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“Weird Al” Yankovic to get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame!

Posted 9 years ago

It's crazy how long "Weird Al" Yankovic has been in show-biz (hint: almost four decades), especially considering how schticky his act must look from an outsider's perspective. Spoofing songs for a whole career? How weir — absurd! But Weird Al makes it work, and...

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later coming to Netflix

Posted 9 years ago

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER seems like one of those "love it/hate it" things. It's so weird and idiosyncratic, with many of its jokes simply based on period accurate aesthetics, or having a guy hump a refrigerator, that it makes sense...

Cool Videos: Realism, how much does it really matter?

Posted 9 years ago

The idea of using film to depict reality or fantasy has been a sticking point in film theory for a long time (since at least the days of the Lumiere brothers and George Milliez). And lately, many fantasy, comic, sci-fi,...

E3 releases new interview and gameplay footage for Star Wars: Battlefront II

Posted 9 years ago

So I was talking to my friend, and both of us agreed that a lot of a certain generation of geeks have experienced STAR WARS more as videogames than as movies. Which makes sense in some ways, as STAR WARS has...

Game of Thrones featurette focuses on special effects

Posted 9 years ago

To say that I’m excited about the seventh season of GAME OF THRONES is like saying Tyrion is excited about wine and snarky comments. Anyway, the new season is almost upon us, and HBO has been releasing behind-the-scenes featurettes to...

The Babadook is now an LGBT icon! Who knew?

Posted 9 years ago

So this is a bit unexpected. Apparently the Babadook (from the film THE BABADOOK) – that creepy ghoulie with the stove top hat, black cloak, and perpetually bug-eyed and creepy smiling face – is now a legitimate LGBT icon! Which…okay....

The videogame Everything is actually getting qualified for an Academy Award

Posted 9 years ago

So videogames and Oscars aren't exactly things that naturally go hand-in-hand. Even the best videogame adaptations (MORTAL KOMBAT and SILENT HILL) aren't exactly what you'd commonly consider "Oscar-worthy", no matter how much I think MORTAL KOMBAT should've won all the words that...

The Amazons from Wonder Woman might show up again in Justice League!

Posted 9 years ago

One of the many highlights of WONDER WOMAN was the prologue in Themyscira, and seeing all the badass Amazon warriors training and kicking ass. This includes Wonder Woman’s mother, Queen Hippolyta (played by Connie Nielsen) and her sister – and...

Win a trip to the premiere of Stephen King’s IT with new fan art contest!

Posted 9 years ago

A few weeks back I gathered up a ton of fan art for the upcoming feature adaptation of Stephen King's IT. You can check all of that out HERE. Today I'm here to share the news that the official Facebook page...

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