• Buzz keeps building around the French feature film The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec. It seems to cross a little bit of Egyptian mysticism with some insanely improbable archeology, living mummies, and pterodactyls – plus it looks funny, which is no small accomplishment considering I don’t speak French. Tons of new clips have been released, along with sexy photos, and this subtitled trailer.

• This list purports to deduce what your favorite television show, from The Price Is Right to True Blood to Big Bang Theory, says about you. Mostly I think it says that list compilers need to get out of their mother’s basements more often and meet people.

• Parisian photographer Mac Da Cuhna Lopes has a new series called SKLT taken with fanciful skeletons in odd, anticipatory poses, such as this one that appears to be waiting for his owner to arrive home. I’ve no idea if the tail holds together once it starts wagging.

• You’ll have to forgive my gaming knowledge – I’m much more of a Wii Sports guy than I am big PS3/X-Box games, so I know very little about Crysis, and by extension, Crysis 2. But when you see the avatar walking around a desolate New York City, with the saddest version of “New York, New York” I’ve ever heard playing in the background, it does catch the eye.

• In other news that’s depresses me, Meinhardt Raabe died on Friday at age 94. The name may not mean much to you, but you know him best as the Munchkin who pronounced the Wicked Witch of the East “most sincerely dead” in The Wizard of Oz.

• Some viewers are complaining that the new series of Doctor Who is too sexy, with the companion working in the kiss-o-gram business with short skirts and costumes. Plus she ogled The Doctor when he stripped down and changed clothes. I’m actually completely enchanted with what Amelia Pond brings to the table.

• Neil Gaiman has a lovely new illustrated book of stories, Instructions, coming out with artwork by Charles Vess, and to entice us to buy (as if he needed bother), we have this trailer for the book.

• In a scene right out of an iCarly episode, an amusement park mechanic has built a street-legal, V-8 powered Colonial Viper worthy of Kara Thrace.

• Tremors was absolutely one of the campiest monster movies ever produced with a straight face, and is the spiritual father to every SyFy Original Movie ever made. So it seems fitting that 20 years after the release, you’ve got a browser-based video game called Tremerz popping up for you to waste your Monday playing, complete with a misappropriated image of Kevin Bacon.

• Silly comedy Date Night walked away with the weekend box office win with $27.1 million, while Clash of the Titans dropped 55% and held onto second with $26.9 million, while How to Train Your Dragon, in the third week, slipped a mere 11% to $25.4 million for third place. For those keeping score, that means Clash isn’t quite the Watchman-level bomb we suggested it might be — although it’s by no means the runaway-hit the studio wants (and has portrayed) it to be either. We still say a sequel isn’t a given.

• Late news says that Starz doesn’t want to lose their audience for Spartacus: Blood and Sand while star Andy Whitfield undergoes cancer treatment, so they’re developing a six-episode prequel series.

• I’m completely enchanted with the trailer for the indie film  The Boy with a Candy Heart. A piñata maker wanted a child, so she built a boy, and he grew up, and started to work in a candy store, and eventually started dating. The imagery seems clever, with a skinned knee leaking Skittles. I’m curious to see how it holds up beyond trailer length, but I’m hopeful.

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