One of the networks that hasn’t been yanked off my DirecTV is the HUB network, which I kind of love because it features a bunch of great kid TV such as Jem and the Holograms, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (which is actually pretty good, guys!), Fraggle Rock, and most recently Alf! And it’s […]
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Your Questions about The Dark Knight Rises Answered!
I just attended the press screening for The Dark Knight Rises, and I am now prepared to answer the following questions for you: 1) Was Robin in it?2) Did Batman die?3) Did Alfred die?4) Did Robin die… if he was in it?5) Was there a Superman cameo in the credits?6) Was Anne Hathaway naked at […]
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Here Are Some Things You Can Get Me at Comic-Con
Oni Press, via Comic Book Resources I’m not going to Comic-Con this year—I’ve gone three or four times in the past five years, and generally get a kick out of it, but jesus: The ever-growing scale of the thing has basically made it a futile exercise in patience, endurance, and diseconomy, so I’m kind of […]
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Heads Up, Jo Walton/Among Others Fans
It’s not often that I’m a fan of an author when I haven’t read any of her books, but when it comes to Jo Walton, that’s totally the case. After Alison wouldn’t shut up about how much she loved Among Others, I’ve had it sitting in my to-read pile for months, but, shamefully, haven’t gotten […]
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The Sweet, Sweet Taste of a Dungeon Master’s Sweet, Sweet Tears
So here’s an awful movie I love: Dungeons & Dragons. IT IS TERRIBLE. It has more or less nothing to do with how Dungeons & Dragons is played, plus it has the world’s worst performance by Jeremy Irons (who apparently quite likes shitty fantasy movies), Marlon Wayans basically doing a minstrel show, crappy CG, the […]
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Someone Has Inceptioned Me and Stolen My Dreams
Nicolas Winding Refn—the fantastic director behind Drive, Valhalla Rising, Bronson, the Pusher trilogy, and the upcoming Only God Forgives—is going to make Barbarella into a TV series. Oh, hey, guess who was in Drive and GUESS WHO WOULD BE PERFECT TO PLAY BARBARELLA. From Variety: [The series] will be based on the French science-fiction comic […]
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Here is Your Bicycle AT-AT
A couple weeks ago, Film Editor Erik Henriksen reported on a team of nerds hard at work on turning their bikes into Star Wars-inspired vehicles for Pedalpalooza’s “Star Wars vs. Star Trek” ride. Erik wrote: “For this year’s ride, the crew is staying mysterious. ‘This year’s bikes are smaller, but with a bigger ‘wow’ factor,’ […]
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Deckard Is Neither a Human nor a Replicant—He’s a Delightful Watercolor Painting!
Because god knows there aren’t entirely too many versions of Blade Runner already (and that’s not even counting the sequel/prequel/remake/revisitation/god knows what that Ridley Scott is threatening us with now that he’s flailed around in Prometheus), Swedish artist Anders Ramsell is planning on animating the whole film in watercolor. Made up of 3,285 paintings, here’s […]
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Doctor Who: The Top Ten Companions since 2005
Don’t look at me like that. I put you on this planet, I’ll take you off. And it don’t matter to me because Moffat will go get me another one just like you. The internet lit up a couple days ago when pictures of The Doctor and his new companion showed up online. People oohed […]
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Yep, Still Right About Prometheus :(
images via Over the weekend, I got some shit (FROM NERDS) for not liking Prometheus enough and comparing it too directly to Alien in my review. To which I will say this: I went to see the film again, for two reasons: 1) To see if watching it as an Alien prequel did, if fact, […]
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Jeri Ryan’s “Epic Costco Run”: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
Just saw this tweet from Star Trek: Voyager‘s Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine). I don’t like the idea of Jeri Ryan doing “epic Costco runs.” DO YOU? (Discuss your stance in the comments.)
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Total Recall Is Screening Tonight, Here, Let Me Show You All of My Awesome Total Recall Crap
Total Recall is bugnuts and I love it—from Arnold’s bewildered, stumbling presence to the insane violence to the creepy mutants to Paul Verhoeven being preposterous and misogynist to the practical special effects to everything. Tonight, local podcasters cortandfatboy (that’s how they make me spell their name now) and the Mercury (note: capitalization, spaces around words) […]