Summer is here and Scene-Stealers‘ Eric Melin and guest host Trevan McGee from inkkc.com review the new McG (”Charlie’s Angels,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle”) reboot of “The Terminator” franchise, starring Christian Bale as famed leader of the human resistance John Connor. Eric thinks the movie is like a plate of leftovers from “The Road Warrior,” “Alien,” and “The Matrix,” while Trevan holds firm that as a war movie with some good action scenes, it succeeds.

This afternoon teh ‘monkey and I spent a little time in the old movie theater checking out Pixar’s latest, Up. Now you’ll have to wait a little while for the review, as the film doesn’t hit theaters until a week from Friday, but I will share this small clip with you introducing one of the funniest characters in the film, Dug.

Remember how when you were in High School, you thought your family was incredibly lame, and just wished really hard that you were a fucking Osmond or something? Well, don’t get me wrong, your family was incredibly lame. And yeah, the Osmonds kick ass. But maybe you can find comfort in perusing photo blog Awkward Family Photos, and seeing that at least your family wasn’t the very lamest of families. Hold on, does that kid have hair product? Nevermind, these guys are way cooler than any family you’ve ever been in.

I’m a big fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective, and although I’m tickled by the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes I do have some doubts about this project. I’ve never been happy with the choice of Guy Ritchie as director, and I’m also quite concerned with the mystical undead storyline of the new film (I’m hoping it’s all a red-herring and we don’t get some kind of crystal skull craziness). Check out the trailer below (which seems to be heavy on action and humor, but pretty damn light on detection), and let us know what you think.

It’s a hefty price ($43 for only 2GB), but the coolness factor is pretty damn high.

I think if I plugged this transforming Ravage USB drive into my Doctor Who USB Hub the explosion of awesome might take out several city blocks.

And you know what? I think I’m okay with that.

The return of Sean Connery to Celebrity Jeopardy! What more could you ask for? I didn’t think much of Kristen Wiig’s crazy Kathy Lee (though I’m told it would be funnier if I was still watching SNL regularly), but I give huge kudos to Tom Hanks for going all out in spoofing himself. Enjoy!

Celebrity Jeopardy!

Here’s a little time waster for ‘ya. Choose either a hamster or zombie and fight to the death. Hmm, can you still fight to the death if you’re undead?

Zombie vs. Hamster

Jeremy Mayer has found a use for old typewriters. For those of you too young to know what a typewriter was, think of it as a computer without a screen, spellcheck, or delete key. Yeah, think of the effort it took to fake a term paper on one of those! Man I feel old. Mayer’s art turns the typewriters into cool, and admittedly slightly creepy, art. Take a look!

I think we’re all a little played out when it comes to Pirates; but if there was ever a reason for the buccaneers to take center stage in pop culture again, it might be the commentator for this horse race.

ARRRRR ARRRRR ARRRRR

This may be the worst Top 10 I’ve written. Not in the way it was written or the lack of research, of course–on the contrary, I did a lot of research to try and track down the most fourth films in a series I could find. It was a little experiment to see what the percentage of good/bad is among fourth movies in a franchise to kind of gauge what we’re in for this weekend as fourth franchise film “Terminator Salvation” opens in theaters.

Guess what? They’re not so good. I could have made a Top 10 list of the worst in a franchise, but that would have been too easy to list, and it numbered around 50. It was much more challenging to come up with ones that didn’t suck too bad. Anyway, enjoy it if you dare: The Top 10 Best Fourth Movies in a Franchise.