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Category: Humor
Films can be funny, but this is humor about films: parodies, satires, and more.
Last-Minute Costume Ideas
MST3K gives us ideas for some last-minute Halloween costumes!
The Enterprise Enterprise
Jerry Seinfeld's recent team-up with Bill Gates for a bizarre set of advertisements has put me in mind of other famous celebrity endorsements — especially when it comes to Star Trek. The show's futuristic setting has left Star Trek relatively immune to product placement, but that hasn't stopped the franchise from appearing elsewhere to promote…
RiffTrax Roundup
RiffTrax was founded by former MST3K host Mike Nelson and now offers much more than just movie mockery. Here's a summary of their versatile selection of satire.
The Dork Knight
Today is the release of The Dark Knight, for which I, a diehard DC comics fan, am not waiting in line to see. I was thoroughly underwhelmed with its predecessor, Batman Begins — Christian Bale just isn't the man to portray Gotham's caped crusader. That opinion is a happy consequence of the fact that there…
A Fool's Trek
It's April Fool's Day, which is often a relished opportunity for creative mischief. An outlet for such comic imagination used to be StarTrek.com — up until its managing geniuses were summarily executed. Fortunately, their past efforts are timeless and are still available through the magic of the Internet Archive. Courtesy its Wayback Machine, I present…
I Can Has Tribble?
I can't help it: I love LOLcats. I hang onto the I Can Has Cheezburger? RSS feed for morsels of happiness in an otherwise bleak work day. Certainly some fans have taken the meme too far, such as translating the Bible into lolspeak — not that it's irreverant, but more that it's an incongruous pairing….
Faster than a Stop-Motion Bullet
With the live-action Justice League film on hold, it may be some time before we see The Flash, the fastest man alive, brought to the silver screen. So in the meantime, satisfy yourself with the 1989 marvel that is The Wizard of Speed and Time: Okay, so maybe it's not as good as the 22-episode…