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Macmillan will sell e-books to libraries in pilot program at $25 per title

How Was SFSketchFest/Best of RiffTrax? I managed to go to the Manos screening. Due to an awful movie (one of the Wayans brothers spoofing the Paranormal Activity franchise—I walked in during what seemed to be the guy being jealous as he watched someone loudly having sex with a ghost; not being interested in watching this moment with Dad, we turned and left, opting to stay in the hall until it finished) running too long, Rifftrax wouldn’t have had time for the trivia/joke cards at the start. So the manager let everyone vote—we decided even if it went overly long, we wanted it. Things were fine, until midway through one of the shorts—the power in the whole theater went out. 5-10 minutes later, it came back, and we started where we left off. Someone that had been there for the previous showing (and its interruption by tornado and power outage) said it had happened at that same point, too. The manager (who also personally went in and cleaned up after the previous viewing of that movie) came in and apologized.

Unfortunately, the heat didn’t come back on. Instead, about 20 minutes before the end, the air conditioning was going full blast—so I had my coat on. Got out around 9:45 PM, and made it home shortly before the sleet (which the Weather Channel has dubbed Winter Storm Khan—feel free to insert your own Kirk scream here) started. Outside of all of that, I have to say it was great.

J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

Who Would You Like To Direct The Next Star Wars?

Star Trek Character Names And Roles Chart.

If only one past Doctor could appear in Doctor Who’s anniversary special, which would you prefer?

Matt Smith Singing in the Rain - Behind the Scenes Exclusive On Top Gear.

An interview with David Tennant.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard Smith on Pirates Of Blood River

We’re Ready To Believe You T-Shirt.

Ghostbusters Fan Art: 55 Central Park West.

One Page Preview Of New Ghostbusters #1.

An interview with Joel Hodgson.

New Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster Spotlights Rachel Weisz. More character posters can be found here.

The Very Last Thing Broadcast On G4’s Attack of the Show Before The Lights Went Out.

Being Human (UK Version) Series 5 Trailer

Being Human (American Version): Meaghan Rath Talks Being Undead, Roommate Romance, Craving Brains, and More

Top 10 Movie Apocalypses.

Top 10 Fairy Tale and Fantasy Movie Adaptation With A Twist.

Supervillain Origins: Deadshot.

Kevin Smith - With Great Power Extended Interview

10 Ways Buckaroo Banzai Has Infiltrated Pop Culture.

10 TV Shows That Deserve A Second Life. They list MST3K, which does have a second life in Rifftrax. I agree with the inclusion of Pushing Daisies.

Impressive Robocop Cake.

Army of Muppet Zombies vs. Bruce Campbell.

Best Art Ever (This Week): January 25th.

The Best Batman Planter You’ve Ever Seen (Hopefully).

Comic Book Legends Revealed #403.

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Heading to Broadway in Waiting For Godot

Both The Avengers and The Cabin in the Woods win Golden Tomato Awards.

Alternate Avengers concept art released.

About Those Phantasm II Bonus Features…

All My Children and One Life To Live Set To Premiere Digitally On Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

Tales From The Code: The Near Extinction Of Sheena

Keith Giffen Leaves Legion Of Superheroes After Two Issues?

Movie Issues Podcast: The Covenant (2006)

Mission Log #25—Episode 25: The Devil In The Dark.

Junk Food Dinner #144: Society (1989), No Retreat, No Surrender (1986), and Vampire’s Kiss (1989)

Smodcast On Batman #23: Kevin Smith and Kyle Higgins on Dick Grayson, Part 2.

The Batman Universe Podcast—Bat-Books For Beginners Episode 96: Birds of Prey: Old Friends, New Enemies (Birds of Prey #1-6)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 129: Dungeons And Dragons The Animated Series.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man.

Science Fiction And Fantasy TV Shows That Were Ahead Of Their Time. The only one on that list that I’ve seen is Pushing Daisies, and that was a while after it was cancelled. Over the course of a few days, so I could decide if I wanted to write for it for Yuletide. I always avoided The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. as I always mixed it up with Chuck Norris’ series—Walker, Texas Ranger.

Doctor Who’s 25 Silliest Moments

The first publicity photo for the Doctor’s new companion.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Actors/Directors You Became A Fan of Via MST3K.

From Cracked: 6 Insane Roads You Won’t Believe People Actually Drive On. I would add Bolivia’s Death Road, as you can see the guys from Top Gear attempting to navigate. Stick around to 6 minutes, 40 seconds to see the worst of it.

Chloe Moretz and Haley Bennett are being considered for the lead role in the Carrie remake.

So not only will Michael Bay make the Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtles aliens, but they will be losing the teenage bit. Shouldn’t be too much longer before the Ninja Turtles are neither ninjas nor turtles. Perhaps snails, crabs, or sea monkeys. Middle-Aged Alien Cowboy Sea Monkeys. Shortest franchise in history, as they only live a day or so.

Alternative X-Factor: Chris Claremont Reveals What Might Have Been.

How spoilerphobic are you?

The Bad Movie Fiends Podcast discusses Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze (1975).

Schlock Treatment focuses on Killdozer.

Over at dark_fest, omorka wrote Touching The Light. It’s in the Ghostbusters fandom—the prompt I gave was "Ghostbusters, Zuul decided Peter was a better (strategy-wise, anyway) host, during the battle in the first movie. Things get worse from there." If you want a dark story where things get oh, so much worse for everyone starting with things being different when Zuul tries to seduce Peter, then I highly recommend this one. I loved it. Walter Peck gets a larger role in events than just opening the containment unit and trying to get them arrested, and that’s all I’m saying, since I don’t want to spoil anything.

A casting spoiler for The Sarah Jane Adventures.

A couple of clips from the next episode of Doctor Who.

Over at ontdcreepy, they have a weekly post for creepy things that have happened to people over the years. Here’s just a taste of the weirdness that happened to me in the hospital, back in 2008. Accidentally left out the time the fire alarm went off three times, because someone had a coffee maker that kept literally going up in flames. That’s not supernatural, though, that’s just rotten luck.

Last night, I had a choice—watch Dancing With The Stars and their weird little Movie Night theme, or watch Top Gear, as they struggled to survive the rain forests and everything else across South America. I chose Top Gear, and I’m pretty sure I made the right choice. Even if only for Hammond’s bug-related freakout as they traveled through the rain forest, and Clarkson sinking in the mud. Part 1 of that special is here.