Vampires are big business. From HBO’s True Blood to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books to the fifty million copy-selling straight-to-video Lost Boys sequel, the vampire bubble is nowhere near bursting. Give it another month, then sell.
I love vampire movies. What do I love about them? The chilling suspense? The sexy violence? …
My work-copy of iTunes is so broken, it actually emitted that sharp, loud angry-Mac beep when I fired it up just now. But nonetheless I was able to confirm that the Dr. Horrible soundtrack is the number two-most downloaded album right now. Such is the amazing power of Whedonicity.
It looked like a one-off, but it’s turning out that …
I saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars a couple of weeks ago. At the time I thought, meh, it was all right, there were things I liked and things I didn’t. I held off on posting a review, and since then I’ve come to realize that that my reaction was a pretty mild one in the grand scale of things. Clone Wars has inspired some truly epic …
These three minutes were deleted from Iron Man, presumably because after they spent $10 million filming them they realized that nothing happened in them:
In other movie news, Quentin Tarantino has apparently cast Samm Levine — Neal Schweiber from Freaks and Geeks — in his WWII flick Inglorious Bastards. This is just amazing.
Also …
I don’t know how many of you out there in the land of the living read PvP. I do. There was a time when I did not ‘get’ why PvP was popular, but now that I’m down with the full continuity I find it consistently funny. I don’t even really mind that it has basically nothing to do with gaming anymore. Kurtz’s deep fluency in the code of pop …
Last week I wrote a piece about CAPTCHAs, which is the name for those images of wavy, distorted letters that you sometimes have to retype in order to make the Web give you something you want, like an email address or whatever. The point of them is to prove that you’re not a bot run by spammers, since software is very bad at reading …
Below is an excerpt from a truly excellent book called American Nerd, by Benjamin Nugent. I know Ben — he used to work here at Time years ago. But that’s not why I’m posting this excerpt. I’m posting it because it’s truly excellent.
coronation, or why group nerd events are necessary
From AMERICAN NERD by Benjamin Nugent. Copyright …
There’s a new trailer out for the rebooted Ed Norton version of The Hulk that opens June 13th. It’s here.
I think I’m finally getting the point of this movie. It’s about a sensitive guy who can’t control his super-strong radioactive alter ego. That’s it. There’s nothing else. Norton and this director, Louis Leterrier (the auteur of, …
The redoubtable Harry Knowles drops the leak-hammer on the upcoming Thor movie. To wit:
This isn’t a Donald Blake, doctor on vacation story. Instead, this is a genuine TALES OF ASGARD story. In the first few pages the creation of everything takes place… the origin of the gods, their universe and how midgard (that’s are [homonyms,
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I just can’t see why anybody wouldn’t want to do this.
Although if my browser could speak, its reaction to Marvel’s weird comic-browsing setup would be as follows: DO NOT WANT.
1. Man-Witch. Jack Black plays a teacher who discovers he has magical abilities. He then has to join a coven and go to magic school with a bunch of girly-witches. There is nothing about this concept that I don’t like. Nothing. IMDB has this as 2009.
2. The Homestar Runner Movie. Don’t misunderstand, there is nothing about the state of …
Earlier this week I got a copy of the hardcover collection Marvel Zombies, and I have to admit, I’m deeply impressed. With all the corporate ass-covering that goes on in the media world, what other company would be willing to take its flagship intellectual properties, several of which are the basis of forthcoming mega-budget movies — …
