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Cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel Interview Each Other
FOG! Chats With Howard Chaykin About The Return of ‘TIME²’
Marty Krofft (1937 – 2023); Gen X’s King of Saturday Morning Television
Once Upon a Time in Gotham: FOG! Chats With Academy-Award Winning Writer John Ridley
FOG! Chats With John Walsh, Author of ‘The Wicker Man: The Official Story of The Film’
Upcoming DC Comics Alternate Covers Spotlight José Luis García-López 1982 Style Guide
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
Boston’s Coolidge Corner Theater Reopens After Extensive Renovations
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘One From the Heart: Reprise’ on Digital April 9 & 4K Blu-ray May 7
Upcoming DC Comics Alternate Covers Spotlight José Luis García-López 1982 Style Guide
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘One From the Heart: Reprise’ on Digital April 9 & 4K Blu-ray May 7
‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Arrives on Digital 4/12; Blu-ray 4/23
Sneak Peek: ‘Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Art of The Movie’
TwoMorrows’ Reveals ‘It Rose From The Tomb’
FOG! Exclusive! ‘Happy Days: The Official Cookbook’ Serves Up Some Very Cool Recipes
FOG! Exclusive! First Look at ‘John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando: Rise of the Sludge God #1′ From Dark Horse Comics!
Read an Excerpt From ‘Aliens: Bishop’ by T. R. Napper
Craig Yoe Launches Autobiographical Comic, ‘Woman & Man’ on Kickstarter!
The Folio Society: ‘DC: Batman’ (review)
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
First Look: ‘Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga: Iron Man: The Art of the Movie’
Toho Reveals Upcoming Godzilla Day Promotions!
Welcome to the 2023 Forces of Geek Holiday Gift Guide! Part One: Home / Office / Life
The Forces of Geek 2023 Back to School Gift Guide
‘Superman: The Movie’ Web3 Experience: Multimedia Living Movie Experience from WBHE and Eluvio Available Today!
How Pop Culture Is Shaping Our Digital Lives
Welcome To The Forces of Geek 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
‘Civil War’ (review)
‘The Triplets of Belleville’ aka ‘Les triplettes de Belleville’ (Blu-ray review)
Joe Dante’s ‘Matinee’ Arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Set on June 25 from Shout! Studios
‘Monkey Man’ (review)
‘Chinatown’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With New Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Release On June 18
‘Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years’ Celebrates Prince’s Most Iconic Album and Film
‘New Kids on the Block 40th Anniversary Celebration’ – New Book Relives NKOTB’s Rise to Superstardom
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces ‘The Color Purple’
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ 4K UHD (review)
FOG! Chats With The King of Comics Kayfabe, Ed Piskor, About the ‘Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus’
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Jack Quaid to star in Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski’s ‘Grim Death & The Electrocuted Criminal’ Audio Podcast
Listen! ‘You Already Know’ Podcast Episode 1: “Akoins”
Podcasts Celebrating Television’s Past
‘Cartoon Logic’ Podcast Launches
‘Doom Patrol: The Fourth and Final Season’ Comes to DVD & Blu-ray on April 9th
‘Andor’ S1, ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’, ‘Moon Knight’ S1 and ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’ S1 Coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray For The First Time!
‘Shōgun’: Clavell’s Epic is Updated For Our Time… Maybe For All Time (television review)
‘Three Little Birds’ (TV Mini-Series review)
‘That Girl: The Complete Series’ (DVD review)
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ (SXSW review)
PAX Commemorates 20th Anniversary, East Returns to Boston March 21-24, 2024
Toho Reveals Upcoming Godzilla Day Promotions!
Titan Books Set To Publish ‘Epic’ RuneScape Novels From May 2024
FOG! Chats With Gaming Legend John Romero About His New Autobiography, ‘DOOM Guy: Life in First Person’
Blue Man Group: New Acts, Same Hue (theater review)
‘Tis An A Faire To Remember!: FOG!’s Benn and Liz Robbins Revisit Carvershire
‘Cirque du Solei Boston Presents ‘Twas The Night Before …(review)
Star Wars Celebration 2022: A New Hope
Hayao Miyazaki: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Exhibition Catalog (review)
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes for ‘Sting’
Boston Geeks! We’ve Got Passes To See The First Two Episodes of ‘Fallout’
Boston! We’ve Got Passes To ‘Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom’ in 3D!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘The Creator’ Starring John David Washington
Boston Cinegeeks! We’ve Got Passes For ‘Expend4ables’ Starring Stallone, Statham, Dolph and Fiddy
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To much fanfare and community cheer, the 91-year-old Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline has fully reopened to the public after a decade-long expansion...
There are some fantasy, science fiction, and horror films that not every fan has caught. Not every film ever made has been seen by...
On 2nd April 2024, we will be publishing Marvel Studios’ Thor: The Art of the Movie – the 3rd of the 24 official Marvel...
H.P. Lovecraft is often compared with Edgar Allan Poe: his works are inconsistent, overwrought, and redundant (which we tolerate) but also twisted, imaginative, and...
Perhaps one of the most prolific cult directors of all time, Jesús Franco Manera, though often shortened to Jess Franco, is a fascinating filmmaker...
Night Of The Living Dead has long been regarded as a trailblazer in terms of the horror genre but also as an indicator to...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
In honor of my big brother J.R. Stanton, currently recovering in a hospital in New Jersey, I’ve compiled a movie play list of some...
Remember when you watched a science fiction movie or read a story or saw a comic that was holding up a mirror to our...
In a time when television series canceled 20 years ago are making their way back to prime time, and sci-fi classics from 30 years...
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X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, Hulk, Nick Fury, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Black Widow, Cyclops, Doctor Doom, Galactus, Magneto,...
Being an avid comic book collector for some people can begin to take on new life in the world of business if the person...
As we approach 20 years of this here 21st century, I keep thinking about how rapidly things move, how events and news seem both...
It’s difficult to review a series like this without giving it away. There are definitely parts of the show I really want to discuss...
Forgive me if there are some obvious names on the list. We live in a profoundly culturally amnesiac universe, where the most amazing and...
It finally happened. Last Friday evening, after I put the kids to bed and was preparing for a movie night in front of the...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
What drives a man to dress his children as monsters, splatter them with homemade blood and share photos of the results with everyone he...
It’s that time of the year again, when Pumpkin Spice finds itself in everything from lattes to Pop Tarts to Oreos. But fortunately, there’s...
Ah, Halloween season. The grand time when, as my friend and burlesque performer Lillian Bustle says, you can let out your inner stripper. And,...
Lets take a look at an oddball spin-off of a very important TV series… Since this is a spin-off you will need some background...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
In my previous two columns (Read Part 1 / Read Part 2), I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The...
Thank the pop culture maker! The TV season is back! Not that I don’t love summer TV, with all its easy, breezy reality shows...
Here’s another thing; you kids are ruining everything. I have a lot of stuff going on, so I just got caught up with that...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...