I’ve only ever been nominated for one award: in 6th grade I was nominated for the class “Most Meaningful Looks Award” because of my complete inability to fall into a poker face. Whatever annoyance I felt for Ms. Palmer was all over my face. No one else has ever found that habit of mine quite as funny as she did. The 6th Grade Class Awards weren’t as prestigious as the Harvey Awards, but it’s what I have.
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By Lisa Fary – I’m wondering if the Merlin team is intentionally trying to foster Merlin/Arthur slash.
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By Lisa Fary – This week, BBC Radio 4 is airing three new episodes of Torchwood. The radio plays feature Eve Myles, John Barrowman, and Gareth-David Lloyd as Gwen Cooper, Catpain Jack, and Ianto, The Man Who’s Made of Awesome.
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By Lisa Fary – At some point, I’ll have to find forgiveness in my withered heart for Ron D. Moore. I was so angry about the finale of that show (you know the one), but then Caprica turned out to be so good, and now Virtuality looks like it would be even better.
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By Lisa Fary – Seeing M. Night Shyamalan’s name on a movie goes a long way towards kicking the hell out of my faith in that movie’s quality.
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By Sabrina Boyer – I don’t usually like “theme” episodes of any series; I especially hate very special Xmas episodes where the audience is taught a very important lesson concerning the spirit of Christmas or some such crap. But here, in this episode, we learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
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By Melissa Voelker – Transferring print media to TV or film can be a tricky business, especially if the source material is a comic book or graphic novel. In some cases it works out well, such as with “Sin City” and “The Dark Knight.” In other cases it doesn’t work out so well (that is being generous really), such as with “The Spirit” and “Fantastic Four.” What all of these great and not so great adaptations have in common is that they come from stories that already existed in one form and were being changed into another.
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By Lisa Fary – Thank god for Hulu. Golf ran overtime on NBC this Sunday and my Comcast DVR didn’t compensate for the lost time, cutting off the last ten minutes of Merlin.
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By Lisa Fary – Wizard World Philly 2009 featured broken dreams, plenty of empty floor space, and Beaker smoking alone on a street corner in the rain. All for the price of $30 for Saturday admission.
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by Juliana Weiss-Roessler I am ashamed to admit that I have read all of the Twilight books. In case you were wondering, I was firmly on Team Jacob until he forced Bella to kiss him. From that point on, I had no team. However, I am glad Bella and Edward ended up together, because I [...]
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By Lisa Fary – Don’t worry about the moon crashing into the Earth and vaporizing the planet. Kids and family will save us. Perhaps by forming a vortex of annoying, righteous earnestness that will devour the moon’s gravitational threat. Even that’s better science than what’s going on in Impact.
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Because the Cylons totally had one. And Ronald D. Moore, SyFy and the gang are going to prove it! Video after the jump.
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Stargate: Universe starts this fall, but get a sneak peek at it now. Video after the jump.
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By Lisa Fary – Oh, for god’s sake. I got buried in end of year paperwork and missed this. It’s like I’m print media with aged news.
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By Teresa Jusino – TRUE BLOOD IS BACK! Which means that my four housemates and I will be seeing a lot more of each other, as this is the one show that is guaranteed to bring all of us together. Season Two started off with a bang – and this recap/review CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS. You have been warned.
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By Lisa Fary – Via Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily: Laura Martin of Media Metrics says sites that stream primetime shows for free and with limited ads are anti-consumer, anti-media employees, and maybe even anti-America.
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The Warehouse 13 conference call was the most lively call of this nature that I’ve been on. Stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly and producers David Simkins and Jack Kenney are so genuinely excited about the show and all have such great rapport that it was hard not to be infected by it. Read the transcript after the jump.
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The first forty pages of Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze comic, free color preview.
I can’t be the only geek on earth for whom this shirt is the ultimate, defining garment. Can I?
