The Black Beetle: Night Shift #0
Written by Francesco Francavilla
Art by Francesco Francavilla
Cover by Francesco Fracavilla
Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Cover Price: $2.99

The Black Beetle: Night Shift #0 is all set up and all AWESOME! Let’s be honest, there’s plenty of pulp heroes running around these days, but The Black Beetle is all sorts of fun. No downbeat, depressing, down on humanity story here, just some fantastic action and adventure!

Writer Francesco Francavilla really surprises me by turning out a really good comic book. NO, not the art, that’s a given, what I was impressed so much by was the story. This seems like a story that Francavilla’s had cooking for a while and one that he was desperate to tell, because you, the reader, can plainly feel the love and hard work that he put into every single page, panel, and line of dialogue. Everything is well thought out and it combines the 1940’s spirit of high adventure with the mystery man/superhero genre. There’s also a FEW running mysteries throughout the issue, which makes it that much more enjoyable to read. This issue is definitely a page-turner and by the end you won’t be able to wait for the next issue!

It’s always exciting for fans of western movie genre to see a new movie like Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained being buzzed about, primarily because we just don’t see new western films nearly as often as we would all like to.

Westerns were everywhere back in the day, even sprouting sub-genres like the spaghetti western. The best known spaghetti western was and is Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy, of course, which starred Clint Eastwood. But there’s many other great spaghetti westerns to enjoy, one of which being the 1966 film Django.

The movie starred Franco Nero, who has a cameo in Django Unchained, and it appears we may not have seen the last of Nero as the iconic character.

Back in January we found out that A&E was developing a new TV series inspired by the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho.

Now nearly a year later, the series, which is titled Bates Motel, has a trailer and preview to check out. The video is a hybrid, beginning with the trailer and then going into a short making of preview, complete with interviews with the show’s cast and crew.

You can check out the trailer and preview of Bates Motel below now!

The soundtrack to Django Unchained, the much-anticipated new film by the wunderkind of classic exploitation, alpha male laden films by numbers Quentin Tarantino, was released today on CD ($9.99) and MP3 (for only $5!).

Like other prior Tarantino productions and soundtracks which accompanied them, this one is no exception with its eclectic, ironic, tongue planted firmly in cheek and fist punched firmly in face track listing. For a limited time, the film’s soundtrack will be streaming for FREE online and you can listen to it all here below.

Over the weekend, select IMAX 3D screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (read FamousMonster’s review here) are being prefaced by an extended preview for Star Trek Into Darkness. I have seen the nine-minute preview and am prepared to offer my thoughts, but first a lengthy recap.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW!