By Sam Christopher With all the hoopla surrounding the return to DC continuity of Darkseid’s Doomsday Mach—er, Bruce Wayne—I thought I’d catch those of you not reading up on what Bruce means to the Batman Family in particular and to the DCU in general. Bruce has indeed returned and this time he has a plan. [...]
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Comic Book Reviews: Batman Titles of Late
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Comic Book Reviews: Astonishing Thor and the Marvel Conundrum
By Sam Christopher I said on here once before that I was going to stop buying Marvel titles at $3.99 unless they had a compelling reason for the higher price. I let Ender’s Game stuff go because I figure they have to pay OSC extra for the use of the hall. Then there’s Captain America, [...]
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New in Comics: Doc Macabre from Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson
Doc Macabre #1 (of 3) Due out Dec 1st from IDW TFAW.com Product Description: Got ghosts in your garage?! Tired of those pesky zombies roaming around your front lawn? Have no fear! Doc Macabre, the one-man supernatural sweeper-upper, is here! There’s no job too big for Doc, who, with the aide of his right hand [...]
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Cancellation Watch: Most Science Fiction and Fantasy Shows had Little to be Thankful for Last Week
By John J. Joex Thanksgiving week is usually a slow week for television viewing with plenty of preemptions and repeats across the schedule, so it’s rarely a good indicator of how a show is performing. And I’m sure that NBC’s Chuck and The Event would like to blame the holiday week on their poor numbers [...]
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Box Office Results: Harry Potter Still Thankful
Over the three-day weekend following Thanksgiving, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 piled on another $50 million to the total the movie has raked in since its November 19th opening. The film has now grossed an estimated $610 million worldwide in just 10 days, blowing away all other competition among the Fall films. [...]
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New on DVD: Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
Fantasia / Fantasia 2000 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Due out Nov 30th Amazon.com Product Description: Walt Disney’s animated musical masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound-now brilliantly restored for the first time ever in high defi nition! Blu-ray technology fi nally allows you to experience Fantasia – and Fantasia 2000, the triumphant classic it inspired-the [...]
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Sci Fi Trifles: Gilligan’s Island in Outer Space . . . No Really
Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror that will not help you to get rescued from a desert island. Surely anybody familiar with classic television knows about the bumbling adventures of Gilligan and the six other people aboard the ill-fated S.S. Minnow that aired for [...]
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Wolfman Mac’s Chiller Drive-In
By Sam Christopher Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars “Come on, howl with me now. BA-OWWWWWWWW! Heh, heh, heh—let’s roll it.” Is there anything cooler than a local hosted show that revisits the classic (or maybe just plain “old” would be a more appropriate word) sf films? When I was a kid growing up in [...]
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Sci Fi Trifles: There Were Lyrics to the Star Trek Theme Song?
Useless but essential pop culture tidbits and trivia from the worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror that will probably not interest anyone in your Music: 101 class. Almost every Science Fiction and Fantasy fan (check, almost everybody on the planet) knows the theme to the original Star Trek series with its opening narration by [...]
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Geeks Don’t Do Black Friday!!!
Some stores will be opening as early as 3 AM on Black Friday with their door-buster sales. Let’s see a show of hands 0f how many of us will be there . . . Yeah, that’s about what we thought. GEEKS DON’T DO BLACK FRIDAY!!! None of that getting up early, or camping out in [...]
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