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31 Days of Horror: Bride of Frankenstein/The Mummy.

31 Days of Horror: The Wolf Man/American Werewolf In London.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).

Horror Education of the Week: Edison’s Frankenstein.

Vampires 101: Dracula (1979).

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween on TV: 235 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes And Specials.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Batman—The Movie (1966).

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: The Last Laugh and Pretty Poison.

The detective novel from last week’s Doctor Who is now available as an ebook.

Deadpool Uses Portals For The Most Important Science Of All…

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 280: Secret Origins #48.

The Princess Bride—Whedon Style.

With The Oatmeal’s help, nonprofit buys property to build a Tesla museum.

The Lunch Podcast: Episode 12: The Cabin in the Woods, with Drew Goddard.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Dinoshark.(2010)

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/872573.html

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 8, Season 2: Joe Manganiello.

Forever Knight Re-Imagined.

Summer Fan Art: The Dark Knight Trilogy

Fran Kranz discusses the climax of The Cabin In The Woods.

Monster Madness 2007—1980’s Recap.

Concept art for 1937’s Snow White

September 30th through October 6th is Banned Books Week.

Banned Comic Books For Banned Books Week.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Deadly Mantis.

World’s Finest Gift Exchange Announcement.

Saturday Without Pictures: a discussion of several superhero prose novels.

Horror Education of the Week: Aliens.

Six mysteries that could be solved by time travel.

Doctor Who Season 7: 5 Questions About The Angels Take Manhattan. Massive spoilers, so if you haven’t watched the episode yet, avoid this one.

From BBC America: Doctor Who Inside Look: The Angels Take Manhattan.

Behind the Scenes: The last days of filming The Angels Take Manhattan, for Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill. Filming in Central Park. The Doctor Who Team on the Weeping Angels and what’s in store for the Doctor.

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: Nothing To Fear.

Multiversity Is Coming.

Firefly Anniversary: Saluting Serenity’s Big Damn Heroes.

Two True Freaks Podcast: The Avengers (2012) Commentary.

Tuning In To Sci-Fi TV Podcast: DragonCon 2012—Whedonverse 101 Panel.

Horror Vault Podcast: Black Sunday (1960)

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/868753.html

Bilbo gets a poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Why Two-Face’s tailor is the unhappiest man in Gotham City.

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: Christmas With The Joker.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Dr. Cyclops.

Doctor Who: The Power of Three: Behind The Scenes.

Horror Education of the Week: Alien.

An Hour Listening To Alan Moore At N.I.C.E.

Avengers vs. X-Men comes to Avengers Facebook game.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Alien: Resurrection (1997).

Commentary Track Stars Podcast: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Commentary (1986)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 267: Child’s Play Retrospective.

Yuletide fandom nominations should be opening tomorrow.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/866703.html

Amazon Make Amends For Marvel’s Briefcase Bungle With Free Copies Of The Avengers.

Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy: Behind The Scenes.

Official BBC interviews with Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, and Karen Gillan for The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhattan. An interview with Chris Chibnall, who writes the episode The Power of Three. Expect slight spoilers in each.

What if Alfred Hitchcock made superhero movies?

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—How Did Adam Warlock Get To Be The Size Of the Milky Way Galaxy?

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mole People.

Introducing the Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch. Rewatch: On Leather Wings.

Retconning Robin Out Of Teen Titans #1.

Comikaze cosplay: Catwoman, Wolverine, Zelda and more.

Diamond Select To Runite Spock And The Horta In 2013.

The weirdest Alice In Wonderland movie ever made: Jan Švankmajer's Alice.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 265: Festival of Fear ’12 Addendum.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954).

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/865134.html

Sign-ups are open for the Spook Me Multi-Fandom Ficathon 2012. This year, the prompts are “based on classic children's books, fairy tales and fables.”

Grumpy Old Fan: Relaunch round-up, Part 1.

Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien read his poem Namárië in Elvish.

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special—Superman’s Kiss.

Highlights from the DC Panel at Baltimore Comic Con. “When the New 52 began, writers were told to ‘write as if they were writing fan fiction.’

Baltimore Comic Con 2012: Marvel Now Panel Teases The Return Of New Warriors, Avengers Academy, And More.

Baltimore Comic Con 2012: Marvel At These Awesome Cosplayers.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So Who Killed Polaris’ Parents After All?

An interview with Ben Browder. It discusses his role in the next episode of Doctor Who, as well as a little about Farscape.

Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship—Behind The Scenes.

Peek inside the anatomies of Gremlins, Predators, and Martian Invaders.

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: The Original Series.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Bride of Frankenstein.

DC Changes Catwoman Zero Cover—And Admits Rafa Isn’t Drawing The Comic.

Commentary Track Stars Podcast: THX 1138 (1971) Commentary.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/863209.html

The Mary Sue interviews Matt Smith.

Doctor Who Q&A With The Nerdist. There are spoilers for yesterday’s episode.

Official Synopses And Credits For Evil Dead And Carrie Remakes.

Dragon Con 2012: DC Comics Cosplay Shows Off The Pre-New 52.

Dragon Con Parade Photos And More Cosplay.

The Cosplay of Dragon Con 2012: Day 2, The Parade.

Dragon Con 2012: Buffy Season 9 With Georges Jeanty.

BBC’s Sherlock Get Japanese Manga.

These fan-made Doctor Who/Sherlock crossovers will make you laugh, sigh, and ship Wholock.

Comics College: Marjane Satrapi.

The Avengers takes $1.5 billion worldwide.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Invisible Woman.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—There Were Clandestine Comics Not By Alan Davis?

15 Science Fiction and Fantasy Character Who Found Success After Dropping Out Of School.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Hunted (1995)

Managed to locate and watch the new episode of Doctor Who shortly before the predicted storm rolled through.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/861240.html

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has passed away at the age of 82. May he rest in peace. He passed away on August 5th, a few days after his birthday, and a few weeks after heart surgery to relieve blocked coronary arteries.

Demonoid: Will The Comeback Kid Return?

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Phantom of the Opera.

Top 10 Sci-Fi And Fantasy Redheads.

Rewind: The Avengers Revisited.

Fan Expo Canada: Mighty Marvel Cosplay.

Fan Expo: Julie Benz On Defiance, Dexter, Death and Joss Whedon.

Fan Expo Canada: How To Build A Dalek In 56 Easy Steps.

Fan Expo Canada: Alan Tudyk on Firefly, how A Knight’s Tale 2 might have gone, and more.

Fan Expo Canada: Darwyn Cooke, Dan Slott, Jimmy Palmiotti And More On The Economics of Comics.

DC Comics Announces Before Watchmen: Moloch

Batman Cufflinks.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 238: Detective Comics #583.

Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIII.

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Morbius: The Living Vampire will be appearing in a new comic written by Joe Keatinge, with art from Richard Elson.

See Concept Art From The Early 80’s Silver Surfer Movie That Never Happened.

A Death Star tea infuser.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Robin. It’s a discussion of Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, and Carrie Kelly. There are some mentions of plot points for The Dark Knight Rises, so if you haven’t seen that proceed at your own risk.

The Oatmeal raises $1 million to build a Nikola Tesla museum.

Ticket offer for Walter Koenig Star Unveiling Celebration.

Dead Runaway?

Moffat speaks at Edinburgh TV Festival.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast: Gunmen (1993).

Back to the Bins Podcast, Episode 98: The Incredible Hulk Special. It’s a discussion of the Bill Bixby series that ends up being 3 hours and 59 minutes long, so be sure you have the time before you sit down for this one.

Decompressed Podcast #6: Mark Waid and Matt Fraction on The Marvel Method.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Raid: Redemption.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/859447.html

Tony Scott has passed away, at the age of 68, following him jumping from a bridge. It looks like he had recently been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Condolences to his family, and may he rest in peace. He co-produced Prometheus, and helped make films such as The Hunger, Days of Thunder, and many others. He produced the forthcoming miniseries Coma, along with working on the tv series Numb3rs. David Krumholtz posts his remembrance of the man.

William Windom has passed away, at the age of 88, due to congestive heart failure. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans will remember him from The Doomsday Machine as Commodore Matt Decker.

ETA: Phyllis Diller has passed away at the age of 95. May she rest in peace.

Best wishes to Marc Summers for a speedy recovery after his cab accident. He suffered some serious facial injuries.

Cantaloupe Outbreak Kills Two, Sickens 141 In U.S. A friend of Dad’s is one of those 141, and should be getting out of the hospital shortly after being stuck there a month.

Demonoid Domain Sale Banned Over Legal Issues.

Possible Remnants Of Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found.

Marvel Promotes Lauren Sankovitch To Editor.

Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity.

8 Of The Scariest Horror Movies Made For Kids. I’m happy to see that someone else out there remembers Pinocchio And The Emperor Of The Night.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Justice League…Antarctica?

Teaser Trailer For Asylum of the Daleks.

From Cracked: 4 Reasons Gremlins Are The Deadliest Movie Monster Ever.

Also from Cracked: The 6 Most Baffling PSAs Starring Famous Superheroes.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Ghostbreakers.

Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on The Terminator.

The 2012 DCU Fic/Art Halloween Challenge.

Bruce Campbell Has Seen The Evil Dead Remake.

James Gunn In Talks To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

The Hub adds Superman: The Animated Series, Sliders, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys to their schedule.

After Man of Steel, Which DC Comics Movie Will Warner Bros. Make Next?

Godzilla vs. Kincade.

Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary Art.

Alternative authors’ version of Lord of the Rings.

ABC is developing the steampunk adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Yes, really.

Warner Bros is offering single night screenings of The Dark Knight Returns in a New York theater before it comes to DVD and Blu-Ray.

From Think Geek: Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

A deleted scene from The Avengers.

Deconstructing the Complete And Utter Insanity Of Batman: Odyssey, Part 1 Part 2. Hysterical.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #138: Hell Squad (1985)

Schlock Treatment 89: Starcrash (1978)

Sofa Dogs Podcast: The Lost Boys (1987) Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze (1975).

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/858157.html

Joe Kubert has passed away at the age of 85, after a hospitalization for various health issues. May he rest in peace. He was a legendary artist for DC Comics, and co-created Ragman, Sergeant Rock, and Tor. He founded the Kubert School, and had several projects still yet to be released when he passed. His recently inked Before Watchmen: Nite Owl.

The comics industry remembers Joe Kubert, ‘a friend, a teacher, an influence and a giant.’

Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale.

MPAA/RIAA Want U.S. To Help Quash The Pirate Bay.

uTorrent Adds ‘Featured Torrents’ Ads—With No Opt Out (Yet).

Google Kinda Sorta Clarifies Piracy Plan.

Perseid Meteor Shower Photos.

Bane vs. Cable Guys. There are mild spoilers if you haven’t seen The Dark Knight Rises.

The Dark Knight Rises Surpasses $800 Million Worldwide.

Batman’s Biggest Secret (And No, It’s Not Bruce Wayne).

Graham Nolan talks about comics and co-creating Bane.

Interview: Scott Lobdell on Superboy, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake not being Robin.

The New New York Forbidden Planet On Broadway.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy.

Doctor Who Magazine—Delayed.

Are fan fiction and fan art legal?

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So How Old Are Superboy’s Parents?

Capsicle

Fan Art: Gozer The Gozerian.

Interview with part of the team behind IDW’s Ghostbusters series.

Hobbit pub copyright row: Legal fees fundraising event.

On The Trail Of The Warsaw Basilisk.

Sea Monsters From A to Z.

DC Comics Liquidates Hundreds Of Archives And Showcases.

14 great films that inspired regrettable trends.

A fan letter from a 15 year old Warren Ellis.

Looking back at season 1 of Grimm

Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day are narrating a fantasy audiobook.

From Cracked: 6 Crucial Movie Scenes That Never Made It Out Of The Script.

The pairings for Dancing With The Stars: All-Stars.

Quantumqstar’s design of Antonia Stark, and Iron Woman.

The Best Cosplay From Star Trek Las Vegas

Justice League Unlimited returns to television via The CW’s Vortexx.

Phil Davis will appear on the UK version of Being Human.

Alice Krige joins Thor: The Dark World.

Maria Howell joins The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

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

Amazing Stories reboot offering a free issue.

Commentary Track Stars Podcast: Army of Darkness Commentary.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Karate Kid, Part II.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/856616.html

Geoffrey Hughes has passed away, at the age of 68, after a battle with prostate cancer. May he rest in peace. He played Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances, and should be remembered by Doctor Who fans as Mr. Popplewick in The Trial Of A Time Lord.

Hans Zimmer Writes Song In Dedication To Aurora Victims.

Twitter explains Thursday’s outage.

The Cheering Up Meme.

The 10 Best Resurrections In Comic Book History.

Evil Dead Inspired Boombox.

TARDIS Nightlight.

Superhero Origins: The Justice League of America.

X-Men: First Class Sequel Officially Titled X-Men: Days of Future Past.

What Dracula really looks like, according to police composite software.

Listen: Before And After Comparison Of Bane’s Voice In The Dark Knight Rises.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked – How Did Alfred First Meet Batman?

TR Contest: What Should/Will A Fifth Indiana Jones Film Be Like?

Updated Synopsis For Frozen.

Ghostbusters Blu-Ray to get ‘Steelbook Edition’ re-release.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.

When A Robot Chicken Met Starro.

SDCC 2012 Cosplay Round-Up.

Preview: Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe #1.

Completely Adorable Art That Depicts The Eleven Doctors As Time Ladies.

Interview with William Shatner.

Greatest Movies Ever Podcast: Supergirl.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/853214.html

Patrick Stewart Joins Olympic Torch Run. Footage.

Extraordinary Abilities, Ordinary Disabilities.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked- Robin Doesn’t Trust Batgirl With His Secret I.D.?

The next movie for Svengoolie is House of Dracula.

Get lost within the walls of a massive labyrinth made of books.

Simon Monk Paints Superhero Action Figures Trapped In Their Protective Plastic Bags.

Comic Con 2012: The Vampire Diaries Panel, in its entirety.

SDCC 2012: Extremely Rare Photo Of Sand People Traveling Side-By-Side.

Teen Wolf 101.

10 X-Men Action Figures With Uncannily Goofy Accessories.

Exclusive Sneak Peek: New Mutants #47.

Iron Man 3 Concept Art Shows More Gold Armor.

For those interested, the novelization for The Dark Knight Rises will be released tomorrow.

Hot Toys Confirms Catwoman As Part Of Their Dark Knight Rises Line.

Bane Co-Creator On His Portrayal In The Dark Knight Rises. While there aren’t any spoilers, there could be some in the comments. There weren’t the last time I checked, but be prepared, and avoid them if you plan to see the film.

A Brief History of the Batman Infographic.

These Are The 9 Best Catwoman Stories Ever.

A peek at what’s in store for the next season of Warehouse 13.

Star Wars Lightsaber Pool Noodles.

Alien Facehugger Corset.

Massive Bigfoot Model On Ebay.

TARDIS Latte.

50th Anniversary Doctor Who Docu-drama In The Works?

Dana Barrett As Zuul Available Now On MattyCollector.

If You Could Remake Halloween Or Hellraiser, What Would You Do?

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/851314.html

Overview of the Robot Chicken panel.

Confirmed by Dan Didio At DC Comics The New Wave Panel: Barbara Gordon Will Replace Stephanie Brown In Smallville.

New Iron Man 3 Armor Revealed At Comic Con.

Robert Downey Jr.’s entrance to the Iron Man 3 panel.

The Joss Whedon Panel—Killing Your Family.

Season 2 Preview of Once Upon A Time.

The Vampire Diaries Panel: Live-Blogged.

The Nerdist Channel presents Farscape, cut into minisodes.

Hasbro, QMx, DST, Anovos and Hallmark Show Off New Star Trek Merch At SDCC 2012.

Adam Savage’s Comic Con Costumes.

Studio sources refute wild rumor of third Hobbit film.

Teaser for the Deadpool video game.

Thor and Captain America Sequels’ Titles Revealed. They are Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Guardians of the Galaxy Concept Art

The Man of Steel Movie Poster.

An interview with Roberto Orci, about the new Star Trek movie.

DC Nation Short—Bat Man of Shanghai: Catwoman.

AvX’s Phoenix Five Invade Marvel: Avengers Alliance.

John Barrowman interviews Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill at Comic Con, for G4.

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill sing Bohemian Rhapsody at their panel.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Geek Gear: A Nightmare on Elm Street Screamworks Shirt.

Roswell alien waitress cosplay will make you nostalgic for the 1990’s. I never watched the show, but others might like to see this.

The Amazing Spider-Man Hits $521.4 Million Worldwide.

Elementary creator—The idea of a female Watson came from the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

Breaking News: Three Merlin movies in development and season 6 possibilities for BBC TV series.

The Lost Girl panel at Comic Con, in its entirety.

Mockingbird Lane’s Bryan Fuller On His Munsters Mash-Up And New Growth For Pushing Daisies.

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase 1: Avengers Assemble Promo.

SDCC 2012: DC Comics: Young Justice Panel Liveblogged. According to Lobdell, Tim Drake was never Robin in the new DCU, and went straight to being Red Robin.

Schlock Treatment 84: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

Terror Transmission, Episode 72: Night of the Demon (1957)

Yesterday, I managed to watch the Joss Whedon panel live from Comic Con, because it was streaming through here. You can go through their archived streams section for the panels for that one, Doctor Who, Grimm, Nathan Fillion, Stan Lee, Psych, Robot Chicken, as well as quite a few others.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/848658.html

DNSChanger Shut Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds Of Thousands.

Peter Jackson Reveals New Hobbit Poster For Comic Con.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Spidey Can’t Sense People Who Look Like His Friends?

Was The Untold Story Cut From The Amazing Spider-Man? Massive spoilers for the film.

10 Tragic Spaceship And Sci-Fi Car Destruction Scenes. The DeLorean and the Enterprise make the cut.

A Robocop Viral Campaign Reveals the New ED-209.

A Bit Of Rifftrax News In The Comic Con Schedule.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Francis In The Haunted House.

Now Is The Time To Buy The Justice League DVD—55% Off.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/847020.html

Don’t Forget: ‘Six Strikes’ Starts This Weekend. It either starts today, July 1st, or July 12th, depending on what you read.

Megaupload Judge To Issue Order On Return Of User Data “Shortly.”

Blip Gets Into The Original Content Game, With A New Studio And Three Exclusive Series.

Nerd Glass Recreates Your Favorite Characters With Stained Glass Goodness.

Dallas renewed for second season by TNT.

CBS un-cancels Unforgettable.

Science Channel marathons Firefly on July 4th.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Required TV.

Dark Shadows Facebook Banners. And some for the 90’s series.

Real Ghostbusters Omnibus Announced.

Isn’t It About Time You Gave Torchwood: Miracle Day Another Chance?

Sci Fi And Fantasy’s Greatest Sound FX.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Ghost.

Japanese Tomb Found To House Rare Artifacts From Roman Empire.

Tentacle Wine Bottle Stopper.

This 15’ Journey Scarf Is Amazing.

Casting Bits For 666 Park Avenue and Revolution.

Happy birthday, Indiana Jones.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked: So Is Magneto Polaris’ Dad Or What?

Welshy Reviews: Black Sheep. The killer sheep movie, not the Chris Farley one.

Now Playing Podcast: Spider-Man 2 (2004).

Terror Transmission Episode 71: Damien: Omen II (1978).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #131: Delta Force (1986)

Big Pop Fun #33: Mark Hamill (Part 3).

Schlock Treatment 82: Over The Top (1987)

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/844987.html

TV’s All-Time Greatest Writers. There are a lot of great ones that were left off the list.

Chandler Massey Wins Daytime Emmy Award For Days Of Our Lives.

After 24 years, Live With Regis And Kelly finally won an Emmy.

Alex Ross Designs For Flash Gordon And Ming The Merciless.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Stan Is Spider-Man.

Elementary Casts Jon Michael Hill.

There is a chance Malcolm McDowell could play the role of Father Merrin in the stage play of The Exorcist.

CR Interview: Ed Brubaker.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Tomb.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked: So How Did Storm And The Black Panther First Meet Exactly?

Animal prints teach children their Elvish ABCs.

Brave earned nearly $68 million for its opening weekend.

Hobbit mockbuster set to shoot next month. Yes, it’s from The Asylum.

Whither those frosty, fruit-filled snacks?

Kids’ Book Versions of R-Rated Movies.

Exclusive First Look: Dalek Crash- Doctor Who: Death To The Daleks.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on The Gamma People.

Gwen Stacy And The Amazing Spider-Man.

New video of Leonard Nimoy talking about last minute changes to his final scene in TWOK.

The 10 Nerdiest Myths Mythbusters Busted.

The Origins of Continuum.

New Short Film Series By Alan Moore Announced.

Rocketeer inspired t-shirt.

Custom Alien Lamp.

11 Great Television Shows That Are Lost Forever.

Infographic: Know Your Vampire Hunter.

DIY Doctor Who Dalek Cake.

The “Minute” Details: Before Watchmen’s Darwyn Cooke.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/843553.html

ACTA Showdown Coming Up—Man Your Barricades.

Paramount shuts down Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles after realizing there might be a problem with the script.

From Newsarama: The 10 Worst X-Men of All Time. I wouldn’t have included Doug, Hank, or Angelo.

The Dark Shadows Experiment.

The original Dark Shadows (or at least the first 40 episodes featuring Barnabas Collins) is now on Hulu. For those that want to see the 90’s version, but can’t use Hulu, that one is also hosted on Youtube. The original series, currently, is not.

Five things that nearly killed Star Trek before it started.

Grant Morrison honored by Queen Elizabeth II.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Prime Vacation Spots.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Son of Dracula.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Marc Webb.

The Amazing Spider-Man—Car Thief Full Scene.

10 delightfully cheesy 90’s sci-fi movie trailers.

Looking back at 1991’s The Guyver.

An eighty-foot tube sculpture was made from the magnetic tape in VHS cassettes.

Early Test Footage of Roger and Jessica Rabbit, From When Roger Sounded Like Pee Wee Herman.

50 Worst Sci-Fi And Fantasy Movies That Had No Excuse.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Pez Set Coming This Fall.

Your Brain Scan Looks Different on Mac and PC.

Geek Jewelry on Etsy.

Pizza Necronomicon is deliciously horrific.

Six Strange Cases of Science Fiction Trademarks.

Seth Grahame-Smith Gives a Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Update.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #129: One Man Force (1989).

radioaches is hosting the What I Like About You Meme here and here.

Stolen from

chomiji: The Random Superhero Generator. My first result:

“calliopes_pen has the power to force butterflies to obey her every command, however using this power makes her incorporeal for one hour. Also, she has been known to leap through time using a startling helicopter. Tragically, calliopes_pen is infamous for being terrible at taunting.”

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/841824.html

Sci-Fi’s Weirdest Musical Moments.

Venom Movie Set To Cross Over With The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Is Ice A Goddess Or What?

Fan Art: The Boogieman Cometh.

Last.fm Passwords Also Leaked.

See the first image from Dreamworks’ CG Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

Retro light sculptures to decorate your mad scientist’s laboratory.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Cindy Reynolds/Gypsy, and Angel Salvadore.

The Many Costumes of Janet Van Dyne, The Wasp.

X-Men Muppets.

The 8 Worst Types Of Merchandise On Sale At Every Nerdy Convention.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Hand.

From Cracked: 6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won’t Believe Aren’t CGI.

Halloween II TV Cut Finally Coming To Blu-Ray.

DC Comics cancels Captain Atom, Resurrection Man, and Voodoo.

Disney XD’s Ultimate Spider-Man was renewed for a second season.

Comics Alliance Reviews Steel (1997), Part One.

Brand new trailer for The Dark Knight Rises.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Shark Attack in the Meditarranean.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 250: H.P. Lovecraft.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/840595.html

Richard Dawson has passed away, at the age of 79, following a battle with esophageal cancer. May he rest in peace. He was the host of Family Feud from 1976 to 1985, as well as a regular on Hogan’s Heroes, and a role in The Running Man.

Why ACTA Lives Or Dies With The Vote In The European Parliament.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Fathom Events will show two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation in select theaters on July 23rd.

San Diego Comic Con 2012: NECA Reveals Three SDCC Exclusives. Ash from Evil Dead, a cloaked Predator, and Giant Man.

The next movie for Svengoolie is I Saw What You Did.

World War Z Getting An Overhaul From Seven Weeks Of Reshoots.

Tintin In America Original Art By Hergé Brings World Record $1.6 Million At Auction.

Welshy Reviews: Misfits.

Futurama’s Bender Tattooed.

Snow White And The Huntsman had an opening weekend of $56.3 million.

Crowdfund Cthulhu tiki mugs, a classroom-based RPG, and a documentary about Detroit.

5 Things You Might Not Know About The Wrath Of Khan.

Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Harry Knowles And Morgan Spurlock Heroclix Figures For San Diego Comic Con.

Why the modems screamed.

Zombie Garden Gnome.

5 Famous Movies That Shamelessly Ripped Off Obscure Ones.

Guillermo del Toro: Witches Not Moving And Other Future Project Updates.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on One Million Years B.C.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Dalek Factor Mini Figure Set.

Comics Alliance Reviews Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987), Part Two.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Dreamscape (1984)

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/839122.html

Joe Dante’s Explorers – Q and A At The New Beverly Theater.

Gaiman and Mack team for tattoo/print that benefits the CBLDF.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Brides of Dracula.

From Cracked: The 12 Best Moments From Mexico’s Least Subtle Monster Movie.

Indiana Jones vs. The Ninjas and other Indy scenes that never happened.

50 years later, the coal fire beneath Pennsylvania still burns.

Yes, America, It’s Alan Scott.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Matt Smith present Steven Moffat’s Special BAFTA Award.

Wolf Moon Rising Synopsis Released.

Looking back at Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Excalibur pinups by Alan Davis, from 1988.

From Newsarama: 10 More IDW Star Trek Crossovers We Want. DS9/Ghostbusters would be great to see.

Rupert Sanders interview: Snow White And The Huntsman, Kristen Stewart, Lord of the Rings. Chris Hemsworth interview: Snow White And The Huntsman, Joss Whedon, Marvel, Thor 2.

In her dream house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu Barbie waits dreaming.

How much does it cost to be an unbeatable evil warlord?

The third tv spot for The Dark Knight Rises.

Comic Con By The Numbers: 170+ Tips For Attending CCI 2012.

This Australian trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has some new footage.

Christopher Lee’s 90th Birthday: 90 Reasons The Horror Icon Is Awesome.

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Missing Actor Nick Stahl Resurfaces Via E-Mail.

BitTorrent Inc Takes Legal Action Against Download Scammers.

Nancy Kersey shares her memories of Jonathan Frid.

Ryan Reynolds is the current frontrunner to play Connor MacLeod for the Highlander remake. I don’t see that working out at all. They’ve been trying to get this off the ground since around 2008, so it could be a while yet before anything actually happens.

First look at Mad Monster Party action figures.

Two promo posters for The Dark Knight Rises.

Steven Moffat will receive a special BAFTA on May 27th, “in recognition of his outstanding creative writing contribution to television.”

Sherlock versus Sherlock.

IDW Collects All Nineteen of Brian Bolland’s Judge Dredd Stories In October.

The Avengers Will Be On Blu-Ray September 25th, With New Short And Copious Extra Footage.

Dan Harmon Off Community.

The Prime Time Madness 2012 Collection is open.

Nebular Award for The Doctor’s Wife.

D.V. DeVincentis will be writing a remake of The Night Stalker, starring Johnny Depp.

Tickets to Rifftrax Live: Manos: The Hands of Fate go on sale June 8th.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked: Does the demon rhyme all the time?

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Curse.

Schlock Treatment 78: Bubba Ho-Tep.

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The Nine Circles Of Hell, As Depicted In Lego.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Horse Feathers.

‘Jackie’ The Ripper: Was The Serial Killer a Woman?

The Fearsome Bosnian Lampir.

PBS Cut 24 Minutes From Series 2 of Sherlock To Make Room For Adverts.

CBS Cancels CSI: Miami. They will not have a series finale.

CBS orders seven shows, beginning with Elementary, starring Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller.

Community moves to Friday nights this fall.

The Avengers passes the $1 billion mark worldwide in 19 days.

Dark Shadows earns $28.8 million and second place at the box office. If you combine domestic totals with overseas amounts, Dark Shadows made $65 million.

New photos from Total Recall.

22 main characters casually dismissed in sequels.

Falling Skies Season 2 Promo Art.

Lance Henriksen Thinks A Millennium Film Will Happen.

Gabriella Wilde Joining Julianne Moore And Chloe Moretz In The New Carrie.

A couple of videos featuring Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors in The Amazing Spider-Man.

10 High Risk Sci-Fi/Fantasy Careers.

Paramount allows The Godfather prequel to go forward.

Comics Alliance Reviews Supergirl (1984), Part One.

DC Cancels Justice League International With Issue 12.

Fox Announces Its New, Genre Free 2012-2013 Schedule.

Seven Snow White And The Huntsman clips show off the Evil Queen’s secret.

Schlock Treatment 77: Slugs (1988).

Dark Shadows Podcast: The Cinementals.

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What should we call this age of comics?

Dark Shadows Movie Video Treats. They include Barnabas Unleashed (a behind-the-scenes featurette with Johnny Depp and others discussing the film Barnabas) as well as a new tv spot, and a scene between Roger and Barnabas. The featurette Constructing Collinwood explores the sets.

Custom Barnabas Collins Doll.

Willie Loomis, Josette Dupres, and Quentin Collins figures solicited for 2012.

Original Art For Jim Lee’s Free Comic Book Day Shirt Tops $400.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Revenge of the Creature.

Phantom of the Opera Production Still (1925).

From Cracked: The 5 Most Baffling Product Recalls of All Time. 10 News Stories That Raise Endless Unanswered Questions.

One bad apple…we can live with that: 31 rotten parts of otherwise fantastic wholes.

Dazzler #1’s unpublished splash page.

BBC1 has ordered a ten part series based on the characters created by Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers.

Official Teen Wolf Season 2 Trailer.

The Punisher Fleece Slippers.

Revolving bookcase/room divider.

ComicsAlliance Reviews Superman III, Part Two.

A new clip from Snow White And The Huntsman—it’s Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth vs. a troll.

Film Sack Podcast 116: Hard Target.

Nerdist Podcast: John Lithgow.

Dalek Impersonator on Britain’s Got Talent.

Exclusive: Joss Whedon and Kevin Feige Explain Origin of The Avengers Post-Script.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: D.R. and Quinch.

12 Lesser Known Marvel Super-Teams That Also Deserve Movies.

Jessica Chastain will not appear in Iron Man 3.

Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because Of Its Unreality.

James Cromwell is in talks to join American Horror Story.

The Real Reason The Avengers Assembled Was To Help Back Up Your Files.

Celebrate Science With These Insane Retro Posters.

This well-known Egyptian symbol is actually an early math problem.

Why are so many vampire stories so weak?

5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Original Ghostbusters.

The Avengers opens bigger than expected, with $207.4 million.

Jury rules Google violated Java copyright, Google moves for mistrial.

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Peter Jackson responds to criticism of 48-frames per second footage of The Hobbit.

Warner Bros have released nine short scenes from Dark Shadows, along with three short interviews with Johnny Depp, Chloe Moretz, and Helena Bonham Carter.

Dark Shadows Festival plans Revival Cast reunion.

Chloe Moretz offers a Carrie update.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

The Age Of The Geek.

Calgary Comic Con Forced To Turn Thousands Away.

Des Taylor draws Golden Age-style superhero illustrations.

Guy In A Cow Suit Shoplifts 26 Gallons Of Milk From A Busy Wal-Mart. Crawling out the door on all fours…

The Avengers has earned $178.4 million internationally.

Batman Fighting A Dinosaur.

Set phasers to stun: Man builds his own Star Trek phaser.

Crowdfund female-friendly smut, overlooked fairy tales, and steampunk Sherlock Holmes.

This week, on Bad Movies Fiends Podcast: Dr. Strange (1978). I have got to rewatch this movie. I haven’t seen it since the mid-90’s, when the Sci-Fi Channel was actually good.

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Court Gives IFPI Permission To Identify Pirate Bay Users.

Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff (Worldwide) Via E-Mail.

Best look yet at Before Watchmen pages, character designs.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: From Hell, Part 1.

MTV Geek interviews Amber Benson.

The unaired pilots for Wonder Woman and Batgirl, from 1967.

5 Things You May Not Know About Superman II.

First look at Jim Lee’s poster for 2012 Hero Complex Film Festival.

Creators’ families rights: merit vs. inheritance.

Upstairs Downstairs Not Returning For Third Season.

32 Science Fiction And Fantasy Movies That Could Rock Your Summer.

BuzzFeed offers a look inside the DC Comics offices.

An interview with John Barrowman, from the recent C2E2 convention.

Should John Barrowman return as Captain Jack for the 50th anniversary?

Dark Shadows Original Cast Reunion Photo. Taken before Jonathan Frid passed away.

Preview of Superman #8.

The Avengers Theme.

Buffy Writer Jane Espenson Talks Tough TV Heroines.

Jessica Chastain is in talks for Iron Man 3.

New trailer for Pixar’s Brave. And a clip called Eyes On the Pies.

The director of Bridesmaids wrote some of The Amazing Spider-Man.

Amazing Spider-Man Toaster.

BAFTA Television Award Nominations. Nominations are up for Sherlock, The Fades, and Misfits.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation Theatrical Trailer.

Gallifrey Time Lords T-Shirt

DC Cancels Legion Lost Trade.

Original art from New Mutants Special and X-Men Annual #9.

Fantastic Fangirls: What comic book character would make a good coach?

Svengoolie interviews Vince Price’s daughter, Victoria Price.

Jane Levy on Possession and The Evil Dead Remake.

Watch Chris Weston Paint Miracleman.

24 Things We Learned From The Total Recall Commentary.

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Mediafire Starts Blocking FilesTube Search Traffic.

The History of File-Sharing

The next movie for Svengoolie is This Island Earth.

The grandson of Tolkien and a descendant of Dickens are collaborating on two new fantasy books for children.

Theaters will adapt to show The Hobbit at 48fps by December.

From Cracked: The 6 Creepiest Ways They’re Harvesting Electricity.

Sea-Monkeys And X-Ray Specs: Collecting The Bizarre Stuff Sold In The Back of Comic Books.

Top 10 Clever Tricks Built Right Into Gmail.

The spooky tv movie that caused post-traumatic stress disorder. I had the opportunity to see Ghostwatch, back in October of last year. While it wasn’t scary to me, at least now I actually get the reference in Army of Ghosts.

How Other Firefly Actors Could Guest Star On Castle.

Sail The Coast With Jigsaw On The Saw Ultimate Fan Experience Cruise. That can’t end well.

Dark Shadows: There’s some new footage in this trailer from Taiwan.

Star Trek: The Walking Red Shirt.

First Photo From Lionsgate’s Possession, Formerly Dibbuk Box.

These 1980s robot waiters were real, but they were terrible at their job.

The Monsters of Rock, painted as literal monsters.

Learn yoga with pirates, zombies, and space men.

Jane Espenson chatted with Clique Clack about Once Upon A Time.

Barbiebot And Pals.

The Seed of Yggdrasil: Nifty 3D-printed sculpture based on Celtic-style knot in Norse mythology.

The Punisher (1989) is the topic of conversation for this week’s Bad Movie Fiends Podcast.

Schlock Treatment 74: The Fly II. Next week they discuss Ghostbusters II.

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Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says.

Youtube Liable For Copyright Infringements, German Court Rules.

100 Best Horror Films.

Ask Chris #102: Superman’s Terrible Villains.

The Avengers UK Press Conference In Full.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #363, all regarding Psylocke.

Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross Steps Down, Says The Job Is Not The Right Professional Fit.

Chris Roberson is no longer writing an arc of Fairest.

Coming Soon: Subtitle Glasses Enhance the Cinema Experience For Hearing-Impaired Viewers.

Guy Pearce will play Dr. Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3.

Point/Counterpoint: Thundercats.

What Popular Websites Would Look Like As Fashionable Dresses.

The Lobo Movie Just Got Fragged. Warner Bros. hired Brad Peyton to rewrite the script and direct the Lobo movie—the other two films he’s done are Journey 2 and Cats And Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Earth Day Terrors: 10 Organic Villains To Fear.

Rights Glitch: Quicksilver And Scarlet Witch Could Appear In Both Fox And Marvel Studios Movies.

Buffy Cake.

American Scary.

Behind The Scenes Pic Of The Day: The Prestige.

Fan Art: Gozer The Destructor.

Two more international spots for The Avengers—focusing on the Hulk and Captain America.

A new Dark Knight Rises trailer will be coming with The Avengers.

Superhero movies like The Avengers should not be scorned. Tom Hiddleston writes a fantastic defense of the superhero genre.

Worst Werewolves On Film And TV. I recently watched Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf for the first time, courtesy of Comcast On Demand. In that version, Stirba flashes the audience during the end credits 16 times, rather than 10. So there must be a weird bit of censoring going on.

Friday In The Crypt. Vampires in pop culture. Toward the end, there’s a discussion of Dark Shadows—written before the author found out about Jonathan Frid.

Found via

wabbitseason: Francesco Francaville’s art tribute to Jonathan Frid.

Also, if someone could point me in the direction of some Dark Shadows icons, that would be great. I keep running into ancient posts with images that have been removed.