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Who Is the Greatest Star Wars Villain?

The Star Wars saga is an epic battle between good and evil. But who is the baddest baddie of them all?

Darth Vader: Force choking is cool and all but it’s not that cool. Did he do anything else in the movies?

General Grievous: Grievous is a lot like Vader but he’s not as smart and that cough is downright obnoxious. His four-armed …

5 Mad Men Scenes That Prove Betty Draper Is A Great White Queen

I know what you’re thinking: January Jones? As X-Men: First Class‘ uber-bitch, Emma Frost? Surely that’s not going to work.

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I share your concern, but want to offer these moments of hope. Yes, Betty Draper may not seem like the White Queen that we’ve come to know, love and …

Upcoming Verizon FiOS App Turns Your iPad into a TV

Verizon announced plans to offer an iPad app capable of showing television shows in real time to the company’s FiOS subscribers. Due to hit next year, the app will only show live channels at first—no recording or time-shifting just yet. Essentially, it turns your iPad into another TV if you’re a FiOS subscriber.

The service will …

Preview: Dracula: The Company of Monsters

The newest incarnation of Dracula to appear in comics skips over the familiar Bram Stoker version of the character, concentrating instead on Vlad the Impaler–the historical figure who inspired the Dracula legend–and what might happen if he were revived today, and throws in another Transylvanian legend: the Scholomance, a secret college …

Two Minute Video: eReader Meets Android Tablet with the Pandigital Novel

Pandigital’s second stab at a color e-book reader running on the Android platform will hit stores next month at a price of just under $200.

Specs include a 7-inch touchscreen with 800×600 resolution, 2GB of built-in storage expandable via SD cards up to 32GB in size, content from Barnes & Noble’s electronic book store complete …

Comics on Our Pull List 8/18/10

Tomorrow is new comics day and here are some new comics that you should pick up. This week we have a nice mix of series and story finales combined with some promising Issue Number One’s. Check em out and come back later this week for more comics coverage with Panel of the Week and the Comic Book Club.

The Last Phantom #1
It’s a new …

Monsters Is This Year’s District 9

The new trailer for Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ giant mutant monster movie, is out, and it really reminds me of District 9. Not only in terms of the “alien culture has invaded Earth and this is the cultural/societal fallout” set-up, but also in the level of anticipation I have for the movie after seeing …

Marvel Gets Own Blackest Night With Dead Avengers

I guess it was only a matter of time; less than a year after Blackest Night proved that bringing characters back from the dead can bring big sales and fan excitement for DC Comics, Marvel has announced that, hey! Their characters can return from the grave as part of a crossover event as well! I know, I know; Marvel has already done a …

Battle: Los Angeles Prepares For Battle With Skyline

Is Los Angeles big enough for two alien invasion movies? Sony doesn’t think so, and may be considering legal action to ensure that November’s Skyline doesn’t steal the thunder of its own March release, Battle: Los Angeles.

The conflict comes from more than just the similarity between the movies, both of which feature aliens invading …

Ten Freaky Songs About Star Wars

We begin our selection of musical tributes to Star Wars with the granddaddy of them all, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s immaculate “American Pie” rewrite “The Saga Begins”:

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Of course, not all Star Wars tributes are quite as articulate. The ridiculous sci-fi punk rock trio Supernova went …

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