Film
- Guillermo del Toro wants to direct Swamp Thing, and fans rejoice.
- Movie Moron lists the Top 10 Bond One Liners.
Internet
- Slash Film has a side-by-side comparison of the various designs of the USS Enterprise, including Abrams’ version.
Literature
- Alternative Reel runs down the Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines in Literature, most of which are genre titles.
- Free Fiction: Listen to “The Girl With the Sun In Her Head” by Jeremiah Tolbert at PodCastle.
- Free Fiction: Read “A Better Mousetrap” by Mike Resnick at Concatenation.
- I’ve always fantasized about owning a small bookshop, but George Orwell’s cynical essay, Bookshop Memories, has certainly burst that bubble. Make sure to check out the notes at the bottom of the page. Sadly, the shop where Orwell work is now a pizza joint.
- TomFolio is an enormous directory of autographs from writers of all genres. I thought that Poe’s signature was particularly attractive for a man who died in a gutter.
Television
- Author Ray Bradbury will join TCM host Robert Osborne November 20 as this month’s guest programmer movie showcase. His selections will be the 1925 version of “The Phantom of the Opera,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Rebecca,” and “Citizen Kane.”
- HBO has ordered a pilot episode of a series based on the fantasy novel Game of Thrones, though if they adapt it the same way they adapted Wizard’s First Rule, it won’t be anything to get excited about.
- Fandoman selects The Definitive Stories of 45 Years of Doctor Who.
Video Games
- Take a walk down memory lane with videos of the Top old-school video games.
- Top 10 Greatest Phrases To Ever Come Out Of A Video Game Character’s Mouth.
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