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Byzantium Review: Neil Jordan Does Another Vampire Movie

Joss Whedon's The Avengers Grossed $1.5 Billion. His Next Film? A Shakespeare Play He Shot in His Backyard

Yes, I'm That Guy: How Playing the Flair Waiter From Office Space Changed My Life

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Amber Benson, a Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer Star, Now Writes Supernatural Novels

See also: *Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos *Our interview with Joss Whedon and Felicia Day Years ago, Amber Benson was battling supernatural forces on television. The actor/author played Tara Maclay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These days, Benson is busy creating her own supernatural charac ... More >>

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There Are Three Incredibly Geeky Conventions in L.A. This Weekend

If you're looking to relive television shows from the '70s through the '90s and profess your fandom for long-forgotten action heroes, this weekend offers a bevy of conventions to satisfy your inner geek.

Bent Con

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Sex, Death and Robots

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6

See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 10. Eric Clapton Eric Clapton makes Jack White look like Son House. Dude tries so hard it's embarrassing. Kind of weird, considering his pithy quip to a Lond ... More >>

Hollywood's Favorite Haunted Hospital Is Being Flipped Into $40M Old Folks' Home

Even the handiest of set designers would be hard-pressed to recreate the years of organic decay that have made Linda Vista Community Hospital into the ultimate film set -- streaks on the walls, peeling paint, broken pipes, the occasional stray syringe. (Mixed in with some Hollywood props, left behin ... More >>

14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention

It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>

The Avengers Review

Superheroes bump superegos in Joss Whedon's all-star movie

The Cabin in the Woods Review

Homeland Co-Creator Howard Gordon on His New Novel, Hard Target

Claire Danes in Homeland​When Howard Gordon was in 7th grade, he wrote a science fiction novel. He knew he wanted to write early on in life, but it was his love of television that brought him to Los Angeles to try his hand at it. He says that it was luck that initially helped him land work, bu ... More >>

This Life-Sized Stormtrooper Cake is the Dessert You Were Looking For

The team at Amanda Oakleaf Cakes created what might be the best cake in this galaxy or that galaxy far, far away: an enormous Stormtrooper cake, almost completely edible from boot to helmet. When completely assembled, the Stormtrooper stood 6 feet 4 inches tall, weighed a little bit more than 300 p ... More >>

Bent-Con: Bringing LGBTQ Comics and Genre Entertainment to Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianSean Holman runs Bent-Con.​"Bent-Con started out of a desire of a bunch of a queer geeks who were tired of going to cons and being the niche within the niche within the niche," says Sean Holman, who organizes the convention that took place at Downtown's Bonaventure Hotel last week ... More >>

Wizard World to Launch Los Angeles Comic Con This September

​Wizard World announced this morning that it is bringing Los Angeles Comic Con to the L.A. Convention Center September 24 and 25. Artist Mike Deodato Jr. (The Amazing Spider-Man, Batman and many more) is the first announced guest of honor for the event. Clare Kramer, who played Glory on Buffy ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Schedule: Emily the Strange, Yoshitaka Amano, Buffy the Musical

Check out our Comic-Con picks for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday is Kids' Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Throughout the day, there will be lots of events for the young ones. But, if you don't have kids and you're not completely exhausted, there might be a few panels for you too. If you've been ... More >>

"Pop Culture Hacker" Jonathan McIntosh on "Buffy vs. Edward"

We love fan-made, mash-up videos. Whether they're anime music videos or strange juxtapositions of beloved TV shows, the creativity, humor and technical skill involved continues to impress us. But, when vidders, or fan video editors, use their skills to highlight criticism of various media, things st ... More >>

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Web TV's Streamy Awards: Next Year It Could Be You Up There

Alexia TsotsisNeil Patrick Harris on stage at the Streamy AwardsOn approach the Wadsworth Theatre looked like it'd been swarmed Saturday night. Upon closer inspection the over 1300 people in attendance were as glamorous as glam could get at a first annual award show, and the critical mass was indica ... More >>

Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket

Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

Japanese Schoolgirls at the Museum

They were at the Getty Museum this past week. Masses of them. I was there with my dad and all of a sudden we were surrounded by a crowd of uniformed students. I went to Catholic school as a kid. It brought back, uh, fond memories of mean nuns, pleated red tartan skirts that would never stay properly ... More >>

Best L.A. Comic Book Shops

Hand, ink and brain

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

The students of Sunnydale High’s class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vampire, a werewolf, one of the witches, an ex-cheerleader, the geeky class clown and of course, the slayer herself, Buffy Summers. Cast members from ... More >>

Undead, Again: Buffy Reunion

Welcome back to the Hellmouth

War Haters, Tastemakers and Kightlingers

What to do in L.A., March 14-20

Comics Amongst the Comics

Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there’s an option to pick up a Buffy The Vampire Slayer omnibus and a maquette of Sub-Mariner before the show? Arguably LA’s best recurring comedy show ... More >>

Buffy the Vampire Singer

Hundreds gather along with Joss Whedon to sing "Once More with Feeling"

the Kids in the Hall

The Skylight Gang

Road Warriors

High-velocity action in Fox’s new series Drive and Sci-Fi's Painkiller Jane

CBS’s Sharper Image

Are our next Friends on the Tiffany network?

Small Press Is Beautiful

Eyes of Veronica Mars

Buffy teen heroine with the weight of the world on her shoulders

Hooray for Hellmouths

Vampire Diaries: Getting Geeked on Buffy and Spike at the Sci-Fi Summit

Hollywood Moment: Monstrous, Magnificent Spall

Bourgeois Brotherhood

The negatives of being positive

Space Junk

Titan A.E.

Vampire Slayers Arise!

Buffy rebellion latest tangle in Fox’s war on fan sites

Kids in the Hall

More freaks and geeks

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Crime Time Players

Sex and victims

Halloween Postmortem

Buffy, Cradle of Filth: Vampire, bite thyself

The Rookie

Chris Klein sweetens American Pie

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Female Trouble

Artificial insemination, adultery, the dark forces of otherworldly evil, et cetera

40 Bucks and a Dream

The lives of a Hollywood motel

Survival, Revivalle

Mutants, campers, martyrs . . .