Dec 18, 2018
By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Welcome to part 7 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, which centers of DVDs and Blu-rays. We’re splitting this section into two parts, as we were sent quite a few releases to include in it. This installment includes family friendly films, as well as TV shows and some movies (including some classics and some more recent films). More
Dec 13, 2018
By Mark Redfern
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Welcome to part 6 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight apparel (mainly T-shirts) and a smaller selection of household items. There are several companies that specialize in geek-friendly T-shirts and we’ve picked some of our favorites from them. More
Dec 10, 2018
By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick
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Welcome to part 5 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight toys and other gifts for kids and their parents, including books, DVDs, board games, technology, and more. We were sent so many cool things to write about that we had to split the post into two parts, our website couldn’t handle one post as long as our Toy Gift Guide. So here’s part 2, which features kid-friendly board games and technology. More
Dec 10, 2018
By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick
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Welcome to part 5 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight toys and other gifts for kids and their parents, including books, DVDs, board games, technology, and more. We were sent so many cool things to write about that we had to split the post into two parts, our website couldn’t handle one post as long as our Toy Gift Guide. So here’s part 1, which features kid-friendly toys, books, and DVDs/Blu-rays. More
Dec 03, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Welcome to part 4 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight collectibles. Political comedian and TV host Bill Maher, of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, recently got in hot water for writing on his blog right after the passing of legendary comic book writer Stan Lee about how Lee’s creations and comic books in general had helped dumb down America and pave the way for a reality TV star to be elected President. More
Nov 29, 2018
By Charles Steinberg
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The experimental post-punk-electronic band Liars, formerly a composing tandem of Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill – and now just Angus – took a welcome step over the line this year with their score to the independent film 1/1, starring Judd Nelson and Lindsey Shaw and written and directed by avid fan Jeremy Phillips. More
Nov 28, 2018
By Frank Valish
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With 1975-77, Hozac Records unearths pre-Church Steve Kilbey’s Baby Grande, in all its glory.
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Nov 27, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Welcome to part 3 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, in which we highlight some of our favorite tech products from the year. Technology’s march into the future continues unabated and unless we all get wiped out by some natural disaster or pandemic, or the artificial intelligence systems we create go all Terminator on us and launch all our nuclear missiles, we need to get used to a more plugged-in future. More
