Currently touring the film festival circuit is LIVESCREAM, the latest film from Octopunk Media and writer/director Michelle Iannantuono. To begin with, it’s very difficult to properly categorize this film, as there are very few, if any, films made quite like this. The entire film is presented as a video gaming live-stream (much like you’d find…
Digital gaming and technology publication IGN Entertainment, one of the world’s largest online media outlets has fired former editor Filip Miucin on grounds of plagiarism, after several readers of the website uncovered and revealed that dozens of his articles and videos were directly copied from other websites without attribution. Following the firing of Miucin, IGN has…
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…
KNOXVILLE, TN: Glenn Jacobs, better known by his stage name ‘Kane’ of WWE has been elected as mayor of Knox County, TN. Knox County is of course the home county of Knoxville, the third most populous city in Tennessee (behind Nashville and Memphis, respectively) and the home of Jacobs. Standing at 7′ tall, and weighing…
Another book I stumbled upon late last year is A Darker Shade of Magic by: V.E. Schwab. The cover looked interesting and the jacket offered an interesting look at three different Londons and magic. I thought, “what the heck,” and bought it. It starts in the first of the three Londons, Grey London, which is our…
Greetings Fellow Nerds! Yes, it has been some time since the curmudgeon has graced the digital pages of the Nerd Nation realm; but I have been busy with Mr. Harlequin and Mr. Nimmons doing other things. However, as we are here in the middle of the summer blockbuster season, watching and waiting for the new…
Billy Dee Williams, the actor who famously played the galactic gambler Lando Calrissian, will reprise his iconic role for Star Wars: Episode IX, the next installment in the Star Wars Franchise from Lucasfilm. Chatter about Williams joining the production, which is set to begin later this summer, increased in recent days when the actor bowed out of…
