Wowza! Puh-lease don't Hollywoodize this one! This looks really keen!

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Thanks michaelmichael for bringing this one to my attention.

So, when someone wants Hollywood to take on Real Amazing History (say Amelia Earhart) or a classic story (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) should he light a candle for St. Catherine of Sweden or St. Jude?

According to the tor.com site, there's a new book coming out in which Dante stumbles across a zombie invasion during his seventeen years of living in exile."

"...Paffenroth has been fascinated by Dante's Commedia ever since first reading it in 1986 ... "I had thought originally that I'd write scholarly essays about the poem ... but eventually, it ( Read more... )

First off, you have to pretend that I'm using my "paradigm of rockitude" icon as well, because this owns it.

sarahtales has just written a spiffy Star Trek Movie parody. A clip to whet your appetite:

BRAVE LITTLE CAPTAIN: I must fly this ship into the Romulan ship of Nero, the movie's villain, so that my son can be born ( Read more... )

This all began with a post by stoplookingup On Uhura and the whole "Mary Sue" thing that I found thanks to hobsonphileI agree with both that there's certainly a strong smell of sexism in the eagerness to dismiss a powerful, good-looking female character as "too good to be true," but a male one as "kewl," Seriously, if one fails to balk at the new Star Trek's James T. ( Read more... )

Lost
Greatest brush off in the history of T.V.land: "I would rather set off an atomic bomb and warp the space time continuum than be with you." Ouch.

Dollhouse
Back next year! Woot!

Star Trek
If only because it makes it so that Star Trek V never happened, I'd love the new movie.

Also, did you know you can watch the original episodes in order ( Read more... )

I just watched the first episode of Dollhouse, and was not terribly surprised to discover that Entertainment Weekly had botched its review of the pilot. I've grown to know and love (heh) EW's Very Special Relationship with genre media.

The two flaws the EW reporter/reviewer noted were that

1. the main character, "Echo" by definition had no ( Read more... )

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Oh my goodness, I love this so much: It makes me happy to watch it! Few things sound lovelier than men's voices singing in tight four-part harmony; but men's voices singing in tight four-part harmony with wookies and droids in?

***swoons***

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Thanks to same_day_soling who pulled this from ithildyn's comments.

Tor.com blogger Bridget McGovern posits Buffy vs. MacGuyver: Worst. Cagematch. Ever.

The which is amusing enough, but the comments are golden. My two favorites:

"... But the real reason that Buffy vs. MacGyver would be the worst cagematch ever is that it would inevitably degrade into melodramatic romance. Buffy would see in the Minnesota farm ( Read more... )

I get polled, despite being The Wrong Demographic, and hit up for charities (despite never, ever giving over the phone1) regularly by telephone. This is because when the phone solicitor calls and says: "Hi! I'm Perky the Phone Bank Operator, calling from Something You Don't Want and Aren't Intersted In (Ltd.) May I have a few mintues of your time ( Read more... )