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I’ve always found Oscar Night a surreal affair in America. It’s a combination of a national prom night, the Queen’s Speech, an annual Royal Wedding, and

Yeah, yeah, I just can’t resist the alliteration. Nothing like a plagiarism bomb going off in comics to get my snark on, and the case of Nick Simmons’

While typing with the BAFTA Awards in the background, I’m given to thinking about the exalted position Movies still hold, even as the medium and industry

The Zombiepocalypse has been normalized. Nowadays, you won’t go into a video shop or a comic shop without seeing a new zombie title. I just go, “Here we

As Rich reported last week, many news outlets would only report on the prospect of a WATCHMEN sequel by speculating on the prospect of a movie sequel

To those of us who aren’t American, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is touted as an American pop culture institution. It’s been around since the 1970s, It’s

We don’t have flying cars or jetpacks or condos on a terraformed Mars, but we have video games to tide us over while we wait. The last few weeks have seen

I already reviewed the HUMAN TARGET pilot back during the upfronts, but some thoughts lingered in my head, especially after Fox put it on with the

About once every month, I find myself thinking about the films of Andrei Tarkovsky or talking about them with friends. I suppose he’s being held as a kind

And lo, DOCTOR WHO ended the decade with a death and rebirth as both showrunner Russell T. Davies and star David Tennant (as well as executive producer

I was planning to take this week off or the holidays, but during the festivities, I ended up watching what I think is the best thriller of 2009 (not that

WARNING: This column has loads and loads of spoilers for many of the big video games that came out this year, so if you want to play them, you may not

There’s something more common in manga than in American comics: the desire to impart knowledge.  Sure, comics are primarily a vehicle for escapism, and

I get tired of how generic and tame and polite most pop fiction is. It seems to be an affliction with comics and especially TV and movies these days. Most

All these months of talking about the difference between British and US genre shows has made me think about them more when I looked at two new Brit shows

That’s his name, right? Twilight? (I wish I’d thought of that. It’s really a joke from techie comedian Chris Hardwick. Respect!) So the second movie in

This is a special edition of Look! It Moves! by screenplay reader Adi Tantimedh, one day early, as AMC's The Prisoner is airing in the USA tonight.And he

Not that much going on last week that other people didn’t already talk about at length, and the column about Miyamoto Musashi I was planning needs more

Oh look! Comics move now! Some of them do, anyway. The big comics media event this week in New York City was Marvel promoting the ASTONISHING X-MEN motion

I’d stopped thinking about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA completely after that horrendous finale aired, but now there’s a certain amount of hype being built up for

I’m constantly studying Japanese comics and cartoons, or “manga” and “anime” to you cognoscenti, because they have a hard-to-define directness in their

(Dear FCC, I bought my copy of HALO 3: ODST.  With my own money.  From a shop.  That I walked into and then out of.  Oh, and I got a discount.) Last week,

While everyone who follows comics and movies has been paying attention to Disney buying Marvel in the last few weeks, I noticed a tidbit that no one has

I’ve been looking at First Person Shooter games lately, and thinking about the stories and characters the makers script behind them. At the end of the

I guess by now everyone who reads comics regularly must be pretty tired of Big Event Crossovers, especially since Marvel and DC won’t stop foisting them

Or maybe not. But should be. So a manga adaptation of Hitler's book MEIN KAMPF sold 45,000 copies in its first week of publication in Japan, which has

When Rich asked me to write this column, I told him (with the greatest of affection, of course) that we should leave the crazy, tattooed girls to Warren

Continuing the discussion about noir comics, I see all the critical praise being heaped on Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald

So while I was still thinking about the whole “Why Should We Care?” issue, I see Rich has echoed my feelings about DARK ENTRIES, Ian Rankin’s HELLBLAZER

One of the things I do is read other people’s scripts and manuscripts to assess whether they’re suitable for production or publication.  The biggest test