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Suzan Farmer passed away on September 17th, at the age of 75, after she lost her battle with cancer. May she rest in peace. I already knew that she played Diana Kent in Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) for Hammer Studios. That might be one of the few Dracula ones in the Hammer catalog that I haven’t seen, though I have watched several clips with her from that particular film. Earlier today, I located a copy, so I can watch that today or tomorrow.

She also starred (again with Christopher Lee) in Rasputin The Mad Monk (1966). She was in Die, Monster, Die! (1965) alongside Boris Karloff, which I have seen thanks to Comet TV airing it a lot a few months ago. For Sherlock Holmes fans, she appeared in one episode of the Peter Cushing series back in 1965--The Beryl Coronet, where she played Mary.

From what I’ve read about the Peter Cushing series, large chunks are currently missing. However, The Beryl Coronet appears to have survived.

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

Leo Dillon passed away on May 26th, at the age of 79. He was a “Hugo Award and Caldecott Medal-winning sci-fi and fantasy artist,” whose work appeared on hundreds of science fiction and fantasy book covers. May he rest in peace.

ACTA: Unredacted Docs Show European Commission Negotiation Failures.

Cyber-weapon Flame, “most complex malware ever,” identified by Kaspersky Lab.

10 Important Life Lessons Learned From Superhero Comics, Movies, And Cartoons.

SoapNet will air a four episode marathon of Veronica Mars on June 17th.

Looking back at Shaun of the Dead.

Christopher Lee’s Top Five Horror Films.

New Prometheus Featurette Is All About The Ship.

Bill and Ted/Back to the Future Shirt.

The fourth tv spot for The Dark Knight Rises.

Spoof trailer for Tetris: The Movie.

Mysterious Cities of Gold cartoon sequel is actually happening.

If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this.

Watch the Japanese trailer for Starship Troopers: Invasion.

The Battlestar Galactica USB Drive.

Guess the tv show character.

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

Star Wars Characters Posing With Bunnies.

The SFX Factor: Greatest TV Title Sequences Round 12. It’s down to the final three: Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and Game of Thrones.

Molly Burnett is leaving Days of Our Lives.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 60: The Skulls (2000).

What we lose when we lose video stores.

10 times Doctor Doom’s dignity went down the toilet. Yes, his defeat at the squirrels of Squirrel Girl makes #3.

Universal is rebooting The Mummy again, with Jon Spaihts as writer.

Brand new clip from The Cabin In The Woods.

Preview issue #9 of IDW’s Ghostbusters.

Biff’s stealing the TARDIS!

10 signs that the movie you’re watching is from the 80’s.

Phoenix: The Untold Story—The Dark Phoenix Tapes.

Steven Moffat’s audition script for the new companion.

Supernatural changing showrunner (and likely renewed).

Rarest and most expensive Garbage Pail Kids cards ever made.

In 1940, The Franklin Institute announced Armageddon as an April Fool’s joke.

New DC Nation clip, this time starring Animal Man.

Early look at Mattel’s upcoming Hot Wheels 1:43 scale DeLorean time machine.

I Am Legend was named vampire novel of the century by the annual Bram Stoker Awards.

Comic Book Dream Casting. William Shatner as Green Lantern—odd, but funny.

New Amazing Spider-Man clip.

Did you know pinball was once declared illegal?

Rainbow Unicorn Pegasus Cake.

Prometheus offers five new images.

Disney and Marvel announce Captain America sequel for April 2014.

Exclusive video clip of Christopher Lee in The Wicker Tree.

The first official Hobbit shirts.

One year, we had to deal with an insane swarm of ladybugs covering the houses. Another year, mosquitoes. This year? Crane flies. They look like the mutant offspring of dragonflies and mosquitoes, but they won’t hurt you. They live ten days, and die—in that time, they mate (when they can fly in a straight line) and lay hundreds of eggs. Actual Size. (Almost. I saw a few that large, but they’re usually not much larger than your hand.)