By now a big chunk of film critics have seen next week’s The Avengers and by and large they have loved the geekgasm that is Joss Whedon writing and directing a superhero team movie starring a bunch of the last three year’s tent pole superheroes. But then Amy Nicholson came along and she did something [...]

Before anyone had even seen a single episode of Girls the racism talk had begun. And if you’re even remotely attuned to the color problem in American media you could see why this talk was happening. The show was shockingly white and the cast all even seemed to sort of look the same. But it [...]

I have not read Fifty Shades of Grey. I thought about it because I wanted to be able to communicate with other ladies and either bitch about it for hours or whisper about my secret and ashamed love of it. But if I really wanted to read some S&M porn I’d rather go back to [...]

Who knows where it started, but right now there’s a meme going around mocking “fake” geek girls. You know, like the cosplayers in line for Twilight stuff at San Diego Comic Con. Unless the “real” (re: men and very specific usually attractive women) geeks approve of them they’re fake. Susana Polo at Mary Sue has [...]

  In New Orleans Russell Brand got annoyed at a paparazzi taking his photo and hurled the dude’s iPhone, breaking a window. He hilarious said that he hated to see Steve Jobs’s memory being disrespected, but this didn’t stop a warrant for his arrest being issued. He turned himself in, he’s out again now, and [...]

A lot is being written about Project X this weekend and none of it is good. The film is currently at 27% on Rotten Tomatoes and yesterday I expressed my personal desire to kick the film in the nards. A comment I’ve seen a couple of times is “why are women liking this film?” Using the [...]

In a blast of awesome news Lucy Liu was cast as Watson in the until now ill-advised reimagining of Sherlock Holmes set in modern New York. Before she signed on it basically sounded like BBC’s ridiculously popular and homofabulous Sherlock? And also Fox’s once ridiculously popular and not nearly as homofabulous House M.D. But now [...]

Over the last month Jennifer Hepler, one of the writers for Dragon Age and my beloved Dragon Age 2 has been enduring threats, insults and massive invasions of privacy because some asshats found an old interview she did and decided to poke the hornet’s nest that is the internet with it. In the interview with [...]

Chris Brown has fans: and they are legion. Speaking the truth about Brown on the internet is the same as speaking ill. If you remind people that what he did to Rihanna was bad enough that the arriving officers announced their shock on the record, or present other such facts as they have occurred, his [...]

Today is Saint Valentine’s Day and even if you aren’t a denomination of Christianity that observes saints’ days film and television have informed you of what your plans are. You will romance someone. Or you will be romanced. Or you will be the sad sack in the corner crying over your lack of romance. If [...]