calliopes_pen: (rosiemoon laws of fashion will obey me)
2012-10-13 01:12 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween On TV: 329 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes And Specials On TV In October 2012.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman #6.

Rare Halloween Videos: The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

TR Contest Special: Sci-Fi It Up, Sponsored By Once Upon A Time Machine.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Double/Triple Features.

Ridley Scott Offers Blade Runner Sequel Update.

Disney has released an official synopsis for Thor: The Lost World.

Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D gets U.S. distribution.

First Look At Deathstroke In Arrow.

The 25 Most Powerful TV Shows Of The Last 25 Years.

Christopher Lloyd Gives Tor Hope For The Future; Might Really Be Doc Brown.

Laura Siegel Speaks Out About Superman Case.

Promo For Mockingbird Lane.

Frank Oz Talks Little Shop of Horror’s Original Ending, What About Bob, And Mike Wazowski.

Universal Still Developing Creature From The Black Lagoon Remake.

In Case You Missed It: Teen Wolf.

Masters of the Universe Movie Gets Its Writer.

Talkin’ Rifftrax—Future Force and Future Zone.

DC Nation…Has Been Replaced.

A Cosplay Gallery Of New York Comic Con.

NYCC 2012: Robot Chicken Gets 7th Season, More.

NYCC 2012: DC Comics—The New 52 Panel.

NYCC Live Streaming.

The Art Adams All Star Batman That Never Was—Sixteen Pages Of It.

Listen to Christopher Lee read Tim Burton’s original The Nightmare Before Christmas poem.

Win House/Night of Dark Shadows on Blu-Ray.

From Cracked: 5 Classic Superman Comics That Prove He Used To Be A Jerk.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #146: Death Spa (1987)

Movie Issues Podcast: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
calliopes_pen: (kathyh good books are immortal)
2012-10-09 01:30 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Skype users targeted by malicious worm that locks them out of their PCs.

Dish gives up effort to turn Blockbuster into a Netflix competitor.

Musicians’ Union Sues Over Use of Simpsons Tunes.

Megaupload to remain under indictment pending Dotcom extradition.

31 Days of Horror: The Creature From The Black Lagoon/Jaws.

TV Tango updated Halloween on TV: 257 Halloween-Themed Marathons, Episodes And Specials.

10 Awful Ways To Die This Halloween.

Is There Any Stopping China’s Vampire Zombies? Doesn’t Look Like It.

Ellen Greene on Little Shop of Horrors, The Creation of Audrey, and Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal.

Why are there so many weird and inappropriate science fiction and fantasy toys?

Currie Graham Is The Royal Flush Gang’s “King” On Arrow.

Stan Lee Voices Ball State University Massive Open Online Course.

The Hub will have a marathon of Batman: The Animated Series, on October 15th.

Community Premiere Delayed Indefinitely.

DC Entertainment Announces NYCC 2012 Schedule.

Batman And His Family.

Hasslein Books’Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon Now Available For Pre-Order.

Indiana Jones’ Bid For Tenure Has Been Rejected.

There’s a Samurai Predator, and he is beautiful.

Angelique on Exhibit.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #174: What comic book characters should body-swap for a day?

Top 5: DC Superheroes Without Powers (Who Aren’t Batman).

The Cinefiles—History According To Shakespeare.

Blue Sky to produce Charlie Brown feature.

Top 25 Worst Sci-Fi And Fantasy TV Show Ever. Birds of Prey is actually a show that I’ve considered watching, if only for Yuletide.

The Worst Movies Nostalgia Critic’s Reviewed.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 79: Ghost In The Machine (1993)

I almost went to get tickets to see Halloween (1978) on October 25th, at 7 PM. However, I realized that Rifftrax Live: Birdemic is at the exact same time/day. I don’t want to be there for the later showing of 9:30 PM, so I’ll just watch it whenever AMC happens to show it again. (ETA: They show it on AMC on the 23rd at 3 PM—works out for me.)
calliopes_pen: (brown_betty Bad Bat)
2012-10-04 12:05 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Publishers abandon fight against Google book scanning.

AMC FearFest 2012 Schedule (tell it to sort alphabetically, for the full list). TCM’s horror movie schedule. Looks like Fright Night Part 2 will be airing on AMC on the 27th at 2 AM CST, for those that are interested.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Fright Night (1985).

Classic Gothic horror cinema show in Montreal.

Experience The Vampire Diaries’ twisting plot and many thrills in 10 episodes.

Guillermo del Toro Talks Frankenstein, Hulk And More./a>

Top 10 1980s Horror Movie Posters.

The Weekly Geek: Geeky Halloween Costumes.

31 Days of Horror: Carnival of Souls/Insidious.

A Beginner’s Guide To Italian Horror: Mario Bava on Blu-Ray.

Celebrate Halloween with ‘Lyndhurst After Dark’.

How It Should Have Ended: The Amazing Spider-Man Bonus Scene.

First full image of Captain Hook in Once Upon A Time.

The Wizard of Oz is getting a 3D re-release.

Looking back at Young Sherlock Holmes.

Did Tru Calling deserve to be axed?

Life Outside The TARDIS: The Classic Companions’ Best Roles.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Elisabeth Sladen.

Doctor Who Rogues Gallery: The Time Lords.

Power Corrupts: 10 Omnipotent Characters That Went Too Far.

Six Developments From Avengers vs. X-Men #12.

An excerpt of Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics, The Untold Story.

IDW announces Mars Attacks the Real Ghostbusters.

Ellen Greene joins the cast of Hannibal.

Ally Sheedy returns for the musical episode of Psych.

The History of Lois Lane – Part 2: TV, Cartoons and Everything Else Leading to 'Man of Steel'.

As the showing of Rifftrax Live: Birdemic approaches, Boing Boing interviews Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, and Michael J. Nelson.

Ten Worst One-Liners From Batman And Robin. Oh, the pain.

Batman Hates Bronies.

Honest Trailers—The Dark Knight.

27 Of The Most Insane Martial Arts Battles Ever Filmed.

Star Wars, Gremlins, And Indiana Jones By Patrick Schoenmaker.

Should Filmmakers Explain Their Movies?

Red Dwarf: a beginner’s guide.

Robot Chicken: Cast Away Reboot.

The 32 Greatest Unscripted Movie Scenes.

Gateways To Geekery: Where to start with Tales From Earthsea author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #129: Vamp (1986), Stake Land (2010), and Interview With The Vampire (1994).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 268: Night Fright.
calliopes_pen: (pureglasscup Shadowcat See Ya)
2012-09-27 03:16 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Herbert Lom has passed away at the age of 95. May he rest in peace. I remember him as Van Helsing in Jess Franco’s 1970 version of Count Dracula, as well as the lead role in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera.

The first CW promo Dr. Horrible.

10 Best Doctor Who Companion Departures (And 5 Worst).

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan Teaser.

The Three Doctors Collectors Set.

TARDIS vs. Dalek Salt and Pepper Shakers.

The 1983 X-Men Coloring Book Is A Lost Psychedelic Masterpiece. Sheer insanity. (But imagine a crossover between that and The Superdictionary.)

10 Comic Book Movies That Should Be Rebooted.

Alexander Kuhn’s Scooby Doo Redesigns.

10 Batman Revelations From DC’s Zero Month.

Five Developments About Tim Drake In Teen Titans #0.

DC Histories: Joe Chill.

Walter Koenig Interview.

Star Trek TNG Cast Reflects On Most Memorable Guest Stars.

Indiana Jones Animated Style Art.

Geek Gear: ‘Alliance of Magicians—Serious Magic’ Shirt.

Geek Gear: Army of Darkness ‘This Is My Boom Stick’ Shirt.

From Cracked: 5 Film Franchises Based On One Character’s Stupid Decision.

DC’s Brian Smith steps down as editor.

6 Filmmaking Tips From Joss Whedon.

Talkin’ Rifftrax: The Hunger Games.

Zombie lawn-gnomes feast on a pink flamingo.

Thanos concept art from The Avengers.

12 Greatest Time Travel Effects From Movies and Television.

Chelan Simmons joins the cast of Hannibal—she’s bringing in her Wonderfalls character of Gretchen Speck-Horowitz.

New dwarf-focused poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Super Mario Bros.: The Movie (1993) Commentary.

Mission Log Podcast #8: Episode 8: What Are Little Girls Made Of.

(There seems to be a slight cross-posting issue between here and LJ, so some people may get to see this twice.)
calliopes_pen: (chomiji Blackadder candle)
2012-09-26 01:02 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Talkin’ Rifftrax: The Boy In The Plastic Bubble.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Elevators.

The trailer for Vamps.

The Vampire Diaries: Candice Accola Interview.

Doctor Who: The Angels Take Manhattan—Matt Smith and cast interview.

Dawn of the Doctor T-Shirt.

Superhero Origins: Doctor Strange.

How It Should Have Ended: The Amazing Spider-Man (With Stan Lee)

Why Time Travel Stories Should Be Messy.

The promo for this October’s Cinemassacre Monster Madness.

Writer Stan Berkowitz Looks Back On The Adventures of Superboy.

Awesome Batman and Catwoman Cosplay.

Scott Lobdell Introduces Oracle To The New 52 In Superman #0.

The Parents Of The New 52--Warning, Major Tim Drake Spoilers.

Dynamic Differences: The 10 Best Alternate Takes On Batman.

Exclusive Look At Harley Quinn From Batman Live.

Star Trek TNG Cast Reflects On How They Got The Part.

As You Wish: Little-Known Facts About The Princess Bride On Its 25th Anniversary.

5 Things You Might Not Know About The Princess Bride On Its 25th Anniversary.

Where Do These Characters Fit In The Marvel Now Future?

Does Anyone Actually Want A Ghostbusters 3?

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #172: Talk about a character created before 1970.

Marvel Honors Bendis With Plaque For Eight Years of Avengers.

Annabeth Gish joins the cast of Once Upon A Time.

Twin Peaks, Where Soap Operas Go To Dream.

Optimus Prime Transforms Between A Birthday Cake And A Groom’s Cake.

The AV Club interviews Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

7 Ways To Save The X-Men Franchise From Itself.

Warner Archive Releases A Forgotten Classic—Confessions of an Opium Eater, starring Vincent Price.

Now Playing Podcast: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Comic Issues Podcast #85: Cartoon Scars.

I came up with two Yuletide prompts for what I want to request when sign-ups officially start--so far, though, nobody has nominated either The Superdictionary or Ghostbusters. So I’ll think of something else when the time comes, if that remains the case.

Dad’s Yahoo account was seemingly hacked earlier, and from what I can tell by looking it over with him, it was used to send out a large amount of spam and potential viruses to everyone he knows. The end result of this was a morning fielding several phone calls from relatives who were baffled and concerned by the wording of some of the gibberish, and wanting to know if he was okay. Mentally. Because the spelling was worse than usual.
calliopes_pen: (elios_writings clinging to TARDIS)
2012-09-19 03:27 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Janet Fielding is fighting cancer, and Peter Davison (with the aid of Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, and David Tennant) is launching a fund-raising effort called Project Motor Mouth with the aim to ‘not only raise money for a good cause but also keep Janet's spirits up.’

Dimestore Dames spotlights Wendy Jones (Windfall).

A brand new full-length trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Another clip from The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

The opening for Doctor Who: The Power of Three.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Noel Clarke.

Eco Sonic Screwdriver T-Shirt.

Newsarama discusses Death of the Family, #0’s, and the Red Robin decision with Scott Lobdell.

Happy Birthday To The Original Batman, Adam West.

Four Developments From Batgirl #0.

The 6th Annual Highlander Holiday Fic Exchange is open for sign-ups.

James Gunn Confirmed To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

From Cracked: 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Never Noticed.

Photo Parade: Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo 2012

Tales From The Crypt Comes To FearNet.

Sony To Debut First Looks At Carrie and Evil Dead At NYCC.

The CW is developing a new take on Alice In Wonderland.

Marvel tells appeals court Friedrich signed away Ghost Rider rights.

Supervillain Origins: Juggernaut.

Robot Chicken: A Giant Hand.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Good Looking Heroes.

The Deadpool Costume T-Shirt.

Superman’s Bad Day.

The Proudly Resents Podcast talks to Kevin Murphy about MST3K and Rifftrax.

Now Playing Podcast: Moonraker (1979)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 266: Leprechaun.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Twin Peaks Pilot Commentary.

Comic Issues Podcast #84: Piratical Talk.
calliopes_pen: (rosiemoon rude not ginger 10)
2012-09-07 12:55 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Jake Eberts has passed away, at the age of 71, following a brief illness. May he rest in peace.

Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid, and BTjunkie Are Still Alive.

Botnet master gets 30-month prison term for renting out infected PCs.

Mother Puss Bucket T-Shirt. It’s Mr. Stay Puft’s angry head being roasted over a fire.

Ghostbusters mod for Doom 2: Gozer battle.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Seth Green.

Weird Secrets Of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed.

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Review. You can watch a recently released clip here.

Man of Steel: 10 Mistakes From Superman Returns The Reboot Must Avoid.

The AV Club Q&A: Confused By Our Commitment.

Syfy Acquires British Series Sinbad, Will Premiere April 2013.

Top 50 alternate movie endings. The list includes X-Men: The Last Stand, Army of Darkness, Dawn of the Dead, The Birds, Brazil, Clue, and many others.

The Eleventh Doctor’s 11 Best (and 7 Worst) Episodes.

Another clip from Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

Star Trek TNG: Season Two Blu-Ray Out On December 4th.

On Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary, Google Celebrates With Interactive Doodle.

New Wonder Woman Series In Development For The CW.

Wonder Woman On TV: A Brief History.

Writer Victor Gischler Gets To Know The Shadow.

Game of Thrones Cake.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: The Bermuda Triangle.

Trailers From Hell: David DeCoteau on Tourist Trap.

Exploring Lost Worlds: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger.

Jim Starlin talks Thanos, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more.

The 15 Greatest Classic Nickelodeon Shows. I would add Are You Afraid Of The Dark, and Salute Your Shorts.

1950s Rockabilly Batman came to life at Dragon Con.

Remember when Robin fought Batman while he was taking a shower?

G4, 2002-2013.

Donkey Jones T-Shirt.

Unattended Children Will Be Given To The Goblin King.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—September 7th.

Why is William Shatner making a documentary about Xena?

Comic Book Legends Revealed #383.

Nosferatu At 90: Florence Stoker, Vampire Hunter.

Final Breakdown Of Special Features For They Live Special Edition.

Mission Log Podcast #5: Episode 5: The Naked Time.

Movie Issues Podcast: Mannequin (1987)
calliopes_pen: (empty_ambition TARDIS Stargate remember)
2012-08-30 01:50 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Steven Franken has passed away, at the age of 80, as a result of cancer. May he rest in peace. If he’s who I’m thinking of, he played a warlock who was henpecked by his mother, and had a crush on Samantha on Bewitched. Where he also played five other characters. He was also in an episode of the Adam West version of Batman as a valet, and was the voice of someone in Batman: The Animated Series. His best remembered role would be as the rich and snobby Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and for MST3K fans he ended up in Stranded In Space.

In Praise Of The Doomsday Machine (and William Windom).

U.S. Returns Seized Domains To Streaming Links Site (After 18 Months).

Own e-books? Publishers to pay back millions over price fixing charges.

Oracle knew about currently exploited Java vulnerabilities for months, researcher says.

How It Should Have Ended: The Dark Knight Rises—Bane Bonus.

Read a preview of Detective Comics #0.

Talking Rifftrax: Ghosthouse.

Pond Life: Part 4.

Doctor Who Episode Posters Released.

8 Female Candidates Who Could Theoretically Play The 12th Doctor In Doctor Who.

Jorge Garcia guest stars in Once Upon A Time.

The Evil Cat’s Out Of The Bag In This Grimm Clip.

The Many Kisses of Superman and Wonder Woman.

The Justice League/Transformers Comic That Never Was.

Warner Bros. must be kicking themselves that they let Joss Whedon get away.

Michael Keaton Replaces Hugh Laurie In Robocop.

The Line It Is Drawn #104—Superheroes Get New Jobs.

More of the Hero Complex interview with Neal Adams.

New Diamond Select Trek Toys On The Way.

Geek Gear: Monty Python/Dark Knight Rises ‘The Black Knight Rises’ Shirt.

Marvel Tease The Return Of Dark Phoenix.

Stan Lee’s Bloggerin’ Time.

The Weekly Geek: Dragon Con.

Make your own Barnabas Collins costume.

Has Dark Shadows outgrown Victoria Winters?

310 TV Series And Movie Marathons And Events For Labor Day Weekend 2012. Logo will be having a Buffy marathon, BBC America will have a Doctor Who marathon, and Encore will have a Superheroes Labor Day marathon which includes Darkman, Spawn, The Shadow, Flash Gordon, Hulk, The Green Hornet, Superman 1-4, and Batman Returns. Those that have Chiller TV have a Buffy marathon there, too.

Dr. Horrible sequel to hopefully be in production ‘within the next year.’

Neil Gaiman on a trampoline.

The Law Office of Lando Calrissian.

The secret allure of the spoiler.

The 5 Coolest (And 5 Strangest) Marvel Comics Foodstuffs.

Psylocke Redesign By Bryan Lee O’Malley.

The inspiration for Comic Sans gives his verdict on this ‘awful’ font.

From Cracked: 6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies.

Premiere Date For Red Dwarf X.

P:R Regulars: Yasmin Liang’s Art.

Sherlock Re-Imagined in New Paradigm’s Watson and Sherlock.

Comics Aren’t Just For Eyes Anymore.

Burger King Stormtrooper.

Watch a fake ad for the Back to the Future Hoverboard.

Grand Theft Auto: Hill Valley, Back To The Future Version.

10 Things We Know About The Psycho Prequel TV Pilot Bates Motel.

Katie Longua Imagines Superheroes As Pokemon Trainers.

Fringe Season 5 Promo #2.

Not The Droids You’re Look For T-Shirt. Crossing over with MST3K.

Watch The Avengers In Theaters This Labor Day Weekend. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

Comic Book Club Podcast: J.K. Woodward.

Hey Kids Comics Podcast, Season 1 Episode 7: Transmetropolitan.

Mission Log Podcast #4, Episode 4: Where No Man Has Gone Before.

And now, a meme, taken from a few on my friends list:

Name a fictional character and I'll tell you three reasons I wouldn't want to date them.
calliopes_pen: (dirkdigital Don't turn on light MST3K)
2012-08-28 02:04 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Tissa David has passed away, at the age of 91, due to a brain tumor. May she rest in peace. She was a master animator who worked for five decades—most notably, she drew Raggedy Ann and Andy.

Dropbox Competitor Adds BitTorrent Support.

Pond Life: Part Two. The Doctor really needs to learn to knock before entering their bedroom…

12 Brilliant Doctor Who Cliffhangers. Utopia should have been listed.

Here’s the cover for the Radio Times Doctor Who Special.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #168: Who would you cast in a Justice League film?

Off My Mind: Looking at the New Justice League of America Roster.

The Disaster That Was The 1997 Comedy Pilot For The Justice League of America.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tom Strong, Part 1.

Book Tower or Book Wall? The Choice Is Yours.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): August 27th. Batgirl and Bizarro look fantastic.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 240: Batman #458.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The First Teaser For The Girl.

P:R Approved: Jeremy Love’s Super Skrulls.

Erik Larsen to leave Supreme with issue 68.

The Man of Steel In Nolan’s Shadow.

The Dark Knight Rises Analysis: Why One Plot Twist Did Not Ruin The Film. Expect spoilers.

DC Nation: The Bat Man Of Shanghai.

Zubatman: The Animated Fan Teaser Trailer.

10 Reasons The Next Batman Movie Should Be Batman Beyond.

Exclusive First Look At Mondo Poster The Batcave.

Image of the Day: Incredible life-sized, 500 lb Darth Vader cake.

Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks Get Turned Into Lego Minifigs.

Fan Expo: Stan Lee Talks Hollywood, Spider-Man’s 50th Anniversary.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Dragon Con 2012.

A new trailer for Rifftrax Live: Birdemic.

Kerry Callen’s more realistic cover for Amazing Fantasy #15.

Alex Segura Returns To DC as Executive Director of Publicity.

An interview with Jack Kirby, from February of 1990.

Review: Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross.

About All This Robocop Business…

Jim Lee reflects on a life in art—and the art of life.

Anika Noni Rose joins the cast of Elementary for an episode.

What went on at the Sherlock Masterclass.

Random Roles: LeVar Burton on Tiger Woods, Geordi La Forge, and reviving Reading Rainbow.

You Want Horror? You Got It! The Fall 2012 Horror Movie Guide.

The new Ninja Turtles screenplay has leaked and may be worse than we feared.

Once Upon A Time, Season 2: Full Promotional Image of Mulan.

A sneak peek of the next issue of the Ghostbusters comic.

From Cracked: 5 Toy Recalls That Everyone Should Have Seen Coming.

Brave Blu-Ray Bonus Features.

Unauthorized Evil Dead 4 Is Not Going To Happen.

Watch the alternate opening to The Avengers.

Excerpt from Hope Larson’s graphic novel adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 262: Hellraiser Retrospective (Part 3).

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 73: Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever (1991).
calliopes_pen: (pureglasscup Shadowcat See Ya)
2012-08-25 09:20 am

Fannish Items of Interest

Josepha Sherman has passed away, at the age of 65, as a complication of dementia according to a comment from someone who knew her in the first link. May she rest in peace. I’ve read her Buffyverse, Star Trek and Highlander tie-in novels in the past, and enjoyed them immensely, as well as her contribution to Sherlock Holmes In Orbit.

The Cinefiles: Terry Gilliam, Part 2.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic Announcement. If there isn’t a horrific storm, and the power doesn’t then go out at the theater on the night in question, I plan to go see this on October 25th.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #381. One involves Kitty Pryde this week.

Fan Art Friday: Catwoman.

Vortexx: Expectations? Low.

Now Official: Ed Brubaker No Longer Working For Marvel.

Jason Latour takes on Winter Soldier after Ed Brubaker.

Judd Winick Leaves Batwing.

How To Reboot Batman With John Blake. Mild spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises.

Life Outside The TARDIS: David Tennant (Part 1).

Why do foreigners like Japanese manga so much?

Tales From The Code: How Much Did Things Change After The Enactment Of The Comics Code of 1954?

Vintage 1982 Action Figures of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Newsarama interviews Kieron Gillen.

Awesome Art Picks: Deadpool, Batman, Black Bolt, And More.

Jake Wyatt Mashes X-Men With Peanuts And Plays With Preppy Mutants, Minotaurs and Moebius.

No Justice League Movie For Ben Affleck. Pretty much what I expected, when those rumors were going around.

A new trailer for Asylum of the Daleks. It will premiere next Saturday.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Dragon Con, But Were Afraid To Ask.

Cerebus High Society Negatives Destroyed By Fire.

Weekend Discussion Thread: What Do Characters In MSTed Movies Read?

Comic Issues: Cosplaying Around At SDCC 2012.

Movie Issues Podcast: Time After Time (1979)

Nerdist Podcast: Joel Hodgson.

Schlock Treatment 90: Deathsport (1978).
calliopes_pen: (the_10thdoctor timelord shoes)
2012-08-24 11:37 am

Fannish Items of Interest

Jerry Nelson has passed away, at the age of 78, as a result of various health issues. May he rest in peace. He puppeteered numerous Jim Henson puppets in his 47 year career.

Kodak Seeks Exit From Film.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Lyja

Hammer Launches Youtube Channel.

Rob Liefeld Leaves DC Comics.

Ben Abernathy Leaves DC Comics.

This 100 Year Old Mystery Package Will Be Opened Today.

Cancelled Too Soon: The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Newest poster for Solomon Kane.

Fan trailer for a Captain Planet film.

Universal is remaking Videodrome.

The Blake’s 7 remake is coming to Syfy.

Doctor Who: BBC Worldwide 50th Anniversary Artwork Revealed.

BBC America’s latest Doctor Who trailer.

11th of Hearts T-Shirt.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Billie Piper.

Why The Fades and Doctor Who Confidential were cancelled.

The End Has No End: 10 Unresolved DC Plotlines.

Merlin producers: ‘We needed the show to grow up.’

Robot learns to recognize itself in mirror.

Kurt Busiek wants to know: is it creators or characters that win your money?

Hi-Res photo of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.

Cthulhu Wedding Cake.

Your New Fictional Fantastic Birthstone. So with a birthday in August, it goes from peridot to Men In Black’s Miniature Galaxy. Those born in May get to kill Superman with their birthstone.

Wonder Woman and Superman Are A Couple Now Or Well, This Is Stupid.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins Thor: The Dark World.

First official pictures from the remake of Carrie.

Supercouples: 10 Powerful Comic Book Romances.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Tickets Will Cost The Same For 48 FPS And 24 FPS.

Superman: Mystery Behind The LL Initials.

Full Moon Announces First Slate Of Newly Remastered Blu-Ray Releases.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic comes to theaters October 24th.

The Line It Is Drawn #103—Video Game Characters Meet Comic Book Characters.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—That Time Spider-Man’s Parents Turned Out To Be Robots.

How To Read An Old Sci-Fi Book…Without Ruining It.

From Cracked: If The Dark Knight Rises Was 10 Times Shorter And More Honest.

Here’s the cast for the adaptation of The Mortal Instruments.

The Oregon Trail Cake.

80’s X-Girls Fan Art.

Trailers From Hell: Dan Ireland on A Nightmare On Elm Street.

So Stan Lee once posed for a naked centerfold. It happened in 1983. I don’t know (and Comic Beat isn’t sure either) if this is NSFW or not, but he’s covered by a comic and a huge smile. Proceed at your own risk.

The Annotated Crisis On Infinite Earths.

The Best Endings In SF/F Series.

A Triceratops Tractor.

Batmobile Limo.

Three Ways To Make An Improved Rocketeer Movie.

R2-D2 Bender Cosplay.

What’s the shortest time it took you to fall in love with a tv show?

How to tell from a pilot if a tv show is going to be any good.

What’s the oldest gadget you still use? My keyboard is from my first computer in the mid-90’s. I still use a VCR from around the same time. The living room television is over 20 years old.

Hettienne Park joins the cast of Hannibal.

Sherlock—do the three words for series three mean it will be the last?

Mission Log Podcast #3: Charlie X.

Now Playing Podcast: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
calliopes_pen: (shawnkyr Doc and Clara)
2012-08-22 01:01 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Department of Justice Seizes Domains Over App Piracy For The First Time Ever.

This Is The First Website Ever—Rebooted.

How It Should Have Ended: The Dark Knight Rises.

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996 would include Dana Scully and Zack Morris. I desperately want this come Yuletide—or fanfic involving the cast seen in the posters behind them. Since that one would be Egon, Max Headroom, Jem, Connor Macleod, Teen Wolf, someone from Tron, Carmen Sandiego, KITT, and a few others I cannot identify. (Hey, someone wrote this for me one year, I’d love to see either of these, too.) So I may just end up nominating both, if I’m able and don’t have any other prompts. If it weren’t 1996 and therefore pre-season 1, I would agree with the comments to add Willow or Buffy.

Kerrith Johnson’s Superhero Series

Nintendo Power magazine to cease publication.

Catching Up With Armin Shimmerman and Kitty Swink.

The blooper reel for season 3 of The Vampire Diaries.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: The Revenge of Doctor X.

Reach Out To The Doctor Who-Deprived

Big Finish: October Releases.

Michael Strahan will be Kelly Ripa’s new co-host. My first choice would have been Nick Lache, but he’s done well, too, from what I’ve seen of him.

Who do you think should direct the Justice League of America movie?

Kat Dennings returns for Thor: The Dark World.

Huntress joins Arrow—she will be played by Jessica De Gouw.

Your Daily Dose of Nightmare Fuel: A Newly Discovered Type of Cave Spider—With Claws.

9 Wonder Woman Villains (That Explain Why Nobody Talks About Wonder Woman’s Villains)

The Evil Dead Remake Is At Least An R.

An interview with Sam Raimi.

An interview with Neal Stephenson

10 things to love about Jaws: The Revenge.

China Miéville: the future of the novel.

Spider-Man has spun his web for 50 years.

Toronto Batman does not like the Hyundai. He interrupted a filming of an actual commercial, and they just rolled with it wonderfully.

9 Toylines From The 80’s Based On Unusual Gimmicks.

‘Lost’ Jack Kirby comic unearthed…in France.

Plush Hobbit Slippers.

Avengers vs. X-Men Hardcover Trailer.

25 Minutes of Avengers Extras.

Val Staples explains life as a freelance colorist.

Robot and Frank: Science Fiction at its Absolute Best.

Once Upon A Time Season 2 Promotional Posters.

Sam Claflin joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Joss Whedon discusses The Avengers, Its Sequel, Marvel on TV, and more.

Cookie Monster Slayer Cosplayer.

Rocketeer Cover By Alex Ross.

Now Playing Podcast: You Only Live Twice (1967)

Comic Issues Podcast #80: Marvel then and Now.
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2012-08-14 02:17 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Ron Palillo has passed away, at the age of 63, after suffering a heart attack in his sleep. May he rest in peace. He will perhaps best be remembered as Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter.

SurfTheChannel Owner Sentenced To Four Years In Jail.

John Williams’ classic Superman score will not be in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Off My Mind: Jason Todd’s Relationship With The Bat-Family.

DC Comics spoils Joker reveal, irks Greg Capullo.

Flawless Victory: Pop Culture Rematches To Rival Olympic Wins.

Back to the Future Type DeLorean Hovercraft.

Who’s the coolest supporting character on genre tv right now?

Warner Shuts Down Direct-to-Video Division.

Michael J. Nelson on MST3K and the heavily anticipated return of Manos: The Hand of Fate.

Rifftrax Live: Manos: The Shorts.

Guess Which Marvel Character Is Most Popular Right Now On The Social Web.

Kelly Sue DeConnick Takes Over Avengers Assemble.

First clip from The Possession.

Interview: Brian K. Vaughn on the first Saga collection.

Just How Many Crossovers Does DC Have In November?

Jack Kirby’s granddaughter has a message for his fans.

Scotland’s influence on 2000 AD’s Judge Dredd.

Ed Asner’s 10 Geekiest Voice-Acting Roles.

Joe Carnahan’s Daredevil Idea Just ‘Went Up In Smoke’ At Fox.

The Geek Zodiac. 1981 is the Year of the Astronaut.

The Real Ghostbusters T-Shirt.

‘Those pesky kids have the phonebox’ T-shirt.

The Monster Squad Was Released 25 Years Ago Today: Fred Dekker Talks About The Film’s Reception And Anniversary.

Happy Birthday ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’…37 Years And Still Running.

Biggest Box Office Hits And Misses Of Summer 2012.

Someone made a Battleship cake.
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2012-08-09 01:29 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Are Demonoid Users At Risk?

Demonoid Raid Credited To IFPI, Multiple Arrests In Mexico Reported.

Bob Hoskins Announces Retirement From Acting After Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis. Best wishes to him.

Brenda Chapman Leaves Pixar For LucasFilm.

Watch William Shatner Throw The First Pitch For Dodgers Star Trek Night.

More images from Sam Raimi’s The Possession.

As many as 30% of cats are stone cold killers.

Fifty Shades of Stan Lee...Actually Just Three. It’s not how it sounds. There are no kinks. It’s just three people (two and a puppet version) who are Stan Lee imitators popping up throughout.

10 Shows That Survived After Their Original Showrunners Left.

Mark Gatiss to pen Doctor Who making of drama, An Adventure In Space And Time.

An interview with Bill Corbett.

Geek Gear: Doctor Who/Lost In Space ‘Exterminate The Robinsons’ Shirt.

The Claws of Axos—Special Edition Cover Art.

Fan Film: Batman: Puppet Master. You get an idea of what the Riddler and Ventriloquist might have been like in Nolan’s universe.

Batgirl: Spoiled—Full Fan Trailer.

Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore are relaunching Deadpool for Marvel Now.

The Line It Is Drawn #101: Superhero 101.

The differences between Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

The special features on the Blu-Ray and DVD for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

An interview with Kim Newman.

Contest: Win Manos The Hands Of Fate Signed Poster.

Alf is getting his own movie.

How to make any room look more science fictional.

Marvel Cancels Defenders With Issue 12.

Cyber Force Kickstarter campaign passes $79,000 goal.

Nerdist Writer’s Panel #50: TV Fantasy Goes Mainstream.
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2012-08-08 11:31 am

Fannish Items of Interest

The Internet Archive Starts Seeding Over A Million Torrents.

Received a Letter From Golden Eye International? Help Is At Hand.

Amazon Says It Closed Its Glaring Authentication Hack Exploit.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The unrevealed mysteries of Mystique and the unpublished debut of Destiny, Rogue and the Hellfire Club.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Greta Hayes (Secret).

Spider-Man’s 10 Best Costumes Ever.

Christopher Nolan on Superman: The Man of Steel.

From Funny Or Die: Bane After Batman.

Paul Dini explains absence from next Batman game.

A Few Distracting Things About Adventures In Babysitting.

Joss Whedon Is On Board For The Avengers 2. Joss Whedon Signs Three Year Deal With Marvel Studios. Whedonesque reacts to the news here and here.

The Outhousers starts campaign to save Joss Whedon’s Avengers Tv show from cancellation.

Brian Bendis unveils Bill Sienkiewicz art from Daredevil: End of Days.

Star Trek Comics Writer Talks Timeline Divergence Leading To 2013 Sequel.

Before They Were Famous: Best Science Fiction Cameos By Today’s Stars.

Top 10 Quantum Leap Episodes. The only episode I ever loved was the one with a young Stephen King.

New Elementary Promo.

6 Ways To Get Through The BBC Sherlock Hiatus.

British Library to publish Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s personal diary from Arctic whaling adventures.

Interview: The Rifftrax crew revisit another ‘classic.’

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots.

Trailers From Hell: Karyn Kusama on Near Dark.

Days of Our Lives Post Olympics Preview Clip.

From Cracked: 6 Movie Heroes Saved By Gaping Plot Holes. Back to the Future Part II and Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade make the list.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Steampunk Daredevil, Black Cat, Electro and Mysterio.

Concept art for Disney’s Frozen movies shows off our new Snow Queen.

Get some original fantasy art from the great Kiri Moth.

An extended promo for 666 Park Avenue.

2012 World Fantasy Award Nominees Announced.

Extended Cut Of The Shining Headed To UK Theaters.

Good News And Bad News About 48fps Hobbit.

Dark Shadows Dolls Pushed Back To 2013.

Alan Moore Attends Comic Convention.

For The Trophy Room: Alien Skull Replica From Predator II.

Horror Character Ice Pops.

The Halloween 4 Blu-Ray Seems To Be Missing Something.

Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore Kickstart Leaving Megalopolis.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series Soundtrack Announced.

Now Playing Podcast: From Russia With Love (1963).

Film Sack Podcast #126: Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
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2012-08-07 02:00 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation In Mexico.

Comics Alliance Reviews X2: X-Men United (2003), Part One.

On the importance of Superman’s shorts.

The Invisibles Omnibus Hardcover Will Be Sewn, Will Be One Volume.

Fathom Events Bringing Some Of Universal’s Best Horror Flicks To The Big Screen.

25 Years of Mark Waid.

Comic book styles from around the world.

The AV Club interviews Alexis Denisof.

Betterwiththree is hosting the Olympic Comment Ficathon.

From Think Geek: Bohr Model Atom Necklace.

The Great Gatsby’s release date was pushed back from December 25th of this year, to summer 2013.

Catch Up With ‘That Guy Dick Miller’.

Oddly funny Dark Knight Rises version of Call Me Maybe. Bane pops up, playing drums in the background. There are a few spoilers sprinkled in the lyrics.

Read About The Bane Origin Sequence Cut From The Dark Knight Rises.

Top 6 Olympic Events For Geeks Only.

Yasming Liang’s Batwoman Redesign.

IDW To Release Star Trek: The Newspaper Strips, Volume 1.

Vintage Star Trek booze ads will class up your quarters.

Q&A #167: Would you rather be a Phoenix host, Lantern Corps member, or member of the Bat family?

Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Blu-Ray Bonus Features Revealed.

Under The Radar: Big Chief’s New Doctor Who Figures.

Marvel Announces Marvel: War of Heroes Digital Battle Card Game.

An excerpt of Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr. Moreau.

Stan Lee’s Rants: The Bourne Legacy Cameo.

Joss Whedon’s 15 Greatest Musical Moments.

An Impressive Lady Boba Fett Medieval Knight Costume.

If this is right, not only will there be a Rifftrax Live for Manos—but in October, there will also be one for Birdemic.

Guillermo del Toro teases ‘big name’ writer for his Incredible Hulk tv show.

Meta Golding joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

DC Collectibles offers more than 20 new abstract posters.

Phoebe Tonkin joins The Vampire Diaries for season 4.

Josh Stewart joins the cast of Grimm.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 70: Kill Crazy (1990)
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2012-08-04 12:13 pm
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2012-07-28 12:15 pm

Fannish Items of Interest

Demonoid Faces Prolonged Downtime After DDos Attack.

Either Romana Or Fred: Remembering Mary Tamm.

DirecTV spot with John Cleese.

TARDIS “materializes” at Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Burning Question Answered: Did The Doctor Light The Olympic Flame?

New Doctor Who Trailer Coming August 2nd.

Short trailer for season 5 of Merlin.

5 Batman Villains Who Deserved The Christopher Nolan Treatment. Mild spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman’s Moron College Friends.

Grant Morrison’s Guide To Batman On the Big Screen: 1950’s Batman Serial.

Warner Bros. tones down the guns in Beware The Batman cartoon.

Rare Batman Comics That Everyone Should Read.

The Dark Knight Rises: Description of a Deleted Scene With Miranda Tate And Lucius Fox. While this scene could be considered a very mild spoiler, I suggest you avoid the comments entirely if you haven’t seen the film. Several comments give away major plot points.

A guide to the fantastical work of Joe Dante.

Interview with the developer of the Manos game.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #337.

New Rifftrax VOD Title: Future Force.

Marvel Cancels Thanos: Son Of Titan Mini-Series.

Robert Kirkman On The Future Of The Walking Dead.

Alexa Vega joins Machete Killsand so does Lady Gaga.

Todd McFarlane Spider-Man Cover Sells For $675,250.

Writer of Steel: 10 super-names for Action Comics.

An Ode To Jasper Fforde: Introducing His Works and Worlds.

How To Watch Battlestar Galactica.

20 Things We Love About Babylon 5.

Young And The Restless Replaces Head Writer.

The CW Looking To Bring Battle Royale To The Small Screen As A Weekly Series.

Is Indiana Jones Dead At Last? Crystal Skull Was Indiana Jones’ Last Hurrah, Frank Marshall Says.

What If 60s/70s Marvel Comics Had DC Comics Covers?

Dancing With The Stars Cast Revealed.

Franka Potente joins American Horror Story.

Director And Cast Talk About The Possession.

The best cult shows on TV—what’s your #1?

Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Characters In Olympics

Kerrith Johnson Casts Superheroes And Their Alter Egos In Motivational Posters.

The CineFiles- Cronenberg Films, Part 2.

Fake Stan Lee vs. Comic Con 2012.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #135: Deathstalker II: Duel Of The Titans (1987). After which, they have a brief discussion of The Dark Knight Rises. So if you’re not interested in hearing about that, stop listening at the 45 minute mark, or skip ahead to 53 minutes.

Movie Issues Podcast: Commando (1985).

Schlock Treatment 86: Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year For Murder.

Thursday evening, following a severe thunderstorm, Comcast accidentally snipped a fiber optic cable. Service wasn’t resumed for the area until earlier today.