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Malachi Throne has passed away at the age of 84. May he rest in peace. Star Trek fans will remember him as Commodore Mendez in the TOS episode The Menagerie, as well as the leader of the Talosians in The Cage, and was Senator Pardek in the Star Trek: TNG two-parter Unification. He played False Face in the Adam West Batman series—I recently managed to catch an episode with him, courtesy of ME-TV. He was the narrator for the original 1977 trailer for Star Wars. A quick check of IMDB, tells me he was also the narrator of the cartoon Visionaries: Knights of the Magic Light.

Paramount Censors Torrentz’s Torrentless Homepage from Google

A Few Favorite Red Nose Day Moments.

A Global Zombie Walk Is Coming This May.

The History of TNT’s Monstervision. From back when I watched, pre-Joe Bob Briggs.

Veronica Mars Movie Budget Coming Entirely From Kickstarter, More Rewards To Be Added

Today in ‘What’s being Kickstarted?’: Maybe Pushing Daisies, definitely not Firefly.

BFI: The Second Doctor Panel.

10 Minor Doctor Who Characters That Should Have Been Companions.

The Line It Is Drawn #130—Song Lyrics Starring Comic Book Characters.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #410.

Ask Chris #145: Looking Forward To Batman’s Past.

10 Marvel Events That Had A Major Impact.

San Diego Comic-Con Update: convention center expansion approved; D23 may threaten Marvel’s participation

Dave Bautista will play Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Commercials

90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection Trailer

World Premiere Of ‘Teen Titans Go’ Slated For Wondercon 2013 In Anaheim

Image of the Day: Favorite Images From Knightfall #4.

Image of the Day: Favorite Images From Knightfall #5.

New Beware the Batman Promo Poster Released

Cartoon Theme Songs Sure Were Weird.

Why Sherlock Comics Should Be A Thing.

Andy Diggle, Scott Lobdell, Greg Pak and Scott Snyder Celebrate Superman, Part 1.

Wonder Woman Documentary To Air On PBS April 15th.

Jurassic Park 4’s director will be Colin Trevorrow.

Top 10 Hilarious Movie Deaths

33 Things We Learned from the ‘Psycho’ Commentary

Vintage Horror Cinema: F.W. Murnau's 'Faust'

Cosplay We Love: The most amazing Cthulhu costume you’ll ever see.

How It Should Have Ended: Portal.

MST3K Volume XXVI Trailer

Trailers From Hell: Allan Arkush on The Actress

Top 10 Unlikely Action Stars

The 10 Greatest Personality Tests In Science Fiction And Fantasy

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 290: The Shining

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 87: Rock ‘n’ Rule (1983).

Mission Log Podcast #32—Episode 32: The Changeling

Smodcast #30: Christopher Drake: Music of the Knight.

Movie Issues Podcast: Josie and the Pussycats (2001).

15,000 sharks riding the waves in Florida; time to watch ‘Jaws’

P:R Approved: Chris Copeland’s Nightwing

Image of the Day: Best Images of the Joker #5

Best Art Ever (This Week): March 8th.

The Line it is Drawn #129 – Spirit-Style Comic Book Pin-Ups in Honor of Will Eisner Week

Comic Book Legends Revealed #409.

Ask Chris #144: Battle Of The Battling Bowmen (They Battle) (With Bows)

Neil Gaiman On The Neverwhere Radio Adaptation

Top 50 underrated films of the 2000s. I loved The Prestige.

Get an insider's look at why Legends Of The Hidden Temple was practically unwinnable

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

Star Wars News is Driving Everyone Crazy

Fandom Manifesto: Star Trek (Reboot)

Star Trek Into Darkness: 20 Things We Learned From The Newly-Screened Footage

Meet Sarah and Felix in These New Orphan Black Inside Look Videos

Work Already Underway On Oz The Great And Powerful Sequel

Syfy Orders Series Pick-Up for Ron Moore Drama Helix

MST3K Wall Decal.

Trailers From Hell: Darren Bousman on The Bird With The Crystal Plumage

From Cracked: The Horrifying Deleted Timeline from Back to the Future

From Think Geek: Chocolate Zombie Bunny.

This Week in Horror: 'Tales from the Crypt', 'Creature from the Black Lagoon', 'Nosferatu'

Cross The Streams Radio Show, Episode 30.

Killer POV: Ep. 4: Taking Out The Street Trash with Roy Frumkes

Movie Issues Podcast: Purple Rain (1984)

Spider rain wasn’t so strange. Those with a massive fear of spiders probably shouldn’t watch the video. I’d say being stuck there at that particular moment in time would be my own nightmare.

Kentucky Experiences Real-Life ‘Birds’ Terror As Millions Flock To Small City. Instead of spiders, a city a short distance from here is getting this.

Saturn Award Nominees. Whedonesque reacts to The Avengers and The Cabin In The Woods being nominated here.

CCI Issues Statement Regarding Registration Technical Issues

X-Men Sequel Days of Future Past Teased for SDCC 2013

How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry

Stan Lee’s Rants: Pennies.

CBR News interviews Brian Michael Bendis

DC Announces Venditti, Fialkov, Jordan and Giffen on Green Lantern Titles

DC Histories: Vibe.

Kyle Higgins Talks Nightwing’s Big Move Out Of Gotham

Image of the Day: Best BTAS Screenshots #3

Top 10 Most Terrifying Toy Commercials Of The 80’s—Part 2.

Rachelle Lefevre Joins Under The Dome

Kirk Ward joins the Zombieland series as Tallahassee

An Adventure in Space and Time: TARDIS designer cast

Bruce Campbell Wants To Buy You An Evil Dead Tattoo

Proton Pack To Be Given Away At Retro Con 2013.

The Sandman Re-Read: Fables and Reflections.

Eileen Davidson Returning To Young And The Restless.

Random Roles: Jeffrey Combs on Re-Animator’s endurance, playing H.P. Lovecraft, and more.

Oz The Great and Powerful—Behind the Scenes

Oz The Great and Powerful Extended Sneak Peek

Horror Etc, Episode 287: Long Live The New Flesh

Now Playing Podcast: A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

Comic Issues #106—Spoiler Alert.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 128: New York Toy Fair 2013—Part 1

Film Bin Podcast: Outland (1981)

Stuart Freeborn has passed away, at the age of 98. He was the “creature effects artist who brought Yoda, Chewbacca, the Ewoks and countless other Star Wars aliens to life.” May he rest in peace.

Robin Sachs' dogs are looking for a new home.

Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec

Siegel and Shuster attorney to court: It’s over

Comic Con International’s Tax Documents Reveal Organizations Assets, Cost of SDCC.

Warren Bernard’s Citations and Fredric Wertham Documents.

Abandoned Love: How Do We Get Wonder Woman Back From Being a Mod?

Neal Adams’ Amended Cover For The London Super Comic Con

Final Series Of Being Human Announced.

Being Human Series 5 Trailer

‘Merlin’ co-creator Julian Murphy on series’ emotional conclusion

Matt Smith to star in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut How To Catch A Monster.

Ann Nocenti Talks Katana, Kurasowa and the Changes She’s Seen in Comics

Hindi Superman: 1987.

What The End Of Death of the Family Could Bring To Batman Comics.

Alfred Pennyworth: Where Do I Start?

Great Moments In Comics History: World’s Finest #153.

The Bat Signal: Layman & Fabok Rule the Roost in Detective Comics

Greg Berlanti's Storyboard Pitch For Green Lantern.

Paradise Island Concept Art Surfaces For David E. Kelly’s Wonder Woman.

The Uncanny X-Men Revolution: Cyclops

Is Venom In The Amazing Spider-Man 2?

Farscape Rewatch: Season Two Overview, Season Three Primer

Do zombies experience consciousness?

Bryan Cranston And Elizabeth Olsen In Talks To Join Legendary's Godzilla.

TV Legends Revealed: Ernie Hudson Lost The Ghostbusters Cartoon Role?

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Fridge Decal.

Super Mario Busters Perfectly Mixes SMB with Ghostbusters

Who Should Play Young Han Solo?

Who do you LEAST want to play Young Han Solo in the new Star Wars spinoff?

The Star Wars Sequel That Never (Quite) Was: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

Top 20 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie WTF Moments.

How The Definitive Movie Scare Got Grossed Up Into A Tiresome Cliché

TR Interview: Jeffrey Combs.

New Star Trek: Into Darkness Images From Entertainment Weekly.

Here’s an Ask Me Anything from William Shatner.

It’s No Coincidence That Your Favorite Characters Are Now Winter Storms

Charles Band Vidcast 02.07.13 - Valentine's Day, Wizard Video VHS, Grindhouse, Etc…

Dark Shadows News: April California Shadows Events Announced.

10 Movies That Should Become Spinoff TV Series Right Now

Why Americans Became Obsessed With Ninjas.

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Seeks to Revive SG-1 As An Interactive Adventure

Junk Food Dinner #146: Alien (1979), Not Of This Earth (1988), and I Come In Peace (1990). Skip to 36 minutes in, if you only want to hear the movie discussions.

Pulp Nightmare: Pulp Commentary—Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 78: Super Hero Taisen (Commentary)

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast:Volume 2, Episode 6: Happy Birthday Superman, Part 1

Smodcast: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Commentary Track With Kevin Smith And Marc Bernardin.

Mission Log Podcast #27: Episode 27—The Alternative Factor.

Kat.ph goes down after domain name expires.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Wolf Man.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Casting—Page, Paquin, And Ashmore In, Jones And Byrne Maybe Not.

Deadpool ruins classic works of literature, one book cover at a time.

Doctor Who/Labyrinth Fan Art.

Into The Woods: Fairytales and Childhood Anxiety.

Radiodrome, Episode 106: Video Nasties Episode 107: The Alien Series.

The Collinsport Historical Society Podcast, Episode 6.: The Groovy Ghoulies. They discuss Dracula A.D. 1972, as well as a bit of what they don’t like about the Tim Burton Dark Shadows.

Commentary Track Stars: The Dark Crystal (1982)

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)

Schlock Treatment 110: Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (1990)

DC housekeeping fallout.

The Man of Steel Gets An ‘Iconic’ Statue From Gentle Giant.

Green Lantern: The Animated Series Comic Title Now Bi-Monthly.

And The New Showrunner For The Walking Dead Is…

And now MGM is making a new Ben-Hur.

Marvel Minimates Series 50: Fan's Choice Series

The Fan Made Carrie Poster That Tricked The Web.

From Cracked: 6 Awesome Easter Eggs Hidden In Programs You Use Every Day.

Two banners for Jack The Giant Slayer.

Fringe Series Finale Poster.

No, Zack Snyder is not directing a samurai Star Wars movie.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #186: What comic book characters should raise a child together?

A Making Of Excalibur Documentary Needs Help.

This French doorway is obviously the beginning of the Cthulhian architecture movement

Ghost in the Shell Arise Anime to Launch in 2013

Is There A Right Age To Read A Book?

Bizarro Back Issues: The Strange Saga of the Joker’s Daughter (1976)

Stan Lee's Real Life Arc Reactor

Evil Dead To Premiere At SXSW.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #270: Blood Simple (1985)

Terror Transmission, Episode 84: Mark of the Vampire (1935)

We Hate Movies, Episode 93: Alex Cross (2012)

Batman Universe Podcast, Episode 107

Leader of BitTorrent piracy ring sentenced to five years in prison.

$7,000 Damages for Sharing a ‘For Dummies’ Book on BitTorrent

Peter David is in need of financial assistance after his stroke—here is how you can help. Whedonesque discusses this here. Likely due to the fact that everyone is going to his site at the same time, it’s having issues with going up and down. Just be patient.

77 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies To Watch Out For In 2013.

Pop culture resolutions for 2013.

10 To Watch In 2013: Television.

The Ten Best Geek Movies of 2012.

Thunder and Lighting Come to DC Nation

DC Nation Debuts Amethyst Cartoon.

P:R Approved: Daniel Krall’s Joker and Harley Quinn

Man Proposes Dressed As Ood.

Warner Bros. Settles Half of Smallville Lawsuit

The Tolkien Nerd’s Guide To The Hobbit.

Rumor: Universal plans Middle Earth theme park?

A Fifty Year Old Copy of The Hobbit Goes To Bag End.

Time Warner Cable drops Current TV after sale.

Star Trek DS9’s Emissary At 20: An Appreciation.

How Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Helped To Invent Everything You Love.

Doctor Who: 9 things we know about Clara/Oswin.

Series Of Short Stories Announced To Celebrate Doctor Who 50th Anniversary

From Think Geek: Doctor Who TARDIS Play Tent.

Evil Dead (2013) Red Band Trailer #2. NSFW, massive amounts of gore—not for the squeamish, given what I saw of what happened to someone’s eye and tongue. And there’s what I think was the infamous tree scene. So if you don’t want to see that, it’s best to avoid this.

Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters New Red Band Trailer #2. Slightly NSFW due to language and fleeting nudity.

Trailers From Hell: Josh Olson on Straight Time

From It’s Just Some Random Guy: Marvel/DC Happy New Year Card Parody Collection.

New Oz: The Great And Powerful Images.

Remembering Peter Parker: The Importance of the Amazing Spider-Man.

I Find Your Lack Of Jiggawatts Disturbing Art Print.

Principal Strickland's 1985-A House from Back to the Future Part II is for Sale in Whittier

Interview: How Brandon Sanderson Ended The Wheel Of Time

Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli Classics Featured on Zippo Lighter Series

The Greatest Manga Censorship Fails

Isn’t It About Time You Gave Supernatural Season 1 Another Chance?

Exclusive Interview with Robin Shelby aka Slimer

Best Art Ever (This Week): January 4th.

Top 10 Werewolf Movies.

Colorful Vintage Moon Maps.

What is the subtext of George Lucas’ exit interviews?

Ask Chris #135: Under The Hood.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 1)

First Full Look At Firefly From Arrow’s Midseason Premiere.

Delete My Browser History Medicalert Bracelet.

Ringo Starr - With Great Power Extended Interview

The Cinefiles Presents: Deleted—Argento (scenes from the cutting room floor).

The 10 Weirdest Deaths By Technology.

Memory Wipe: Does the beloved Choose Your Own Adventure series still thrill?

New Photos From Oblivion, Man of Steel, and World War Z.

Neil Gaiman Apparently Working On Another Doctor Who Project—And Probably Not For The Eleventh Doctor.

10 of the Most Pointless Action Figures Ever Made.

Retro Calendars for 2013 - 1991 Revisited

Check Into Bates Motel March 18th.

Conversing On Comics With Warren Ellis

Nerdist Podcast: Warren Ellis.

Fantastic Fangirls Podcast: Comfort Media.

Movie Issues Podcast: Best of 2012.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #158: Joysticks (1983)

Saturday B Movie Reel #93—Behemoth.

Two days to go before the Yuletide deadline.

Season’s Greetings From Satellite News.

University of Chicago’s Indiana Jones Mystery Solved.

Iron Man—Bad Days—Episode 11.

Steven Moffat on Radio 2, discussion The Snowmen.

Being Human (UK Version) DVD News: Box Art and Extras For Season 4 on DVD and Blu-Ray.

1958 The Blob Gets A Criterion Blu-Ray Release.

10 remarkable things about Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.

Terry Gilliam tribute on Fringe.

Skeletor’s Feliz Navidad.

Empire’s James Bond Travel Map.

Sherlock Holmes 3 Update From Producer Dan Lin.

Benedict Cumberbatch on the future of Sherlock.

From Cracked: 6 Mind-Blowing Archeological Discoveries Destroyed by Idiocy

Kyle Roberts Recreates Classic X-Men Cartoon Intro In Stop Motion.

There was almost a film version of Luke Cage directed by Quentin Tarantino with Laurence Fisburne starring.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #184: How does a favorite comic book character mark the winter holidays?

The Witch-King Rules This Swing Set.

Pulled Haven Episode Rescheduled For January.

Lost Bram Stoker Short Stories See The Light of Day.

Nobody is going to the funeral, because everyone is a little too sick to make it out there. Everyone has a massively bad cold that includes sore/scratchy throats in addition to the coughing (or inability to speak at all, if you’re Mom) in its bag of tricks. We don’t want to spread it, so we’re not going. We’re just trying to stay hydrated. Donna understands, since she has it, too.

Tomorrow, it’s the dentist for me.

Mystery donor who gave $35,000 to The Oatmeal’s Tesla museum fund revealed.

Holiday Love Meme 2012. Since it's been a rough couple of months, my thread.

A Friending Meme.

CBLDF’s Holiday Gift Guide

Magical Used Book Store Dispenses Random Literary Treasures.

First Official Photo From The Hobbit: There And Back Again Released.

Gandalf Confronts The Goblin King In A New Still From The Hobbit: There And Back Again.

First ever image from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shows one terrified burglar.

The 10 Most Interesting Facts Gleaned From The Hobbit Press Conference.

Philippa Boyens: Del Toro’s Hobbit would have been amazing.

Preview: Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon #1.

Pan’s Labyrinth Being Adapted As A Stage Musical.

5 great geek crossover TV episodes.

First look at Being Human series 5.

Brian De Palma's The Fury the Latest Cult Favorite Going Blu-ray in 2013

Development Deal: Adam Strange.

Dark Shadows Actress Kathryn Leigh Scott Wants To Help With Your Holiday Shopping

List Of IMAX Theaters Showing 9 Minute Star Trek: Into Darkness Preview Available Now.

Once Upon A Time has cast Gregory Itzin as Victor Frankenstein’s father, Alphonse.

Trailer and poster for Blancanieves, a Spanish-language 1920's set Snow White tale.

Stranger than fiction: Jumanji to be rewritten by Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium scribe Zach Helm

Incredibly Strange and Ridiculously Cheap: Albert Pyun's 30-Year Career in B-Movies

Trailers From Hell: Sam Hamm on The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

Snow Sculpture Win.

The Evolution of Sigourney Weaver.

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

Twenty Years Ago—Spider-Man’s 30th Anniversary.

New Portrait Of Man of Steel’s Superman On Magazine Cover.

Famke Janssen Talks Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Alan Moore’s Essay For The Activist Occupy Comics Anthology.

Keatinge & Dallocchio Take On Starfire for ‘DC Universe Presents’

99 Cent Sale On Dark Horse Digital.

Sandman covers before and after Photoshop.

David Tennant on his Doctor Who pride.

Free, partial TARDIS piñata.

Classic Julie Newmar Catwoman, drawn by Pedro Figue.

Joe Quesada—With Great Power Extended Interview.

Cinemassacre: Public Domain Horror VHS Art.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #396.

Gift Guide: Brain Cube.

Japanese Iron Man 3 Trailer.

10 Most Unlikely Things That Were Influenced By J.R.R. Tolkien.

Are we at the start of a new golden age of superhero TV shows?

Back to the Future Hoverboard Hands On: So This Is What A Real Life Hoverboard Looks Like.

Lee Pace Confirms He’s Auditioning For Guardians of the Galaxy; Says Script Is ‘Great.’

Horror Comedy Death Becomes Her Gets Small Screen Redo.

Return To Nuke ‘Em High Poster Revealed.

48 Things We Learned From The Casino Royale Commentary.

The Bigfoot of Endor T-Shirt.

Movie Issues Podcast: Black Christmas (2006)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #154: Steele Justice (1987)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 125—The Wonder Years.

Youtube has altered their main page again. So if you want to get to your subscriptions, you’ll have to go to this page from now on. After which, update (in Firefox) this script. It will allow you to have the x to remove videos. Loading new videos seems to have a bit of a hang up at the moment, however.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde.

TV’s Top 5 Sherlock Holmes Stars.

The Amazing Middle-Earth Art of John Cockshaw.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—What Happened To Polaris’ Powers?

Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: The Cat And The Claw Part 1 and 2.

Bibliomat: a vending machine for random rare and antiquarian books (with satisfying clunk)

Commentary Track Stars: Hard Eight (1996)

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

Yuletide Update: The story is (before I eventually tinker with the ending, and add in a large amount to the middle—most of which is written on a notepad at the moment) currently at 4058 words and still going. I've set myself a goal of getting the majority of everything completed by Thanksgiving, so we'll see how that goes.

For all those in the path of the Hurricane Sandy and everything else in its wake, please try to stay safe.

Rapidshare Removes Piracy Deterring Slowdowns.

Random House and Penguin announce merger.

31 Days of Horror: The Exorcist/The Omen.

Horror Education of the Week: John Carpenter’s Halloween.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The New Teen Titans #3 (1984)

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Puppetmaster (1989).

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Brain Damage.

Longbox of the Damned: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror #18.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #29 of 31: Bloody Birthday.

Rare Halloween Videos: 2009: Spooky Bats and Scaredy Cats.

Top 10 Ridiculous Horror Movie Creatures.

The 20 Most Unintentionally Terrifying Movies Of All Time.

Thirteen Horror Anthologies You Might Have Missed.

Fright Night Sequel Gearing Up For Production In Romania?

Dark Shadows Picture of the Week.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 10.

Matt Smith interview: Doctor Who, Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad.

Skyfall Opens To $77.7 Million Internationally.

Here’s Joss Whedon discussing the possible zombie apocalypse if Romney wins. Funny. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Interview: Joss Whedon, Actor.

Superman on TV: October 29th to November 4th.

Stained Glass Window Ash T-Shirt.

Unsolved Mysteries created scary TV without even meaning to.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #8-7.

Comics Alliance Reviews BloodRayne (2005), Part Two.

Superman—Bad Days—Episode 4.

Move over Van Helsing, there’s a new terrible fairy tale flick—Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week) October 29th.

Young Justice Confirmed Joining Boomerang Line-Up Starting November 2012.

Jewel Staite answers more fan questions for Blastr.

Movie Issues Podcast: Poltergeist (1982).

Tysto Commentary Podcast: Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Film Sack Podcast #137: Hellraiser.

Retroist Podcast—Episode 122: Teen Wolf.

And now, a Halloween meme--I’m just spreading it for everyone else to grab, and not really participating.

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.).