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We now have a Community Wall, similar to Facebook. You can access the wall here, or at the Community links at the top of the page, and in the sidebar. We can now create and join groups, write on walls, upload videos and pics, and do pretty much everything that Facebook does now. Everyone is invited to make groups for their films, books, websites, causes, etc. Everyone can also upload any videos or photos they want. All you need to do is register an account. At the top of the wall application, there are tabs. "Home" is the main wall. This will show the activity stream. "Profile" is where you can make groups, add pics and videos, and make wall posts. The rest is self explanatory. Have fun.

There are many movies that build a ton of hype for themselves yet few can live up to it. However The Expendables is a movie where it does live up to the hype and at some parts exceeds them.

So let me get this straight, Michael Cera plays a super hero like character?

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Those college kids in the 80s really knew how to party. Sure, they look kind of lame-ass 20+ years later, but back then...well, they were still lame-ass but most of us were too young to realize it. "Night of the Creeps" is a perfect example of something lame that once looked semi-cool and is now shelved into our mental nostalgia bin. In retrospect, it had nearly limitless potential: naked, midget, hulked-out aliens (nods to Franklin...if only they had been green and female for you man); a crazed escaped mental patient with an axe; alien slugs; zombies. If they had thought of snagging Bruce Campbell for one of the leads, it could have been perfect.

Winner of the 2008 Accolade Award of Merit for Best Short, Clouds is a lyrical montage of cloud shots ending with the horrific cloud of smoke emanating from the World Trade Center on 911, an image the filmmaker captured on that fateful day.

"Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?"

Here's a sneak peek at the newest film from Phil Messerer (Thicker Than Water). "Underbelly Blues" follows a mysterious briefcase as it exchanges hands amongst the colorful denizens of the underworld. These include a corrupt cop, a sleazy strip club owner, a pair of lesbian strippers, an ex-military gun-for-hire who suffers from O.C.D. and has a penchant for creative torture, a Jewish pawnshop owner and his dominatrix mother, a British sophisticate who cooks crystal meth, a pair of surfer pot dealers, a legally blind albino gangster, a 7 foot tall, 400 lb neo-nazi, a sexual deviant redneck, a wild-eyed Mexican named Take it Easy, and a brilliant 'brain' called The Architect. All of these characters are connected through a series of bizarre coincidences which inevitably lead to the downfall of corporate America as the rivalry between two soft drink companies goes out of control. Hit the jump for more information.

Updates for July 31st through August 6th

This week Jakob and Mandi jack-in to break through the firewalls and crack the encryption codes to get the hard data on computer hackers in movies and IRL. Or maybe they mostly talk about Angelina’s body.

Listen to the latest podcast by Jakob and Mandi here.

So I've picked up "Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster" by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Michael McCarty and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin. This is a collection of over 80 dark and twisted poems that I would call a perfect combination of Tim Burton and Shel Silverstein, with dashes of Steven King and Lovecraft thrown in. 

Here is the leaked footage from Piranha 3D that premiered at last week's San Diego Comic-Con. Very not safe for work. Watch it while you can!

Updates for July 25th through the 30th

Nerd Hurdles wouldn’t exist without one specific thing. Not the Internet. Not Jakob’s Zoom H4 Handy Recorder. Not even Simply Syndicated. No, it’s you the listener who’s made this diamond jubilee possible. Because although we could still do the show without you, we probably wouldn’t. That would be a bit sad. For episode 75 we give our appreciation to you, the nerds who’ve stuck by us, by reading out some of your letters, new and old, as we go on an unintentionally self-serving ego trip. 

Listen to the latest podcast by Jakob and Mandi here.

Check out some of these various superhero and villain posters by Mark Grambau.

http://mediasaurs.com/ Another episode in THE MEDIASAURS' weekly classic video reviews. In this one Mediasaurus Rex considers CYBORG and the apocalypse while attempting to rewire his hooptie. Produced by THE MAKE STUDIO. Beats by MR. DAPPER.