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welcome to geek pop I'm Molly wood and I'm Tom Merritt big pop is the show where we keep you up to date on the latest in geeky movies television books and much more if it's geeky will tell you about it let's start with movies out this week is dark matter a movie about astrophysics and murder this is excellent we're losing now we're cooking with gas the story is based on the true story of a Chinese student who shot and killed five people at the University of Iowa in 1991 he apparently did it because he thought his research was being overlooked Dark Matter the movie premiered at sundance and when the Alfred P Sloan prize for the best feature film dealing with science or technology it also stars Meryl Streep and murder he's in way over his head coming soon to your computer most of the folks who brought you mystery science theater 3000 have started a new project where they mock B movies they're calling it cinematic titanic let's get a little taste do you have boozing brain check the warning signs hey check it out there parking at the foot of the burning their treatment of the oozing skull is now available on DVD or for download that can be burned to DVD you can also catch the crew doing their thing live in dallas texas april 26 oh I love it when they prep the potato tableside like that and finally I mean finally Frank Herbert's dune is being brought back to the big screen prepare yourselves for another helping of the sky paramount got themselves the right to dune they brought Peter Berg on to direct and they're looking for a writer who can keep the script faithful to her birth story good idea peter berg by the way directed the kingdom and is best known for his starring role in chicago hope so we hope they can actually make a good dude movie yeah as you know David Lynch made the last one much maligned I heard the director's cut was much better yeah well I thought the director's cut was much better but the directors extended edition was not a director's cut it was actually a cut that someone else did it David Lynch said remove my name from that I thought it was even worse wow yeah well actually it was that's right it was replaced by an Alan Smithee credit Smithee being and apparently a common pseudonym but used by directors who don't want their name attached to a film that Alan Smith he's done a lot of good stuff in fact over 64 directorial credits alone including the pilot of the show MacGyver hopefully the new movie will be very good and maybe todo won't be called on to do the music because have you seen that commercial that they've been doing not good enough about that let's move on to television sarah-jane one time companion of the doctor doctor who exactly Sarah gets her own series starting friday april eleventh on the sci-fi channel it's called Sarah Jane Adventures stew in the whole Torchwood thing keeping the earth safe from aliens and get some help from her genetically engineered son of course it's an old story doctor who himself returns to sci-fi for another season starting next week April eighteenth NBC is going web video crazy they've announced the release of short form or webisode versions of heroes Chuck the office and 30 rock these are all original content made exclusively for the web now they're also planning a web-only series called fears secrets and lies which invites the viewers to help create the storyline gotta have your own fear secrets and lies I guess also in TV news NBC revealed this week that they will not be cancelling heroes surprise it'll come back to TV on September 15 as a three-hour event two of those hours will be the actual premiere episode yes and I'm excited if you were however also excited about the standalone spin-off called heroes origins nBC has nuked plans for that's been off saying it's just too much to deal with right now but they did announce new heroes action figure too much to deal with there's just too much going on is it hard for them right now you know what I think though they just wanted to make sure heroes stayed good and I support that finally let's finish up with some DVDs out april eighth and ready for rental is Day of the Dead the need to feed its plot involves strong pervasive horror violence and zombies if that's not your cup of tea good news Matlock's first season is out to to feed on the other hand some good stuff well okay better stuff than that is that on blu-ray starting april eighth terry gilliam's the adventures of baron munchausen the last Sentinel starting katee sackhoff starbuck and to disaster movies 10.5 apocalypse and category 7 the end of the world actually see see the end of the world in hyde that i love in the original 10.5 when they're earthquake chases the train actually the train turns and the earthquake turns a little crack in the earth follows it that's awesome i love that earthquake last 20 to 25 minutes as real earthquakes often feel like often yeah that's it for this week everybody thanks for watching geek pop will be 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