the high cost ones that come with gifts and, if you’re willing to spend about $800, a meet and greet with the man himself.  While that would be really great to do, I have a wedding this year, and thus, don’t have the extra cash to pay for at least 2 tickets for a meet and greet, no matter how great an opportunity that would be.

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Voltron Panthera Force and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles announced for Nicktoons this Fall

By Paul Martin March 11th, 2010, under TV, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

At its 2010 annual upfront presentation which featured top talent across the worlds of television, music and film, Nickelodeon today announced a slate of new programming that will be added to the network’s 2010-11 schedule.  Among the announcements are two shows that I am interested in.  Voltron Panthera Force and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are both going to premiere on the Nicktoons network, which I am not sure that I have.  No big deal, though, as the internet can deliver just about anything that you find on TV.  Especially properties as popular as these.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release Date is May 23

By Paul Martin February 24th, 2010, under Video Games

One of the absolute best games for the Nintendo Wii is Super Mario Galaxy.  I had such a good time playing through that game, that I am hoping to find the time to play through it all again.  In fact, I played through it twice the first go around, because of what happens when you get all of the stars.  When it was over, I was hoping for more.  I did not expect Nintendo to deliver, though, as there hasn’t been a proper Mario sequel since the Nintendo Entertainment System, with Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 and 3.  On the Super NES, there was the sort of sequel, Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario World 2.  But That wasn’t a proper sequel game.

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Is Lego Lord of the Rings possible?

By Paul Martin February 23rd, 2010, under Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Hobbit, Video Games

Warner Brothers announced the purchase of a controlling share in Rocksteady Studios, who are the creators of the excellent Batman: Arkham Asylum video game.  It’s almost as if they allowed Rocksteady to use the Batman license as a trial run, in anticipation of a purchase later on.  Rocksteady certainly proved themselves, and I hope that they also give Superman a shot, once they’ve finished Arkham Asylum 2.

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My Proposal on the Dawn Treader

By Paul Martin February 22nd, 2010, under Movies

Here’s the story of my proposal, told in two very distinct stories.  I hope that you enjoy it!

At long last, the story that I’ve been waiting so long to reveal to the world.  Here is a very special Narnia story, that happened last fall, as described by publicist Ernie Malik.

What is it like to fall in love in Narnia?

by Ernie Malik

A curious question you may think. We bring it up here, while cruising along on our third voyage through this wondrous world created by C.S. Lewis, because the wonder of love did happen…to six couples who worked on both the first and second film adaptations.

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Please Release The Wonder Years on DVD and Blu-ray – #1

By Paul Martin February 12th, 2010, under Please Release on DVD and Blu-ray, TV

This is the first entry of another column that I’m planning on writing somewhat regularly.  It’s pretty self explanatory, so I’ll just get right to the point.

The Wonder Years

Here’s a show that has many hurdles to overcome to ever be released on DVD and Blu-ray.  It is a fantastic show that deserves a great release with interviews and features galore.  The show would be an instant hit on DVD, and could potentially help to bring back some of the DVD market that has hit a slump with the current recession.  I think that the time to restore all of the footage should be taken to make the release worth owning.

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A New Ghostbusters Cartoon – Coming Soon?

By Paul Martin February 8th, 2010, under Ghostbusters, TV

I’ve been re-watching my complete collection DVD set of The Real Ghostbusters in the last few days.  It looks brilliant on my HDTV.  I’m hoping for a release of the late nineties series Extreme Ghostbusters on DVD sometime soon.  It was one cartoon that didn’t get a fair shake, potentially because of the much darker subject matter of the series.  The Real Ghostbusters rarely delved as deeply into dark topics.  When it did, the good guys weren’t the ones doing it.  Extreme Ghostbusters is fundamentally flawed in that regard, but in favor of a complete collection, I’d love to have it.  Especially because the two parter Back in the Saddle brings all of the original Ghostbusters back for an adventure.  Which leads me to the topic of this article.

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Owl City – A Spark of Relient K made me a fan

By Paul Martin February 4th, 2010, under Music, Relient K

I’m not just into film, but music as well.  And over the last few months I’ve discovered, through my friends down in Florida, an artist by the name of Owl City.  I don’t listen to the radio much, as my music collection is pretty huge, and I can listen to music for weeks without repeating a single track, so I was quite surprised to see this Christian artist at the top of the iTunes charts.

When I first heard the song “Fireflies,” I thought it was Relient K, who I consider one of my favorite bands of all time.  It turns out that I wasn’t far off of the mark.  Not only was Relient K frontman and song-writer Matthew Thiessen a co-writer on both “The Bird and The Worm” and “Tidal Wave,” but he also provides vocals to “Cave In,” “The Bird and The Worm,” “Tidal Wave” and “Fireflies!”  Somehow I knew that Relient K had something to do with it.

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Turles Forever: A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Team-Up Dream Come True

By Paul Martin February 2nd, 2010, under Movies, TV, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Turtles Forever – The mere premise of it was mind-blowing.  A feature length adventure featuring a team up of the TMNT team of the 80’s-early 90’s cartoon as well as the 90’s-early 00’s cartoon versions of the heroes.  When I first heard about it, I couldn’t believe what I was reading was actually coming.  Not only that, but I was surprised by just how soon it was going to be released!  It was originally going to receive a theatrical screening, but plans for that fell through.  Instead, it premiered on TV one Saturday morning.

There is no word of a DVD release yet, but the studio is working on it.  It was created as a direct-to-DVD feature film, but since the rights to the TMNT have been sold to Nickelodeon, there are issues that need to be tied up.

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Oprah Interviews Jay Leno about Tonight Show, Conan, and shows his true character

By Paul Martin February 1st, 2010, under Conan O'Brien, TV

If anyone was still on Leno’s side in the Conan vs. Leno battle for the once great, now defunct The Tonight Show, this interview should help you to finally take a side.  That side will undoubtedly be Conan’s as Leno fails to make himself look like a gentleman in the whole thing.  I’m going to point out the hypocrisy of Leno, as well as his failure to think beyond himself, even when he’s claiming to.

What I’m going to do is quote the important parts of the interview, and I might comment on the quote, if I feel it necessary to elaborate on what should be fairly obvious.

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