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welcome to geek pop I'm Molly would come on John Mary we're here to help you evaluate your geek entertainment options this week The Hobbit gets a director of course iron man and a hot new fantasy DVD release and we'll finish up with a road test of two online TV games lost and Battlestar Galactica are they worth playing will tell you but first let's start with what's in the theaters the big release this week is iron man starring robert downey jr. as anthony edwards stark in the film imagining of the Stanley comic creation Stark is captured by terrorists in order to build a Mixel for them is it better to be feared or respected I say is it too much to ask robo Jon Favreau swingers directed the future and has plans for two sequels and I think it looks cool what are you building stock also at this week red belt a David Mamet fight movie that also looks cool super cool even sort of karate kid for adults Mike Terry is a jujitsu master who shuns the fight circuit until a cabal of movie stars con him Tim Allen makes an appearance as the evil movie stop train people to fight I train people to prevail finally Peter Jackson has named Guillermo del Toro as director of The Hobbit movies the hobbit takes place before lord of the rings of course and Jackson has broken a book into two movies del Toro directed Lee critically acclaimed pan's labyrinth and is not related to Benicio okay let's move on to TV with the Speed Racer movie just a week away nicktoons is speeding or racing to premier Speed Racer the next generation on Friday may second also Family Guy fans should know the season finale airs Sunday May fourth on Fox oh yeah you're my Chinese Louis we owe you an apology last week we did not remind you that supernatural return to the CW on the 24th but don't worry you can catch the episode ghostfacers on cwtv.com and then watch all the new episodes Thursdays on the CW it will not happen again and finally what's out on DVDs the golden compass the movie version of Philip Pullman's book is available for purchase or rental now on DVD and blu-ray and just to feed the Indy fever a bit The Adventures of young Indiana Jones vol 3 is also available on DVD for a hundred eight bucks out are you kidding me with that and now let the games begin sure mario kart in GTA 4 will keep you busy this week at home but what about when you have a few minutes at work Molly and I each took an online game from one of our favorite shows for a test ride that's right i pimped out my Raider in sci-fi coms join the fight which is actually a competitive social network who knew they even had that when you sign up you decide whether you're human or Cylon and you fill out a whole facebook or profile then you get a series of tasks that you do on behalf of your team and these tasks are like work you have to design an emblem or write a motto or make a propaganda poster and then you can win points so that you can buy stuff to further pimp your Raider or Viper and then of course you win points on behalf of your team overall it is strictly for the extremely hardcore fan I just do not have that kind of time yeah mine wasn't so much time consuming as it was sort of boring the lost game was okay it's a kind of a fancy version of hidden pictures remember highlights magazine it's like that except prettier you scroll around it's a nice flash version of the island so that part's kind of cool you get to see like Sawyer's tent and the bottle of scotch and the smoke monster clicking on things allows you to pull up some hidden gems each gem gives you a video clip and some of them give you even more one gave me a preview of the next week's episode and another offered to enter me in a contest to win something overall really just a time killer let's finish off with an email from Jeff in Cincinnati who wrote in about that Scarlett TV show after doing some research I found out it wasn't a TV series but a series of TVs made by LG and Mike was right LG had in fact perpetrated an elaborate hoax on all of us and Tim Alessi LG's director of product development and advertising confirm the joke to the Associated Press on Tuesday yeah thanks for the tip off mic we'll try not to be fooled again and that's it for this week everybody thanks for watching you can send us your email suggestions questions to geek pop at cnet com that's right we'll see you next time bye bye bye you