If you have a female TV fan on your holiday shopping list, you might want to think about picking up this gorgeous new photography book called About Face.
The publishers say the “160-pages of black and white photographs shot with the soon-to-be-extinct Type 55 Polaroid film captures the intensity of the male subjects.”
And boy, what subjects. . .   Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), Ian Somerhalder (Lost,Vampire Diaries), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood),  Jerry O’Connell (Crossing Jordan), Justin Chon (Twilight, New Moon), Justin Hartley (Smallville), Mark Wystrach (Passions), Gilles Marini (Sex and the City),  Victor Webster (Mutant X),  Will …read more

Stargate fans, Titan Magazines has a present  for you — it’s a free downloadable edition of Stargate Magazine.
The issue focuses on Stargate Universe and includes a guide to the new show, inside the writers’ room, and interviews with stars Robert Carlyle and Louis Ferriera.
There’s also a salute to Daniel Jackson, an interview with Ben Browder and a look at the Wit and Wisdom of Rodney McKay. That’s a little something fans of every Stargate incarnation.
To download this Stargate Magazine: Special Download Edition, visit:
http://www.titanmagazines.com/stargate
While you’re there, sign up for the special Stargate sweepstakes to win a “money-can’t-buy” prize!
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“It reaches the limits of one’s patience with Grade D fodder. This show is designed to scare an audience too old for Godzilla but too unsophisticated for Twilight Zone. That is obviously too big of an order for such a silly series.”
What classic scifi show do you think this Time magazine reviewer was referring to? You’ll find the answer when you read Mark Phillips’ blog covering what the critics had to say about early scifi TV.
Mark and I “met” virtually when we both began pitching stories about Irwin Allen’s TV shows to magazines such as Starlog in the early 90’s. …read more

B5’s own Screamstress (aka Alison Nastasi) has an exclusive interview with Ghost Hunters International star Barry Fitzgerald. They talk about his new book The Complete Approach, the dark side of the paranormal and the most disturbing case he’s ever investigated.
Says Fitzgerald of his encounter with a ghostly child, “I believed she knew who it was and we needed her to give us the name of the killer. I asked a leading UK EVP specialist to help and low and behold she gave us a name, but the reluctance of the police force stopped any further development and all our investigations …read more

Last night on Warehouse 13, Artie met his match in a teenage whiz kid named Claudia. She’s smart, tenacious, and she’s desperate to find a place where she really fits in. Me thinks she may have found it. Allison Scagliotti joins the cast of the new Syfy series and she sat down with me to talk about it.
Claudia’s quite the mixed bag, isn’t she? How would you describe her?
Allison: Claudia’s a complex chiquita. She’s smart and sassy and kind of a child prodigy with IT.  She was orphaned at a young age with her brother and twelve years ago …read more

Viz Media has long been known as the premiere publisher of Manga in the United States. This July, they’re moving into new territory with Haikasoru, the first imprint in the U.S. dedicated to Japanese science fiction and fantasy in translation.
Haikasoru launches with two titles,  The Lord of the Sands of Time, a time travel adventure that begins in ancient Japan and moves to the 26th Century, and All You Need is Kill which has been called “science fiction for the adrenaline junkie.”
“SF, manga and anime fans will definitely enjoy these debut titles from Haikasoru,” says Masumi Washington, Editor-in-Chief of Haikasoru …read more

The Galactic Inquirer calls it, “a comprehensive look at the man and the mystery.”
Neptunian News says, “Eclectic Gypsy should be required reading” while the Skaro Telegraph says it’s utter nonsense and author Dave Thompson should be exterminated.
Well, you can’t please all of the creatures all of the time, can you?
Eclectic Gypsy is subtitled “an unauthorized biography of Doctor Who” but it’s so much more than that. This book is probably the only volume ever written that follows the Doctor from birth through his early school years to his travels on Planet Earth. It’s a comprehensive dossier built from scraps of …read more

He’s the best there is at what he does, and what he does is kick off the summer box office in grand style. X-Men Origins:Wolverine raked in $87 million over the weekend to of course, earn the no. 1 spot.
Doesn’t look like a leaked copy of the film sans special effects had any impact, unless it was to increase anticipation for the finished product. Bringing in that kind of cash, it’s almost a certainty we’ll see more X-films. As a matter of fact, as long as these things keep making money, X-Men Origins:That Mutant That Was In One Scene …read more

The X-Men film franchise delves into the backstory of its most popular mutant, Wolverine today in cinemas everywhere.  X-Men Origins:Wolverine tells us just how he became the “best there is at what he does.”
We learn more about the history between Wolverine and Sabretooth, the Weapon X program and there are a few cameos from other mutants such as Cyclops, Deadpool and Gambit.
The commercials say that “summer begins here” and in terms of the summer box office, that is probably not an untrue statement. It’s certainly anticipated to be the summer’s first blockbuster. As journalists, we’re watching to see what …read more

Mark your calendars, folks, this Saturday, May 2 is Free Comic Book Day! On that day, comic book stores all over the United States will be handing out complimentary copies of some great new books for you try.
This year VIZ Media has something truly special planned, it’s a 32-page Shonen Jump sample (rated T for teens) featuring one chapter of Ultimo, one of the newest serialized manga adventures in the best-selling monthly manga anthology.
Manga, you say? But not just any manga. Ultimo is the historic collaboration between comic book legend Stan Lee, creator of many iconic superheroes, including Spider-Man, the …read more