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

Couldn’t come up with the eighty-plus-thousand dollars to buy the full scale Transformer at the recent Profiles in History auction? Well, here’s a consolation prize. We’re giving away two Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DVD prize packs courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment and one could be yours!
The prize pack includes the two-disc special edition DVD, a poster and a t-shirt so you can show the world that you’re a fan.
To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post and we’d love it even more if you mentioned your favorite Transformers character from this movie or …read more

IDW Publishing (www.idwpublishing.com) is releasing the official continuation of last summer’s blockbuster Transformers movie. Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream continues the story from where the movie ended.
Astute moviegoers and longtime fans will remember that the diabolical Starscream survived and was seen flying away at the end of the film. They will also remember that Wheelie was quite possibly the worst Autobot of all time.

At least, that’s the case in an eHarmony story that lists The Top 20 Movies That Make Guys Cry. Unfortunately, the only film on the list with sci-fi chops is the 1999 animated tear-jerker The Iron Giant. No qualms with that one.
But overall, are you kidding me? Love, Actually and Terms of Endearment ahead of say, Spock’s death scene in Wrath of Khan? Incidentally, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock made me cry for an entirely different reason. And how many 13-year-old boys screamed when Megatron killed Optimus Prime?   SFUniverse fans, what flicks really make you turn on …read more

Superstar director Michael Bay has admitted he was hard at work on the script for Transformers 2 during the writers’ strike.
“We’ve got our characters all designed,” Bay told popular film site Rotten Tomatoes. I always write all my scripts, my movies anyway so at least I’ve got something to give the writers. It’s like a template. We have a really good outline so I worked on that. We had to because I want to make my date. I’m not going to let the strike take me down.”
The writer in me says support the writers, but the movie geek in …read more