10 Great Netflix Stand-Up Comedy Specials
Stand-up comedy is one of life’s greatest gifts. There is always an abundance of it and there is a comedian that speaks to everyone. Whether your sense of humor is broad or specific, high-brow or low-brow, there’s a stand-up special out there that will grab you and stay in your quotable vernacular for years.
While Comedy Central and HBO have long been known for breaking new comedians with their stand-up specials, Netflix has recently entered the arena alongside their scripted programming. With less of a need to appeal to a large audience, the Netflix Original Stand-Up Specials are today’s best comedians being 100% themselves.
Here are 10 worth checking out...
Chris Tucker’s 2015 Netflix special isn’t the most ground breaking piece of stand-up that we’ve ever seen – nor is it even Tucker’s best – but Chris Tucker Live earns a spot on this list simply for bringing Tucker back into our lives after a long absence. Save for a couple of movies and hosting gigs since 2001’s Rush Hour 2, Tucker has scarcely appeared with new material.
The Dark Knight III’s ‘Master Race’ Revealed
Today's new issue of The Dark Knight III shed more light on the overarching conflict of the series and what the titular "Master Race" actually is.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for The Dark Knight III: The Master Race #2!
This issue opens with Commissioner Yindel interrogating Carrie Kelly, who briefly took up the mantle of Batman in issue #1 before being taken down by an army of cops. Carrie followed up on the surprising revelation that Bruce Wayne is dead, relating to Yindel the sad story of Bruce Wayne's final days.
Sinister’s Plan Revealed in Extraordinary X-Men
Today's new issue of Extraordinary X-Men revealed more about what role Mister Sinister has to play in the growing conflict between mutants and Inhumans.
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Extraordinary X-Men #4!
Previous issue of the series have dealt with the fact that the mutant race is once again facing extinction thanks to the effects of the Terrigen Mist cloud circling the globe. Ever the geneticist, Sinister is busy tinkering away with new mutant specimens. The villain revealed to a captive Colossus that his goal is to help the mutant race win its genetic war against the Inhumans by creating mutants immune to the effects of the Terrigen Mists. In effect, he's created a new race of mutant/Inhuman hybrids.
Destiny Players to Get Free Gifts for the New Year
The year is coming to an end, and in celebration, Bungie is giving away free loot to Destiny players.
Come January 7, all players will receive 15 strange coins and 15 motes of light. You can use these coins like currency in Destiny, and as Bungie writes, "buy something nice from Xûr with those coins, but don’t spend all your motes to upgrade one item." Visit the postmaster after January 7 and he'll have your packages for you. Bungie will provide an update in January to remind you about the gifts.
The company is also encouraging Destiny fans to play after the new year, offering an exclusive emblem to players who log on from January 7 to January 10. Bungie notes that you should "complete a playable activity" so that you'll be tracked. The emblems will be distributed on January 12 to those who've participated.
Sleeping Dogs Successor Triad Wars Closing Down
Square Enix is closing down Triad Wars, the online open-world action game follow-up to Sleeping Dogs.
Developer United Front Games announced the closure on Twitter and the official Triad Wars forums. The game will remain playable until 12:00pm PT on January 20, 2016.
"Since the start of the Triad Wars Closed Beta this year, diligent Enforcers have run rampant through the streets of Hong Kong, killing rivals and building Empires. During this time we have gathered immense amounts of feedback, information, and data on the game. We’ve loved seeing how you’ve played Triad Wars but we know it wasn’t right for many of you, so we’re letting you know today that we are going to close the beta on January 20th 2016 at 12 p.m. Pacific Standard Time," said the developer.
Star Wars: Force Awakens Continues Box Office Dominance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens performed incredibly well at the box office yesterday, setting a new record high for Tuesday with just over $37.3 million.
J.J. Abrams space epic not only eclipsed The Amazing Spider-Man's Tuesday record of $35 million, it's also now the fastest film to surpass the $300 million milestone, with domestic earnings-to-date now at a whopping $325.4 million.
Additionally, The Force Awakens has now made $689.4 million globally, which, according to THR, already puts its ahead of Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation's entire run as the seventh highest-grossing film of 2015.
See the New Trailer for Natalie Dormer’s The Forest
A new trailer and poster for Natalie Dormer's upcoming psychological thriller The Forest have been revealed.
Here's a look at the new poster, courtesy of Empire.
The film is set in the Aokigahara Forest, a famous location in Japan near Mout Fuji where many have gone to commit suicide. Dormer (of Hunger Games and Game of Thrones fame) stars as young American woman named Sara, who travels to the forest in search of her missing twin sister.
The 50 Greatest Quentin Tarantino Characters
Oscar-winning screenwriter, foot fetishist and shutter-down of butts, Quentin Tarantino has a new movie opening in limited domestic release this weekend, The Hateful Eight. Tarantino has gifted cinema dozens of classic characters in his half century, from Reservoir Dogs through Django Unchained – plus, of course, via movies he wrote, like True Romance and Natural Born Killers. It's easy to forget the wealth of talent that has at some point agreed to be QT's mouthpiece (Pitt! Clooney! Willis! De Niro! Oldman!). The Tarantino universe boasts an unforgettable cast of heroes, villains and everyone in between.
With that, let's look at Tarantino's Top 50 characters (sans the characters from The Hateful Eight -- we'll include them next time!):
This Fender Guitar Is Made From Cardboard
Ernest Packaging has teamed up with Fender to create a Stratocaster electric guitar made out of cardboard.
According to the Mail Online, Cardboard Chaos is a collaboration between Ernest Packaging Solutions and Signal Snowboards, and they've made a guitar that not only looks like a Fender Stratocaster, it also plays like one.
"One of the biggest challenges of this neck is with the strings," said Dave Lee, co-founder of Signal Snowboards. "It adds about 250 lbs of torque on the neck."
Paul Waller, Fender Master Builder, said "the challenge is gonna be to try to get this material that is notoriously kinda weak to get strong to hold all those strings."
Beyond: A Special Holiday Beyonza
Download Podcast Beyond Episode 424
Finally, 2015 is coming to a close and the silly drama of this here video game industry has settled down. In the penultimate episode of 2015, Marty, Brian, Alanah, Zach, and Goldengoose dig deep into the mailbag and answer literally every single question you've ever asked. Well, that's a lie. But they do talk about what they're playing over break, why Bully was rad, dinosaurs, why Altano is terrified of Australia, PaRappa VR, why no one should sleep on Until Dawn, the most disappointing Christmas presents ever, and a whole bunch of other dumb stuff.