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Watch Doctor Who: The Great Detective Children in Need Minisode Right Now!
Serving as the prequel to the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, this minisode has just aired as part of BBC’s annual Children in Need charity drive. It even includes an introduction from Matt...
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Gaming Roundup: We’re Going Back to Cali, to Cali
Rockstar’s recent barrage of Grand Theft Auto V footage and news is what has the gaming world buzzing this week, as the masters of sandbox gaming return to the West Coast to tackle Los Angeles, a.k.a....
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It’s All About Family on Revolution’s “Ties That Bind”
Welcome back to the quest for light, Revolution fans. We’re back with episode eight of the first season, just in time for our crew to have to solve one of the most difficult problems of the...
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The Kassa Gambit Sweepstakes!
After reading the excerpt, we know you're wondering what comes next in M.C. Planck's The Kassa Gambit. Fear not, we've got you covered. There are 10 delicious chocolate-covered (okay, maybe not...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “The Cat and the Claw: Part 1 & 2”
“The Cat and the Claw: Part 1”Story by Sean Catherine Derek & Laren BrightWritten by Jules Dennis & Richard MuellerDirected by Kevin AltieriEpisode #013Supervising Composer Shirley WalkerMusic...
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Morning Roundup: The Name is Who, Doctor Who
All the Doctors! Even the fictional ones! With BBC's Children in Need minisode debuting on Friday, and anticipation for the Doctor Who Christmas special ramping up, we noticed a high volume of Doctor...
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The Matrix Captures the Feel of Video Games
The best movie based on video games is not one about video game players, like The Wizard or Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. And it’s certainly not one based on any franchise, like Super Mario Bros. and...
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The Walking Dead, S3 E6: “Hounded”
All the momentum of the last few episodes of The Walking Dead shattered into a million pieces of boredom with “Hounded.” Good god but this was, by and large, a dull episode. Talk about setting the...
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Game of Thrones Season 3 Teaser Trailer Hits
Here’s the first official promo for Game of Thrones season 3. It’s 16-second long! It’s got letters! And a date! And what sounds like Melisandre being ominous?[Teaser video below the cut]Read the full...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wolves of the Calla, Part...
“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”—Roland Deschain, of GileadWelcome to A Read of the Dark Towerseries. 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: Part II
It was Neil Gaiman who convinced me. Reading American Gods, I was delighted to see the character Mr. Wednesday echoing Snorri Sturluson, the 13th-century Icelandic writer whose biography forms the core...
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Announcing Memories of Light: Daily Previews of A Memory of Light
The release of A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series, is now only days away. To celebrate this tremendous moment, decades in the making, we will be releasing...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch: Bye Bye Mister Yankee Pie
Plot plot plotty plotty plot! Get your plot here. We got your fresh steaming season four plot! That’s the name of the game in “Goodbye, Iowa,” which picks up right where “The I in Team” left off, with...
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The Enterprise Becomes a Turntable in Beautifully Bonkers IFC Star Trek Ska Ad
Whoever is in charge of making decisions about commercials on IFC is totally one of us. First, they had this remarkably self aware promo for R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” and now...this. IFC is...
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The Dresden Files Reread: Book 3, Grave Peril
The Nevernever, realm of faeries, spirits and ghosts. In Grave Peril, the third Dresden Files novel, Harry Dresden must contend with all of these, as well as three different kinds of vampires and an...
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Breaking Dawn, Part 2: Electric Twilightening
I have tried, since stumbling out of the theater Thursday night in a bilious fury, to write an objective review of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the final movie in the Twilight series, and always ended up...
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The Great Alan Moore Reread: Tomorrow Stories, Part Two
Tor.com comics blogger Tim Callahan has dedicated the next twelve months more than a year to a reread of all of the major Alan Moore comics (and plenty of minor ones as well). Each week he will provide...
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Impulse Sweepstakes!
Steven Gould's Impulse won't be available until January, so we thought we would give everyone an early shot to get their hands on it! We've got 10 ARCs here in the office, and we're itching to send...
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Tune: Vanishing Point (Comics Excerpt)
We’ve got a snazzy comics excerpt from Derek Kirk Kim’s Tune: Vanishing Point, first in a new series out now from First Second:Andy’s life is going nowhere, fast. He left art school with his career all...
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Wandering the Weird: The Vorrh by B. Catling
Not a few folks make a meal of it, but the act of differentiating between books good, bad and abundantly ugly is fairly straightforward, I find. Several simple indicators—including care, competence and...
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