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Benedict Cumberbatch to Star in Monty Python-Manned Film
This is a weird one, so bear with us. It looks like Benedict Cumberbatch has got a new project to add to his roster—and it’s a Monty Python film. Well, not exactly, but it will be directed and...
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Deconstructing Manic Pixie Dream Girls and Slacker Boyfriends: Scott Pilgrim...
When director Edgar Wright (known for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Spaced) talked about why he had decided to take on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World as a film project, he brought up the conceit of the...
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License to Kill, Tenderly: Spoiler Review of Skyfall
Though 007 himself tends to travel sans luggage, the cultural entity known as James Bond comes with a lot of baggage. Since Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s James Bond has been trying to grow up. With...
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Watch the Full Trailer for World War Z
The first full trailer for World War Z has hit the internet and... it looks nothing like what is depicted in the book.Take a look below and judge for yourself, but from this trailer it appears that the...
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Ask Steven Erikson Your Reaper’s Gale Questions!
Now that Amanda and Bill have concluded the emotionally-fraught reread of the seventh book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Reaper’s Gale, we’re opening the floor for questions to Steven Erikson!The...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 8
Welcome to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 8 of A Storm of...
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Does This Raphael Soyer Painting Depict Amy and Rory After the Latest Doctor...
Take a look at the painting to the right—just take a good long look. That there is a painting called “Consolation” by Raphael Soyer, done in 1959. Does the couple look familiar? We think they bear a...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Birthright, Part I”
“Birthright, Part I”Written by Brannon BragaDirected by Winrich KolbeSeason 6, Episode 15Production episode 40276-242Original air date: February 22, 1993Stardate: 46578.4Captain’s Log: The Enterprise...
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Song of the Vikings Sweepstakes!
We've got five copies of Nancy Marie Brown's Song of the Vikings! The excerpt was awesome, and the book has all sorts of extra treats that fantasy fans are sure to love—including a map of Iceland in...
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It’s All Fun and Games on Revolution in “Sex and Drugs”
Hey there, Revolution fans! So a funny thing happened on the way to covering episode six of our friendly neighborhood post-apoc blackout series: I got trapped in the middle of a real blackout! A...
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Guilt and Answers At Last in Revolution’s “The Children’s Crusade”
It’s another week of lights out in our blackout speculative drama Revolution and this week the show pulled out every single stop. There’s revelation after revelation as the show’s creators dropped tons...
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Something Else Like... Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny erupted onto the science fiction scene in the sixties as part of the New Wave. He wrote beautiful poetic science fiction, often in a wry first person voice. He used mythologies from all...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “Heart of Ice”
“Heart of Ice”Written by Paul DiniDirected by Bruce W. TimmEpisode #014Supervising Composer Shirley WalkerMusic Composed by Todd HayenAnimation Services by Spectrum Animation StudioOriginal Airdate -...
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Morning Roundup: Pac Labyrinth. Yes.
We’re sort of surprised that this PacMan knock-off for the movie Labyrinth never actually existed. But we give mad props to Josh Gilbert for coming up with the idea and rendering it in such a shiny...
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Monster of the Week: C.H.U.D.s
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on New York City’s subterranean rat population made the news this week, but let us not forget the other denizens of the Big Apple’s dreary underworld. No, I’m not talking about...
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He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My (Half) Brother: Ill-Considered Family Members in SFF
“So... you have a twin sister!” These words should come as a shock, but in science fiction and fantasy, they’re about as common as “Let’s get out of here,” or “Here they come!” It seems as though your...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla,...
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”—Roland Deschain, of GileadWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series. Join me each week as I, Constant Reader, tackle the magnum opus of Stephen King’s...
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Seven Norse Myths We Wouldn’t Have Without Snorri
We think of Norse mythology as ancient and anonymous. But in fact, most of the stories we know about Odin, Thor, Loki, and the other gods of Scandinavia were written by the 13th-century Icelandic...
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The Walking Dead, S3 E5: “Say the Word”
Once again, The Walking Dead pulls off another solid episode in “Say the Word.” This is definitely a show that gets better with less dialogue. I don’t think the writers are ever going to figure out...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: All Fun And Games until Somebody Loses an...
In S2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy starts getting glimpses of a life where she’s not completely isolated in her role as a slayer. It begins when Kendra shows up. It’s the peculiar bonus that...
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