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The new Star Trek movie trailer, Star Trek: Into Darkness, was released and the Internet is abuzz, not only because a new Star Trek movie is coming, but also because it’s uncertain whom Benedict Cumberbatch will play. Read More

This year’s list features more Cthulhu than in the past. I was inspired by the fact that my students are actually reading an H.P. Lovecraft story, “The Outsider,” right now. Yes, I’m totally trying to drive my students crazy. Read More

Here’s a list of movies that I’m looking forward to in the upcoming months, New Year, and beyond. Read More

Nothing makes genre fiction more satisfying that packing it full of absurd tropes. The creative minds behind the best genre productions — from Stephen King and Agatha Christie to Joss Whedon and George Lucas — take downright goofy tropes and work them Read More

It’s time once again to present several geeky covers of songs. There’s some really old stuff as well as some very new stuff in this set. As always, it’s all good stuff (although some may be NSFW)! Read More

It’s reasonable to assume that ABC’s S.H.I.E.L.D. will have some clear ties to the movie universe, and it also is safe to assume that characters currently owned by Fox wouldn’t be showing up in this Marvel production. So who could or should be on the Read More

Quite a while ago, I featured a list of songs about nerd girls. It seems appropriate to revisit the topic. This list does feature more specific types of geek girl than the previous list, but like the last there’s a wide variety of music and lyrical content. Read More

The Expendables represents one of the greatest unoriginal ideas of all time: Take all the best action heroes and put them in one movie. Of course, there’s one fly in the ointment: they’re all men. So let me present a somewhat more original and totally Read More

It’s time to take a look at the behemoths of science fiction and fantasy. I’m not talking merely profitable or interesting, or fresh approaches to a crowded field. I’m talking about the cultural freaks of nature so massive they suck up everything around Read More

When it comes to science fiction, there's the good, there's the bad, and there's the so ridiculous you can't help but love it. Here are five productions based on premises so delightfully ridiculous even your doorknob of a neighbor who thinks Star Wars Read More

The core to many shows is the partnerships. These shows are built around the partnerships of not only the characters, but also the actors. That’s why many of the shows listed here are so popular. Here are my top 10 partnerships on TV shows. Read More

With the highly anticipated Avengers movie being released on May 4, it just seemed like an obvious choice to put together a list of songs about The Avengers. Some of the tracks are actually about the characters themselves, others simply share names with Read More