I still can’t decide whether I loved Ridley Scott’s Prometheus or if I hated it. If a movie needs to be explained like it was an astrophysics thesis then it’s probably terrible, but I feel like it’s going to be one of those movies I rewatch a ton when it comes out on DVD. Regardless, [...]
Stephen Spielberg’s Minority Report is perhaps both the director’s and actor Tom Cruise’s most under-appreciated movie. Philip K. Dick’s short story that is the basis for the movie was set in an undefined future and barely touches upon what that world could resemble. So, Spielberg gathered a group of science and technology futurists to help [...]
You know what they say in Westeros: when you play the game of love, you either get married or you die by decapitation. The execution of this GoT-as-a-Rom-Com trailer isn’t the best, but the use of “Call Me Maybe” is so ridiculously spot on it more than makes up for the shortcomings. Actually, wouldn’t we [...]
The opening titles to the original Star Trek series, with the Shatner monologue, is a piece of iconic pop culture. That doesn’t mean they can’t be played with and reinterpreted, which is just what the Quintek Group has done. It retains the Shatner monologue — a necessity, really — and adds a groovy, Saul Bass-like [...]
I’ve got to say, I’m loving the evolution of BuzzFeed from a user-generated content site chock full of stupid cat videos to one with some really fantastic original writing. Nowhere is that change more indicative than with their technology site FWD, best exemplified in the recent publishing of speculative fiction by Jon Methven. Hacks happen all the [...]
Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics, died this morning in Los Angeles. He was 91. A literary titan if there ever was one.
Just so we’re clear. We now live in a world where The National (the epitome of literary indie rock emo for white people and I band I happen to enjoy in spite of that) have recorded the official ballad for “The Rains of Castamere”, which, according to Topless Robot, is the “most famous song from [...]
Okay, not really. But how much would you want to watch that show as imagined by illustrator Travis Pitts in which the duo fight monsters and ghosts? The answer is you would want to watch that show a lot. Actually, this sort of feels very Mike Mignola-esque, doesn’t it? I previously went ape shit for [...]
NBC has a new show coming out this fall from producer J.J. Abrams and director John Favreau about what happens 15 years after the entire world loses electricity. The premise for the show is cool, but doesn’t it just feel like this show is going to get cancelled after about five episodes? Maybe it’s that [...]
Above, Bran and Robb Stark recount the family history of House Stark. There are also brief histories for: House Lannister, House Targaryen, House Arryn, House Baratheon. These videos are perfect for anybody who is fascinating by the Game of Thrones universe, loves the HBO show, or is just too lazy to read a 1,000 page book. Yes, that would be me on all [...]
