New Star Trek: Into Darkness trailer


Doctor Who prequel video to this year's Christmas special


   
   
   
   
   

Music new releases Dec. 18, 2012: Django Unchained soundtrack; Zappa; the Pogues; Muddy Waters; Blur; Tom Tom Club; Mazzy Star; Rolling Stones!

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Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


Finer Moments by Frank Zappa


The Pogues In Paris - 30th Anniversary Concert At The Olympia


You Shook Me: The Chess Masters 3 - 1958 to 1963 by Muddy Waters


Parklive (4CD+DVD Deluxe Edition) by Blur


Downtown Rockers by the Tom Tom Club


Flowers in December by Mazzy Star


Brussels Affair Limited Edition Box Set  by the Rolling Stones

DVD and Blu-ray new releases Dec. 18, 2012: Pitch Perfect; Total Recall; Quincy season 4; Here's Lucy season 6; House of Lies season 1, more!

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Pitch Perfect



Total Recall


Quincy, M.E.: Season Four


Heres Lucy Season 6


House of Lies: Season One


Flight of the Navigator


Vintage Christmas ad: VW bus


BBC Radio 4 adapts Modesty Blaise

BBC 4 Radio is doing an audio adaptation of the Modesty Blaise spy character:

Modesty Blaise is glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. She's been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that.

Modesty started life in 1963 as a strip cartoon in the London Evening Standard. The first of the novels followed three years later.

Daphne Alexander plays Modesty in Radio 4's adaptation of A Taste for Death.

DC Nation program block returns to Cartoon Network Jan. 5

Details from press release:

Warner Bros. Animation’s DC Nation programming block comes soaring back, bringing action from the pages of DC Comics to the television screens of comic book fans of all ages.  Green Lantern: The Animated Series goes retro-futuristic when it starts the block with the episode “Steam Lantern.” After being blasted by the Anti-Monitor, Hal finds himself in a steampunk world. Young Justice: Invasion answers lingering questions from the past season with “Before the Dawn,” when Blue Beetle, Miss Martian and the team go on a covert mission to rescue some of their own, uncovering shocking secrets and devastating truths. In between episodes, fans will enjoy all-new DC animated shorts starring some of their favorite DC Comics characters.

McCartney-Nirvana song to appear on upcoming soundtrack

"Cut Me Some Slack," the appropriately named track featured in this week's New York flood benefit by Paul McCartney and the former members of Nirvana will appear on the soundtrack to an upcoming documentary directed by drummer Dave Grohl.

According to NME:

The film marks Grohl's directorial debut and tells the story of the legendary California recording studio where classics such as Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' and Nirvana's 'Nevermind' were recorded. It will be shown at the US film festival which runs from January 17-27, 2013.

The soundtrack also features appearances from Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age associate Alain Johannes.

Another trailer for 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special


Pop culture roundup: Jack Kirby; Cathy Lee Crosby as Wonder Woman; Superman; Steve Ditko; Space 1999 vs. Star Trek; Charlton romance!

There's some great stuff on display on this new Tumblr site: The Baxter Building, dedicated mainly to comics of the 1960s and 70s. I love this image from Jack Kirby's never-published adaptation of "The Prisoner."


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Actress Cathy Lee Crosby discusses playing Wonder Woman in the 1974 TV pilot film, which is now out on DVD.
"I would have thought they would have gone with a brunette," says the blonde Crosby, "but then I realized that the original movie was actually jointly owned by Warner Bros. and ABC. From what I understand, Warner Bros. wanted to do it more James Bond and ABC wanted to do it more comic book. So I guess it went halfway down the middle, because in a lot of ways this Wonder Woman was more like a female James Bond.

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Via Booksteve, a Superman sportswear ad:


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Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko answers fan mail:


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No (via Space: 1970):

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Sequential Crush looks back at Charlton's interfaith romance comics.


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Via Comics Reporter: Check out these nifty illustrations by Moomins creator Tove Jansson for a 1962 edition of "The Hobbit" published in Sweden.



This Christmas, give the gift of smoking, with Lucy and Desi!