I finally saw Disney/Pixar's Up this weekend, and while I went into it figuring I'd probably like it but not love it, I ended up absolutely loving it. I was finishing up my review for the Up 4-Disc Combo Pack, which will be released this Tuesday, November 10, when I noticed that there's a pre-order deal for it. If you pre-order the Combo Pack, which includes the Blu-ray version as well as the standard DVD and a Digital Copy, you can get $10 off a second Blu-ray title from a select list: UP ... Read Full Story

The "SNL Digital Short" segments on Saturday Night Live are using highly entertaining and the one that aired on last night's show was definitely that. The short, titled "Firelight," is horror mash-up parody of Twilight that was just hilarious. I don't want to say what the mash-up was, because the reveal is so funny, I don't want to spoil it for you. But seriously, watch the video here below (though the preview image in the video spoils it, so just click on it quickly). I promise you will la... Read Full Story

Everyone loves tauntauns, right? Every since one of them kept Luke from freezing to death in The Empire Strikes Back, fans of the Star Wars saga have had a soft spot for these reptomammals. (We know they make great sleeping bags.) So, have you ever wanted to learn how to draw a tauntaun? Well, now's your chance, as writer and artist David Petersen, creator of the best-selling Mouse Guard comic book series, has given the official Star Wars site a step-by-step tutorial on how to draw these lov... Read Full Story

The 1981 R-rated animated feature Heavy Metal is now online to watch for free at Crackle. Due to its rating, you have to sign in to watch it, but sign-up is free and quick and there's even an option to sign in using your Facebook account (even quicker). While the movie is free to watch, it does have periodic but quick commercial interruptions. John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Harold Ramis, among others, voice the characters in this scifi animated film, based on the Heavy Metal magazine. The sou... Read Full Story

Sir Ian McKellen recently spoke to MTV while promoting his re-imagining of the 1967 mini-series The Prisoner. It did not take long before the conversation jumped to the obvious priority of all news seekers: Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson's two-movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Topics discussed mainly hovered around his urge to return to the epic fantasy role that netted him an Academy Award nomination, the surprise arrival part of the script and the security lengths bei... Read Full Story

The Secret Saturdays Volume 1-2 Created by Jay Stephens Featuring the voices of Phil Morris, Nicole Sullivan, Diedrich Bader, Sam Lerner, Fred Tatasciore, Will Friedle, Corey Burton Cartoon Network The Cartoon Network’s The Secret Saturdays is a throwback cartoon that tips their hats off to various cartoons and genres of yesteryear. The cartoon focuses on the Saturday family, a team of crypto-zoologists (or scientists that search for strange creatures), as they go on adventures of exploratio... Read Full Story

The Gathering Storm Written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson Publisher: Tor Books Released: October 27, 2009 It’s time for fans of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series to stand up and celebrate. The release of a new book is upon us. Even more than just a new book, this is the beginning of the end; the final book in the series. Okay, so there’s actually three books remaining, but they were meant by Jordan to be one book. Unfortunately (or perhaps, very fortunately depending on your poin... Read Full Story

Wil Wheaton is something of a fanboy favorite for the people. He's a former child star, best known as the lead in the Rob Reiner adaptation of Stephen King's Stand by Me, and also as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He's done tons of other stuff along with these two better-known titles, but the best thing about him is that he's grown into a regular everyday guy and fan of many things geek, which puts him high on our list of coolest celebrities in the universe. One thing th... Read Full Story

In yet another announcement regarding a classic cartoon character, it appears as though there is a Yogi Bear movie in the works, and it’s actually set to begin filming next month. Naturally, this will be another hybrid movie that will mix live-action humans with the former cartoons getting their CGI makeover. This comes [...] Read Full Story

A few months ago, William Shatner made an appearance on The Tonight Show to recite Sarah Palin's tweets after the Alaska governor's resignation. Now, for the past two evenings, Shatner returned to the late night talk show to poetically recite the tweets of Levi Johnston, Palin's teenager daughter's baby daddy. In last night's episode, host Conan O'Brien revealed that the first set of tweets was actually from Levi “imposter” account, therefore Shatner was brought back on to do a set of Levi'... Read Full Story