Apparently Disney has created a first-of-its-kind application for Facebook with which you can buy tickets to the upcoming Toy Story 3 without leaving the Facebook site, and you can encourage your Facebook buddies to come along. Sing it with me now: “I can show you the world … buying tickets on Faaaacebook. Tell me, Princess, now when did you last let your friends deciiiiide ….”
I’m not sure if I outed myself about this on The Torch yet, but I am a HUGE fan of True Blood. Oh, the trashy deliciousness of it all! So be still my geeky heart when I read this article, which contains some wonderful, not-too-spoilery previews.
You can thank my fellow Palantir-seer Ed Kennedy for this one. I laughed for a good long while after he posted this picture on AfterElton.com. Why are you always funnier than me, Kennedy?!
This seems really cool and really strange: Dustin Lance Black, who penned the Oscar-winning Milk, is writing and directing 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, an adaptation of a graphic novel about a man who grows to be three stories tall, told from the perspectives of his mother, wife, and daughter (their takes on it being the titular three stories).
Ready for some more pictures of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows old-age epilogue? Here’s what concerns me: they went too far. The characters should be in their 30’s, yet the men look like they’re in their 50’s.
Is anyone out there a big-time Alias fan? As a superfan of kick-ass women, I was thrilled to discover that ABC is considering reviving the Alias franchise — a franchise rife with mysticism, prophecies, and other fantastical plotlines — but bummed that it seems to be without Jennifer Garner, who was really responsible for making the show so great the first time around. Still, after the untimely demise of Legend of the Seeker, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Dollhouse, we are starved for a female action hero to go postal on the small screen in the style of Buffy and Xena, and in that spirit, I offer you one of the best fight scenes ever to appear on television, from the Season 2 finale of Alias:
