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So the buzz around the internets is that Gore Verbinski will be remaking The Lone Ranger, with Johnny Depp playing Tonto. Let us leave aside the fact that despite Depp being generally pretty cool he is still bleach for the purposes of whitewashing a character, because every other site talking about this seems to have […]

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John Leavitt asked me in email who do you see playing Dr. Strange in 2014? Benedict Cumberbatch, most recently in Sherlock. He’s got the acting skill to play someone who is (or at least starts out as) a total cock but still make him sympathetic. He’s definitely got the look for the part: add a […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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(Man, George Martin really does have a fire under his ass now.)

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Over at Gore Sports, they are having their sorta-annual Bash Wars tournament, featuring thirty-two combatants duking it out as determined by voters’ votes. Rex The Wonder Dog is, unsurprisingly, the number one seed in his bracket. This is right and proper. However, he is currently trailing an ordinary housecat who doesn’t even do anything awesome. […]

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This photogallery of Congolese sapeurs is absolutely fascinating.

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Attention unit Formal-E: I am hosting a networking session for the collective artificial intelligences of Q sector tasked with mineral resource management. However, at least three units attending are not powered by standard Dynacube arrays but instead run on older capsule fusion engines, and one further unit runs on a high-efficiency solar panel. How should […]

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Originally invented by Leonard Pierce, Wikibombing is the hot Internet sport wherein you find two related categories on Wikipedia, and the nerdier of the two is, inevitably, the longer article. The original Wikibomb was “Knight” as compared to “Jedi Knight,” but that is now out of date thanks to some medieval history buffs. However, there […]

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Because even if it does happen I will not really care one way or the other. Memo to Whedonites acting like this is the apocalypse: congratulations, you are now just like those people who complained that Starbuck wasn’t a dude in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, that Chris Pine could never possibly be a convincing James […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, it’s not airing on Canadian telly so it’s not in the column, but – the new American version of Top Gear is really dreadful, isn’t it? Jeremy Clarkson might be a colossal dickhead, but at least he’s sort of self-aware about being a colossal dickhead, and […]

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…because if you are a nerd then this is the movie you should be anticipating. Directed by Duncan Jones, whose first film was Moon, one of last year’s best movies, and who finally answered the longstanding question of “what if Groundhog Day was a thriller instead of a comedy?”:

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