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Lifetime Horror Award Goes To Clive Barker.

Rifftrax: When A Stranger Calls Back (VOD Sample)

The Uncanny X-Men Revolution: Magik.

Tom DeSanto - With Great Power Extended Interviews

The Line it is Drawn #125 – Rock and Roll Superheroes

DC Cancels Firestorm, Ravagers, Hawkman, Deathstroke, Sword Of Sorcery And Team 7

Sales Post Mortem on DC’s Cancelled Titles.

Superman is back on stage in It’s a Bird revival

The Changing Face (Literally) of Superman Over 75 Years

New Digital-First Superman Series to Feature Timm, Hitch, Samnee, Sprouse and More with Out-of-Continuity Adventures

Dustin Nguyen Celebrates Holidays With Batman: Li'l Gotham

Justice League May Be Looking For New Writers.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #405.

16 Heartbreakingly Awesome Bits Of Production Art That Never Made It To The Screen.

Toby on the conclusion of Being Human

Could The Next Doctor Who Showrunner Already Be Chosen?

An Adventure in Space and Time: Jamie Glover to play William Russell

An Adventure in Space and Time: Jemma Powell to play Jacqueline Hill

Meet The Characters In BBC America’s Orphan Black. The newest BBC America trailer is here.

Stanley Hotel To Hold Indie Horror Fest.

Cover and Synopsis for Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep.

Gremlins Greta Life-Size Stunt Puppet

Zombieland Pilot Casts Two Leads.

Trailers From Hell: Larry Karaszewski on Burn.

Frank Oz Up For Reprising Yoda Role In Star Wars Spin-Off Movie.

Catching Up With Catherine Mary Stewart.

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

Alfred Hitchcock's iconic horror film Psycho was supposed to be a comedy, a new collection of BBC interviews reveal.

The Lunch: Episode 25: Room 237 Director Rodney Ascher

Movie Issues Podcast: Shaft (2000)

The Batman Universe, Bat-Books For Beginners, Episode 97: Batman: Cataclysm

Sean Pultz Commentaries: The Omen (1976)

Yes, that PC cleanup app you saw on cable TV at 3 AM is a scam. Pretty much as you’d expect.

Barnes & Noble to close one-third of retail stores over the next decade.

Cartoon Network Cancels Young Justice And Green Lantern: The Animated Series. Teen Titans Go and Beware the Batman will replace them.

Pilot News—Wonder Woman Amazon on Hold, CW Orders Tomorrow People.

Jonathan Frid featured in SAG awards video.

French Church Goes Cute By Changing Gargoyles to Gremlins

PBS airing superhero-themed Pioneers of Television.

Celebrate Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary With Mini David Tennant.

The Doctor and the Ponds finally meet Inspector Spacetime.

David Troughton and Murray Gold Win Audio Drama Awards.

Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground.

Toby Whithouse Introduces Being Human Series 5

Damien Molony and Kate Bracken interview: Being Human series 5

Grimm: The Web Series.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Linkara Riffs: The Gossip.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Happy Days #2.

Stan Lee’s Real Life Wolverine Claws.

Captain Marvel DIY Sweater.

Jeffrey Combs - Happy 10th Anniversary to Shout! Factory

New study shows that graphic novels really do help people learn.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: The New 52.

Newest Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster.

Empire Magazine Man of Steel Cover.

New Man of Steel Images Spotlight Cavill, Shannon and Crowe.

Superman on TV: January 28th-February 3rd

'Death Of Superman Lives' Documentary Hits Kickstarter

Wolverine Puts On A Suit In New Image From The Wolverine.

Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Saint Revival Promises ‘New Take’ On Simon Templar.

Ghostbusters game from Capcom's Beeline available now

Evil Dead Had Received An NC-17, Cut For R.

Looks Like Suspiria Remake Slashed.

New X-Files Comic Launching From IDW.

P:R Approved: The Rahzzah’s Wonder Woman

Robert Zemeckis Blames Death Of Roger Rabbit Sequel On Regime Change At Disney

Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava and Zombies DVDs/Blu-rays from Synapse

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked (Death is Not the End) – So Is Europe Just a Codeword for Limbo for Osborns?

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Lois Lane Meets a Man Who Somehow Has More Issues That Silver Age Lois Lane

Paul Giamatti may play Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The Wackiest and Most Random Roles the Star Trek: TNG Cast Ever Took On

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): January 28th.

House To Astonish Podcast, Episode 99.

Bloodcast, Episode 27: The Omen and The Shining.

Film Sack Podcast #148: Double Dragon (1994)

Atari Files For Bankruptcy Protection.

Joss Whedon’s Never Ending Story.

Clear eyes, full hearts, eh, I’ll just wait for the TV show: 14 TV series that usurped their original film versions. Stargate SG-1 and Buffy are on the list.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Linkara Riffs—Let’s Be Good Citizens At School.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Transformers #31.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Phantom Of The Opera

Doctor Who Weeping Angel Cake.

A Companion To The Doctors: The First Doctor.

Superman on TV: January 21-27.

P:R Redesign: Kerwin Siméus’ Green Goblin

How Well Do You Know Goosebumps Titles?

Best of the Worst: Russian Terminator, Ninja Vengeance, and Never Too Young to Die

Yep, There’s A Remake Of The Orphanage On The Way.

Toby Jones Will Return For Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Drew Struzan Has Been Asked To Do Posters For New ‘Star Wars’ Movies

Hobbit PSA posters warn this is your brain on the ring.

The Great Alan Moore Re-Read: The All-Time Top 10 Best Comics Written By Alan Moore.

‘Totoro, ‘Princess Mononoke’ returning to theaters for Ghibli series.

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 147: Deep Impact (1998)

The Collinsport Historical Society, Episode 5: Doctor Mabuse.

Sean Pultz Commentaries: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Stan Lee Turns 90 Today.

Stan Lee At 90: 90 Reasons To Love ‘The Man.’

Ian Bryce - With Great Power Extended Interview

Being Peter Parker: Thoughts On Amazing Spider-Man #700.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Surpasses $500 Million Worldwide.

The Soviets Made A Hobbit Movie In 1985. It’s So Terrible, It’s Incredible.

Great Quotes About Writing From Game of Thrones Author George R.R. Martin.

Only Bruce Wayne can afford this ludicrously expensive Batman chess set.

Women of the Whedonverse T-Shirt.

Labyrinth Knocker Earrings.

10 To Watch In 2013: Comic Book Characters.

The 10 Most-Anticipated Geek Movies of 2013.

The Absolute Best Cosplay Of 2012.

iFanboy’s Best of 2012: Best Comics Stuff That Isn’t Comics.

Doctor Who: Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman interview each other

Play The Game Of Time T-Shirt.

NBC Officially Passes On Mockingbird Lane.

Rumor: Star Wars Comics License Returning To Marvel?

The Worst TV Of 2012.

Marvin The Martian, Hong Kong Phooey Live/CG Footage Leaked.

The Hub January 2013 Highlights: Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Joins, Batman and Superman Movies.

Titles For Young Justice, Green Lantern: The Animated Series Episodes Airing January 2013.

From Cracked: 6 Places You’ll Recognize From The Background Of Every Movie.

Best Art Ever (This Week): December 28th.

Awesome Retro X-Men Comic Book Cover Tattoo.

FYI: What Kind Of Dinosaur Meat Would Taste Best?

10 Incredibly Stupid Ways Superheroes and Villains Have Died.

51 Things We Learned From The Looper Commentary.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #399.

Ask Chris #134: The Dubious Continuity of Rudolph’s Shiny New Year.

Bill Morrison organizing art auctions to help save Metro Entertainment.

New Stills From Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer.

Film Pigs DVD Commentary #45: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Movie Issues Podcast: Strange Days (1995)

Yuletide 2012 Nominations are now open. Nomination Confirmation/Rejection Tracking Post. Having recently seen Snow White And The Huntsman and Cabin In The Woods for the first time, I’m pleased to see that someone has nominated them both. As for me, I nominated Fright Night (1985), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996, and The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. I saw someone else promising to add The Shadow, so I went with the runner-up from the poll (since I’m probably the only one that knows of Mr. Boogedy, I went with Lost Skeleton). I’m desperately hoping someone out there adds Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and the Superdictionary.

The next season of Merlin begins October 6th.

Superman on TV: September 24-30th.

Cleveland airport to dedicate Superman exhibit October 11th.

Man of Steel: Storyboard Artist Jay Oliva Video Interview.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—Maybe We Should Just Forget This Issue of Excalibur.

Fran Kranz interview: The Cabin In The Woods, Shakespeare, and fake blood.

There were some technical problems with the UK Blu-ray release of The Cabin In The Woods. Follow the link to where you can get your replacement disc if you’ve been affected.

Eddie Marsan interview: Snow White, Jack the Giant Killer and Tyrannosaur.

How Not To Write Comics Criticism.

50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters.

I Saw Three Ships is open for sign-ups.

From Cracked: 5 Iconic Characters You Didn’t Know Were Rip-Offs.

P:R Approved: Bryan O’Malley’s Danielle Moonstar.

First Official Image From The Wolverine.

First look at Evangeline Lily as Tauriel in The Hobbit.

Andy Serkis reads an excerpt of The Hobbit in Gollum’s voice.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: Night of the Sentinels (1992)

6 Reasons 60’s Batman Was The Greatest Guy Ever.

Film Sack Podcast #132: Empire of the Ants.

Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away, at the age of 54. He suffered a heart attack in July, from which he never fully recovered. May he rest in peace. He was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for his role in The Green Mile. I remember him best as The Kingpin, in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, having apparently never seen anything live action that he has appeared in.

Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm.

Review: Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1.

Ghostbusters Firehouse For Mattel Custom Façade Diorama

A fan’s script outline for Ghostbusters 3.

Batman Film Reboot: 11 Things That Must Be Included.

The Dark Knight Returns’ Joker Revealed.

Amazing Life-Size Heath Ledger Joker Statue.

The Dark Knight Rises Surpasses $100 Million In IMAX.

Theaters Saw Worst Summer Box Office Sales Since 1993.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tom Strong, Part 2.

An interview with Alan Moore.

25 movies that expose the ruthlessness of television. From the list, I’ve seen Stay Tuned and Galaxy Quest.

Why Baz, The New Green Lantern, Will Be Different.

Joss Whedon, Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Q&A at the Writers Guild of America.

If it’s Power Girl this must be Dragon Con (and PAX).

From Cracked: 6 Sensible Things You Should Never Do In A Zombie Outbreak.

It’s Official: Michael Strahan Named Kelly Ripa’s Permanent Live Co-Host.

What Hallucinations Reveal About Our Minds.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #169: What superhero do you want as a big brother or sister?

Evil Dead Dress.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Part Two.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 248: Excalibur #27.

Bandai Entertainment to discontinue home video, manga, novel sales.

What We Learned About The Hobbit Movies At Dragon Con.

Watch Season 1 Shorts From DC Nation.

Campaign To Get Hutchinson, Kansas Renamed Smallville In Honor Of Superman.

What People In 1899 Thought The Year 2000 Would Look Like.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—September 4th.

American Psycho Cupcakes.

Should Movie Theaters Charge Less For Flops?

15 Really Strange Movie Credits.

Parker Sends Willow On A Magic Journey.

Stan Lee’s Rants: The Weatherman.

First trailer for Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 74: Invisible Child (1999)

GeekFest Rants Podcast, Episode 104: Highlander (1986) Commentary.

Third annual Read Comics In Public Day is August 28th.

Demonoid Starts Redirecting To Ads And Malware.

PublicBitTorrent And OpenBitTorrent Trackers Return.

Doctor Who Series 7 Trailer.

How Is Doctor Who Good For Science?

Publicity image released for Asylum of the Daleks.

The Dark Knight Rages.

12 Gotham Newspaper Headlines During The Dark Knight Rises. Massive spoilers for everything in the movie, so proceed at your own risk.

Comic Influences On The Dark Knight Rises.

Dark Knight Themed Home Theater For Only $2 Million.

Memos from Nick Fury.

Excelsior! A Tribute To Stan Lee.

Futurama Hypnotoad Vinyl Figure.

Brian Hibbs pays tribute to Bob Wayne.

Christopher Eccleston joins Thor: The Dark World as Malekith The Accursed.

10 Worst Comic Book-Based Movie Performances Of All Time.

SDCC 2013 Online Badge Pre-Registration Announced.

Bryan Singer Confirms X-Men: Days of Future Past, Suggests Connection To Other X-Men Films.

5 Reasons Why The Next X-Men Movie Should Be Days Of Future Past.

Caroline Dhavernas joins the cast of Hannibal for the lead role of Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom.

Archeologists Uncover Maya Temple of the Blood Drinking Sun God.

Trailers From Hell: Josh Olson on The Howling.

Ghostbusters 3 Loses Bill Murray, Can We Move On Now?

The 10 Worst Cartoons Spawned By Video Games. The only one on that list I ever watched was Darkstalkers.

3D Glasses For The Hobbit Revealed.

Redesign Rewind: Best Of Marvel’s Timeslip.

Brian Posehn writing the new Deadpool series?

Children’s chemistry sets used to contain cyanide.

10 Foods You Crave—And Why You Crave Them. I never craved ice when I was near death from anemia, but I know others who did get that one.

How It Should Have Ended: Skyrim.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein managed to get a Blu-Ray release.

MacGyver Comes To Comics.

Lynn Cohen joins the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Dimestore Dames spotlights ‘Glittering’ Goldie O’Gilt.

Why Remakes Are One Of Our Greatest Achievements As A Civilization.

The Line It Is Drawn #100—100th Issue Celebration.

First Photos From Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Fantastic Fangirls Call For Staff Writers.

Prime Time Madness 2012 is live.

Official poster for Dredd.

From Think Geek: Lego Star Wars Darth Vader Desk Lamp.

Hitchcock's Vertigo ousts Citizen Kane as greatest film of all time

Nerdist Writer's Panel #49: Women on TV.

Anti-CISPA Petition.

Microsoft Backs Away From CISPA Support, Citing Privacy.

Livejournal Scrapbook is going away. I’ll see if I can find out how much space I’ve used up, since I use it for storing icons, and various things I need to link to.

MattyCollector.com Releasing Zuul Figure At San Diego Comic Con. That looks gorgeous.

From Think Geek: Conan The Librarian Shirt.

Disney picks up Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.

Neil Gaiman interviewed Stephen King for the UK Sunday Times Magazine.

An interview with R.J. Jamison, co-author of Barnabas And Company.

First appearance of Iron Man in Tales of Suspense #39 sells for $375,000.

One of Batman’s most convoluted plans to protect his secret identity ever.

Pottery shards were the first ever ticket stubs.

Atari 2600 Wedding Cake.

It’s official: the Chronicle director will reinvent the Fantastic Four.

Why does Joss Whedon always kill the characters we love?

Q&A: Night of the Comet Star Kelli Maroney talks with Fangoria about her career.

So, you want to watch Dark Shadows? An brief overview of the 60’s series, without really hitting on any of the storylines.

David Koepp in talks to write Snow White And The Huntsman sequel, studio wants Rupert Sanders to direct.

Justice League Trailer (Avengers Style) Parody.

Sam Raimi Will Produce Poltergeist Remake, But Not Direct.

Nis Jassen has “lavishly illustrated A Study In Scarlet in two editions: a regular and a deluxe edition.” The foreward is written by the late Edward Hardwicke.

Universal sues The Asylum over its version of Battleship.

Looks like the remake of Carrie could have found footage elements.

David James Kelly Rewriting Daredevil Reboot.

Weekend Discussion Thread: If You Could Ask One Question…

The Classic VHS Horror Game That Was So Funny It Was Scary.

MacGyver’s Floating House Is For Sale.

Official blurb and first look at Wizards Vs. Aliens, from Russell T. Davies.

Dalek mysteriously materializes atop MIT computer science building.

Time to have a little word about Captain Britain.

Outer Limits Trading Cards.

The 2012 Forbes Fictional 15.

Schlock Treatment 75: Ghostbusters II.

Viacom vs. Youtube Lawyer Joins Megaupload Legal Team.

The Quietest Place On Earth Will Drive You Insane Within 45 Minutes.

Bizarro Back Issues talks about the time the X-Men dealt with Kulan Gath in Uncanny X-Men #191 and #192, back in 1985. I read this when I was 4.

What would [insert young adult heroine] do?

The 20 Greatest TV Pilots Since 2000.

Bustin’ makes Shatner feel good.

More Fun With Cakes: Ghostbusters

Online course offered in Tolkien and Fantasy Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Wherefore art thou, Radagast?

BBC Three’s The Fades has been cancelled.

The Tale of Sherlock Rabbit.

Check out Mondo’s posters for The Cabin In The Woods and The Exorcist.

From Hero Complex: Katniss, Hermione, ‘Brave’: Defiant girls with old souls rule.

Comic Con opens up about ticketing hassles.

This dinosaur is also a radiator.

Bully Gets PG-13 Rating.

Joss Whedon will be answering fan question on Reddit on April 10th.

From Shelfari: Emerald City Comic Con: Interview With Rick Remender. Topics range from Captain Britain and Excalibur, and his interest in the X-Men of the late 80’s and early 90’s, to Uncanny X-Force.

New Avengers trailer, wherein Captain America tells Hulk to smash. Another minute long tv spot is here. A third spot is located here.

Dynamite response to ERB Inc. lawsuit over John Carter, Tarzan.

When Obama met Uhura, complete with Vulcan salute.

Art Spiegelman tells the story of Garbage Pail Kids.

From Cracked: 5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out To Be Mass Panics).

SFF Bunnies (and other strange, rabbit-type creatures). The list includes Monty Python’s killer rabbit, along with Night of the Lepus.

Io9 has seen the first 30 minutes of Pixar’s Brave.

X-Men: First Class sequel shoots in January, to work around Jennifer Lawrence’s Hunger Games schedule.

Gary Ross won’t be returning for Catching Fire.

From The Comics Journal: Remembering Sheldon Moldoff.

The MPAA is going after Hotfile now.

Michigan State University is offering a course called Surviving The Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Catastrophes And Human Behavior.

New images of the design for the new Ninja Turtles tv show.

Re-Animator The Musical returns.

First picture from The Lone Ranger…with Johnny Depp as Tonto.

An Excalibur ad with promo art, from 1988.

Hammer studios has issued a public appeal to track down lost scenes that were cut from its films by censors. The movies include: Rasputin: The Mad Monk, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Reptile, Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell, and The Viking Queen.

The 50 most memorable action movie moments. So now I need to track down Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Loved the hopping vampires in Mr. Vampire, so I would probably like that one, too.

Geek Talk interviews Lewis Lovhaug, aka Linkara. They discuss SOPA, his time working at Barnes and Noble, Star Trek, Doctor Who, MST3K, and various other topics.

Promo image of Christian Bale in the new, slightly modified Batsuit.

From Cracked: 5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill.

First clip from DC Nation: Baby Superman.

Kiefer Sutherland was almost Robin.

Tor takes a close look at the trailers for Mirror Mirror and Snow White And The Huntsman, and how they differ.

RedemptionCast interviews Tim Minear about his time writing for Angel. whedonesque discusses it here.

Colin Morgan: The Year of the Thoughtful, Intelligent Geek.

Lionsgate plans to make a film focusing on the theft of Nicholas Cage’s copy of Action Comics #1.

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