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It has been proven over and over again that good trailers don’t guarantee good movies. Cough, Cloverfield, cough. But still: pretty cool. Anybody know who he’s fighting there at about the 2:05 mark? Reminds me of a Big Daddy from BioShock.

It’s called Up Till Now. It is not Shatner’s first piece of autobiographical prose, but it is the first in his oeuvre that I have personally sampled. It’s not out till May, but it’s on my desk, and I don’t recall signing anything saying I wouldn’t blog about it. So.

It’s interesting. It’s not bad. There aren’t any bombshells in it that …

In a bizarre, uncharacteristic moment of coolness I got my mitts on an early copy of the new Nerf Herder album, Nerf Herder IV, which is coming out April 29.

I have a long-term obsession with Nerf Herder, who are probably best known for doing the theme song to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (they played the Bronze in the final season), and …

The legions of agents at Ain’t It Cool transcribed every word uttered, written or thought at WonderCon (the poor man’s Comic-Con) in San Francisco, then added thorough descriptions of each frame of video screened. A hasty, random guide to the take-away, plus links if you want the exhaustive treatment:

– Iron Man: Jon Favreau showed …

When I was 22 I moved to a small town in Maine where I knew nobody. My intention was to isolate myself the better to focus on my goal of writing the Great American Novel. Instead I focused on playing a lot of Risk on my Mac Classic. Wow, did I play a lot of Risk. I developed very intense feelings about Kamchatka.

Eventually I had to …

Greetings, horrible homo sapiens! It’s me — the marvelous mutant known as The Toad! I can’t wait to get my $600 tax refund check from the government! To the Cherry Hill Mall I will hop in a hurry! First on my salacious shopping list — a new leather jerkin, with a more magnificent Medieval neck piece! Then, perhaps a pernicious …

Jon Lech Johansen, a.k.a. DVD Jon, is an Internet legend for cracking the cryptography on DVD’s and in Apple’s FairPlay technology. He did this in a way that sounds totally great but which I am too stupid/lazy to really understand/use so feel safe mostly ignoring. Also he is Norwegian and like 16 years old. (Actually he’s 24 now. But …

This appears to be a leaked clip from the upcoming movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Apparently the studio (Warner Brothers — hey, we’re corporate cousins! Don’t tase me, bro!) has been busting them wherever they appear, but here’s one I swiped from Ain’t It Cool. The dialogue is obviously scratch, but the …

Continuing a breakdown of interesting nerdy (to me) tidbits about the “new comic book store” plot of The Simpsons episode, “Husbands and Knives.”

• One of the strengths of The Simpsons is our ability to get away with referencing extremely esoteric chunks pop culture. I’d been looking for a way to sneak Tintin on the show for a long …

The first Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer is up:

Lots of obligatory shots from the earlier movies, for the benefit of those who weren’t born yet. (Through diligent archival research and expensive digital touch-ups they managed to salvage 6 watchable seconds from Temple of Doom.) Then on to wry, aging Indy! …

In case you missed it, here’s the episode Matt’s been annotating below:

Fear the power of Hulu.