T-rex Dog Gets Wheels

This is Roosevelt, who as born with the best limb malformation you could ask for, in that it makes him look like a tiny, furry dinosaur. ...
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Time And Relatively Inappropriate In Space

Time And Relatively Inappropriate In Space

So, someone made a Doctor Who themed, "personal enjoyment device", a picture of which I have posted after the jump because, well,...
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When Fringe Closes A Door To An Alternate Universe, It Opens A Window To A Horrible Future

When Fringe Closes A Door To An Alternate Universe, It Opens A Window To A Horrible Future

Courtesy of FOX As much as we might hate the FOX network for cancelling shows we enjoy without giving them much of a chance, you do hav...
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[Review] - The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

Courtesy of Sony Pictures First off, let me clarify something. In the UK, the title of the film is as written above. In North American ...
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Settlers of Catan Is Serious Business

Settlers of Catan Is Serious Business

I was introduced to the Settlers of Catan , a board game of such ruthless detail and efficiency it could only have been invented by the Ge...
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Glasses Let Blind And Deaf Viewers Watch Movies In Theatres

Glasses Let Blind And Deaf Viewers Watch Movies In Theatres

I'm a big fan of getting as many people interested in movies as possible. They are a huge part of my life, essentially my version of ...
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Private Company Wants To Mine Asteroids, Fight Space Invaders, Get That Damn Frog Across The Street

Private Company Wants To Mine Asteroids, Fight Space Invaders, Get That Damn Frog Across The Street

Let's start by saying, this isn't some bunch of crazies saying they've hit space gold, or a presidential candidate spouting ...
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[List] - 7 Of The Best Statements From Geek TV

Courtesy of ABC I hate prophecies. They are lazy cliches that sci-fi and fantasy can't seem to shake. Every time a writer can'...
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Agent Coulson Geeks Out

I want to take a moment to discuss how I think this might be the best clip released from the Avengers thus far. How I feel, not having se...
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Doctor Who Goes Back To The River... Uh, Well

Doctor Who Goes Back To The River... Uh, Well

Let me say that the above picture is real. 100%, as far as my sources can tell unaltered, picture of The Beatles in the early days, hangi...
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George R.R. Martin Gathers His Religions

When world building, attention to detail is key. In The Song of Ice and Fire , the attention to detail is at an obsessive level. You might...
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Pixar Plans For The Future

Except for the Cars films, I've never been disappointed by Pixar. They've elevated the art form of the animated feature in a way ...
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Walking Dead Season 3 Promises To Be Just As Terrible As The Last

Walking Dead Season 3 Promises To Be Just As Terrible As The Last

Courtesy of AMC I have previously stated, at some length , that I didn't care for the second season of Walking Dead . So, it is dis...
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Batman Arkham City Wants You To Buy It Again, Please

Full disclosure: I have never actually played either of the Batman: Arkham games. Why? Is it because I'm some sort of communist who ha...
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Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain Cast In Iron Man 3

Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain Cast In Iron Man 3

Courtesy of Alliance Films I've waxed slightly on my relative apathy towards Guy Pearce before. I've got nothing against the gu...
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[Review] - Eureka, Season 5, Episode 2, "The Real Thing"

[Review] - Eureka, Season 5, Episode 2, "The Real Thing"

 Courtesy of NBCUniversal After last week's disappointing return to Eureka , I was hopeful that the show would rebound. Become ag...
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Avengers Trailer Done In Mattel Action Figures. Seven Year Olds Everywhere Approve

And thus completes our "popular internet things redone in another medium" triumvirate. The video is impressive, and has far le...
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Game Of Thrones Season One In Playmobil. What's Next, Stickle Bricks Babylon 5?

Tip of the ol' joke hat to Yahtzee Croshaw for the headline . But seriously, in a world overwhelmed by Lego versions of our pop cult...
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How Hunger Games Should Have Ended? It Never Should Have Begun

I would have been happy is the above video ended after the first thirty seconds. Can I say, on the heels of my less than favourable revi...
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[Review] - Game of Thrones, Season 2, Episode 4, "Garden of Bones"

Courtesy of HBO I have to give full credit to the quality of the writing in this episode to Vanessa Taylor, whom the internet tells me i...
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Bryan Fuller Wants To Remake Star Trek. 'Cause That'll End Well

Bryan Fuller Wants To Remake Star Trek. 'Cause That'll End Well

For those of you who don't know the name Bryan Fuller, for shame. He was the creative mind behind a series of fantastic shows, all o...
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Kevin Feige Talks Marvel Property Rights, Spoils Avengers

I'm going to warn you right now, DO NOT watch this video if you don't want a major spoiler about the Avengers to ruin your after...
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Ron Swanson Reads Tweets, Successfully Gets Me Interested In Tweets

And because TBS is bitchy like that, the same video for non American viewers . Numerous times over the past couple years, people hav...
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[Review] - The Hunger Games

[Review] - The Hunger Games

I am not, generally, a fan of these massive media cross-over events. They follow a recognisable pattern: book comes out, is so poorly wr...
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Annnd... Disney/Marvel Crosses The Line

I take it back. I take it all back. It's not a good thing to have clips for the Avengers released minute by minute in the weeks lead...
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[Graphic] - Calvin and Hobbes Makes Everything Better, And Everything Makes Calvin and Hobbes Better too

No Infringement Intended. Please Don't Sue. I've posted about Calvin and Hobbes before. It was immensely important to me back w...
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Raptors. They'll Eat You, Man. They'll Eat All Of You.

Raptors. They'll Eat You, Man. They'll Eat All Of You.

So, part of me wonders if the 'trailer' above is for an actual film, and not just a wonderful joke/satire/internet obs...
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If There Are Marvel Apes, and Marvel Zombies, Why Can't We Have Jurassic Marvel?

If There Are Marvel Apes, and Marvel Zombies, Why Can't We Have Jurassic Marvel?

Terryl Whitlatch designed Jar Jar Binks for Episode I . I guess, in an effort to redeem himself for his part in that horrible thing, he...
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All The Anything You'll Need Today

All The Anything You'll Need Today

In reality, I know that this picture - this wonderful, wonderful picture - was taken on the set of Stand Up Guys, a movie where Al Paci...
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Twenty Years Later, I Don't See Anyone Doing Any Better, Do You?

My love of dinosaurs is well documented, and in at least one jurisdiction, kept in the official record. My love of Jurassic Park is also ...
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WHY IS HE CRYING!

So, here is Michael Fassbender in a new promotional ad for Prometheus , still the movie I'm looking forward to the most this summer, b...
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Today Has Been One Of Those Interesting Days You're Always Read About

Today Has Been One Of Those Interesting Days You're Always Read About

Umm... I got nothing. Kudos to you sir. Kudos... I'd say the only thing stranger then a man dressed in a TARDIS suit would be seein...
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Hoverboat Will Be Making Another Run, Promises Something For Everyone

Hoverboat Will Be Making Another Run, Promises Something For Everyone

It's actually an optical illusion, but it does bring up an interesting point: it is currently 2012. Universe, you have three years to...
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[Review] - Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 3, "What Is Dead Can Never Die"

[Review] - Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 3, "What Is Dead Can Never Die"

Photo courtesy of HBO "It's all a game to you," says Catelyn Stark in this week's instalment. "These are the ...
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Joss Whedon, I Love You

Dear Joss, Thank you for being friends with awesome people with great senses of humour, even though you didn't give Nathan Fillion a...
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How To Humble The Ego In 6 Minutes

Most astronomers would probably agree, the biggest challenge in getting the general public interested in space is the constant threat of s...
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Can Someone Buy Dubai A Globe. I Think They're Strapped For Cash

Can Someone Buy Dubai A Globe. I Think They're Strapped For Cash

So, remember when Dubai started trucking in huge amounts of sand because they wanted to build an island chain  in the shape of the world...
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Children Are Smarter Then You, Will One Day Put You In A Home

Here is a video of a 3 year old singing the periodic table of elements. Sure, she doesn't do it well, but it's better then your ch...
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Avengers Wallpapers Bring The Heroes Close To You

How did I miss these? I mean, I'm not usually into wallpapers and stuff because I'm not a 13 year old girl, but you better b...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Travels Through Time

Time travel is my favourite plot device. You say to me, "Hey, why's your hair part like that?" And I'll reply, "Cau...
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This Is Why We're All Doomed

Who misses a bear? Honestly? I mean, I get that you were texting Brad about that really gnarly tweet you just posted about Pilar's fac...
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[Review] - Cabin In The Woods, "Have You Ever Even Seen A Moose?"

[Review] - Cabin In The Woods, "Have You Ever Even Seen A Moose?"

The only movie I can think to compare Cabin in the Woods , a tour de force by writers Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, is Alfred Hitchock...
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"I Know That Voice" Might Make My Year

< Right off the bat, I love love cartoons. I freely admit it is my favourite medium. It is not a genre, let us be perfectly clear. Pixa...
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Eventually, I Will Stop Posting Avengers Stuff. Today Is Not That Day

Anyone else get the impression we'll have a new piece of Avengers footage everyday from now until the release? Is anyone else as OK w...
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Watch Cost of Living, Understand You're Not As Good As This

Watch Cost of Living, Understand You're Not As Good As This

Have ten spare minutes? Do yourself a favour, and watch Cost of Living . It stars Brandon Routh, who is better then nearly everything he...
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PAC-MAN Fan Film Is Certainly... Something

I always figured that if they made a PAC-MAN movie, it would be about a morbidly obese man on an all fruit diet being terrorized by ghosts...
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Robot Ball Will Kill Us All, Unless We Develop Some Sort of Net And Stick Tecnology ASAP

Seriously, I don't know if I want one as a pet, or to kill it before it kills us. That thing it does to to the child at the end, I'...
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First Five Minutes Of Lockout

I am more than willing to watch any movie where a guy gets pummelled with a toilet seat, but let's be honest folks, if Lockout , a movi...
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Abed on Cougar Town, Author Misses The Bandwagon

About a year ago, Community did a fantastic homage to the Wallace Shawn film My Dinner With Andre . It is one of the best episodes the sh...
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Where The Hell Is My Mammoth, Science?

Where The Hell Is My Mammoth, Science?

Photo courtesy of the BBC When I first saw this picture, my first thought was "What the hell happened to ALF? All he wanted was a ...
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How Game Of Thrones Season 1 Should Have Ended

Do you know why this could never have happened? Do you know why ? Because Sansa Stark is the dumbest, most naive, unintentionally ironic, ...
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Maria Hill Speaks, And Iron Man 3 Gets A Baddie

Cobie Smulders appeared on Letterman last night and brought with her a clip of the Avengers . A clip where her character Maria Hill, the o...
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The Muppet Show: A Fusion Of Creative Juices

A long time ago, Jim Henson actually had to convince people that the Muppets was a good idea. I know, right? Seems crazy. But it's tru...
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Google Glasses Will Augment Your World, Walk You Into On Coming Traffic

This is a demo video of Google's proposed heads up display, basically Geordie's Star Trek visor, only in no way useful. Really, w...
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Who ... Are YOU ... Going ... To Call?

Who ... Are YOU ... Going ... To Call?

OK, Spock is Egon, Bones is Winston, Scotty is Ray, Kirk is Venkman, Uhura is Dana (because she's 'the girl'), Chechov is Le...
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The Avengers Might Just Be Great. And By 'Might' I Mean I Just Uncleaned My Pants

Remember how HBO spent the last two months putting out trailer after trailer for Game of Thrones , each basically the same, but edited tog...
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[Review] - Game Of Thrones Season 2, Episode 2 "The Night Lands"

[Review] - Game Of Thrones Season 2, Episode 2 "The Night Lands"

Photo courtesy of HBO "Sometimes those with the most power have the least grace," Littlefinger informs us, in this second epi...
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Bond Starts In London, Comes To Toronto

Bond Starts In London, Comes To Toronto

Photo courtesy of Columbia/MGM The TIFF Bell Lightbox, in Toronto, Ontario, is quickly becoming one of my favourite places. Last year,...
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