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Fandom Friday: Fandomestic arts & crafts

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Happy Fandom Friday! Each week, I highlight an aspect of the various fan communities that have sprung around mostly movies and TV shows, but sometimes books, games, or even just memes, if the level of dedication is awesome enough.
The…

Green screen is more prevalent than you think

Monday, January 11th, 2010

We don’t always like having the curtain pulled and the true source of power revealed (Wizard of Oz, anyone?), but when it comes to the mechanics behind special effects, you have to check out rad videos like this green-screen one:…

Fandom Friday: The Joy of Tie-in Novels

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Happy Fandom Friday! Each week, I highlight an aspect of the various fan communities that have sprung up around mostly movies and TV shows, but sometimes books, games, or even just memes, if the level of dedication is awesome enough.…

‘Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside’ Epically funny parody

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

The Direct-to-DVD Family Guy production,Something, Something, Something, Darkside was well worth the wait. This parody of the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back is just as good as Blue Harvest, which parodied the earlier Star Wars film A New…

“If You Watch [Insert Movie Title] Backwards…”

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I stumbled upon this amazing example of the irreverent wit of message boards the other day, and had to share it.

You can read the whole, staggering thread where it originated at Reddit, along with the Slaughterhouse-five passage that always…

Fandom Friday: ‘Star Wars’ Fan Has Kinky But Creative Costume Idea

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Happy Fandom Friday! Each week, I highlight an aspect of the various fan communities that have sprung up around mostly movies and TV shows, but sometimes books, games, or even just memes, if the level of dedication is awesome enough.…

Police Mistake Vader’s New Movie For Porn

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

No, we’re not talking about James Earl Jones. Remember, it took two guys to play the Sith Lord — JEJ for the memorable voice, but David Prowse inside the suit. The latter was involved in quite the random/funny story the…

“‘Star Wars’ In Concert”: Exhilarating, Says Fan

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Why can’t more of these events migrate over to New York? We love Star Wars (well, the original trilogy) just as much. John at The Movie Blog attended a performance of “Star Wars In Concert” in Anaheim, California last weekend,…

Fandom Friday: The Name Game

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Happy Fandom Friday! Each week, I highlight an aspect of the various fan communities that have sprung around mostly movies and TV shows, but sometimes books, games, or even just memes, if the level of dedication is awesome enough.
This…

“One-Minute Movies”, The New “[Movie] in Five Seconds”

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

You’ve seen the editing tricks that lead to “[insert movie title] in 30 Seconds”, but this is a new brand of brevity and wit: “One-Minute Movies”, wherein Will Tribble and his team recreate movies in one minute, in one take.…