There’s a new US law being proposed that would make domestic propaganda legal. My question is — why? Any sort of propaganda the Media/Government Hype Machine wanted to ricochet off the Echo Chamber can be done just through the bedding of these two entities without a law. Why wake up the hoi polloi  (temporarily) by even suggesting this?

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Now that Diablo 3  has dropped and BioShock Infinite  has gotten shoved into a date past the Year of Mayan Oblivion, I’m hard pressed to figure out a jam I want more this year than Borderlands 2. I’m also not really thinking that hard, between the caffeine haze and my ADD.

Here’s some info on my must-have.

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From the ’60s-style promotional video for the Arboria Institute that opens the film to the final jarring minutes of the film, Beyond the Black Rainbow brings you under its control and lulls you into a visual and audio trance. During your immersive state of hypnosis, it might be easy to overlook the heady themes of writer-director Panos Cosmatos’ debut feature. Against a throbbing, psychadelic backdrop, Cosmatos tells a story of repression and contrition set in an alternate 1983 that will not be easily shaken from your memory. It’s a beautiful nightmare I didn’t want to end.

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Here’s the teaser trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues. It wants you to cream your pants; I suggest you  acquiesce. It feels good, you know?

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DC is reversing the claim they made last year where they stated that they would not reintroduce an established prominent character as gay, instead wanting to focus on organically introducing homosexual characters into their universe. What a difference a year makes, no?

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This teaser trailer for Skyfall  is pretty much in line with everything I’ve come to associate with the Daniel Craig Bond  films. It’s gorgeous, with a smattering of explosions and sexuality, and not really clear in terms of plot. I can’t wait.

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Marvel, and Disney aren’t taking their Avengers  success sitting down. Even though the flick is still demolishing box office records, deets regarding the eventual DVD and Blu-Ray disc have come out, giving its finger to all our fanboy and fangirl wallets.

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If I was going to hire a head of cybersecurity, it would totally be Zero Cool. You know, Hackers  reference? Am I getting too old? Too lame? My back hurts. The lights are dimming.

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The Wii U’s  totally-not-an-iPad-tablet-controller-tablet has gotten a redesign. We know this courtesy of some errant dude tweeting shit he shouldn’t be. Don’t ever change, everyone.

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Better Off Dead is one of the best high school comedies about the absurdity of adolescence. It presents a myriad of predicaments that could conceivably mire a typical student’s well-being–mental, familiar, financial, social, and sexual, just to name a few–and runs wild with them all for the express purpose of laying waste to the insecurities and hang-ups that concern most people during this weird time in life. Every romantic hiccup is exaggerated to disastrous dimensions; every apparent shortcoming is tantamount to total deficiency. In turn, most of these problems that might trouble a young person are revealed to be completely laughable when they are properly framed for bizarre effect: anything this ridiculous and cartoonish should not be taken seriously, and issues even remotely similar to them should, as a result, become less world-crushing. When it can’t get any worse, it can only get better, and Better Off Dead is leaps and bounds funnier than many other comedies because it’s more than willing to go to some humiliating and hilarious lows before its protagonist ascends the proverbial mountain in the end.

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