Machete – After being betrayed by the organization who hired him, an ex-Federale (Danny Trejo) launches a brutal rampage of revenge against the people who double-crossed him. Also starring Michelle Rodriguez, Robert Deniro, Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba and many more. Directed by Robert Rodriguez based on the fake trailer from Grindhouse.

The American – An assassin (George Clooney) is hiding out in an Italian village while he anticipates his last assignment. He tempts fate by seeking out the friendship of a priest as well as the affection of a local woman. Directed by Anton Corbjin.

Saw this posted on LineBoil, and I just had to share it with everyone here. You’re hard pressed to find anything that is as well animated and designed as this short from Gobelins. It’s pretty great. Enjoy!

Why Did I Get Married Too – a sequel to Why Did I Get Married, the Tyler Perry film of 2007. Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their relaxing time is interrupted by an ex-husband looking to score back his former wife. Starring Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, and more.

Marmaduke – The Winslow family moves to a new neighborhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, Marmaduke (voiced by Owen Wilson), who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. Also including voices by Emma Stone, George Lopez, Fergie, Kiefer Sutherland, and many more.

Also on DVD and Blu-Ray: Harry Brown, House Season 6, Sons of Anarchy Season 2, The Vampire Diaries Season 1, Beatdown, 9th Company, Full Metal Panic! Season 1 and Iron Bodyguard.
On DVD Only: Brothers & Sisters Season 4, The Middle Season 1, Parenthood Season 1, FlashForward entire series, Thriller entire series, Dead Eyes Open, UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin, The Best of Soul Train, Lonesome Dove Season 1 and NCIS: Los Angeles Season 1.
On Blu-Ray Only: Evil Dead.

Takers – Matt Dillon plays a detective who gets between a group of bank robbers (Idris Elba, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Michael Ealy, T.I., Paul Walker) who plan on staging one last big heist that will leave them with a $20 Million bounty from an armored car. Also starring Zoe Saldana.

The Last Exorcism – Patrick Fabian plays a troubled minister who performs exorcisms. His final exorcism is being filmed by a documentary crew and proves to be his toughest one yet as a young possessed girl (Ashley Bell) brings him face to face with the Devil.

I have been talking about ROM Vol 1 for months, but it’s one thing to talk about it and another thing to actually see it through and see what happens. So since launching the short, things have gone rather well. I can now sigh a huge sigh of relief. *SIIIIIGH*

Since going live Monday night, Vol 1 has been uploaded to several sites and has earned some decent recognition. Over on Newgrounds we were awarding a Daily First (the third time we ever got it. Would you believe that ‘How to Hook Up The NES’ didn’t get the daily first? I thought we had that nailed to be honest). On top of that, they were cool enough to feature us on their front page. We’ve had our content featured there often and it always feels pretty darn good. Over on NG, I consider being in limbo once uploading something to the portal. You either come to life on the front page, or you go to the depths of hell and your short forever becomes buried. I’ve seen both sides happen, so I know how it goes. Other than that, it’s our highest scored short under ‘How to’ and has gathered over 20k views in two days alone. Not too shabby.

Also, on Gametrailers it went on to become a Featured User Video, so that was cool too. Unfortunately, thanks to an absolutely crummy thumbnail that I can’t change, not many people are clicking on it. It hasn’t even hit 800 views, but it’s scoring well and supposedly ranked highly. It’s a slight bummer more people aren’t clicking it, but it still feels nice to see the staff over there took some time to recognize it and feature it.

Thanks in large part to GoNintendo, our other half in these shorts, we continue to find a larger audience through out YouTube channel. There is an increase in viewing amongst all of our work, so it’s good to see our legacy shorts still holding their own.

The Wii Virtual Console has been dead lately, and well, Sunsoft has been pretty much dead forever. Seeing these two things revived thanks to this week’s release of Ufouria makes me pretty happy.

Ufouria is a late gen NES title that was due for release in the states but never made it outside of Japan and Europe. It was far along enough that magazines like Nintendo Power had write ups and advertisements for the game. Me personally, I always wanted to try it because I loved Sunsoft games. After nearly 20 years, the Virtual Console and Sunsoft have made that dream a reality. Yes, I know I could have just downloaded a ROM of it, but whatever. I’m legit.

Ufouria: The Saga revolves around four cute Pokemon-like characters (get it? You-Four-Of-Ya) in a quest to return home. The game is very much a Metroidvania title, so exploring, learning the map, and back tracking is the name of the game here. While one character, the Frosty the Snow Man looking Bop Louie, is selectable at first it doesn’t take long to track down the other selectable characters. Of course, each character has their own unique skills (the lizard is the only one that doesn’t fall on his face on ice, the frog can swim, ect) so there is plenty of swapping going on between the four during the game. Eventually though, I found myself almost using Bop Louie and the frog almost exclusively, only going back to the lizard and ghost when I had to.

The Back-Up Plan – Jennifer Lopez plays a single girl who is sick of looking for a man suitable to have kids with so she goes the artificial insemination route. Immediately after her appointment she meets a guy (Alex O’Loughlin) who is the first person that could be a potential husband for her but she’s already followed through with her back up plan.

Also on DVD and Blu-Ray: LOST Season 6, LOST entire series, Survival of the Dead, Dorian Gray, $5 A Day, The Simpsons Season 13, 2:22, The Square, Abandoned, City Island and Les Paul: Live in New York.
On DVD Only: Flight of the Conchords entire series, Yoo-Hoo Mrs Goldberg, NCIS Season 7, 90210 Season 2, Ax Men Season 3, Gangland Season 5, Ghost Hunters International Season 1 Part 2, Gossip Girl Season 3 and The Patty Duke Show Season 3.
On Blu-Ray Only: Shogun Assassin, Time Bandits and Withnail & I.

Welp, finally made it to the moment where Volume 1 of Read Only Memory is complete. It’s hard to believe I’ve been working on ROM for half a year now!

So, Volume 1 is pretty self explanatory, but I’ll get into it one more time. Each month we’ve produced a Nintendo related short for GoNintendo.com, and this month we’re bundling them all together to create “Volume 1″ of the series. Included in this set is Turnips In Love, Simon’s Supper, The Return of Captain N, and Pizza Links.

Oh, you’ve watched the four ROM episodes already? It’s okay, watch them again, and see how I “seamlessly” blended them together! But really, if you’re a long time fan of our work, please let me know if you like this format!

Read Only Memory: Volume 1 is around the corner! So, what’s new for you loyal Shamoozal fans? Well, unfortunately, not much. That doesn’t make this release of ROM any less important though. Actually, it’s the most important one yet!

So here’s the rub. The idea was always to package 4 shorts together and then that would be the one I release around the interwebs outside of uploading it to YouTube and having GoNintendo link it. My original idea was to include some bonus stuff in between the shorts, but unfortunately, time has gotten the best of me and that won’t be happening. Instead I focused my efforts planning just how these shorts are going to interconnect to make it feel like one cohesive piece, which as you’d imagine is pretty tricky!

Today is actually the first day I’ve been able to work on putting them together since the birthday of my kids almost a month ago. I knew they were on the way so I put all my effort into finishing up Pizza Links before they were born. Good thing I did, because the kids came five days after Pizza Links debuted. Talk about timing!

Assuming you don’t hang out on our forums all day, my kids spent the first two weeks of their lives in an incubator since they were born early. As you’d guess, my wife and I spent our nights there while I worked during the day. I basically had to put Shamoozal on hold for a little while. Now I’m on two weeks parental leave from my office so I can figure out just exactly how to raise these little dudes. So with one week behind me and a grasp on their schedule and how to work around it, I’m finding time to fit in work on ROM Vol 1.

Vampires Suck – Becca finds herself torn between two boys, one a vampire and the other a werewolf. All their problems come to a head at their school prom. A spoof of teenage vampire themed movies from writer/directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys who brought you Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie.

The Switch – Jennifer Aniston is single and getting older, she wants a kid so she decides to get artificially inseminated by a sperm donor. Jason Bateman is her best friend who was always in love with her. He switches the sperm with his own without anyone knowing but they end up going their separate ways before the birth. Seven years later he meets his secret son.