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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)

Aurora Shooting Victims Wore Batman Shirts To Gunman’s Court Hearing.

Chewbacca’s Head Sells For $172,000.

Arrow: New Promotional Images. Deadshot will be played by Michael Rowe.

The CW President Mark Pedowitz Offers Updates On Battle Royale, Supernatural, The Selection, And More.

Watch: Wil Wheaton and William Shatner’s Dueling Narrations For NASA’s New Mars Rover.

Tom Hardy’s screen test for Star Trek: Nemesis.

DVD, Blu-Ray Details Revealed For Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Interview With Aaron Ashmore of Warehouse 13,

You Have The Power…To Save He-Man.

Live Action Masters Of The Universe Movie Going Forward, Jon M. Chu In Talks.

The episodes in the next MST3K set are: Robot Holocaust, Operation Kid Brother, Kitten With A Whip, and Revenge Of The Creature.

Mondo’s poster for The Goonies.

What comic book character should do infomercials?

From Cracked: 5 Villains Who Went Out Of Their Way To Screw Their Own Plan.

Stan Lee’s Rants: The Olympics.

The trailers for Skyfall.

Which Sci-Fi Shows Had The Best Endings?

Movie Ghostbusters With Real Ghostbusters Suits.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 Trailer.

When We First Met—A Bunch Of Catwoman Firsts.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Movie Turns 20. Whedonesque discusses it here.

The Wolverine Casting Call: Time To Play The Viper.

You can stay in the motel room that was the Mars’ apartment on Veronica Mars.

How We Would Cast A Neil Gaiman Biopic.

Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who film.

New Line registers Hobbit movie titles.

10 Upcoming Science Fiction And Fantasy Remakes (And Why They May Not Suck)

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 69: Twister (1996).

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 258: Book Club 5 (Part 1).


I’m reading the novelization of The Dark Knight Rises, and hit this moment. I don’t think this comment (to Blake’s question of how he always seemed to know exactly where his friends were) from Batman was in the film, but it should have been.

( Beneath the cut for spoilers from me about the film’s ending, even if the excerpt doesn’t give away anything. )

How To Support Aurora, Colorado.

Christopher Nolan has issued a statement. Parting Thought.

To help the victims, Mile High Comics is having a sale for this next week—10% of proceeds go toward paying for medical expenses and funeral costs.

Viacom Networks Return To DirecTV.

The first step (there isn’t a web based upload form just yet) towards Dreamwidth being able to host images was unveiled.

Cocktails With Stan, Episode 11: Alison Scagliotti.

Catching Up With Robert Beltran, Part 1. Part 2.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #376.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Superman Dressed as a Giant Bird To Protect His Secret I.D.

Clea Duvall joins season 2 of American Horror Story.

They Live cosplayers.

Sixteen San Diego Comic Con Panels In Full Audio.

Two Different Man of Steel Trailers Are Attached To The Dark Knight Rises. The one that played at the theater I went to involved a voiceover from Jor-El.

Both of the teaser trailers for The Man of Steel have been released online. Here’s the one with the Pa Kent voiceover; the one with Jor-El’s voiceover.

TR Contest: The Simple Joys of Nerd-dom.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Your MSTed Movie Characters Avengers Team.

Old School Manos Game Coming.

SDCC 2012: Buffy Turns 20 Panel.

CCI: The Vampire Diaries Panel.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Shanna O’Hara Plunder (Shanna The She-Devil).

Sidekicks, icons and DC public relations.

Hand-painted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bra.

Frank Miller’s Year One Screenplay.

Grimm Fairy Tales The Animated Series SDCC Trailer.

Spook Central Webmaster, Paul Rudoff, Appears In Ghostbusters Comic Book.

Jackie Earle Haley Joins Robocop.

Dueling Sleepy Hollow Series Being Shopped By Fringe, Missing Teams.

1989: Uncanny X-Men size comparisons for the animated series. This would be for Pryde of the X-Men, not the Fox series.

University offers course on how to be a professional alien hunter.

The official trailer for Red Dwarf X.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #134: Stunt Rock (1980)

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Timecop (1994).

Movie Issues Podcast: Junior (1994)

Schlock Treatment 85: Posse (1993)

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.

When the earthquake hit Haiti, help_haiti was created. With the earthquake in Chile, now help_chile has been created. A few of the entries are in Spanish as of the last time I looked, but the English sign-up page is here. I’m considering signing up later, with Ghostbusters or Doctor Who or with an offer of a time stamp to anything I’ve written.

The next season of Warehouse 13 begins on July 13th.

The Sarah Jane Adventures gets two more seasons.

Tim Burton is going to direct a movie where Abraham Lincoln is a vampire slayer. This sounds about as weird as Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead. Sadly, I haven’t tracked those two down yet.

A Brief History of Comic Book Arcade Games. I remember in the late 80’s, very early 90’s I played a lot of the X-Men and Ninja Turtles games at Showbiz. After watching the clip of that first Ninja Turtles game, I believe I died a lot trying to save April from the room with flames in it.

With the first X-Men game listed, I was always Storm--or, if someone else had her, Nightcrawler. Other than those (the rest of which I’ve either never heard of or just barely heard of) and a few Atari games when I was really little (something with buckets of water and bombs—something else where a city slowly blew up) I didn’t play video games. Wait, no--I played something else at Movie Warehouse when I was 11, but I don't know what. It took a few weeks to get through, since I could only be there for an hour after school. Mortal Kombat or a game like that.

ETA: A search through Google and Wikipedia show that the arcade game was Street Fighter II, not Mortal Kombat.

12 Weird Sci-Fi Statues You Can Buy For Your Garden.

Io9 reviews the latest episode of Warehouse 13. I managed to catch something like the final 20 minutes of it the day it aired, so I didn’t know what was going on. All I knew was someone was stuck in a mirror. Now that I know the actual plot, I’ll try to watch the whole thing via On Demand later, and see if I like it.

Over at thedailymovie, today they mentioned Quick Change, from 1990. Does anyone else remember it? And if so, is it worth watching? Because I only know of it because they played the trailer for that right before The Little Mermaid back in late 1989. Yes, really. At the time, I wanted to go see it because Bill Murray was in it as a clown, and I hadn’t seen him in anything other than Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Here’s the trailer. If anyone wonders, at the time it was released I was 8—Wikipedia says July of 1990, but trailers were shown much earlier than that.

Oh, and a non-fannish related note. According to CNN, a girl (named Jaycee Dugard, I believe) was kidnapped back in 1991. After 18 years, she’s been found. She apparently just walked into a police station, and told people she had been kidnapped.

And just as I was about to post all of the above around 2 PM, the power went out. A couple streets away, a transformer had blown up. As of 2:30 PM, we have power back.