When Lost creator J.J. Abrams took over the Star Trek franchise and rebooted it with 2009′s conservatively named Star Trek, he brought back a bloated franchise that hadn’t made much cultural headway in about a decade. Now the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness is imminent (May 17, 2013 is the release date) and the first trailer is on the web. It’s dramatic, explosive, [...]
We don’t know if you’ve heard this yet, but apparently a global bacon shortage is imminent. While realistically no one’s expecting expecting bacon to disappear from the face of the planet, it was enough to inspire Parks and Recreation‘s reluctant city government bureaucrat Ron Swanson to record a PSA about the coming savory apocalypse. The YouTube video is just a [...]
Buffy, Firefly, and The Avengers writer Joss Whedon has produced a lot of awesome entertainment, but nothing was quite so quirky as Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a heartwarming musical about an aspiring supervillain played by How I Met Your Mother‘s Neil Patrick Harris. Just one hour of musical fun was far too short, so Whedon has confirmed that a sequel [...]
Comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien is very bad at video games — even he’ll admit it. In fact, he doesn’t like them very much. But since his audience of young viewers likes them a lot, he’s taken to reviewing them on his late night TV show. This time, he’s tackling epic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The amusing [...]
Late night comedian Jimmy Fallon started his network TV career doing musical imitations, but today’s viral video marks the first time we can remember seeingn him take on the role of The Doors frontman Jim Morrisson. The fact that he’s performing a fictional cover of the Reading Rainbow theme song that just about convinces us it was originally written and performed [...]
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