Close to a hundred episodes of the long-running BBC science-fiction show Doctor Who are considered lost or are incomplete. With the renewed popularity in the show since its revival in 2005, the BBC has been aggressively trying to find, with some success, the missing episodes or reconstruct them using original audio tracks, modern animation and…
Currently on IFC is The Mirror, a six-part web-series from AB Video Solutions, the film production company of Baltimore, MD-based art collective Wham City who previously released the equal parts strange and exceptionally well-made (and much talked about) shorts Unedited Footage of a Bear, This House Has People in It, and others in Adult Swim‘s…
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…
