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Richard Briers has passed away at the age of 79, following a long struggle with a lung condition. May he rest in peace. For Doctor Who fans, he appeared in the Seventh Doctor story Paradise Towers, playing the Chief Caretaker. He also played the role of Henry Parker, in the Torchwood episode A Day In The Death. I also remember that he played Smee in the 2003 version (which I think I saw on Encore once) of Peter Pan, and had a role in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it

Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Scholars Say

SDCC Hotel Reservations Tuesday, February 26 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

Comic-Con 2013 Badge Registration Recap: The Highs and The Lows

Barefoot Gen Manga's Unfinished Sequel Draft Found

Reece Shearsmith has been cast as Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in Space and Time

The 10 Best Moments in The 24 Hours of Gallifrey One

Interview: The Odyssey of Neal Adams.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Death of the Family—Batman #17.

Image of the Day: Best BTAS Screenshots #1.

Preview: Nightwing #17.

Ain’t It Cool News talks with Dustin Nguyen about L’il Gotham.

Comics You Should Own – Sandman Mystery Theatre

Superman on TV: February 18th-24th.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Superman Gained the Ability to Shoot a Mini-Superman Out of His Hands

Comic Book Casting: Madman Live-Action Movie.

Mark Waid on reinventing comics for the digital era.

New Lego Marvel Super Heroes Concept Art Arrives Online.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Night of Atop The Fourth Wall Live.

First clip from Oz the Great and Powerful shows the wicked temper of Oz's witches

Benedict Cumberbatch Narrates The New Star Trek Into Darkness Motion Poster

Introducing the movie neighbors from hell.

Slimer Deluxe Wall Relief Now Available On eBay.

Restored Back to the Future Hero DeLorean Time Machine now on display at Universal Studios

5 Horror Sequels We’d Love To See.

From Cracked: 5 Grimms’ Fairy Tales Way Too Dark To Read To Kids.

Revenge, Italian Style: 5 Spaghetti Westerns Worth Your Time

Crowning the Better Holmes & Watson

The Best Hardee’s Premium Offer Ever? Gremlins’ Albums and Storybooks. I think I had those when I was 3 or 4.

Watch a clip from the 2004 unaired pilot of Dark Shadows

Joss Whedon Talks of 'Hopeful' S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot, Plans for Maria Hill and Other Marvel Characters

Silly Hobbitssess and Goofy Giants: When Did Fantasy Movies Get Taken Over by Comic Relief?

The Top 5: Cartoon Characters That’d Make Memorable Presidents

Trailers From Hell: Max Landis on Love Exposure

Tom Hanks vs. the Fonz: 35-plus Oscar nominees in weird TV guest spots

Comics Alliance Reviews 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret Of The Ooze' (1991), Part One

Fandom Manifesto: Dollhouse.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): February 18th.

The Downey Files, Episode 10: Mermen. Chris Downey talks with David Fury.

Film Sack Podcast #150: The Warriors (1979)

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast: The One With Mark Altman

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 80: Guyver: Mutronics (1991)

Tumblr has been hacked.

Over at Fandom Stocking, stockings are being posted—here’s mine.

iFanboy’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Comics For Kids.

Krampus: The Devil of Christmas greeting cards.

Top 51 Sci-Fi Spaceships.

DeLorean taxi takes you to your appointment across town and half an hour ago.

Superman on TV: December 3rd-9th.

The New Man of Steel Poster Is Here.

Chronicle Star Dane DeHaan is Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Star Trek: Into Darkness Poster Revealed.

Beautiful Mucha Style Tenth Doctor T-Shirt.

Little Bilby Goes For A Walk T-Shirt.

Middle Earth Map Dress.

P:R Redesign: Ben Hatke’s Justice League

Superheroes With Mustaches.

Commodore 64 Cake With Cake Monitor.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Superman’s Christmas Adventure.

Awesome Storyboards From 15 of Your Favorite Films.

Cinemassacre: The Terror (1963) Commentary.

Colin Morgan: Merlin movie could leave fans unsatisfied.

J.J. Abrams And The Cast of Fringe Celebrate 100 Episodes.

Batman—Bad Days—Episode 9.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): December 3rd.

Jason Voorhees: Personal Trainer.

Top Ten Rules of Space Opera.

Mission Log—A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast: Supplemental 1—The One With Rod Roddenberry.

Film Sack Podcast #142: Starship Troopers (1997).

McAfee Security founder wanted for murder in Belize.

Steve Sinofsky, Windows President, leaving Microsoft effective immediately.

Former WB president taking over MTV programming.

Silicon Knights ordered to destroy code, games related to Epic trial.

Wish List is open for business.

Syfy Will Premiere Continuum This January

Why doesn’t Syfy have a show like Battlestar Galactica any more?

Three Unused Posters For The Dark Knight Rises.

Saw Director James Wan To Direct MacGyver.

Chloe Moretz Talks Carrie, Prom Scene, and Dark Roles.

From Cracked: 6 Insane (But Convincing) Fan Theories About Kids’ Cartoons.

Young Justice Cancelled In February—The Comic Book At Least.

Art Nouveau 80s Heroines.

Friday the 13th Custom Minimates.

10 Episodes That Every Sci-Fi Show Must Have.

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Recap Supplement.

Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker join the cast of the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot.

Hitchcock Movie Clip #1.

When Titans Clash: Execs Fight For Control Of Warner Bros.

The Tomorrow People To Get US Remake. They already did this once in the 90’s.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Comicbooks.

Firefly reunion special delivers big for Science Channel.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #263: Spider-Man (2002).

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 84: Die Another Day (2002)

Yuletide Progress: I’m currently at 2201 words, and still going. I’ll go ahead and admit the fandom and nothing else, for when I eventually need someone to beta read it—-it’s Pushing Daisies.

Inquest Held Into Death of Mary Tamm’s Widower.

Livejournal is changing (the alterations are currently in beta testing) the style for all friends lists so that it reflects the new style for the comment and update pages. I’ve also been reading that their U.S. offices were shut down.

Spook Me Master List 2012.

Happy Birthday To Matt Smith.

Children In Need line-up announced.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic—How Did You Like The Show? There were 15 people at the theater I was—well, 14, really, since someone jumped over and across seats and bolted from the room as it started. He was supposed to be in the room next door, showing Halloween at the same time, from what I gathered. It was a good Rifftrax, went off without any technical difficulties. As I was leaving, I heard from behind me someone was muttering over and over: "I...didn't know movies could be that bad. I-I didn't know...I didn't know..." Their friend consoled them. Upon my telling him there’s a sequel, Dad started laughing hysterically in the car. The short with Norman was hysterical.

31 Days of Horror: Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Gremlins.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #26: The Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Longbox of the Damned: Jack Davis’ Tales From The Crypt.

Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on The Shining.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Friday The 13th Part 2.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1988: Fun House.

10 Long Lost Horror Products.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark Comics Return In 2013.

Beetlejuice: A Ghostly, Gothed-Out 80’s Fairy Tale For The Ages.

Behind The Scenes Pic Of The Day: Peter Cushing.

6 Things You Don’t Remember About The Real Ghostbusters Cartoon.

IDW Mars Attacks The Real Ghostbusters Comic Solicitation.

Mattel Ghostbusters Courtroom Battle Ray Stantz Figure Review By Pixel Dan.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 7.

AV Q&A: Scariest reading experiences.

Listen to an excerpt from R.L. Stine’s new adult horror novel Red Rain.

Matthew Vaughn Out As X-Men: Days of Future Past Director; Bryan Singer Could Take Over.

Lethal Ladies: The 10 Best Female Supervillains.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #25-21.

Mike Mitchell re-skins Superman #6 with disturbing results.

The Line It Is Drawn #112—Marvel Family Tribute.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #390.

P:R Approved: Kevin Wada’s Elektra

8 Photos From NBC’s Upcoming Hannibal.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Return as Conan the Barbarian.

Check This Out: Weta Installs Gigantic Gollum At Wellington Airport.

Wonderful Jack Skellington Cake.

The Eye of Sauron Cake.

Spectacular Beauty and the Beast Cake.

The Myth Of ‘So Bad It’s Good.’

Starlog Magazine: Crazy Movie Rumors Before The Internet.

That One Time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Punked Houdini With Dinosaurs.

Looking back at Carnivale.

Ask Chris #126: Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them?

The AV Club reviews Mockingbird Lane. FearNet’s review of Mockingbird Lane. And here’s Shock Til You Drop’s review.

Top 10 Movie Psychics.

The 55 Scariest Moments From Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies.

An Alternate Poster For Iron Man 3.

Next Two Bond Films To Comprise Two Movie Arc, Both Written By John Logan.

G4 Cancels Attack of the Show And X-Play.

Sofa Dogs Podcast #260: Prince of Darkness (1987).

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #148: Invitation to Hell (1984).

Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions.

Yuletide: Tag Set Characters Missing from the Autocomplete. Also another important one: If you signed up very early, with a bucket list in a text field instead of Optional Tags, you will need to redo that portion of your sign-up.

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween On TV: 377 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials On TV In October 2012.

31 Days of Horror: Jeepers Creepers/Pumpkinhead.

31 Days of Horror: Alien/Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

10 Classic Horrors You Must See This Halloween.

Longbox of the Damned: Worlds Unknown #6 (The Killdozer Comic)

Intricately Carved Superhero/Sci-Fi Pumpkins. That Superman pumpkin is impressive.

Rare Halloween Videos: You Wish (1997)

Io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 2: A Bungee-Jumping Buzz Lightyear, A Handmade Vampire Diaries Dress, And More.

From Cracked: 4 Truly Scary Facts No One Tells You About Halloween.

Deleted scenes from The Amazing Spider-Man reveal the origin story you never saw.

The Absolute Best Cosplay From New York Comic Con 2012.

2012 NYCC—DC Comics Batman The Killing Joke Joker Statue.

The trailer for The Dark Knight Rises on Blu-Ray.

The Curse Of Stephanie Brown Continues.

Bob Goodman On Writing The Two-Part Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Animated Adaptation.

Robocop Delayed Until February 2014.

Cinema’s creepiest towns.

Dark Shadows Complete Series Half-Price DVD Bargain. It’s still horrifically expensive, even with $300 chopped off.

David Lindsay-Abair is indeed writing the Poltergeist remake.

First teaser trailer for the remake of Carrie.

Grifter, Legion Lost, And Blue Beetle Join The DC Cancellations.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #175: What comic book character would you take out on a date, and why?

P:R Redesign: Alex Mitchell’s Omega Red.

Evolution of The Art of Todd McFarlane—Part Two.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #70-66.

Top 5: Worst Justice Leaguers.

Interview with Chris Claremont.

Remembering Forgotten Sequels.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Bless You.

You Have A Week To Return Your Flash Omnibus Volume 3.

When We First Met—Supervillain Henchmen.

Film Sack Podcast #135: The Prophecy II (1998)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 270: What We’ve Been Watching (International Edition)

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 80: Friday The 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Alex Karras has passed away, at the age of 77. He had been dealing with a variety of health problems, including dementia, cancer, and kidney failure. May he rest in peace. I may have been one of the few to never watch Webster—instead, I remember him from an episode of Faerie Tale Theater.

Inspirational links for the Spook Me ficathon.

31 Days of Horror: Psycho/Freaks.

Vampires 101: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Carnivàle Creator Dan Knaufto Head Up NBC’s Dracula

TV Tango updates Halloween On TV: 262 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes And Specials.

Shock Till You Drop’s 10 New Halloween Classics To Check Out This Season.

Official Synopsis For Grimm’s Halloween Episode.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1987 Werewolf- All Hallow’s Eve.

The obscure 1980s horror film that Joss Whedon wants you to watch.

Show Your Best Imaginary Selves In io9’s Annual Halloween Costume Show.

Catwoman Then And Now: How Much Has Changed?

DC Histories: The Joker.

P:R Approved: Chito Arellano’s Batman Beyond.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 Trailer.

Interview: Scott Snyder On The Return Of The Joker In Batman #13.

A Fossilized Scene of a Spider Attacking A Wasp, Preserved For 110 Million Years.

Little Shop of Horrors’ original ending is unearthed.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: The Jean Grey Non-Tribute.

Marvel’s Bottom Line.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #100-91.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Birthdays.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Seth Green, Extended Cut.

Stan Lee Media sues Disney for Marvel characters.

Release Date And Story Revealed For Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.

Scott Allie Promoted To Editor-In-Chief At Dark Horse.

Abandoned concept art for Jurassic Park 4.

Science Just Killed Any Hope You Ever Had Of Jurassic Park Being Real.

New Zealand is now minting Lord of the Rings money.

You can watch both the Evil Dead and Carrie panels from New York Comic Con live via streaming, courtesy of Bloody Disgusting on the 13th.

From Cracked: 8 Movies Made Possible By Incompetent Background Characters.

Trailers From Hell: Dan Ireland on The Dead.

My Little Pony Jason Voorhees.

From Think Geek: Chocolate Gaming Dice Set.

Watch Jimmy Kimmel pitch Joe Quesada new heroes and villains.

Amazing Predator Pumpkin.

Dr. Horrible TV ratings kinda horrible. Whedonesque discusses it here.

Psych Season 7 Premiere Date Revealed.

Fourth Doctor Robe.

Ten Things To Look For At New York Comic Con.

There’s a new Hello Kitty sofa. It costs over $2,000.

Bizarro Back Issues: The Strange Amnesia of President Superman (1969).

DC Announces New Action Comics Creative Team.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 131: Hammer Horror Films.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 269.

Now Playing Podcast: Never Say Never Again (1983)

Forgotten Flix Podcast #82: Pumpkinhead (1988)

Richard Zanuck passed away on Friday, following a heart attack, at the age of 77. May he rest in peace. He produced dozens of movies, including the recently released Dark Shadows, Jaws, Alice In Wonderland, Cocoon, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Sage Stallone passed away at the age of 36. May he rest in peace. His father was told immediately after the Expendables panel at Comic Con—condolences to his family.

One of the most recent Livejournal releases managed to break the syndicated feeds. While this post says feeds are updating again, they are not. Several comments confirm that it isn’t just me.

US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually.

Rapidshare Liable For Copyright Infringement.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #375.

LeBeouf Out, Radcliffe In For Horns Adaptation.

Terry Moore To Return To Strangers In Paradise In 2013.

AfterElton interviews Jane Espenson and Brad Bell on Husbands, season 2.

A recap of the Community panel at Comic Con.

New Ghostbusters Prop Ecto Goggles Announced At Comic Con. Courtroom Ray Stantz with Tony Scoleri.

Recovered 1927 Metropolis Film Program Goes Behind The Scenes of a Sci-Fi Masterpiece.

Stan Lee Talks World of Heroes And His Movie Cameos.

Solomon Kane is finally coming out…and there’s a trailer.

6 First Look Pictures From Oz The Great And Powerful.

Comic Con Cosplay: Mister Mxyzptlk.

Best Comic Con Cosplay Gallery Ever—Thursday. The Deadman costume is my favorite.

66 costumed Comic Con fans that have to be seen to be believed. The same guy dressed as Deadman makes an appearance.

Comic Con: Eddie McClintock talks Warehouse 13.

Greystone Park Coming To VOD, DVD—from son of Oliver Stone.

Kieron Gillen Launches A Podcast.

Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog To Air On The CW.

Game of Thrones: Diana Rigg and 13 others join the cast of season 3.

China White To Appear In Arrow.

Dimestore Dames would like to hear from fans of Catwoman.

The Walking Dead returns October 14th.

Booster Gold TV Show Still On Track.

New VOD title from Rifftrax: Bloody Pit of Horror.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Musical Covers.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Natasha Calis Talk The Possession.

Comic Con 2012: Notes From The Firefly Press Conference. Firefly cast and Joss reunite 10 years later—live blog. Watch the panel in its entirety here. The Shiniest Moments From A Closed Door Q&A With The Cast of Firefly.

Interview: Cast and Crew on The CW’s Cult at SDCC.

Comic Con Interview: Atticus Shaffer of Frankenweenie.

Alexis Denisof reveals his role in The Avengers.

How Prematurely Axed TV Series Should Have Ended, According To Their Creators.

Jessica Biel Might Play Viper In The Wolverine. I’ve seen various reports ranging from offered, to cast, to only a rumor. So we’ll see.

Chris Claremont: Dead Should Mean Dead: X-Men mastermind talks the Phoenix and the flame.

The 2012 Eisner Award Winners.

Justice League and Green Lantern Panel.

Nikita Cast Previews Season 3.

Lionsgate TV Taking A Trip To Zenescope’s Wonderland.

Jack Kirby once designed costumes for a college Shakespeare play.

Retroist Podcast, Episode 116: The Golden Girls.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Friday the 13th Commentary.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman Begins (2005)

Movie Issues Podcast: Batman And Robin (1997)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #133: Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)

For those that are interested, and have access to the channel: From 3 PM-7PM CST, G4 will be having Comic Con Live.

MPI Home Video Comments On Jonathan Frid’s Passing. Dread Central remembers him here.

That time Dick Clark mistook Batman and Robin for a singing duo. Seriously, that man never aged.

Rapidshare Publishes Anti-Piracy Manifesto For Cyberlockers.

ISPs have to identify alleged pirates, EU court rules.

LJ has reverted to the previous format for LJ cuts—meaning the scissors are gone.

The AV Club reviews The Moth Diaries—it gets a D+.

First look at Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock.

The sonic screwdriver is now real.

Night of the Living Dead to get CG motion capture makeover.

Parting Shot: Unusually Realistic Dinosaurs Dressed As The Avengers.

Classic Paintings, Comic Book Style.

Mondo Posters For The Avengers.

Nominations are open over for the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

Four new clips and a featurette for The Raven.

An exclusive clip from With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story.

A sneak peek of the cover and plot for Dark Shadows #10.

The UK Poster For Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Remember when Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman teamed up to fight an alien wizard in India?

DC Comics Women—The Shadow Of Their Past.

J.M. DeMatteis shares a movie treatment he did of Daredevil, back in the 90’s.

American Horror Story Season 2 Setting Confirmed, More Season 1 Actors Coming Back.

10 Marvel Supervillains Who Became Superheroes.

Chris Roberson Quits DC Comics.

Where’s Jason?

New Iron Man and Thor spots for The Avengers.

Experience the eldritch horrors of H.P. Lovecraft’s relationship advice.

A promo image for Brave.

The Game of Thrones drinking game.

The Wolverine to film in Sydney, Australia.

What It Means To Be A Geek.

Sci-Fi Villains Raise Money For Women’s Charity—The Daleks Race.

Happy Friday the 13th.

Here’s a new image of Johnny Depp as Barnabas, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Stoddard.

From The AV Club: Best Show, Best Episode.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Jeanne-Marie Beaubier.

Den of Geek interviews Andrew Scott, from Sherlock.

First behind-the-scenes photos of Mirror Mirror.

The CW is planning a Green Arrow tv series.

The Nostalgia Critic reviews Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It’s Star Trek month for his reviews and he’s doing the odd numbered movies. The reviews are delayed by a week due to him having computer problems.

From Cracked: The 5 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Fiction.

Daniel Govar’s take on the New Mutants.

Second promotional look at Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D.

Diane Duane’s bank account was cleaned out by ATM skimmers—please try to buy her ebooks (at 20% off) to help her out.

The Cabin In the Woods will open South By Southwest 2012.

Official old-style Hammer poster for The Woman In Black.

Richard Schiff has been cast in Man of Steel, for the role of Dr. Hamilton.

Caroline Skinner is the new executive producer for Doctor Who, replacing Piers Wenger and Beth Willis—Io9 has an exclusive interview with her. She also produced The Fades.

For those using the Greasemonkey script in Firefox and Chrome to keep using the old Youtube layout, that option appears to have been shut down. I’ll let you know if I find another workaround.