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Dick Miller passed away yesterday at the age of 90. May he rest in peace. As Bloody Disgusting and others have rightfully observed already, he was a legend and shall be missed.

He was so extremely prolific over the decades that one couldn’t help but run across something he was in. He was a recognizeable face even if one didn’t know his name. I remember him from so many movies, including both Gremlins films, Matinee, The Howling, A Bucket of Blood, Night of the Creeps, the original Little Shop of Horrors, Premature Burial and The Terror, just to name a select few.

For MST3K fans, films that included him were: The Undead, It Conquered The World, and Gunslinger.

Bonnie Franklin has passed away, at the age of 69, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. May she rest in peace. She was perhaps most famous for her role as the mother on One Day At A Time.

Peter David: 10 Weeks Later.

Cablevision Disconnects Persistent Pirates for 24 Hours

The Line it is Drawn #128 – Music Album Cover Homages

Comic Book Legends Revealed #408.

The Embarrassing Spider-Fans.

Will Halle Berry's Storm Return In X-Men: Days of Future Past? Gina Torres has always been my pick if they were to recast.

Joe Sinnott - With Great Power Extended Interviews

Newly unveiled March comic covers show a mourning Bat family

Ranking The Robins.

Image of the Day: Awkward 1950′s and 1960′s Batman Moments #5

The 10 Most Memorable Superhero Deaths

Doctor Who to Return with 'The Bells of St John' - First Official Picture

Fandom Manifesto: Leverage

Gary Oldman joins Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Tim Curry joins the cast of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, taking over the role of Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious.

From Think Geek: Little Damn Heroes: Inara.

10 Greatest Handguns in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy

90210 Canceled By The CW, Will End Its Run In May

Joe Wright to Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’

The Hobbit: There And Back Again movie release moved from July to December 2014

Stellar cast announced for Adrian Hodges’ new BBC One drama series, The Musketeers

Random Roles: Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Tomb Of Ligeia

30 Greatest Sci-Fi Siblings.

Seven Things You Didn’t Know About…Exorcisms

Best Art Ever (This Week): March 1st.

Back Off, Man—I’m a Sequel: 8 Ways To Do Ghostbusters 3 Correctly

Appeals court rejects artist’s lawsuit against NBC’s ‘Heroes’

Don’t Touch That Dial: Midseason Comedies and Supernatural Dramas

New trailer for Orphan Black.

The Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Movie Isn’t Dead Yet.

Ask Chris #143: Death To All Nostalgia (Except Mine)

12 Aliens That Were Supposed to Be Cute But Are Actually Terrifying

Movie Issues Podcast: Help! (1965)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 132: Midnight Madness (1980).

Radiodrome, Episode 112

Killer POV: Ep. 3: Mike Mendez

Smodcast With Kevin Smith: Geoff Johns: Batman Beta.

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)

Bob Gale donates memorabilia to help save Californian comic book store

Watch the First Four Minutes of Syfy's Being Human Season 3 Premiere

CW President Discusses Amazon, Supernatural, And More.

The CW's Amazon Casting Now, No Plans for Batman Show

Jim Zub and Robert Venditti pulled off Birds of Prey and Constantine before they even started

DC cancels I, Vampire, DC Universe Presents and Saucer Country.

David Tennant has done an audio recording of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Bernard Cribbins and Russell T Davies interview

CBS Sets Premiere Date For Stephen King’s Under the Dome

Las Revenants Gets Another Chance At Life.

Bates Motel Posters.

Brave Wins Best Animated Film Golden Globe.

Previews World interviews Paul Cornell.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Raver #1.

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk: A Review With Linkara, Nash, and Film Brain

Comics Alliance Reviews Tank Girl (1995), Part Two.

Oz The Great and Powerful New Trailer

The Five Best (And Five Worst) Ways To Handle A Fourth Film In A Franchise.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on The Stranger.

Superman on TV: January 14th-20th.

New clip from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

New images and poster for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

5 Ways to Correctly Reboot The Twilight Zone

Otter Xbox Cake.

The 17 Best Failed TV Shows Of The 80’s (As Judged By Their Openings).

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): January 14th.

Film Sack Podcast #146: The Toxic Avenger (1984)

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 323: Shadow of the Bat #47.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 324: Martian Manhunter #4.

The Dark Knight Rises: The Extras Review.

Batman Vs. Judge Dredd Stories Being Republished For The First Time In Over 20 Years

Atop The Fourth Wall: Brave And The Bold #54.

P:R Approved: Christopher Duran’s Starfire.

Comic Book Casting: The Deathstroke Movie.

Superman on TV: November 19-25th.

The Secret of Crickley Hall author James Herbert reveals his tips for writing horror.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Teenagers From Outer Space.

Nick And More: Thanksgiving Week Marathons And Special Programming

From Cracked: 6 Happy Movie Endings That Actually Ruin The Hero’s Life.

Another Pushing Daisies Alum (Raul Esparza) Joins NBC's Hannibal in Pivotal Role

Amazing H.R. Giger-Themed Mouse.

Scream Factory Releasing 80’s Classics On Blu-Ray.

Stephen King’s Debt To Horror Comics.

Kristen Stewart signs on to Snow White And The Huntsman sequel.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): November 19th.

Original Calvin and Hobbes Page Sells At Auction For More Than $200,000.

Film Sack Podcast #140: Con Air (1997) Commentary.

Current Yuletide Word Count: 5293, and still going. A little more needs to be added to the start.

Sandy’s Impact: State By State.

Old skeleton found in tree uprooted by Sandy.

The Comic Industry Faces Sandy Through Twitter.

Thanks to aralias for spotting this one: If this is true, then it appears as though Livejournal plans to cancel paid accounts in the spring.

evilawyer has a brief tutorial on how to cross-post from Dreamwidth to Livejournal. As always, for those that want to leave for Dreamwidth, my username is the same there as it is on LJ. Feel free to add me—or let me know if I haven’t already added you to the circle.

Yuletide Sign-Ups Close At 8 PM CST. I eventually replaced Indiana Jones with The Mummy on the fandoms I’m offering for Yuletide. If I weren’t afraid I would be forced to write a story with Mutt in it, I would have thrown Indiana Jones into the Bucket List section.

Gmail Makes It Easier To Compose Emails With New Function.

This Is Halloween.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Return of the Living Dead.

Longbox of the Damned: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #31 of 31: It! The Terror From Beyond Space.

Rare Halloween Videos: Halloween Party and Safety Videos.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Return of the Living Dead (1985).

24 hours of horror with Joe Dante. He has great taste in horror films.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on Horror Express.

Meta Horror Sequels.

Bored at a Halloween party? Time for some secret Pumpkin Tetris.

This Joker pumpkin is simply…smashing.

Watermelon Krang O’Lantern.

Spooky Stories: 10 Comics To Get In The Halloween Spirit.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 12.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Jennifer-Lynn Hayden (Jade/Green Lantern).

Disney Buys LucasFilm For $4 Billion, Announces New Star Wars Movie For 2015.

Dark Horse Comics Reacts To Disney’s Star Wars Purchase.

Bryan Singer Confirmed To Direct X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Let’s Have One More Ghostbusters 3 Update, Seeing As Sony Are In Money Trouble And All.

The Real Ghostbusters Unofficial Complete Series Companion.

A Superman insignia pumpkin.

Two stills from Frankenstein’s Army.

What Is Scarier Than Vampires? Disco Vampires.

25 awesome spooky movies

Bizarro Back Issues: The Existential Dread of Halloween on Bizarro World.

Stephanie Brown Batgirl Returns To DC In Lil Gotham Digital Specials.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Marvel Avengers Battle For Earth.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 10, Season 2: Thomas Jane.

Robot Chicken: The Prime Directive.

The Cinefiles—Neo Grindhouse.

James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Not An Animated Film.

P:R Approved: Katsuhiro Otomo’s Batman

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #6-5.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #4-3.

Major Spoilers Costume Contest 2012: Meet The Finalists.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—Halloween 2012.

From Cracked: The 8 Creepiest Places on Earth (Part 4).

Doctor Who’s Ten Most Horrifying Moments.

DC Histories: Wally West.

Kaleidoscope buys international rights to release Much Ado About Nothing.

How Dark Shadows brought the supernatural to television drama.

A History of Censorship, Halloween Edition: War of the Worlds.

New poster for Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Promo art for The Woman In Black: Angel of Death.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 61: Ghostbusters.

Forgotten Flix Podcast #85: Halloween (1978)

Pulp Nightmare: Pulp Commentary—Halloween II (1981).

JoBlo Movie Podcast: Halloween II (1981) Commentary

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #133: Halloween II (1981), The Day After Halloween (1979), and Night of the Demons (1988).

F This Movie Podcast: The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise.

Comic Issues Podcast #90: Vampirism.

Now Playing Podcast: License To Kill (1989)

Monster Movie Podcast Episode 26.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 134 Bonus: Earth Station Boo.

Barnes & Noble Stores Have Credit Card Data Breach.

TV Tango updates their list for Halloween On TV: 915 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

Halloween: John Carpenter classic returns for theatrical run.

Ginger Snaps Helmer Directing Orphan Black For BBC America.

Know Thy History: Tales From The Crypt.

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

Longbox of the Damned: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Volume 1.

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #24: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.

Geek Gear: Nightmare In Pumpkin Land Shirt.

Io9 Halloween Costume Show Week 3: Sexy Donatello, Retro Kitty Pryde, and Serious Comic Book Cred.

Trailers From Hell: Joe Dante on I Bury The Living.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 5.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1977: Donny and Marie Osmond’s Halloween Skits.

Unsuspecting UK kids terrorized by Paranormal Activity 4.

Here’s the teaser trailer for Ghostwatch: Behind The Curtains.

New TV Trailer For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Hobbit Running Time Revealed.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages—Comics To Film: The Joker.

Batman: Nightwing short.

Dinner With DC Entertainment’s Jim Lee and Dan DiDio.

Captain America, Batman, Superman and Spidey adorably storm a children’s hospital.

P:R Approved: Ronnie del Carmen’s Magik.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: The all-different X-Men went to Australia and encountered some unresolved mysteries, as well as some unpublished adventures of Longshot.

From Cracked: 5 Famous Monsters That Are Way Scarier In Other Countries.

Alan Tudyk and Gina Torres Q&A at Dallas Comic Con Fan Days. Gina Torres also sang while there.

Lost Girl—New York Comic Con 2012 Panel.

Lo Pan Style.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Bonus Extended Cut: Joe Manganiello.

The Fury of a Time Lord.

10 Wibbly Wobbly Ways Doctor Who Plays With Space/Time.

Learn all about your body with Slim Goodbody. He was on local channels in reruns up through my middle school years.

Evil Fake Wine Bottle Labels.

Earth Station One Podcast, Episode 133: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Revisited

Geekfest Rants Episode 111: Battlestar Galactica.

Now Playing Podcast: The Living Daylights (1987)

The Forgotten Flix Podcast #84: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Junk Food Dinner Podcast #132: The Howling (1981), An American Werewolf In Paris (1997), and Silver Bullet (1985).

For Yuletide, I just did a massive overhaul of my sign-up. I realized that it had been too long since I watched Pushing Daisies, and if I didn’t remember major character moments and/or little quirks I couldn’t possibly do them justice if that were my assignment. So I removed that, and replaced it with Fright Night (2011). I’m fine with writing any character for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), so I moved that to the Bucket List section, and replaced that slot with Justice League Unlimited.

So as of now, my offers look like this: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Fright Night (2011), Ghostbusters, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Addams Family (1991). Bucket List: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman, Beetle Juice (1988), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004), Soapdish (1991), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996.

If I watch Mockingbird Lane and enjoy it, I’ll throw that into the pile, too.

Posting this a bit early now, before I head out for a double bill showing of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein at the local Cinemark. That’s about three hours, I do believe. Tomorrow night is Rifftrax Live.

Demonoid Faces Prolonged Downtime After DDos Attack.

Either Romana Or Fred: Remembering Mary Tamm.

DirecTV spot with John Cleese.

TARDIS “materializes” at Olympic Opening Ceremony.

Burning Question Answered: Did The Doctor Light The Olympic Flame?

New Doctor Who Trailer Coming August 2nd.

Short trailer for season 5 of Merlin.

5 Batman Villains Who Deserved The Christopher Nolan Treatment. Mild spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman’s Moron College Friends.

Grant Morrison’s Guide To Batman On the Big Screen: 1950’s Batman Serial.

Warner Bros. tones down the guns in Beware The Batman cartoon.

Rare Batman Comics That Everyone Should Read.

The Dark Knight Rises: Description of a Deleted Scene With Miranda Tate And Lucius Fox. While this scene could be considered a very mild spoiler, I suggest you avoid the comments entirely if you haven’t seen the film. Several comments give away major plot points.

A guide to the fantastical work of Joe Dante.

Interview with the developer of the Manos game.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #337.

New Rifftrax VOD Title: Future Force.

Marvel Cancels Thanos: Son Of Titan Mini-Series.

Robert Kirkman On The Future Of The Walking Dead.

Alexa Vega joins Machete Kills—and so does Lady Gaga.

Todd McFarlane Spider-Man Cover Sells For $675,250.

Writer of Steel: 10 super-names for Action Comics.

An Ode To Jasper Fforde: Introducing His Works and Worlds.

How To Watch Battlestar Galactica.

20 Things We Love About Babylon 5.

Young And The Restless Replaces Head Writer.

The CW Looking To Bring Battle Royale To The Small Screen As A Weekly Series.

Is Indiana Jones Dead At Last? Crystal Skull Was Indiana Jones’ Last Hurrah, Frank Marshall Says.

What If 60s/70s Marvel Comics Had DC Comics Covers?

Dancing With The Stars Cast Revealed.

Franka Potente joins American Horror Story.

Director And Cast Talk About The Possession.

The best cult shows on TV—what’s your #1?

Weekend Discussion Thread: MSTed Movie Characters In Olympics

Kerrith Johnson Casts Superheroes And Their Alter Egos In Motivational Posters.

The CineFiles- Cronenberg Films, Part 2.

Fake Stan Lee vs. Comic Con 2012.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #135: Deathstalker II: Duel Of The Titans (1987). After which, they have a brief discussion of The Dark Knight Rises. So if you’re not interested in hearing about that, stop listening at the 45 minute mark, or skip ahead to 53 minutes.

Movie Issues Podcast: Commando (1985).

Schlock Treatment 86: Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year For Murder.

Thursday evening, following a severe thunderstorm, Comcast accidentally snipped a fiber optic cable. Service wasn’t resumed for the area until earlier today.