This week comes in with a pretty solid group of offerrings entertainment wise. While not too much going on, there is definitely more quality over quantity. Let’s check it out.

THEATERS

New out this week are: Surrogates, Fame, and Pandorum. Pandorum is a thriller / horror flick set aboard an abandoned space station. Two crew members wake up after being in cryo sleep only to find that they are the only ones left alive on their ship. To make matters worse, neither one has any knowledge of who they are or what their mission is. Then to make things even worse, the ship seems to be inhabited by some type of hostile alien space mutants (are there any other kind?). The movie looks pretty eerie and for those of you who have played the game ‘Dead Space’, this movie will remind you of that a great deal, which isn’t bad at all.

Fame is a remake of the classic musical turned movie turned t.v. show which follow the lives of a mix of students at a performing arts school in New York. This seems to be yet another attempt to cash in on a remake.  Fans of the original show may want to check this movie out, as well as teenage girls looking to ogle some new eye candy.  I haven’t seen too much else from the trailers.

Finally, Bruce Willis’ much anticipated ‘Surrogates’ makes its way onto the big screen this week.  Surrogates, based on the comic of the same title, is set in a future where humans are sheltered and interact with eachother only through thei surrogates, or robots under their control.  This way, people are free to say and do what they please without consequence, as whatever happens to the surrogate should have no affect on the person controlling it. When a serial killer begins killing off surrogates, mysteriously resulting in the deaths of the people controlling them,  Willis reenters the world of robots as a human in an attempt to find the killer before it is too late.   I haven’t read the comic but all of the trailers I’ve seen for this movie look intense.   This looks to be a new take on a somewhat familiar premise and Bruce Willis usually delivers on big movies like this.

DVD

On DVD this week are: Observe and Report and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Both movies are very funny and worth checking out. For more details, there are reviews up for each of these.

GAMING

Earlier this week, Microsoft released its hotly anticipated Halo 3: ODST for the Xbox 360. The game takes place in the Halo universe between the events of the 2nd and 3rd games.  MasterChief, who was the main character of the first 3 games, is noticeably absent. This time around you assume control of various members of the ODST squad.  Trench and I have already put in some time with this one, and trust me when I say that it is a game that every Halo fan must have. The gameplay definitely requries a bit more strategy and teamwork than before, as the ODST squad is way more vulnerable to damage than the Masterchief. The increased challenge also adds to the fun and intensity levels of the game. Expect a full review of this one as soon as I get some more time with it.

SPORTS

No big MMA events scheduled for this weekend, but there was one fairly big announcement. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has announced that he will be retiring from MMA to pursue his acting career full time. Rampage will be appearing as BA Barracus (the role made famous by Mr. T) in the upcoming A-Team movie.  This announcement couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the newest season of The Ultimate Fighter pits Rampage against Rashad Evans as coaches who were also set to fight at the conclusion of the season. Unfortunately, his untimely reitrement puts that fight in limbo, which is a shame. Although we’re only one episode deep so far, the banter and trash talk between the two of them has most fans just dying to see them throwdown. Sadly, it looks like we might not get that chance.

We are also coming in to week 3 of the NFL season. Some of the better matchups this week are: Atlanta Falcons at New England Patriots,  Miami at San Diego, Indianapolis at Arizona, and of course my boys the Baltimore Ravens at home against the Cleveland Browns. For the MNF game we have Carolina at Dallas.  Overall some solid games going on this week.

Thats the week in entertainment and thats a wrap.