Chuck: The Movie

Chuck was originally a television show which aired from 2007 - 2012 as one of the few shows in what seems to be a long while that actually got to complete its entire series on NBC. Zachery Levi starred as the character of Chuck, and Yvonne Strahovski co-starred as Sarah. The show is about Chuck, who works for an electronics store in Burbank in the Nerd Herd section. After an email from an old college roommate gets sent to Chuck, he acc
identally downloads and becomes the mental host of the Intersect, a super computer containing all top secret information available to the US government. As a national security threat, he gets taken into the custody of the NSA & CIA. His life changes dramatically from this point forward as he must hide his identity from everyone he knows and loves. After running for five long seasons, the show ended in late January of 2012. Since then Zachery Levi, who played Chuck, has actively been trying to get Chuck to be made into a movie, to help wrap up all the loose ends and cliff hangers that were left at the end of the series finale. Over the past few years, Levi has made contact with the rest of the cast, who all agree that they would like to make a movie, and has contacted Warner Brothers numerous times. The main problem is that there is virtually no funding for the movie. In order to have enough of a budget, one of the only options for Zachery Levi is to make a Kickstarter project to fund the movie, which he has already stated that he will not do and will find other means by making the movie work.
I personally have mixed feelings about the possibility of a sequel to Chuck. While I would love to have new content that draws out the story line just a bit further, part of me is completely content with the way the the series ended on its own. Having almost two years to formulate on my own ideas on what I would have liked to happen after Chuck ended, it would almost be disappointing to see something else hit the screen. I feel like many fans who were happy with the series finale would be disappointed in this same way. Regardless, I will probably see the movie if it is ever released. I have just yet to decide if I would like one released yet.

Panic! At the Disco Releases Their Fourth Album

Album art for Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die

Panic!At the Disco's new album Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die was released on October 8th, 2013. The band consists of only two people, although the group was originally much larger when they formed in 2004; the only remaining member of the band since its formation is Brendon Urie, font man and lead singer. The other current member is drummer Spencer Smith. In their last album Vices and Virtues, Brendon Urie (who writes all of the songs for the band) wrote the entire album about his wife while they were broken up, and in their most recent album, Brendon has written in a similar way, writing about numerous good and bad experiences during his adolescence, giving it a “Vegas” theme and even once calling it “a letter to myself.”

Every time Panic! At the Disco comes out with a new album, they experiment with new things involving different instruments and elements, which to me is exactly what makes them great. While I understand that many artists have certain types of sounds and styles that they are comfortable with, doing the same thing can often get boring after the third or fourth album and make it seem like the artist is 'just moving through the motions'. While this causes many fans to come and go as the style progresses into something they don't enjoy, it has also earned the band many long time followers who look forward to and expect to hear new sounds within the music, which is why I, along with many others find this album to be especially enjoyable as they have held up to their standard of bring new aspects to to the table.

When Is Tokio Hotel Releasing Their New Album?

The members of Tokio Hotel: Gustav Schafer
Bill Kaulitz, Tom Kaulitz, & Georg Listing
(listed from left to right)

Tokio Hotel, a German rock band, has had over four albums released in the past eight years, and are becoming widely known around the world. Having now completed two world tours, and getting ready to release a new album, Tokio Hotel's fame is skyrocketing. One of the questions that many fans are

Cover Art for the album Humanoid.

asking, is when will the new album be released? The leader of the group, Bill Kaulitz, along with the other three members of the band are strangely vague in all the information that they have given to the fans in the past two years. There are even rumors which they refuse to directly address such as 'Is Tokio Hotel even a band anymore?' and 'Is there even a current album in progress?' While I do believe that they do not have any reason for just plainly lying to their fans, I do believe that they, or their record label could be doing a much better job on relaying information. For example, while the members of Tokio Hotel have made comments on their official page on Facebook along with multiple videos validating that said album is to be released soon, they have not validated any time for a release date, or even mentioned a name to the album. Originally, the album was said to be released in Spring of 2012. Eventually, this date got pushed to Spring of 2013, and now is apparently going to be released in the Fall of 2013. It has also been said that they will begin their tour late this year, but I don't see how that could be possible, seeing as how there have not been dates for any shows posted anywhere. As a faithful fan of the band for three years, I know first hand that a situation such as this can be very confusing and even slightly irritating. If they keep up their lack of communication, fans may begin to lose interest, and their popularity may decrease by the time they release new content (their latest album was published in 2009 and was titled Humanoid. They published their album in both English and German.) Why is Tokio Hotel being so secretive? As of now, I can't give an official answer, but I do hope that it is for a good reason, and that new information about the band and album will soon be released.