Robots Attack 115

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On this week’s show the Humans(Joe, Caleb, & Jason) discuss Robot swarms, Samsung controlling your smart home, and Robin Williams honored in Wow. Plus, Retro night at the Boardwalk and GOTG review/discussion.

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Show Notes for 8/14/2014

# New Releases

In Theaters:

1. Let’s Be Cops
The less said about this movie the better…
2. The Expendables 3
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. In order to defeat Stonebanks, Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy.
3. The Giver
Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.
4. Dinosaur 13
When Paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990, they knew it was the find of a lifetime; the largest, most complete T. rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the U.S. government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.
5. Frank
A young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender), a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Video Games:

1. Disgaea 4 (vita)

2. Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed(vita ps3)

3. Hohokum (Vita, PS4, PS3)

4. Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition (PS4)

Music:

1.Get Hurt – The Gaslight Anthem
The fifth full-length studio release for the New Jersey rock band was produced by Mike Crossey.
2. I’m Not Bossy, I’m the Boss – Sinéad O’Connor
Produced by John Reynolds, the 10th release for the singer-songwriter is a collection of love songs from different female point of views.
3. When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day – Mirel Wagner
The second release for the Finnish singer-songwriter was produced by Vladislav Delay.
4. Directors of Photography – Dilated Peoples
The first release in eight years for the Los Angeles hip-hop trio of Evidence, Rakaa, and DJ Babu features guest appearances from Aloe Blacc, Catero, Krondon, Sick Jacken, and Vince Staples.
5. Worlds – Porter Robinson
The debut full-length release for the North Carolina electronic producer features guest appearances from Breanne Düren, Imaginary Cities, Lemaitre, Amy Millan, and Urban Cone.

DVD/Blu-Ray:

1. The Railway Man – Blu/DVD – This film follows the story of Eric Lomax an officer in the British Army during the second world war. He was captured and set to work on the infamous Japanese Death Railway. Years later he returns to find those responsible.
2. Locke – Blu/DVD – Ivan Locke has carved out a fine life for himself and his family. But this phone call may bring it all crashing down.
3. Muppets Most Wanted – Blu/DVD – It’s the opportunity of a stuffed lifetime! See the world! perform in exotic destinations! What could possibly go wrong for the Muppet crew. Oh well maybe a international crime spree with some one standing in for Kermit.
4. The Blacklist: The Complete First Season – Blu/DVD – When the greatest criminal in the world turns himself in that is a mystery. When he decides to turn in all those that worked with him, an even greater mystery. When he will only work with a specific FBI agent who seems to have no connection, one has to wonder where the mysteries end.
5. Bob Ross – The Joy of Painting: Grandeur of Summer – DVD – Spend some time with one of the world’s happiest painters, while he goes into detail about the techniques behind one of his paintings.
6. Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – DVD – It was a premise that shouldn’t have worked, a bunch of turtles that are ninjas and are named after famous Renaissance artists. But it sold and sold and sold and sold. Now thirty years later Randall Lobb looks back at this epic phenomenon. It also features the original creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Comics:

### DC
* Constantine #17 – It’s WWII and deep in the trenches something has gone horribly wrong. Namely modern day mage John Constantine is in them. Cast back in time by a spell gone wrong he now must find a way back while keeping other mages a bay, and with this much death the black arts have ample feeding grounds.

### Marvel
* Spider-man 2099 #2 – The web head from the future is tring to make the most of his predicament. But how does a superhero from the future begin to find a “normal” life?

### Dark Horse
* Dark Ages #1 (of 4) – While seeking fortune and glory across medival europe a group of mercenaries encounter a hellish demonic force … which is not from Hell.

### Image
* The Walking Dead #130 – There’s a new walking dead issue, get your zombie fix.

### IDW
* Judge Dredd: Anderson Psi- Division #1 – A story from her early days as a Judge, Anderson, has a strong vision of an attack on Mega City 1’s Megapolitan Museum. This is the beginning of the “King of Six Sectors” story line.

### From the fine folk at Wow Cool Comics
* Tiger Lung (hard cover) – Trade Paper Back – (coming in Dec.)

News:

1. Swarm of robots! – http://phys.org/news/2014-08-autonomous-robots-self-organizing-thousand-robot-swarm.html

2. Chicken crossing road causes traffic jam…no jokehttp://www.sfgate.com/news/article/No-joke-Chicken-crossing-road-blocks-traffic-5685767.php

3. 3D printed art … with a kick! – http://makezine.com/2014/08/14/3d-printed-combat-motion-sculpture/

4. Samsung Wants to Control Your Smart Home, Too http://gizmodo.com/samsung-wants-to-control-your-smart-home-too-1621899253

5. This Pencil Lamp’s Power Cord Leaves Doodles Around Your Home http://gizmodo.com/this-pencil-lamps-power-cord-leaves-doodles-around-your-1621673367

6. Robin Williams memorialized in WoW: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/12/robin-williams-to-be-memorialized-in-wow?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

7. Hitchhiking robot crossing Canada – http://phys.org/news/2014-08-hitchhiking-robot-thumbs-canada.html

8. Simon Cowell Producing Betty Boop Movie –http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/14/simon-cowell-making-betty-boop-movie

9. Power Rangers Movie gets a release date:http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/13/the-power-rangers-movie-slated-for-summer-2016

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