And into the breach I step. It was not just a strong year for genre movies, but a year in which all types of filmed entertainment borrowed heavily from the geek worlds, with an Anna Karenina set in a TARDIS-like theater of infi...

Martin Freeman may be known for playing constantly complaining Englishmen, but two years ago, he was keeping his mouth completely shut in “The Girl Is Mime,” a short film in which his physicality and facial features...

(A new recurring feature, in which I review an upcoming or just-released genre movie of interest.) Here’s a question: why is it assumed that Django Unchained is a foregone conclusion when it comes to awards nominations, a...

The Video Game Awards celebrated 10 years of giving out hardware on Friday. Bet you didn’t know, or at least you forgot, who was the first winner of its Game of the Year award. Madden. Specifically, Madden NFL 2004—...

Last year, we reported that Bioware had specific opinions about Skyrim. They went on the record and stated that they admired the scope of Skyrim, and also acknowledged that both Skyrim and Dragon Age emphasized lore-heavy games...

He’s Dane DeHaan, an actor you lovable genre fans know best from the found footage superhero flick Chronicle. From Variety:”Chronicle” star Dane DeHaan has been cast as bad boy Harry Osborn in Sony’s ...

The pretty people you see above are Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker. Hailing from Britain, they are the latest actors to be cast on Joss Whedon’s upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. show. They join Clark Gregg as Agent Phil...

When discussing the state of contemporary Japanese RPGs, people are split into two primary schools of thought. Some gamers think the genre has persevered, that JRPGs haven’t gotten worse, but that the once-core audience that fe...

First and foremost, it’s an iOS game. Not a real videogame. And don’t get into semantics with me — cellphone games are mostly designed as fun timewasters, and since this Masters of the Universe game is a 2-D b...