Emmy Award winning celebrity chef, TV host, and author Anthony Bourdain has died at the age of 61, according to a statement released by CNN earlier today. The network conformed that the cause of death was suicide. “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the…
April 18, 2018 marked the 80th Anniversary of arguably the biggest moment in comic book history, the first issue of Action Comics (cover date June, 1938) starring Superman in his world debut. This ten cent (est. $2.00 in today’s money) comic book was the birth of the superhero genre with the Man of Tomorrow starting the demand for super-powered…
Back before the turn of the century (as in the turn from the 1800s to the 1900s) people with mental abnormalities were considered as being outside their own minds. Aliens, if you will. The people who treated them were, therefore, called “alienists.” Now that that bit of background is out of the way, let us…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Following a critically-acclaimed first season, Amazon Prime is promising a second season for their hit original series. Oh, wait, never mind. They just cancelled it all of a sudden. Yeah… tell me about it. After such great shows as Z: The Beginning of Everything and The Last Tycoon…
We truly live in extraordinary times. We have went from the beginnings of comics as a form of entertainment in print form with the first Action Comics, to rivaling studios delivering characters that not only became household names, but entrenched itself into our very cultural landscape. As with comics, TV and Movies have always been…
If you’re like most people, you eeped with joy at the trailers of Stranger Things: Season Two. Especially if, like most people, you found yourself binge-watching season one when it was released on Netflix (or some other random, ‘totally legal’, site – that’s your business). And just for the record, you can check out our…
Twelve years after Star Trek: Enterprise (STE) went into space dock, we have a new entry in the long running television franchise, Star Trek: Discovery (STD). The series takes place in the television universe and NOT the alternate universe of the last three Star Trek films. The setting is ten years before the events depicted…
Greetings Nerds! This past Sunday, we were treated to the new Seth McFarlane-created sci-fi drama/comedy The Orville. While this writer enjoyed it, and most actual humans on social media tend to agree with me, having a whopping 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; it seems the majority of the stiff, underwear-in-tight-spaces TV critics out there…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past several years, or you’re just one of ‘those people’ who love nothing more than announcing to anyone who will listen (and be honest, probably a few who aren’t) that you’ve never watched a single episode, you no doubt know that HBO‘s fantasy juggernaut Game of Thrones…
As revealed in a trailer on BBC One following the Wimbledon Finals, actress Jodie Whittaker has been revealed as the 13th Time Lord for Doctor Who, the first woman to play the role in the franchise’s 54-year history. The Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took the role in 2013 and leaves in this year’s…
