Zatanna puts a hex on Smallville

The powers that be must have a fetish for the fishnet stockings, because the last two future Justice Leaguers to guest star on the CW's Smallville are both infamous for sporting the classic leg wear. Luckily, neither of them are men (that would just be weird). Last season introduced Oliver Queen's permanent on again off again love interest Black Canary, who is now married to the emerald archer in comic continuity. On march 26th, magician Zatanna lends a helping hand in an episode appropriotely entitled 'Hex', in which Chloe and Clark each learn the true meaning of the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for". Model/actress Serinda Swan will play the magical hero who can only cast spells by reciting them backwards. Yzarc! Well, she definitely has the look down, but we'll just have to wait and see if she has anymore tricks up her sleeve.

IN OTHER SMALLVILLE NEWS:
In case you haven't heard, Smallville has recently been renewed for a 9th season. At this point one could only speculate on who will remain for the next season, but it's rumored that the entire core cast of season 8 will be back for another round. The only person in question right now is Sam Witwer, who plays Davis Bloome, ambumance driver and host to Doomsday. Though there is a chance Witwer may not return, Doomsday will definitely be making an encore appearance as pro wrestler Matt Morgan recently revealed that he was cast to take the place of current Doomsday actor Dario Delacio in the coming stories. At 7 feet tall Morgan's Doomsday should tower over poor Clark Kent. Now that sounds like a party!

Sam Jackson is back with a Fury

Without getting into too much detail about the numerous blunders Marvel Studios has been making since their amazingly profitable Iron Man movie rocked theaters last summer, it looks like one of them has finally been remedied. For those who don't know, fan-favorite Samuel L. Jackson was a breath away from not reprising his role as Nick Fury, leader of SHIELD, who's after-credits scene in Iron Man introduced fans to the new cohesive 'Marvel Movieverse', where different icons can now share a continuity between seperate franchises. Due to money and contract problems, which Marvel has become infamous for in the last year (Marvel almost didn't re-sign Iron Man director Favreau, went back on Terrance Howard's contract and replaced him with Don Cheadle, and offered Oscar nominated Mickey Rourke a mere $250,000 to play a villian in Iron Man 2, just to name a few.), Jackson had stated publicly that he more than likely would not be returning to the role that was supposed to move between the different franchises building up to the 2011 Avengers movie. Well, Marvel has made a complete 180 and as it stands now Jackson is re-signed for an undisclosed amount of money, but that's not the biggest news to that story. The real kicker is that Jackson didn't get a two or three picture renewal. He is now signed on for no less than nine, count 'em, NINE Marvel vehicles as Nick Fury. That means that Marvel is very ambitiously preparing for at least nine more 'Movieverse' features. Well, we all know that those movies will probably include Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and the Avengers film, but what exactly does Marvel have in store after that? The mind reels. Either way, I'm glad to see that Marvel is finally willing to make some concessions for the fans...at least this time.

WATCHMEN: Rorchach at work

OK. I know I said I was done with the Watchmen clips, but I think this is worth the exception. Actually, I think Rorschach is always worth the exception. He is a bad mother -shut your mouth! (Only talking 'bout Rorschach...)

Circuit City's loss is your gain.

Sure, our economy is going down the crapper and things are looking pretty bleak, but there are some deals to be had out there! I went to my local Circuit City and ALL their DVD's and CD's are half off!
Yes, it's kinda depressing being in a store that has gone out of business, watching the hapless employees just going through the motions. Why do they still bother wearing their uniforms? What's the manager gonna do, fire them?
Back to my main point, I picked up the New Line Platinum Edition of "A History of Violence" for just $5 bucks, and "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3" for $3.50! This is the 1990 "Leatherface" by the way, not that Michael Bay poop, thank you very much.
I also picked up The Eagles of Death Metal's latest album "Heart On", which if have never heard of, I highly recommend.
I was really suprised at the amount of good stuff left over, I thought the store was going to be picked pretty clean, but there was even a good number of Blue Ray discs sitting on the shelves. I don't know if the Circuit City nearest you will have the same deals or selection, but if you want to build your library I recommend checking it out.

Gondry to helm "The Green Hornet"

Good News: Looks like the new adaptation of "The Green Hornet" is back on track again with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" director Michel Gondry at the helm. You may have heard that original director Stephen Chow dropped out over creative differences. He is, however, still expected to co-star as Kato.

Bad News: Seth Rogen is still starring. Love the guy but this was not a good idea. Who's producing this thing? Oh yeah, Seth Rogen.

Admittedly, I'm a pretty big Gondry fan from his music video days. His film career, on the other hand, has been a bit spotty. Loved "Eternal Sunshine" and "The Science of Sleep" (though it's definitely not for everybody). Liked "Block Party" if only for the fantastic music and reminding me how much I miss Dave Chapelle. Really, really wanted to love "Be Kind Rewind" but only kind of half-liked it. I never saw "Human Nature" because I prefer hottie "True Romance" Patricia Arquette to hairy Patricia Arquette. Nonetheless, the man sure is ambitous.

Plus, you've got to admit that this is pure awesomeness:

"The Green Hornet" is due Summer 2010 from Columbia Pictures.

WOLVERINE: Game Trailer

Here is a first look at the new Wolverine video game based on the upcoming X-Men Origins movie.

WATCHMEN: Prison Break Scene

With it coming so close to the Watchmen movie release, I'm trying really hard to not watch anymore clips online, but this one was too good to pass up. This is a clip originally aired on MTV's Spoilers show of the prison break scene from the film showing Nite Owl and Silk Spectre doing their thing.

Inside the mind of R2-D2...

Ever wonder what R2-D2 is really thinking? Check out this Episode 1 run down of memorable R2 moments.

[WARNING: CONTAINS SOME COLORFUL LANGUAGE...WELL, TEXT]

QUICK BITS

• Sony has recently announced that to better utilize the disc space of their PS3 discs, the company will now be releasing Blu-ray movies with the accompanying movie tie-in game on the same disc. So, now when you buy your Watchmen movie on Blu-ray you'll get the Watchmen game along with it. What kind of delays this may cause and what the price tag will be is still a little vague at this time.
• Sometime in the near future, you can expect theatrical versions of some of your favorite childhood toys a la Clue including Battleship, Monopoly (Ridley Scott), Ouija (Michael Bay), Candy Land (Ethan Cohen) and...Stretch Armstrong?
• ABC has officially began production on The Witches of Eastwick, a new series based loosely off of the 1987 Jack Nicholson film of the same name.
• In other remake news, it looks like Leo DiCaprio will be leading up the cast in an updated version of the 1983 classic War Games starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.
  
• The Dark Knight has finally broken the $1 billion mark worldwide, making only the fourth film to do so behindTitanic, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Man's Chest.
• Also in DC movie news, it has recently been announced that Warner Bros. will not reboot the Superman franchise as once speculated (and hoped), but instead will put the final nail in the Superman movie coffin with Superman: Unleashed (originally titled Superman: Man of Steel to mirror The Dark Knight), which will continue as the next sequel after Superman Ruined, I mean Superman Returns.
  

...and the Oscar goes to:

So, guess who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. THAT'S RIGHT, BABY!!!Congratulations to Heath and his family. You're gone, but definitely not forgotten.

DVD releases for Feb 24th.

TOP PICK:
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (Is this final installment the last we will see of Futurama?...that may be up to the fans.)

OTHER RELEASES:
- Badland
- Breaking Bad: The Complete First Season
- Canterbury's Law: The Complete Series
- Cyclops
- Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet
- Dirty Jobs Collection 4
- Extreme Movie (Unrated)
- The FTA
- Futurama DTV Movies 1-4
- The Haunting of Molly Hartley
- Ironweed
- Just Shoot Me!: The Complete Third Season
- The Last House on the Left (Collector's Edition)
- The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
- My Wife & Kids: Season One
- NFL: Super Bowl XLIII Champions - Pittsburgh Steelers
- Protégé
- Red Sands
- S.I.S.
- Scourge
- Sex Drive (2-Disc Special Edition)
- Summer Heights High

Cool Blu-ray releases:
- Akira
- The French Connection
- French Connection 2
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (UK edition)
- Friday the 13th Part 3 (UK edition)
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
- Samurai 7 - Box Set

Although Friday the 13th 2 and 3 are UK releases, they are listed as 'All Regions', so they should play fine, but no 3-D for part 3. If you want that, you're probably better off waiting for the U.S. release of both movies in June of this year.