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EUREKA’s Season Four premiere, Founder’s Day, was a pleasant surprise for me.
During the second and third years, I found myself less interested in the SyFy series, feeling it had become predictable and repetitive.
Never having been a faithful viewer of the generally amiable show, I pretty much just stopped watching, catching maybe two or three [...]

STAR TREK’s George Takei guest stars on this Thursday’s FUTURAMA. (Well, his cartoon head and neck, anyway…)
The episode is ‘NO On Infinity’ , in which Professor Farnsworth warns against “the gathering storm of robosexual marriage”.
FUTURAMA airs Thurday at 10 PM (9 Central) on Comeday Central.

According to The Hollywood Reporter
David Tennant (DOCTOR WHO) has been cast in the role of Peter Vincent in Dreamworks’ FRIGHT NIGHT remake.
The former TV Time Lored will be teaming up with movie STAR TREK alumni Anton Yelchin, who is playing the role of Charlie (William Ragsdale in the `85 version).
In the original, Roddy McDowall’s [...]

Dear God in heaven, what have I done to myself?!  I just threw away two precious hours of life watching a “horror comedy” (at least they tell me it is so) called TRANSYLMANIA.  I feel like…well, doing what three dopey characters do ad nauseum during one particular obnoxious, uh, vomit scene.  I also wanna take [...]

Here’s a new Trailer for action-conedy SCOTT PILGRIM Vs. THE WORLD, based on
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s surrealistic sci-fi/fantasy video game-influenced graphic novel series.
Slacker-rocker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) takes on the League of Evil Ex-Boyriends in order to win over sub-space traveling delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
Also starring Chris Evans (FANTASTIC FOUR) and Brandon Routh [...]

The sci-fi animated comedy FUTURAMA is back from ‘the dead’, a fate to be shared by most of it’s characters.
Canceled by the Fox Network in 2003, and having an afterlife in Direct-To-Video movies, it’s being resurrected by Comedy Central, in 26 new half-hour episodes, begining June 24th.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Executive Producer David X. Cohen about [...]

A still from the Robot Chicken Star Wars parody
That’s right, not quite content to leave his favourite galaxy just yet, director George Lucas (INDIANA JONES, STAR WARS) is planning yet another entry for the STAR WARS franchise; an animated comedy series. According to The Hollywood Reporter Lucasfilm Animation have announced their plans to a air [...]

Edgar Wright’s (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD trailer has been a long time coming, but it’s finally been uploaded to Apple Trailers for all to see. The trailer itself focuses on the main plot of the film; Scott Pilgrim (played by Michael Cera) gets a new girlfriend, only to [...]