Here’s a clip from Captain America: Winter Soldier mashed together with the fuck-heavy refrain of the Team America: World Police theme… and OF COURSE, it works like a dream. (Headphones up, though. NSFW audio, and all of that.)
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Whoa. Look at This Trailer for Jodorowsky’s Dune
HERE’S A MYSTERY: I’m a huge fan of neither Jodorowsky movies nor Dune, and yet? Pretty sure this documentary about Jodorowsky’s failed (but infamously influential) attempt to make a Dune movie looks like it’ll be fantastic. No word yet on when it’ll get a Portland release, but hopefully soon.
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I Don’t Get Why You’re Worried About the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
One of fallacies most often regurgitated onto the bib of the internet concerns the “ruining” of things from your childhood. I remember when the concept first got its shine, in the talkback of an AintItCool.com story in the late ‘90s. Except then, “ruining” was replaced with a less-kind word that also begins with the letter […]
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It Is a Great Day for Portland Kickstarters
Two cat-related things from Kickstarter that make me happy I live in this city. 1. “This is not just another cat toy. Egg is a cat companion. It mimics and responds like a living animal.” 2. “Hi, we’re the Doubleclicks, and we write songs about things like dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons, love, books, and cats. […]
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Sci-Fi Convention Canceled After Hotel Manager Reportedly Calls Sci-Fi Fans “Freaks”
Lizzie Schiffman at DNAChicago says that a huge Chicago sci-fi convention has been postponed for a year: A major science fiction and fantasy convention scheduled to hit the city in March has been canceled and moved from the River North Westin Hotel after hotel staff referred to attendees as “freaks,” according to an announcement posted […]
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Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?
That wall-crawling criminal is at it again! In the video below, you can clearly see the web-spinning freak toss an innocent TV newscaster to the ground. How much more evidence does the public need before we launch an all-out manhunt to bring this arrogant arach-nerd to justice?
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Why Batman Shouldn’t Quit His Day Job
Don’t ask me how I found this, it just popped up during one of my inscrutable internet searches… but holy god, I am so glad it did! Check out this musical variety number of Adam West as Batman from 1966, as he absolutely butchers “Orange Colored Sky” (originally performed by Nat King Cole). Sometimes butchery […]
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Marvel and Netflix: Takin’ it to the Streets
Before we go any further with the actual details, let me get this out of the way. Back in MAY, I called this. ME. You? You were all surprised like “What? How could this be? Four new Marvel shows? Aren’t they having problems with just the one?” Meanwhile visionaries like myself were riding public transit […]
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Every Episode of Star Trek, in Poster Form
A sample two-page spread from Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz, with an unsharpened pencil to give scale Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz is a book of posters. Ortiz, an illustrator and graphic designer, challenged himself to come up with one movie-style poster for each episode of the original Star Trek series—80 […]
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Scientists Invent Lightsabers
While most of America is busy shitting their pants in anger over the government shutdown, today Star Wars fanatics have a reason to cream their pants in delight, for scientists now have the technology to create an actual motherfucking lightsaber. More via the Guardian: Harvard and MIT physicists writing in the new edition of Nature […]
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Fox Says They Want a Boring Non-Superhero Series, Too!*
*Not that Agents of SHIELD was that boring… but c’mon. It was kinda boring. In an attempt to score huge numbers like the ones Joss Whedon’s Agents of SHIELD attained last night, the Fox network has picked up Gotham—which will recount the adventures of young Commissioner James Gordon (sans a certain gravel-voiced bat-shaped grumpy gus). […]
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Spoiler Town: Who Wants to Read Some Reviews of Agents of SHIELD?
Tonight the nerds of the world will squirt in unison for the debut of Joss Whedon’s Agents of SHIELD. (Yes, I refuse to call it Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, and I refuse to put periods after every letter. Fuck you, Marvel.) For those who can’t wait, here’s a quick roundup of what the nation’s TV […]