Many shows mess with the space-time continuum to varying degrees, but few do it with as much head-scratching/mind-blowing aplomb as Lost. So when ABC let us peek at two new episodes, we expected greatness.
Times are tough, but word on the street is that video games could be recession proof. That’s why we predict purveyors of the medium will sign off on even more dubious game adaptations of movies. After scratching our heads over the troubling Watchmen: The End Is Nigh game, a bald effort to cash in on the March movie,…
From his role as the as the unflappable werewolf Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer to his part in co-creating TV’s lo-fi nerd-satire Robot Chicken, Seth Green has almost effortlessly amassed an adoring fanbase. The actor hopes to expand on that niche appeal with his first directorial effort for the big screen, an…
Recently, we came across a story about “television’s hottest bromances”—you know, guys who share inexplicably tight, platonic bonds. The writer, Erin White, compiled a smart, pithy list: Barney and Ted from How I Met Your Mother, Denny and Alan from Boston Legal, Hiro and Ando from Heroes.… That last one got us…
Writer-directors Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz—two of the whimsical visionaries behind Nickelodeon’s endlessly delightful Yo Gabba Gabba!—have created a live-action/animated pilot starring occasional Gabba guest-voices The Aquabats. For those not familiar, The Aquabats are a band of pop-punk/ska/surf-rock…
If you’re not familiar with Brian Azzarello, the scribe behind DC’s new Joker comic, you can get all the information you need just from the name of his most notable work, 100 Bullets. Yes, the Azz is known for his liberal deployment of violence, and it’s a quality that befits this new graphic novel—one that…
Say what you will about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, but there’s no disputing the fact that he's proven a potent muse to pop-culture-savvy artists. And if the Illinois senator doesn’t end up leaving a lasting impression in the executive office, he may very well eke out one in the comics…
Click to viewThe coolest holiday of them all is almost upon us, and we've done our best to prepare you. We've made a handful of costume suggestions. We asked your fellow readers to share their get-ups with you. And today, we offer you one of our most valuable services: what not to wear on the big day, should you…
Remember Space Jam, that 1996 movie where Michael Jordan gives a b-ball assist to a gaggle of Looney Tunes characters who’re harassed by evil aliens—as captured in half live action/half animation? Now word has arrived that former NFL linebacker Ken Harvey, formerly of the Phoenix Cardinals and Washington Redskins,…
Comics writer/My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way recently let slip that Universal Pictures has optioned his Dark Horse Comics series, Umbrella Academy, for the big screen. The series is about a group of estranged misfit superheroes who reunite after their mentor's untimely demise and a global menace's dastardly…
What if you could dial a phone, write an email, or check your voicemail just by thinking it? A new grant from the Army to further research synthetic telepathy intends to make all of the above do-able, plus provide an impermeable headspace for covert operations. How? By translating electrical brain activity via an…
Click to viewNeal Hefti, the jazzy trumpeter behind such TV theme songs as the propulsive ditty that introduced the 1960s Batman series, has passed away. His composition-with its singular staccato lyric, itself a paean to Adam West's be-spandexed superhero-may have been intentionally campy, but it's proven both…
Ithaca, New York—home to hoards of vegetarians, well-educated social liberals, and the citizens hope, an organized system of eco-friendly podcards by the year 2010. (Ooh, just like in Woody Allen’s Sleepers!) Here’s how it’d work: Each car would carry 2 to 10 riders who type in their destinations on a computer pad.…
Aw, shit! Seems that pesky 35-pound toilet at the International Space Station is broken…again. If you recall, back in June, the airflow-propelled galactic john experienced a spot of constipation due to a failed pump, leaving the poor chumps on board without a fully functional lavatory for roughly 10 days. According to …
Director David Fincher’s post-Benjamin Button project has been somewhat of a mystery—a 3D/CG Heavy Metal? Brian Michael Bendis’ Torso? Matz's The Killer? Oh god, not the Fight Club musical?!? But now it looks like we can cross at least one limbo-ing project off his to-do list: Rendezvous With Rama, based on the…
Halfway through new comics trade The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home—in which our gunslinging hero is transported to an ominous netherworld, where he’s banged up and taunted but never killed—writer Peter David’s narrator breaks out with this head-scratching line: “After all, what point is there in great villains…
Is fake-Twittering the new fan fiction? We think so! It’s pithy, witty, and boundless in possibilities. Lately it seems like these micro-compositions are omnipresent: Pretty much every Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Batman character has a feed. But we’ve come to learn that some imitations are…
Click to viewChristmas is the covetous one, Thanksgiving the gluttonous one, but Halloween, the holiday that kicks off the great holiday trifecta, is the awesome, proud one. It’s a day when even the most ordinary of citizens take self-expression to heart and fly their freak flag high. That is, once they can figure out…
Two months ago, Warner Bros. honcho Jeff Rabinov announced his studio’s intentions to release eight franchise-stoking DC comics films by 2011 — among them, a movie "reintroducing" Superman. Since then, all’s been relatively on the Kryptonian front…until now. U.K.’s The Independent has reported, amid an interview with…
Click to viewSometimes temptation can be all-consuming, especially when you're still chasing a repeat of your first high. That's why, Hollywood, we're staging this sequel intervention - because sometimes, it's like you're on crack. We heard the perverse rumors about a Blade Runner 2. They mercifully proved to be moot,…
