The good news: Neil Patrick Harris and Joss Whedon have teamed up to bring you this week’s episode of FOX’s Glee. (Let’s just call it Dr. Horrible 1.5.) The bad news: It’s on during LOST. But that’s why God invented DVR.
Harris plays Barry, a high school nemesis of glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), who returns to …
If you’ve seen the quirky, high school film noir Brick, then no doubt you’ve remembered the name of its creative, genre-smashing director: Rian Johnson.
Brick was so inventive, so arresting, that for even those who considered the whole teenage femme fatale thing to be a gimmick, they still took stock that this was a filmmaker …
Um, holy crap. Talk about a left-field revelation.
Months after Disney – in an apparent act of mercy on the moviegoing public – shut down a big-screen adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that was to be helmed by (shudder) McG, the news trickled out that David Fincher (yes, Se7en–Fight Club-Benjamin Button Fincher) had …
One of the great unsung comics of the JFK era is John Broome and Murphy Anderson’s “Atomic Knights,” a sequence that appeared in roughly every third issue of DC’s Strange Adventures from 1960 to 1963. The series takes place after the devastating atomic war of 1986 (remember that?), and it’s as hopeful a post-apocalyptic story as anyone’s …
Not content with being one of the more enjoyable shows on television, this week’s (American) episode of Doctor Who decided to up the stakes by demonstrating why it’s one of the smartest, as well. As the Doctor’s future wife River Song would say, spoilers!
Previously, on Doctor Who: Forty-seven years of episodes, but what you really …
George Romero knows zombies. Allie has a crush on him. (Or is just zombies?) TIME is asking him 10 questions and it’s happening tomorrow. This is your one opportunity to ask the director of zombie films like Night of the Living Dead and Survival of the Dead, which opens on May 28, a question. Get thee to the 10 Questions page and submit!
On last night’s season finale of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, merch extraordinaires ThinkGeek donated a ton of awesome stuff to give one kid the nerdtastic room of his dreams. (Watch the episode here.)
ThinkGeek donated over 45 items from its catalog for the room, themed Digital World, and some of it is pretty awesome stuff. …
File under “Inexplicable legal actions seemingly born of laziness”: Time Warner Cable is asking a US court to quash legal action against online piracy, because it doesn’t have the bandwidth to look up more than 28 IP addresses a month.
According to the Hollywood Reporter’s THR, Esq. blog, TWC has filed a third party motion to quash a …
YouTube entered beta testing five years ago this month, and to celebrate, we’re listing our personal favorite YouTube hits. Now for the last time, leave Britney alone and don’t you dare tase me, bro.
(More on Techland: YouTube Friday: 99-Year-Old Woman Gets Her First Computer)
Peter Ha: Kittens Inspired By …
This will really put a stop to those uncomfortable wedding officiant tangents.
Japanese couple Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue recently tied the knot with the help of the I-Fairy bot, a ceremonial drone created by Japanese company Kokoro, where the bride works.
Inspired? The bot, one of only three in use, will set you back …
Another Monday, another set of handpicked deals. Here are the ten best ones, in no particular order. Walmart has some pretty aggressive pricing on netbooks and nettops, while Target’s got an excellent coupon code for 15% off anything ordered from its website. Happy shopping, folks.
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA 10.1-inch netbook: $198 today
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The list of blogs that this is via is lengthening unmanageably even as I type. Suffice it to say that it’s via Kotaku via Super Punch via the place where it actually appeared, COOLEY!
But what is it? It is: inappropriate Golden Books.
Doesn’t require much explanation. Cooley is Josh Cooley, who’s a Pixar artist. His life is …
