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Screenhead has teamed up with the Food Network and Namco Bandai Games just in time for the holidays to unveil Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked for Wii. This new game is designed to teach players real, practical cooking skills using their Wii Remote and Nunchuk. From introductory lessons to more advanced challenges, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked might make you a star chef.

With more than 30 recipes developed by the expert chefs of the Food Network Kitchens, the game delivers a truly authentic food experience from prep to plate. Realistic and fun challenges let Food Networkviewers; enthusiastic chefs and even kitchen-cowards perfect their culinary techniques mess-free with the motion-based Wii Remote and Nunchuk simulating an array of kitchen tools and utensils. From cracking an egg, to oiling a pan, to seasoning the perfect steak, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is designed to take the cooking experience from practice to practical, teaching skills that can ultimately be applied in the real kitchen, for a real-life delicious meal.

There are never too many cooks in the kitchen with this game. Friends and family can cook all recipes side-by-side in cooperative Hot Potato mode for up to four players, or have a competitive split-screen cook-off with two players. This game is the perfect gift for all the foodies or aspiring chefs on your holiday list.

Post your name now for your chance to win a one of two copies of Food Network: Cook or Be Cookedcourtesy of Food Network and Namco Bandai Games.  Screenhead will pick the two winners Friday, November 20, 2009.

Seems Warner Brothers is offering up some Officially Licensed Apparel for your Halloween costuming needs, and has thus opened up the WBooShop to offer a collection of costumes for kids and adults at pretty significant discounts.

For kids, they can offer up Harry Potter gear, the vast panoply of DC superheroes and some stuff you wouldn’t expect would be a big deal for kids, like the old Hanna-Barbera costumes (seriously, when’s the last time you heard a kid say he wanted to be Fred Flintstone for Halloween?).

Meanwhile, grownups plotting costume parties of their own can also swing by and snag some gear from big-boy franchises like Friday the 13th, Nightmare On Elm Street, 300 and Watchmen, as well as the other DC heroes (what, like you wouldn’t dress up like Batman if you were going out?).  Hey, why not?  You may not have the abs to pull off King Leonidas but anyone can smirk “No.” from under his Rorschach mask.

So if you’re looking for a costume this Halloween, swing by the WBooShop and grab what you need.

Another puzzle has surfaced for Saw VI! Put together the pieces and get an exclusive peek at the film!  The horrific movie opens October 23, 2009.

Lionsgate wanted us to share with you their newest game for Saw VI – Jigsaw’s Game…Step inside Jigsaw’s sadistic world by playing a little puzzle…here. 

Go to the site and connect with Facebook so that you can go head-to-head with your Facebook friends. But make sure to keep in mind that at the end of the day it’s either you or them… 

You will have a firsthand look at what Jigsaw has in store for you!

Are you ready for some gritty action just in time for Halloween?

To celebrate the release of the Natural Born Killers 15th Anniversary Director’s Cut, available on Blu-ray/DVD on October 13, 2009. Warner Bros. has created a really cool online trivia game. 

How well do you know your Natural Born Killers movie? 

Yes, that is Robert Downey, Jr. with Woody Harrelson in the picture. 

Test your knowledge by playing the game. Visit Natural Born Killers and play NOW!

It’s hard to have any active dislike for a movie like Gamer, because it really doesn’t try very hard to be much more than an excuse to get some really cool blood spatter effects on screen and occasionally feature topless women.  Naturally, for the target market, which is  spelled out in gigantic letters everywhere you look–Gamer–this is pretty much all a movie needs.

And to that end, Gamer is a massive success.  Is it worthwhile?  Let’s take a look.

Gamer posits that, in the not too distant future, the U.S. prison system will be so massive and so budget intensive that it threatens to bankrupt us.  Which isn’t technically too far from the truth–but anyway.  Along comes a software genius with a plan: take those Death Row convicts–who were just gonna die ANYWAY!–and make them fight for our amusement in gladiatorial matches.  The difference here being that they don’t get to fight on their own behalf but rather be controlled by outside gamers, including a seventeen year old clear Fata1ity analogue who is apparently so popular that, once again, topless women are prepared to send him fifty million euros in exchange for control of his character who just happens to be Gerard Butler.  Gerard, meanwhile, doesn’t like this and is out to escape his role as target / programmed assassin.

Gamer gives Mr. This-Is-Sparta himself, Gerard Butler, a chance to get back to the kind of roles that made him a big name, basically, roles that require him to do little more than grunt and kill things.  Seriously, give King Leonidas Halo Spartan armor and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what he’s doing here.

Like I said, Gamer is basically just a gigantic ninety minute excuse for explosions and exposed nipples, two things every gamer really wants but seems to have a tough time finding.  Oh, sure, there’s a MESSAGE here, delivered with all the subtlety of a Wayans movie–they practically ANNOUNCE “Message!” whenever they’re about to deliver this overhand chop to the beanbag–but whether or not anyone’s really paying attention while being badly overstimulated by bursting bloodpacks and bouncing boobies is anyone’s guess.

As long as you consider Gamer in the light it was produced in, a simplistic summer movie, a popcorn thriller with lots of action and violence, then you’ll do all right.  If you’re looking for something more substantive than I suggest you look elsewhere, because nothing’s going to happen here that you won’t see coming a mile off and several parts of it you won’t even WANT to see.

Like, for instance, a graphic representation of the all too real likelihood of just who you’re cybering with.  Eeeyipes.  And don’t even get me started on the occasional racist overtones in virtually every direction.

The Screenhead Ten Scale shakes its head at this strange little summer confection and gives it a seven out of ten for doing EXACTLY what it sets out to do and not one iota more.  The only real reason it didn’t get more is that it likely shouldn’t have set out to do any of that in the first place.

I am having a good time with this creative and innovative trailer to introduce new musical experiences to the general public where they hear and see musical albums online. The U.K.-based band “One Eskimo” and Warner Premiere have fully immersive musical and visual storytelling experience.  This is the first of many to come from various musical artists.

“The Adventures of One EskimO” is a visual album comprised of a series of animated musical story episodes jointly developed and produced by the band and Warner Premiere.

“One EskimO” feels refreshing and light, where a viewer can take a break from his or her busy or hectic day and watch one of these digital music pieces come to life online.

Help One eskimO before it’s too late!  By visiting findlittlefeather.com fans can join One eskimO and his band on a quest to track down his lost love. Users are confronted with a series of challenges and games set by the dastardly Mr. Top Hat which they have to overcome if they ever want One eskimO to see Little  Feather again.  Each game corresponds to major plot points from the animations themselves and employs the same unique look and feel. The online experience allows fans to delve deeper into the story and to feel part of the world of One eskimO.

An interesting piece to watch and see where our Internet culture is headed. I am not a fan of Doritos, but my husband and daughter sure like them. This clip (or commercial) draws the viewer in to the story line wanting to find out more. It looks like a fun game to play on the Internet as well. Or, maybe it’s just a bunch of hogwash.

Is your soul weighing you down?  Paul Giamatti has found a solution!   In the surreal comedy Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named… Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he’s been searching.  But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of “soul-trafficking.”  Giamatti’s journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress. Cold Souls also stars David Strathairn, Dina Korzun and Emily Watson.

I wanted to share with you the launch of The Soul Storage Company’s “official” website, complete with the Soul Upload application!  You will be able to show the world what you have on the inside!  You can upload your soul and share it with friends on Facebook – and even be able to steal a friend’s soul.

A new piece of interactive content has been released to coincide with the launch of the brand new movie, The Ugly Truth.

The “Manslator” game lets women know what a guy is really thinking, by revealing the true message behind his comment.

Be warned, the truth can be ugly! Therefore, the Manslator game is only recommended for ladies aged 18 or over!

Being a lady, I tried it and had fun, although I wish I could play the game in person with Gerard.