*sigh* And Clancy Brown as a good guy! Loved him in that show.

If the only other thing you have ever seen him in is Stargate Universe, then please, go rent "The Full Monty". You can thank me later.

Yes, that was my thought. We are more willing today to admire its archaic style as a choice on Tolkien's part consistent with what he wanted the works to be. (See: The Silmarillion, Even Moreso.) But that wasn't fashionable in literary circles at the time, so there was no way anyone in charge of a prize for…

Agreed, except for the assessment of Phoebus as "bland" and "not doing much". For one thing, nobody who is based on the performance of the great Kevin Kline can possibly be bland. For another, he stands out quite a bit from the crowd of bland Disney princes*, by virtue of being older, more world-weary, and…

In FOTR, Bret's elf was originally seen (without speaking) during the council at Rivendell when everybody's arguing about what to do about the Ring. He's a dark-haired elf who at some point, I believe, is in shot with Frodo (behind him or beside him? I don't remember clearly).

Despite the article's Clooney crack, I assumed when I read it that they only meant she won't be made up to look like she wears "street" make-up. Not to mean that they weren't going to make her (and Clooney, and everyone in the cast) wear theatrical make-up, because that sounds dumb.

Thank you for this! I'd never heard it before. I worked for an archaeological expedition in Turkey (it is still going on), and the expedition's two primary vehicles even up through 2000 were vintage Land Rovers, one of which was painted that exact shade of pink (adjusted for years of fading), and always referred to…

It's peach, darling. Peach. Pink is so garish.

Well, it doesn't just appear to be Conner's work — it's SIGNED "Conner". So if it's not really by Conner, then the faker has gone to the length of also adding a faked signature for verisimilitude. (Which isn't usually what you see from fakers, but...)

So... given that it happens once or twice annually, and has been happening for years, and they've done lab tests on it in the past to figure out what it is...

Not to mention, Hitler was comically punched-out in the Captain America movie, too.

Pretty sure this is several years old, and has been making the rounds of the internet.

Oh, don't worry. :) I have been on board the Temeraire train since it started. I really enjoy Napoleonic era historical war fiction (Sharpe more than Hornblower, I admit), so I really loved her mash-up of the genres, too.

Specifically, those. Those were the covers I had on my books, and forever after, those were what firelizards REALLY looked like to me. (Except I had a hard time scaling them up to be dragons. Dragons in my head looked like Whelan's. It was a problem, as an artist in the fandom.)

At this point, since there is no article or comments thread critical of 3D in which someone doesn't come in and say this, my advice to the io9 and other article writers is to make sure to point out up front that many markets do not offer the choice. "Not going to see it in 3D" means "not going to see it in theatrical…

I nearly voted for him, because, AGREED... but I couldn't not vote for Hemsworth.

I have a distressing feeling that we are not going to get NEARLY enough shirtless shots in Avengers.

This reminds me of an Oglaf strip...

Beorn is in it. He's been cast, though we haven't seen the guy in make-up yet. And there were set pictures of his hall being built.

Of earworms. King of earworms.