For some of us, they will have to pull our dog-eared printed copy of Jurassic Park from our cold dead hands, but as e-books continue to grow in popularity, many local writers have embraced the medium of electronic books as an easy and inexpensive way to reach the masses with their literary efforts.

One is always hesitant to bad-mouth the CIA, especially in a public setting like the Internet, because you know that they know what you said.  But I don’t think I really have to worry about it too much because they are probably too preoccupied fighting with each other and wasting millions of government dollars while using intelligence satellites in an effort to score with some unassuming hot blonde. That’s the premise behind This Means War, and really, with the collective national security resources at your disposal, who wouldn’t focus their …

Paulie Rojas is a bold and beautiful up-and-coming actress that stars in the iconic role of Dorothy Gale in “Dorothy and the Witches of Oz,” which opens in the Valley’s Harkins Theaters on Feb. 17. Paulie (aka Ana Paula Rojas) will be making a special appearance on opening night premiere and is thrilled about the U.S. release of this modern interpretation of the L. Frank Baum classic books.

No one has ever really addressed what happens with people’s pets when the inevitable zombie apocalypse hits. That is until now, with Rex, Zombie Killer (Big Dog Ink), an upcoming comic book by writer Rob Anderson and artist DaFu Yu.

There is not much in the movie Safe House that takes place in a house, nor is it ever safe in any way, but it is a gritty, brutal and realistic looking film that moves at neck-breaking speed and rarely gives you a chance to catch your breath.
This is the first American film by Swedish director Daniel Espinosa, but most of the action takes place in Capetown, South Africa, where CIA house-sitter Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) spends endless days watching a safe house that is rarely used. Matt is beyond …

I love great adventure books and movies, and as a kid on Saturday mornings I reveled in the spectacle of watching Journey to the Center of the Earth on television, or being dropped at the theater to watch the likes of The People That Time Forgot, or becoming entranced by the many volumes of Tarzan adventure books. For me, the new film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island does a good job of paying tribute to those long lost days of good-natured innocent adventure.
The story for this sequel to Journey to …

Downtown Mesa’s Monsterland opened its doors for the Halloween season last October, with a two-story haunted attraction that consisted of elaborate sets and animatronics, and provided some much needed seasonal work for a slew of local monsters and maniacs. But the receipts for the grand opening were scarier than expected, and owner Kevin Wynn decided that the planned horror museum might not be enough to pay the bills, so with the recent changes and more progressive culture pervading downtown Mesa, Mr. Wynn has decided that a nightclub might be more …

Super Bowl means super Sunday for the Nerdiverse! Not because of the big game, but because interspersed throughout the gridiron action will be a slew of new movie trailer premieres for your perusing pleasure.
The pre-game show starts at 11:00 a.m. this Sunday, February 5th, on NBC, and I’ve completed painstaking research throughout the inter-webs to compile this extensive list of not-to-be-missed film confections! Some are more exciting than others, and some are disappointingly going to be absent altogether, but there are definitely some heavy-hitters here you don’t want to miss.
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Teenagers find a mysterious alien something that gives them superpowers, and soon they learn that with great power comes great responsibility -– well, sort of. But if this sounds familiar, it’s because the new film “Chronicle” borrows from several different established superhero storylines.

“The Woman in Black” is an old-fashioned ghost story set in a remote English village at the turn of the 20th century. It is produced by Hammer Films, best known for their stylish B-Movie horror flicks of the ’60s and ’70s, and although this movie has a great Gothic look and feel, it is barely a step above the average Hammer fare.