For me, the only thing better than a good time-travel movie would be an actual time machine (Come on scientists – get with it!), so I was very excited when I...
September 2012
Pulp author Robert E. Howard is widely regarded as the godfather of the sword & sorcery saga and everyone knows his most famous character, Conan the...
"Star Wars" hasn't been a Saturday-morning cartoon since "Droids" and "Ewoks" ended their brief run in 1986. That all ends this weekend, when "Star Wars: The...
Lightning Octopus reported a while back that Mesa’s Desert Rose Theatre is producing a steampunk re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland in October. Now...
The nerds have chosen. The winning T-shirt design for Eight Arizona PBS’ 2012 Nerd Walk is … atomic. Facebook fans were faced with four designs...
If you attended NerdvanaCon back in August, you know that while the heat was oppressive, the turnout was impressive. And you likely heard some great video game...
Pop-culture enthusiasts love to debate “what-if” scenarios like, “Who would win if Superman fought the Hulk?” Or, “What if Luke & Leia had followed through...
"The Avengers" debuts on Blu-ray and DVD today at last. Get geeked up all over again with Nerdvana's extensive coverage of Joss Whedon's tour-de-force...
Newsarama reporter (and former East Valley Tribune entertainment writer) Albert Ching was a guest on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” on Monday...
Do you long for the days when Halloween was more about fun and games in your local community and less about ponying up a hundred dollars’ worth of candy to...
Star Trek has a long history of original tie-in novels -- a great many of them. Unlike Star Wars' Expanded Universe, which keeps such non-canonical works in a...
“Kickstarter is not a store.” So sayeth the new policies at the online crowdfunding community, which this week started requiring projects to spell...
There appears to be no stopping the career of the legendary Clint Eastwood. After an embarrassingly painful appearance at the recent Republican convention that...
What is is about divorce, weird kids and creepy houses that always seem to go together in modern horror movies? I’m sure that there is some sort of...
Law enforcement officers of one type or another have probably inspired more movies and television shows than any other profession there is. Whether the cops...
In The Master, director Paul Thomas Anderson once again examines the gritty underbelly of Americana and discovers that mental conditions like alcoholism...
If you can imagine a young Clint Eastwood playing RoboCop in the implacable law enforcement style of Dirty Harry – and if you think that scenario could...
Jackalope Ranch writer Benjamin Leatherman reports that Devastation, a video game festival in Phoenix that has been an annual event since 2005, won’t...
Showbiz: Janet Fielding, who played plucky Australian stewardess Tegan Jovanka in the 1980s version of Doctor Who, is battling cancer, and five of the...
This post was originally published on April 8, 2012. Minor updates have been made to reflect the home video release of the film in question. Horror movie fans...
The devious Dr. Diabolic was last seen at our NerdvanaCon event in downtown Mesa last August. Since then, the Doctor has been busy developing new and nefarious...
Today Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and MGM celebrated Tolkien Week (and the Sept. 22 Hobbit Day, the birthday of halfling heroes Bilbo and Frodo...
Avast, ye lilly-livered bilge rats! Sept. 19 be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. If nothing else, it will give you another excuse to annoy your coworkers...
Arizona’s own Bookmans has always been a champion of banned books and a staunch foe of censorship. They recently produced this two-minute video in...
Genndy Tartakovsky talks about where his animated Clone Wars micro-series fits into the Lucas TV empire. HuffPo, via TheForce.Net Someone get this guy hooked...
Olivia Thirlby is much smaller and daintier in person than the action heroine she plays on screen in Dredd 3D.
Curiosity? Whipper-snapper! Opportunity has at least one Martian discovery left in her, but it’s a mystery. AFP Microsoft finds malware being installed...
When considering iconic fictional couples, there are only a few who immediately come to mind whose relationship has stood the test of time. Romeo & Juliet...
NerdWalk is returning! Eight Arizona PBS wants your help choosing the T-shirt design for the nerdy ASU homecoming celebration. Check them out below, and vote...
Great art is often open to interpretation and the new documentary film Samsara certainly fits that bill. This film is a magnificent journey that shows where...
Whether you’re a Seadog or a Landlubber, set your compass heading for Mesa’s 2ND Friday “Pirates’ Block Party” this Friday, September 14, 2012, 6:00 – 10:00 p...
Nintendo finally dropped the Wii U details everyone has been waiting for Thursday, announcing that the next-generation gaming console will be available in the...
Arrow premieres Oct. 10 on CW.
A slain U.S. State Department worker in Libya was a vital part of EVE Online gaming community. Associated Press Avengers vs. X-Men Marvel event claims iconic...
Welcome to Webcomics Wednesday, where last week’s daily strips starring “Sheriff Ape-aio” have been collected at last! This adventure started...
GoDaddy: It was network issues that took down thousands of websites Monday — not hackers? TechCrunch HarperCollins Publishers reaches new e-book pricing...
As we somberly mark the eleventh anniversary of September 11, 2001, when terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City, we...
Green Lantern’s romantic leads exchange rings. (We’re pretty sure they’re boring Earth rings.) Associated Press Valley native Aidy Bryant is...
For the longest time, sex, love and marriage in Doctor Who were alien concepts for the show’s Time Lord protagonist. That makes sense, since the long...
Andrew Stanton reflects on John Carter’s stumbles. Los Angeles Times Amazon will let you opt out of built-in ads on its new range of Kindle tablets...
We’re big fans of Jonathan Simon’s Lightning Octopus blog, so it came as no surprise today to see his name crop up on the 100 Creatives feature at...
The “slo-mo” drug will play a big part in the look and feel of this new film in that users have their perception of time turned down to 1% of normal.
At last, here is the surprising conclusion to Nerdvana’s week-long comic strip event, The Swing Vote of Sheriff Ape-aio! Who would’ve thought that...
Sheriff Ape-aio returns to Earth proper in this penultimate strip — tomorrow, our Noble Knuckle-dragger’s adventure concludes in another full-color...
Christian Bale may have hung up his cape and cowl, but he’s proved that once a hero, always a hero. What else do you call someone who answer’s a...
The Man With The Hat is coming back to the big screen — but it isn’t the long-rumored fifth Indiana Jones movie. Not yet, anyway. AMC Theatres...
This years’ Saboten Con played host to over 3,000 attendees, hundreds of hours of programming, and some of the most interesting guests the convention has seen...
A free event at game stores all over the Valley will let new and old fans of Magic: The Gathering celebrate the collectible fantasy card game while picking up...
Google has done some amazing things with its “doodle,” the logo for its spartan homepage that sometimes becomes an interactive playground. Today...
Sheriff Ape-aio’s adventure on Earth-1070 continues!
Variety has the scoop that G4 may be undergoing a rebranding early next year. As Kotaku puts it, “G4 As We Know It Is As Good As Gone.” I more or...
The conspiracy revealed! Can Sheriff Ape-aio stop a multi-dimensional takeover? Stay tuned to find out!
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Thanks to this summer’s Avengers movie, Marvel superheroes are now enjoying more popularity than at any other time in their 50-year history. But the Marvel...
One need look no further than last Sunday’s East Valley Tribune to know that the moderate vote will be more influential than ever this election cycle...
Did you know Governor Brewer endorsed President Obama at last week’s Republican National Convention? It’s true! Just click here to watch the...
In his acceptance speech for the award for best short-form dramatic presentation at the Hugo Awards on Sunday night for his “The Doctor’s...
The monkeyed mystery of Sheriff Arpaio deepens as Clint Eastwood’s favorite Vapor-in-Chief strikes!
The first season of HBO’s fantasy adaptation Game of Thrones and an acclaimed Doctor Who episode written by genre giant Neil Gaiman were big winners at...
In the spirit of President Obama, E.T., Nerdvana is proud to present the latest daily Amazing Arizona Comics serial, “The Swing Vote of Sheriff Ape-aio...
Those tuning into the season premiere of Doctor Who on two continents Saturday night were hit with a casting surprise. (Spoilers ahead.)
The Internets and Twittersphere (#invisibleobama) are in an uproar over Clint Eastwood’s apparently ‘insane’ actions at the Republican National Convention last...
