[Los Angeles, December 29. Image via INF ]

It was announced (quite  a while ago, in fact) that Bon Iver was following up “For Emma, Forever Ago” with an EP to be released on January 20th, again on Jagjaguwar. However, this time Bon Iver does not mean Justin Vernon… on “Blood Bank”, two more musicians help to beef up his sound. Did it really need “beefing up”, though..? Having released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year, releasing new material was always going to be tricky for Bon Iver. The well known “sophomore album syndrome” affects a huge number of artists

This might be the most absurd thing to happen in the final quarter of 2008… Ladies and gentleman, the Watchmen lawsuit did not turn out like we expected. Here’s the long and the short: In the 80s, Fox bought the rights to adapt Alan Moore’s comic masterpiece Watchmen into a movie. Then, they sat around and decided that they didn’t care about movies as much as they cared about money. This is previous to their television channel committing horrible crimes against good TV (Arrested Development, Firefly, others), and their poor decision to rush a 3rd X-Men film out under Bret Ratner that would go on to all but kill the franchise

This might be the most absurd thing to happen in the final quarter of 2008… Ladies and gentleman, the Watchmen lawsuit did not turn out like we expected. Here’s the long and the short: In the 80s, Fox bought the rights to adapt Alan Moore’s comic masterpiece Watchmen into a movie. Then, they sat around and decided that they didn’t care about movies as much as they cared about money. This is previous to their television channel committing horrible crimes against good TV (Arrested Development, Firefly, others), and their poor decision to rush a 3rd X-Men film out under Bret Ratner that would go on to all but kill the franchise. Needless to say, not a lot happened in the decades of Watchmen waiting that made anyone think Fox could make the film right

Empire Magazine and USA Today have teamed up to bring us a sudden onslaught of new photos from Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen. In terms of actual information, though, USA Today comes out on top with these few gems of the plot (possible SPOILERS, depending on how much you care about the plot of a robot-fight movie): This time, the story finds Sam and Mikaela under attack by the evil Decepticons because of something Sam has learned about the origins of the Transformers and their ancient history on Earth. To acquire this knowledge, the invading Decepticons need to capture Sam instead of kill him. Meanwhile, the U.S.