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On this week’s show the Humans (Joe, Caleb and Jason) talk 5 new space missions, Elon Musk’s fear of clones, and flying from New York to London in an hour?! Plus, Watch Party and so much more!
Listen live Mondays from 7pm to 9pm on 103.3 FM KSCU Santa Clara, or live online at http://www.kscu.org/
Geek Talk
- Watch Party: Episode 1 (We’ll Teach You How To Kill A Computer) and Episode 2 (Do Lovely Angels Like Chest Hairs?) of Dirty Pair
New Releases
In Theaters:
- Jem and the Holograms – As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
- The Last Witch Hunter – The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including Kaulder (Vin Diesel), a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful Queen Witch, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen curses Kaulder with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today Kaulder is the only one of his kind remaining, and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones.
- Bone Tomahawk – Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
- Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – The Paranormal Activity saga comes to an end.
- Rock the Kasbah – Has-been rock manager Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), dumped and stranded in war-torn Kabul by his last remaining client (Zooey Deschanel), discovers Salima Khan (Leem Lubany), a Pashtun teenager with a beautiful voice and the courageous dream of becoming the first woman to compete on national television in Afghanistan’s version of “American Idol.” Richie partners with a savvy hooker (Kate Hudson), a pair of hard-partying war profiteers (Danny McBride and Scott Caan) and a hair-trigger mercenary (Bruce Willis) and, braving dangerous cultural prejudices, manages his new protégée into becoming the “Afghan Star.”
Music:
- Divers by Joanna Newsom – The fourth full-length release for the singer-songwriter features the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and arrangements by Nico Muhly and David Longstreth.
- Central Belters by Mogwai – The three-disc compilation collects hits and rare tracks from the 20 year career of the Scottish post-rock group.
Video Games:
- Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – First Released Oct 23, 2015 – PS4, XONE, PC
- Just Dance 2016 – Coming Oct 20, 2015 – PS4, XONE, WIIU, WII, PS3, X360
- Guitar Hero Live – Coming Oct 20, 2015 – PS4, XONE, X360, WIIU, PS3
- Life is Strange: Ep5 – Polarized – Coming Oct 20, 2015 – PS4, XONE, PC, PS3, X360
- Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 5 – The Vault of the Traveler – Coming Oct 20, 2015 – PC, PS4, XONE, PS3, X360, VITA, MAC, iOS, & Android
DVD/Blu-ray:
- Jurassic World – Blu/DVD – Twenty-two years after the original collapse of Jurassic Park (the location not the film) the dream is not only resurrected but it is successful! The theme park has become reality, and the crowds are thick! But to keep the populous happy, new attractions must be made … and so enters the misappropriated science again. Did no one listen to Malcolm? Life finds a way.
- The Wolfpack – Blu/DVD – Family is never quite normal. But for the seven sons of the Angulo family it gets a really odd bend. They lived most of their childhood within the walls of their apartment, kept there by their over protective parents. This film is a look into a very unusual family dynamic.
- Z for Zachariah – Blu/DVD – Two strangers meet in the wake of the apocalypse. Ann, nurses John Loomis back to health. While they may not see eye to eye ideologically they find companionship. The balance of life shifts when Caleb (not the voice reading this) emerges.
- The Vatican Tapes – blu/DVD – Angela, seems an ordinary girl, but deep within her is an ancient force of darkness. It has fallen to Father Lozano to grapple with this demon and exorcise it for the good of Angela and the world!
A few notable classics coming to Blu-ray
- The Back to the Future Trilogy
Comics:
DC
- Justice League #45 – On earth the Justice League is often viewed as being god-like. They now find themselves with imbued with powers from the New Gods of Haven. And the cost of this power may very well be earth itself, unless Mister Miracle and Wonder Woman can stop them.
Marvel
- The Uncanny Inhumans #1 – Upheaval abounds in the world of the Inhumans. There’s a budding relationship between Jonny Storm and Medusa, Black Bolt is doing rogue black ops, and The Beast has split from the X-Men and joined the Inhumans.
Dark Horse
- The Steam Man #1 – The age of “The Wild West” has a new level of wild. A group of monster hunters have created The Steam Man, a giant robot built to repel the invading Martian tripods, roving bands of albino apes, and the latest treat a vampire!
Image
- Tokyo Ghost #2 – A pair of constables are given a tall order. Discard all technology from their bodies, so they can infiltrate the “Garden Nation of Tokyo”.
IDW Publishing
- Back to the Future #1 – The lead writer of the Back to the Future films returns to the twisting time lines of Doc Brown and Marty McFly.
Oni Press
- Invader Zim #4 – Zim receives a gift from the almighty Tallest! Then he is given super secret orders! Then new conflicting orders that involve personal pain! Is Zim on the most dangerous and important mission of his invader career? or are the Tallest really, really bored?
Wow Cool Recommends!
- I don’t want to freak you out, but we are really excited about Doctor Fate #5 with art by Sonny Liew
- In further ‘we’re not kidding’ news we expect Warren Ellis & co.’s Karnak #1 to be awesome.
- The comic book incarnation of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree #3 is a must-grab, of course.
- It’s a double-dose of @badmachinery w/ Giant Days #7 & Bad Machinery 4 – The Case of the Lonely One.
News
Joe:
Caleb:
- You can now buy Griff Tannen’s BMW from “Back to the Future II”
- NASA has green lit five (5!) new space flight missions
Jason: