Plot Device is both a nine-minute short film, and an advertisement to show off the editing prowess of Red Giant’s  Magic Bullet Suite 11. The film rips through a variety of genres, from noir to indie to sci-fi. It’s entertaining. My favorite part? The amazing use of lens flares everywhere in one segment. Take that, Abrams!

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The BioShock Infinite demo from E3 made many a journalist and blogger cream their pantaloons. The game cleaned up with 35 ‘Game of the Show’ awards. I dream of playing that demo, my fat little fingers giggling as I once again get my Levine-gland stroked. Until then, I’ll have to sate myself with the fact that on July 7, GTTV on Spike is running a 30 minute presentation of that.

Just to tease the tip-lips, they’ve released a 2 minute section of it.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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Man, and I thought that I was a trifle bit incensed about the forthcoming DCnU. There’s going to be a full-fledged protest going down at Comic-Con this year. If you’re feelin’ the vibe and the commitment of these fellow fans, you can take part in the DC Original Protest Walk.

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I thought that Thor was a fun, vacuous journey through hammers and Gods and action sequences. Enough to be excited for a sequel a couple years done the road. Marvel confirmed the obvious today, officially announced a second movie was coming. Then they done and crushed my little heart, announced  Kenneth Branagh wouldn’t be returning.

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You can end your speculating about what Bungie’s ‘Bungie Aeropace’ really happens to be. The reality is certainly going to be much more drab than you expected.

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After the sort of hogwash that I’ve seen this summer, I’m really looking forward to Captain America. The trailer for it that played prior to Transformers: American Freedom Fuck Yeah! was the best part of that movie going experience. Don’t let me down, Evans et al.

Hit the jump for a new international poster for the flick.

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As I drove home last night, my girlfriend wearily turned to me and asked if we could not see anymore sucky movies this summer. She is my co-pilot in my various adventures as I rocket into the goopy chasms of pop-culture suck. A fellow space monkey. I promised her yes, I wouldn’t bother her with such an endeavor.

She had crossed the Rubicon last night, watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon. A movie so utterly dreadful, xenophobic, sexist and frankly fucking boring that I last night bled myself and affixed leeches to my freshly shorn testicles. I felt infected. I had to purge.

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Every MMO dork knows about Blizzard’s next MMO code named Titan. I sit, quietly lusting for it. I’m  feigning for that shit. There’s been relatively little news about the project, but one analyst is predicting it to be a casual MMO. Yeah right.

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Coming to theaters during a summer overstuffed with sequels to big movie franchises, reboots to past successes with built-in fanbases, and potential blockbusters based on pre-existing properties from other media, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is nothing less than a godsend for movie lovers. A work of sheer originality and cinematic virtuosity, it attempts to inspect all of existence and humanity’s place within the awe-inspiring cosmos–and brilliantly boils it all down into one immensely perceptive family drama.

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Warren Ellis is a bit of a touchstone of mine. When he writes I listen, and usually find myself raging at the mouth puppeting his sentiments because I find them so brilliant. Today Ellis posted a take on DC’s forthcoming reboot and their digital strategy on his blog.

It’s an excellent look at the inner-workings of the industry from a dude who has seen its grimy fucking guts.

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