Zombie Comic Walking Dead Wobbles Toward TV, Simpsons-Style
The Walking Dead is like The Simpsons with zombies, according to writer Robert Kirkman, whose popular comic book series is set to make the jump to television. “The Walking Dead is the zombie movie that...
View ArticleSpinal Tap Erects Stonehenge Short On iTunes Only
To paraphrase Spinal Tap, Stonehenge might be a site where the demons dwell and the banshees live well. But it’s also where the legendary mock-metalheads are parleying online video into a new legion of...
View ArticleLegion‘s Tattooed Angel Plays Darwin in Creation
Legion is your basic Hollywood-style Armageddon tale filled with standard wrath-of-God cinematic stuff: lots of explosions, lots of grasshoppers, lots of special effects — oh, and ripped, tattooed...
View ArticleDIY Animation Drew Tim Burton to 9‘s ‘Stitchpunk’ Story
The visually brilliant new sci-fi film 9 grew out of a student project that director Shane Acker worked on in true mad-scientist mode. Acker holed up and spent nearly five years making his 11-minute...
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Video Exclusive: Moby’s ‘Mistake’ Tells a Tale of Flotsam Love
NEW YORK — “One of the nice things about the demise of the music business,” says Moby, sipping tea at a sidewalk cafe in downtown Manhattan, “is that a big production doesn’t matter any more. Like in...
View ArticleThom Yorke Adds Sonic Catharsis to Moving My Shining Star
When former Miracle Legion and Polaris front man Mark Mulcahy’s wife, Melissa, died suddenly in 2008, all-star friends Thom Yorke, Black Francis and more banded together to pull him and his young twin...
View ArticleNot the Parrot Sketch: 9 Monty Python Bits You Might’ve Missed
The entire comedy world, online and elsewhere, is enjoying a long, nostalgic love-in during the 40th anniversary of the formation and premiere of the Monty Python comedy troupe. In a perfect...
View ArticleVideos: Avatar Earns 9 Oscar Noms — See How Cameron Created His Sci-Fi Epic
James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar has just been nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture. To date, the 3-D movie about a paraplegic ex-Marine who bonds with an alien culture has made more...
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Super Bowl ‘Snack Stadium’ Built From 50 Kinds of Junk Food
Call it a decadent exercise in conspicuous consumption or a stunning feat of flour, salt and sugar-based architecture. Either way, three junk-food sculptors honored Sunday’s Super Bowl by crafting a...
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Coheed and Cambria Singer Mines Metropolis
Metropolis, the 1927 sci-fi movie about the struggle between workers and industry titans, serves as the perfect backdrop for a song bashing cultural elitists. So, working from his tour bus, Coheed and...
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Alt Text: Regional YouTube Trends, Apocryphal Version
YouTube just released its Trends Map. Here are a few (not real) regional results it might not be turning up.
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Gangnam Style Is One Year Old, And Music Is Forever Different
Gangnam Style came out a year ago today. I still remember exactly where I was the first time I heard (and saw) Gangnam Style. It was at my desk, in front of a computer.
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