If you can't tell from the pictures I took, the Long Beach Comic-Con was a rousing success, celebrating the world of comics and lots more (but mostly comics). There are those who complain that the San Diego Comic-Con, the big daddy of all conventions, has gone Hollywood in recent years, pushing aside ...
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- Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 0:26
- movies, television, videos
Buffy is about to face yet another apocalypse. This time, possibly without Joss Whedon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or anyone else from the much beloved TV cast. Who would dare commit such a crime against nature... errr, fandom? Who is this dark harbinger of doom? His name is Roy. Roy Lee. ...
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- Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 19:16
- television, videos
Growing up, "V" was one of my all time favorite shows. When it came to sci-fi tv, I was all over stuff like "V", Battlestar Galactica, the Greatest American Hero, and, of course, the classic original series Star Trek reruns. Friendly aliens visit Earth in cool giant spaceships, promising great things and monumental ...
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- Sunday, May 17, 2009, 19:30
- comic books, movies
According to
Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily, Marvel has picked their god of thunder and it just happens to be Captain Kirk's daddy! Chris Hemsworth, most recently seen in the blockbuster Star Trek revamp from JJ Abrams playing James T Kirk's self-sacrificing father in the opening sequence of the film, has been tagged to ...
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- Thursday, April 9, 2009, 0:15
- television
JJ Abrams is the king of cross-pollinating the actors between his various projects. Greg Grunberg is a common example, starting in Felicity moving to Alias, and making an appearance as the pilot of Flight 815 on Lost. I'm sure he would have shown up on Fringe by now if wasn't a regular on ...
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- Thursday, March 12, 2009, 0:17
- conventions, movies, videos
For me, this was the panel I wanted to see more than any other. It's pretty much the reason why I wanted to come to WonderCon 2009. I did expect a little more (the whole cast maybe? how about some big Star Trek-y special event since the Federation was/will be founded in ...
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- Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 0:05
- conventions
Popculturegeek is going to Wondercon 2009, the little sister to the biggest pop culture event in the world, the San Diego Comic-Con! We're excited to bring you our coverage of this massively geeky event for the very first time. San Francisco is supposed to be rainy the entire weekend, but that won't prevent ...
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- Sunday, February 1, 2009, 22:00
- movies, television, videos
Now that we're beyond the bulk of the really important holiday season (no, I don't include the Hallmark holiday called Valentine's Day), we can post the many gifts the Superbowl has given us this night... and by that, I mean the many 2009 movie teaser trailers that premiered tonight. Hulu has them all, so ...
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- Saturday, January 31, 2009, 14:25
- movies, videos
If you're the type of geek that watches the Superbowl just for the commercials, then you already know that you can expect teasers from Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Up, Fast & Furious, Land of the Lost, Year One, Monsters Vs Aliens, Star Trek, and GIJoe: the Rise of Cobra.
Comingsoon.net ...
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- Thursday, January 22, 2009, 23:22
- movies, toys
USA Today has the first pictures of the Playmates toys 3 3/4 inch Star Trek movie action figures coming this spring/summer. Figures come with portions of the Enterprise bridge that can be combined to make a complete playset. Kirk, of course, comes with the centerpiece... the captain's chair. There's also a transporter ...
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- Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 22:47
- movies, television, videos
Although he's best known as the mysterious Mr Roarke in the 1970s tv series Fantasy Island, geeks will always remember Ricardo Montalban mostly for his iconic performance as Khan Noonian Singh in the original Star Trek series, a role he reprised in the 2nd (and possibly the best) Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan. ...
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008, 19:43
- movies, television
The widow of iconic Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry has died. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is best known to Trek fans as the Spock-craving Nurse Chapel in the original series and the mother of Deanna Troi in the Next Generation series.
She died early on December 18th at the age of 76 after a long battle ...
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- Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 23:36
- movies, videos
I remember Terminator: Salvation director McG telling us at Comic-Con that this trailer would be attached to Quantum of Solace. Apparently he was mistaken. It will make its silver screen debut in front of The Day the Earth Stood Still (along with X-Men Origins: Wolverine) this Friday.
But if you can't wait ...
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- Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 22:08
- movies, videos
Normally, I'd link directly to the video, but you have to give Ain't It Cool News the credit for having the hook up to score this gem. It's too full of geeky goodness to ignore just because they're a pop culture news site too. AICN is home to an exclusive alternate version of ...
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- Monday, November 17, 2008, 10:00
- movies, videos
The brand new, highly anticipated trailer for the new JJ Abrams Star Trek film is now online at
startrekmovie.com, just in case you didn't catch it this week in front of Quantum of Solace.
It took 4 attempts on Friday night for me to finally see it. One of the screens had ...
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