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Title DVD Release(s) Blu-Ray Release(s) Action Enter the Dragon Blu-Ray Jackie Chan – The Action Pack DVD Alex: A collection of 4 of the Wuxia films that Jackie was in before Sammo Hung made “Legend of the Fat Dragon” and studio executives in Hong Kong realized that comedic Kung Fu films could work. MacGyver: The [...]

To lead us into the series-ending two-parter, a rather unusual episode in which the Doctor proves that he is utterly incapable of being normal. Cast and Crew Matt Smith as the Doctor Karen Gillan as Amy Pond James Corden as Craig Daisy Haggard as Sophie Owen Donovan as Steven Babatunde Aleshe as Sean Jem Wall as Michael Karen Seacombe as Sandra Kamara Bacchus as Clubber Written [...]

This topic chosen to satisfy an e-mail request. It is entirely possible to calculate square roots without the aid of an electronic or mechanical device more advanced than a pencil. More on this, and about choosing content, frequency, and presentation of these lessons comes after the break. The complete details for calculating square roots [...]

This Canadian SF/horror would be the best of its cross-genre in this century. It has strong acting, a clever script, a memorable, sympathetic monster, several truly disturbing scenes– and a rather unfortunate finale that undercuts the first two-thirds. Title: Splice Cast, Crew, and Other Info: Directed by Vincent Natali Written by Vincent Natali and Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor Cast Sarah [...]

AnimeNewsNetwork is reporting that Studio Madhouse (Vampire Hunter D, Black Lagoon, Death Note) working on an OVA (direct-to-video) anime series based on the American TV series “Supernatural”. The 22-episode long series will cover the storyline of the first two seasons of the show, focusing on the main story points and high points of the monster-of-the-week [...]

Earlier this week Mortal Kombat fans were rather surprised to find a trailer online for something calling itself “Mortal Kombat Rebirth”. The trailer, done entirely in live-action, featured actors Michael Jai White as Jax and Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade, and took a much more realistic take on the franchise. Over the days after the [...]

The always-original China Miéville has won a number of awards and been nominated several times for the Hugo. His latest Hugo nominated-novel, a Kafkaesque fantasy/SF police procedural, takes a hardboiled cop deep into his home city of Besźel, somewhere in Eastern Europe—and into Ul Qoma, which occupies approximately the same geographical space. He also encounters the [...]

This summer we’ll see Bureau 42’s first summer school session, which covers graduate level quantum physics with grade school math. I had a blast writing it, and will probably write more educational columns in math, physics, and more. (Summer school topics have already been chosen through 2015, featuring contributions from multiple site authors.) [...]

The complete list of titles is available here. Boom! Studios CARS #6 FARSCAPE SCORPIUS #2 Dark Horse Comics BUZZARD #1 (OF 3) PREDATORS #1 (OF 4) DC Comics BATGIRL #11 BATMAN #700 BOOSTER GOLD #33 HUMAN TARGET #5 (OF 6) JONAH HEX #56 JUSTICE LEAGUE GENERATION LOST #3 – Brightest Day SECRET SIX #22 TITANS #24 – Brightest Day Dynamite Entertainment KEVIN SMITH KATO #2 IDW Comics STAR TREK MCCOY #3 TRANSFORMERS ONGOING #8 Image Comics CHEW [...]

Continuing with X/1999 with the series second volume, which ups the ante a bit from the series first volume. General Information Title: X/1999 Volume 2 – Overture Written & Illustrated by CLAMP Translated by Fred Burke Retouch & Lettering by Wayne Truman Originally Serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Asuka Available from Amazon.com The Premise In this volume, we learn a bit more about Kotori [...]

After seeing something strange in one of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, the Doctor and Amy go to visit him in order to find out what it is. Cast and Crew Matt Smith as the Doctor Karen Gillan as Amy Pond Tony Curran as Vincent Nik Howden as Maurice Chrissie Cotterill as Mother Sarah Counsell as Waitress Morgan Overton and Andrew Byrne as School [...]

Bill Amend paid for the tuition of his physics degree by working in a movie theatre. I paid for the textbooks for the first part my first physics degree by working in a movie theatre. I’ve always found his strip resonated with me, and this collection includes many of the strips that demonstrate [...]

Things tend to get light when the summer blockbuster season starts, as though companies assume that you just won’t be home and indoors to watch things there. There are a couple of hidden gems in the next few weeks, but they’re mostly TV-on-DVD product. Title DVD Release(s) Blu-Ray Release(s) Action The A-Team: The Complete Series [...]

This last week has seen concept art from the forthcoming Captain America movie, and possible official images for Thor. Do these work for you? And what about Ant-man?

This animated and serialized children’s adventure ran concurrently with the 2007 season of Doctor Who. Cast and Crew Information David Tennant as The Doctor Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones Anthony Stewart Head as Baltazar Toby Longworth as both Caw and Squawk Liza Tarbuck as Captain Kaliko Tom Farrelly as Swabb Lizzie Hopley as Mantasphid Queen Paul Clayton as Mergrass Stephen Greif as Gurney Dan Morgan as [...]

The complete list of titles is available here. Note that some markets won’t get the shipments until Thursday due to the Memorial Day holiday. Boom! Studios IRREDEEMABLE #14 Dark Horse Comics CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #21 KOZAKI PT 3 (OF 3) SERENITY FLOAT OUT ONE SHOT #1 – This is a one shot featuring Wash. If memory serves, it’s [...]

Jeanne Robinson, writer, dancer, choreographer, teacher, Zen monk, and wife of Spider Robinson, passed away Sunday, May 31, after a lengthy struggle with biliary cancer. We shall miss the Stardancer.

When this book came out 6 years ago, I kind of missed it. I never got around to picking it up and reading it. Now, after the 4th Edition of D&D has come out, I have finally picked it up from the library and read it. General Information Title: 30 Years of Adventure – A Celebration of [...]

The fall schedules have been announced for the major networks, and we’ve got the schedules summarized here. (I couldn’t get the table widths to work properly on the site, so I dumped it to the PDF instead.)

I stared at her, wondering how I had come to suspect she was a shape-shifting fox demon. Was it like human rights, something that existed if enough people in the country believed in it? When I returned to America, would I still think she might be a demon? –Urania Fung, “The Right to Eat Decent Food” Looking [...]