The Somewhat Ambitious

For those of you not obsessed with Bill Shatner (I call him Bill, in the hopes that he’ll mistake me for an old friend and invite me skiing sometime, followed by a vigorous and confusing bout of lovemaking), you may have heard about his new talk show, ‘Shatner’s Raw Nerve’. I’ve not had the time [...]

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I’m aware of the vigor and blind devotion possessed by the average Whedonite. Most are jovial and intelligent nerds, but they harbour an at times indiscriminate and blind devotion to anything Whedon has lain his hands to. And not without due cause; Firefly was terrific, the bits of Buffy without Sarah Michelle Gellar (mostly) worked, [...]

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Apparently Keanu Reeves is starring as Spike in a live action Cowboy Bebop film. I say “apparently” because a) it was mentioned on MTV, and b) it was mentioned on MTV by Keanu. His producer Erwin Stoff (the guy who produced The Day The Earth Stood Still… oh God. I just just threw up in [...]

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Fresh from the sweet loins if the internet is this terrific (well, staggering) fanmade trailer for a Thundercats feature film. I shan’t blow it for any of you; sufficed to say, it’s a proper change of pants movie. So, you know, have extra pants on hand. Or whatever. You’ll have to excuse the weirdness, I’m [...]

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Remember on Star Trek: The Next Generation when Lt. Barclay had made all those twisted fantasy programmes on the Enterprise holodeck in which he could fulfill all of his sickest dreams involving the three musketeers, Wesley eating pie and Troi talking dirty on a swing?
Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, turns out the holodeck could become a reality, [...]

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This photo was taken recently at Dragoncon ‘08, and is probably the single coolest costume I’ve seen in at least a week (I woke up in a costume store last weekend. Long story). I wonder what his last words were. I’d bet good money that he said something to do with Cookies, but it’s hard [...]

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Contrary to Homer’s (the Simpson, not the ancient Greek poet) suggestion that all movies are better if you speed them up, I’m starting to think that the key to comedic glory is locked in replaying things at half pace. In particular, if you replay footage involving Jeff Goldblum at half pace. Or, more specifically, if [...]

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DONALD LaFONTAINE, THE VOICE OF GOD.
26-8-1940 – 1-9-2008
Don LaFontaine, the husky-voiced guy who started trailers off with “in a land… before time” or “on the run… from himself”, has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 68. He had recorded over 5000 film trailers, television commercials, network and video game ads, and I’m [...]

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If there was ever an overwhelming commitment to a fictional universe, this is it. Star Trek by its very nature covers a lot of geographical ground, but a listener to Nerds of a Feather drew to my attention this map of the entire Star Trek galaxy. Holy shit. I’d peg this as excessive, but to [...]

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Let it never be said that fanboys/girls aren’t capable of flagrant douchebaggery. At a recent taping of Catherine Tates new show Under a Blue Sky, a clatch of Doctor Who fans noticed David Tennant in the audience. During the interval, he made small talk with them and was apparently very charming. The fans were quite [...]

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