The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Cinematical's review of Hellboy II is encouragingly positive. You can check out the new, third trailer for the film right here (via). Two Greek mythology movies are on their way and are likely to end up fighting it out at the box office. One is a remake of Clash of the Titans, to be directed by Louis Leterrier and written by......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Fantasy/humor author Terry Pratchett recently donated over a million dollars for research into the causes and cures of Alzheimer's Disease, and now an effort to match his donation has started. It's appropriately called Match It for Pratchett, and fellow fantasy author George R.R. Martin has details on how you can participate on his Not a Blog. You might want to consider......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Some cool stuff is coming out of the NY Toy Fair, including pics of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull LEGO figures; some news and behind-the-scenes footage about upcoming movies like Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, G.I. Joe, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars; and Mattel Speed Racer toys. Apparently there's going to be a total......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. In case you were waiting for the official word, yes, the WGA strike is really officially over now, and everyone is expected to go back to work immediately. Our long national nightmare is over. Even though Microsoft recently spent $240 million to buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook, Bill Gates recently decided to stop using the site because he was tired......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The Golden Globes have been sort of cancelled! They'll still be announcing the winners in an hour-long press conference on NBC, but no stars will be there and there won't be any parties or celebrations. It's all due to the writers' strike, of course. Speaking of the writers' strike, more and more of the independent studios are making......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Have you heard about a little thing called the Consumer Electronics Show? No? Well, don't worry, Shiny Shiny has the story so far, and Wired was liveblogging the Sony press conference, and the Bill Gates opening keynote speech. From Sony, we learn that a GPS receiver for the Sony PSP, already available in Japan, will be coming to America. Microsoft announced......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. As we all know, because it is front page news across the country for some reason, Paris Hilton is currently in jail. No doubt there are cameras recording it all for a future reality TV show, but just in case there's not, you can experience her time in prison for yourself right now via the online game The Prison Life: Paris.......

It takes a lot to make me literally go slack-jawed, especially when I'm watching a play. I'm well aware that, not only is it unflattering, it can actually be quite frightening as an actor to look out and see certain reactions from your audience. The Act One finale of Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, Philadelphia Theatre Company's offering at the Philadelphia New Play Festival, however, caught me in a rare moment. My mouth was open......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Yesterday we linked you to a site where you could tell which of your favorite bands are gay; now here's a site that tells you which silent movies are gay. Yay for gay! (Via) Superman and Spidergirl dance in the sky in this clip from another Bollywood masterpiece. (Via) Mmm...donuts... So, this Vista thing (not to mention Office 2007) is here......

This week’s quote comes from Antonin Artaud, the famous French playwright (who wrote absolutely nothing that we can think of right now). It goes, in full: “The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything—gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness—rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.” Now,......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. How about some traditional Jewish hip-hop to start your afternoon off right? It's a good song, and a cool video! (Via AC) Man, the more casting news comes out about Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, the cooler it sounds. Now we've got Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin. Woo hoo! Hooray for giant rabbits! (Via) And boo to bunny-haters (we always thought that......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

Today marks Elite -ist's first official Friday as a working stiff. Which means, for the first time in Elite -ist's life, we can say "TGIF" without any sense of irony whatsoever. Rock on. Miamist: Pregnant? At a loss for names? Consider a tropical storm! Bostonist: Kids these days! SFist: Dreamboat (to some) reporter Anderson Cooper is in San Francisco today, but not, repeat not, for the LGBT Film Fest. Chicagoist: Yes, but where was Beavis?......

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to......

Before we leave you for the day, Phillyist would like to wish you a happy (and safe) St. Patrick's Day. We're going to be watching basketball, ourselves; but you guys drink a Guiness for us! Chicagoist teaches you how to celebrate today the right way. Gothamist: Trader Joe's has just opened its first Manhattan location, and Gothamist is abuzz. LAist: Paul Frank has been fired by Paul Frank Designs. We're not exactly sure how that's......