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Stuff You Need to Know: Ghostbusters 3 Still Has Some Life After Death In It. Allegedly.
Posted on 05.19.09 by Widge @ 9:40 pm
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Because if you want to read an entire site devoted to this stuff, be our guest. But trust us, the news is still fresh when we get around to sharing it. And we get it out of the way quickly so you can grit your teeth and get it over with. Enjoy.

  • Sherlock Holmes trailer is up. And even Doc thinks it has some promise, so all is definitely not lost. Yet.

    Direct link for the feedreaders.

    You can take a look at the round-up of various previous versions of Holmes here. Thanks to Occasional Superheroine (@ohsuperheroine) for the headsup.

  • Some bits from the Coraline musical are going up for auction over at the MCC Theater's website. Check their site out for more information. Via The Neil (@neilhimself).

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    Stuff: America Has the Pop Factor? What, Are You Nuts?
    Posted on 05.10.09 by Widge @ 11:37 pm
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    Peter Kay as Geraldine McQueen with Paul McCartney

    Because there's a lot of pop culture stuff out there. And you don't need an entire website to cover it minute by minute. It'll still be there when we get there. Trust us.

  • Peter Kay was in Los Angeles to snag an award and said he had been asked to make an American version of Britain's Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. If you have seen it--and if you haven't, you should by *cough* any means necessary--then you, like me, know that it would never, ever work in America. We're still angsting over a tit from five years ago--I doubt if the wildly un-PC show would work even on cable. Kay seems not to be crazy about the idea for other reasons--he says he has no desire to "crack America"--but the show works in the UK and shouldn't be imported. It just can't translate. America's just not mature enough for that level of genius. Source. (To get a bit of Peter Kay as Geraldine McQueen, we posted her Christmas single here.)

  • Technically, this Day The Earth Stood Still shirt isn't something you need to know, but it's nice to know about if you saw the remake and felt dirty afterwards and feel like you need to do something to make amends.

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    Stuff: Supreme Court Breast Fixation Requires an Intervention
    Posted on 05.04.09 by Widge @ 5:45 pm
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    Woody Allen vs. Breast

    Pop culture news you can actually use. Or if not use, then at least read without feeling like you just lost five minutes of your life. Because those five minutes...they do add up.

  • The Supreme Court, because it didn't have anything else better to do, has ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the thrown-out $550K fine against CBS for the 2004 Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.

    Let me repeat that in simple terms: in the midst of an international recession and a flu hysteria pandemic, the U.S. government wants to re-open a case about a tit appearing on national television...five years ago. Dear rest of the world: please mock us for this. Because, honestly, we deserve it. What the fuck. Source.

  • Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series is coming out July 28th. It's big. Twenty-five DVDs or Twenty Blu-Rays. You can pre-order the DVD version here or the Blu-Ray version here.

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    Stuff: Fleeting Expletives = Deck Chairs on the Decency Titanic
    Posted on 05.02.09 by Widge @ 5:43 am
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    Many sites want you to spend all day reading their regurgitated press releases. We would never dream of wasting your time like that. But like this--this is fair game.

    Gremlin Shoe by Reebok

  • In a bit of retro madness/genius, Reebok is putting out shoes based on the movie Gremlins, which I'm sad to say, turns 25 this year. Shown is a snippet of the Gremlin shoe. There's also a Mogwai shoe. No idea where you can get a pair for yourself, though. Source.

  • Is it possible? Can it be? After years of lamenting over the loss of funnyman Chevy Chase--he's in a pilot for NBC that looks like it'll get picked up for series? It's called Community and I fear it will either be brilliant and last all of four episodes or be shit and last for all of four seasons. We shall see.

  • Death Note is going to be remade into a live-action film by Warner Brothers, or at least the first three volumes of the manga. The scribes who did Tarsem's aforementioned War of the Gods are on board. Source.

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    Stuff: Abraham Lincoln to Fight Vampires; Gillian Anderson to Fight Who
    Posted on 04.27.09 by Widge @ 1:59 am
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    Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

  • Abraham Lincoln will soon be kicking vampire ass, apparently. Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, will be updating Lincoln's biography with his anti-vampire fu. io9 poo-poos this idea with the air of people who are pissed they didn't think of it first, frankly. Because while this isn't the Abraham Lincoln vs. zombies book I wanted to read, I'm still behind it 100%. Especially when it turns out Booth was just the blood slave of Dracula.

  • This is the trailer for One-Eyed Monster, which is what happens when the adult film industry and horror collide. It's funny. But it's wrong. And it has Ron Jeremy in the cast. And whether or not it's SFW is up to you. Just wear headphones at least.

    Direct link for the feedreaders.

  • Amazon has a crapload of sci-fi titles on sale. I've picked out some choice ones...

    And there's a slew of television--like Stargate, X-Files and Trek--for decent prices as well. Check it all out here.

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    Buskers Around the World Unite and Jam
    Posted on 04.18.09 by Widge @ 7:17 pm
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    Playing for Change

    A documentary about street musicians around the world looks like it's going to be amazing if it spawns something like this, in which a musician in Santa Monica lays down the main track and then buskers around the world join in and jam out on Ben E. King's "Stand By Me." Ken shared this via Twitter and it is fan-freaking-tastic.

    Direct link for the feedreaders.

    The CD/DVD is available for pre-order here for $9.99. And I can't wait to see it. Their website is here. And I've embedded the trailer below. Enjoy.
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    Stuff: AMG is Coming Right At You... Yes, You There on the Couch
    Posted on 04.15.09 by Widge @ 3:48 am
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    3-D audience

  • Amazon has the upcoming 2-Blu-Ray/1 DVD combo of Snow White (which we had previously mentioned) available for pre-order. You can pre-order that here or the straight-up 2-DVD version here. They're out October 6th and November 24th respectively. Also, Spaceballs hits Blu-Ray on June 16th. You can pre-order yours here.

  • AMG wants to be the first 3-D network. The gist of what you need to know is that AMG TV is being bought and the folks behind it want to build up enough of a library that they can have "the first full-time 3-D network in the country." How do you get the tech to have 3-D at home, so we can watch cool shit like Coraline and Monsters vs. Aliens and such? "two solutions: an add-on box for cable and satellite subscribers; and an 'enhancement' that will turn any HD television into a 3-D TV for about $50, including the cost of glasses." Ah, but the coolness is tempered: they call it a 5 on a scale of 1-10 for quality, but it beats what we have right now for home options. Man, the 3-D sci-fi and horror festivals alone might be worth the price of admission for that thing, I don't know about you guys... Source.

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    Stuff You Need to Know: Wheel of Time Ends by 2010
    Posted on 04.06.09 by Widge @ 5:44 am
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    Robert Jordan

    Author Robert Jordan

  • Amazon now has both Ghostbusters on Blu-Ray for sale ($20.49 and it's available in June) and the second season of Pushing Daisies on DVD ($27.99 and it's available in July). Click on each of those to pre-order them.

  • The Wheel of Time is getting its final book. No, wait, trilogy. Hell, I don't know. This press release is confusing as hell. Basically the twelfth book of the long-running series by the late Robert Jordan is called A Memory of Light, which is the end of the series. It will be co-written by Brandon Sanderson, picked by Jordan's wife and editor (note: same person) to finish what Jordan started, and will be released over the next two years. Book 12 is called The Gathering Storm and hits on November 3rd. Apparently "JordanCon" is happening in Alpharetta GA (my neck of the woods) April 17-19 and Harriet McDougal (Mrs. Jordan), Sanderson, and Tor editor Tom Doherty will all be in attendance. The book is not available for pre-order, but oddly the audiobook is. Image source.

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    Stuff: If Paul and Ringo Aren't Passing Out Diplomas Then Forget It
    Posted on 03.30.09 by Widge @ 5:00 pm
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    Liverpool Hope University

    Some sites base their entire existence on regurgitating press releases at you. We just base one section. Saves everybody time and effort, I think.

  • Amazon has the first four seasons of Boston Legal for sale today and while stocks last for $80.49 on DVD, which is 65% off the usual price. You can snag yours here. Also, speaking of Amazon, Star Trek Season 1 is hitting Blu-Ray on April 28th. You can catch that here.

  • Just when you thought your degree was useless in the real world: Liverpool Hope University will give you a Master of Arts in The Beatles. I mean, seriously folks, I love The Beatles and grew up listening to them--but if that's your degree, even a Burger King might think you were underqualified.

  • BTW, Astro Boy trailer.

    Direct link for the feedreaders.

    Thoughts?

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    Stuff: Three Stooges Movie Idea Confuses Everybody But the Farrellys
    Posted on 03.28.09 by Widge @ 5:06 am
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    This is where we come together to talk pop culture news. And we do it with a quickness and a snarkness. Because some sites may have all day to write up 750 words based on a press release, but the rest of don't have time for bullshit. So enjoy.

  • Okay, you know what? The Children looks disturbing as hell.

    Source. Direct video link for the feedreaders.

  • Eight of the James Bond flicks are available for $9.99 right now. Buy yours here.

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