Alright, so your humble editor is known to be a bit of a Jack Bauer freak. In fact, I was fired from my last newspaper job for preparing a legal brief defending his frequent “re-imagining” of the Geneva Convention and waterboarding the Attorney General’s staff when he wouldn’t read it.

But if you missed it, Jack totally wore the classic Bauer longsleeve and various other coats and bags that I’ve already ordered while saving a bunch of African Kids from the angry relative of someone he killed without thinking twice about it, but he had to let his friend die after he accidentally stepped on a landmine, but his friend didn’t step off the mine until the evil African colonel was right next to him in the woods, but then Jack got screwed over by the U.S. government again as they seek to convict him for saving their asses on 6 separate occasions where he happened to have to stay awake for over 24 hours.

Anyways, 24:Redemption can now be bought. So empty out your wallets and feed papa Rupert. (Or Stream it for free)

by Andrew Bates - A&SB Contributor

The more I go to the movies, the more I’m seeing a very successful genre expand itself - the raunchy 20 something comedy with a good underlying message. We’ve seen it in films like Knocked Up (commitment for the benefit of others) Superbad (friendship through the craziest and hardest times) and more recently Zac And Miri Make A Porno (a love story disguised in hilarious crude behavior). While certainly less crude than the aforementioned films, Role Models brings the same positive message to the table through a hilarious onslaught of potty mouthed tomfoolery.

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by Tim Williams - A&SB Contributor

You don’t know it yet, but a certain moving picture is lurking in the dark corners of the Internet, waiting to worm (warm?) its way into your heart, and kick It’s a Wonderful Life to the curb. No, it’s not Italian Spiderman Part II. You may, however, be able to hogtie it, push it down, into some snakewater, and then illegally watch it on your computer.

This would be a travesty of justice. And not just because the Flaming Lips’ giant plastic concert bubble is starting to show its age and could use a tune-up. Also because The Flaming Lips need to make enough money on this to fund another movie.

Yes, it’s Christmas on Mars, and the universe has never felt so alive. I would summarize the plot for you, but all you need to know is: It’s the resulting explosion that would occur if David Lynch and Frank Capra had teamed up to make the musical adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Frontman Wayne Coyne has admitted as much, although with the caveat: “It’s sometime in the future; Mars has been sort of conquered, and there’s a space station on it, but the space program has gone into decline and these people are kind of stuck up there. The whole thing ends up very dilapidated, very un-futuristic, un-2001. There’s an element of confidence among the scientists, but the overall view is that things seem kind of doomed.”

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by Alex Truong - A&SB Contributor

Frank Caliendo, the “man of a thousand voices,” returns with another season of Frank TV - the sketch comedy celebrity parody show that YouTube built. Unless you’re a baby boomer stagnating in suburbia or the child of such a middle-ager who is forced into quantity family time, this show isn’t for you. Filling the void of clean, politically correct comedy in the vein of The Wayne Brady Show, Frank TV doesn’t innovate or bring anything new to the table. In fact, it is solely based around more bad impressions of James Gandolfini and George W. Bush. Admittedly, some of the impressions are decent (like Charles Barkley), but some are just awful (like Yoda). Joining Caliendo this season are a pair of paltry performers, a safe white guy and a safer black guy who also do impressions. Though bastardizing pop culture references left and right, the gang still stays in the safe zone of bland inoffensiveness. The canned laughter played throughout even turns into cheesy stunned silence when a way-too-skinny Samuel L. Jackson commits a minor act of violence. Getting stoned wouldn’t make this show funny. For the daring, Frank TV premieres October 21st on TBS.

THE FRANK TV HOMEPAGE

Who am I? A journalist who works for a major metropolitan newspaper. I have come to review music and live performances on an almost daily basis and write the occasional inane web column. The following is the latter. If you have recommendations or want to be reviewed once A&SB gets going at full strength, reach me @ bassey@airandseabattle.com.

Nobody ever really wants to watch a judge show, but you know the scenario all too well. You’re sitting around at home all day downing some leftover codeine and eating Cheetos when all that’s on is crappy infomercials, professional bowling reruns and some defendant with horse hair extensions explaining to the court that she made a verbal agreement with her roommate that she wouldn’t have to pay any rent for 6 months.

So after you order that Hawaii chair, got about a dozen highly qualified TV judges staring you in the face. But which one do you watch? Fear no longer, because Air & Sea Battle is the only judge fit to review the TV courtroom multiverse (you can thank us later).

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There are so many reasons to buy the new Bottle Rocket Criterion Collection ($36; DVD or Blu-Ray; Nov. 4th). One being that it’s director Wes Anderson’s first feature film, another being that it’s the film that put the Wilson brothers (Owen and Luke) on the map. Throw in some deleted scenes, digital remastering, director & writer commentary, the original Bottle Rocket short film from 1992, a booklet featuring an essay by executive producer James L. Brooks, an appreciation by Martin Scorsese, and original artwork by Ian Dingman… and you have yourself something that needs to be in your DVD or Blu-Ray collection.

$36 | BUY IT HERE ON DVD

Can’t get enough Lost? I know I can’t. So when J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost, comes out with a new television show, you bet your ass I will be there watching it on the day of the premiere. Last night was the first episode of FRINGE and I must say, I was very impressed. It spoke directly to my love for conspiracy theories, science and people with transparent flesh. For those of you who missed it, there will be an encore presentation on Sunday, September 14th on Fox at 8/7c.

You just so happen to be reading the blog of one of the biggest Coen brothers fans of all time. They have done no wrong by me by crafting some of the most intelligent films ever made (Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, No Country For Old Men, etc.) - that is why I don’t doubt for a second that their newest film, Burn After Reading (starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt) , will impress those who enjoy the moving picture on it’s September 12th debut.

I’m going to nerd out here and say that I’m somewhat concerned because this will be the first movie since Miller’s Crossing by Joel and Ethan Coen to not use Roger Deakins as cinematographer, instead they’re using Children of Men’s Emmanuel Lubezki. I’ve always been overly impressed with how their films have been shot so I’m very curious to see the finished project and show this perspective plays out. Check out the trailer after the jump.

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I never thought it would happen… Pixar & Disney actually made a movie specifically for ME. I mean, I’ve been a fan of the films for ages now and have exclusively owned Apple computers, but I never thought they would go out of their way life this… Let me give a quick synopsis of the movie for those of you who haven’t seen it:

Man makes garbage, flees earth for 700 years, leaves behind robots to clean up, all robots eventually stop working except one, this robot is unique, it collects garbage, eventually it falls in love with a probe sent by humans on spaceships to find out if planet Earth can sustain life, robot follows prode back into space, saves mankind in a Mr. Bean fashion.

Some pretty thorough shit right there… Anyway, what I found interesting was that 75 percent of the movie contains zero dialogue. But, even though most of the film is void of speech, it speaks directly to all of us. The stories of love & the search for ones self are abundantly clear and Pixar does a great job of conveying these messages through very subtle and simple sounds and movements. This is a technique used throughout film and television for ages, but it has yet to look this good. Beautifully rendered and colored, Pixar’s Wall•e is an absolute masterpiece. Even though it was made for me, I recommend you check it out. I can share and stuff.