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Robert Englund Talks 40th Anniversary of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ and More
FOG! Chats With Paul Pope About The Return of ‘THB’, ‘Battling Boy’, and More!
FOG! Chats With Writer/Editor Shannon Eric Denton About His Latest Project, ‘Forge of Monsters’
FOG! Chats With Matt Taylor About His Updated Book, ‘Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard’; Plus Win a Copy of The Book!
FOG! Speaks to ‘The Daily Show’ Writer/Producer Zhubin Parang
‘Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology’ Coming to Blu-ray and DVD 12/2
‘Batman: Knightfall’ Multi-Part Animated Adaptation Coming From DC, WBHE & Warner Animation
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
NYCC: DC Unveils Ten Bold New Comic Book Series in Its DC Vertigo Imprint
FOG! Chats With Paul Pope About The Return of ‘THB’, ‘Battling Boy’, and More!
‘Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology’ Coming to Blu-ray and DVD 12/2
‘Batman: Knightfall’ Multi-Part Animated Adaptation Coming From DC, WBHE & Warner Animation
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
NYCC: DC Unveils Ten Bold New Comic Book Series in Its DC Vertigo Imprint
This November Hong Kong Cinema Classics Releases ‘Hard Boiled’ and ‘A Better Tomorrow’ Trilogy on 4K UHD!
Sneak Peek: TwoMorrows’ Book, ‘Marshall Rogers: Brightest Days & Darkest Knights’ Is Available Now!
FOG! Exclusive!: Check Out This Excerpt From ‘Scooby-Doo! and the Attack of the Scooby Snacks’
Read An Excerpt of ‘The Deepest Fake,’ The New Psychological Thriller Exploring A.I. Manipulation by Daniel Kalla
Exclusive Look at ‘The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Art of the Movie’ and Win a Copy of the Book!
Welcome To the Forces of Geek 2024 Holiday Gift Guide!
‘Marshall Rogers: Bright Days and Darkest Knights’ (review)
Act 4 Publishing & Skybound Announce ‘The Amazing Spider-Man by Steve Ditko Artist’s Edition’
Sneak Peek: Act 4 Publishing & Skybound Reveal New Look at ‘Jim Aparo’s DC Classics’ Artist’s Edition
‘Darwyn Cooke’s The Complete Spirit Connoisseur Edition’ Arrives in October From Skybound & Act 4 Publishing
‘Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line’ (review)
Forces of Geek 2025 Halloween Gift Guide
First Look: ‘The Art & Making Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro’
DK Announces ‘Star Wars The Blueprints: Designs and Artwork from The Skywalker Saga’
FOG! Chats With Matt Taylor About His Updated Book, ‘Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard’; Plus Win a Copy of The Book!
‘Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel’ HC (review)
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
Thirty Two Thoughts About ‘Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould’
‘Novocaine’ Debuts On 4K/Blu-ray June 24th; Available Now on Digital
John Carpenter Announces One-Night-Only New York Concert
Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown’ Celebrates it’s 75th Anniversary With Expanded Edition From Craft Recordings
‘Amadeus: Theatrical Cut’ 4K UHD Blu-ray (review)
DC Comics and the Hero Initiative Present: The Superman 100 Project!
“The Juice is Loose” WBD Unleashes ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Merchandise
TRAGICOMEDY GOLD; SHORT BUT HARDLY SWEET.
Guest Post: Leveraging Social Media to Benefit Your Business
Audible Announces New Audio Original ‘Slayers: A Buffyverse Story’; Premieres October 12
Today’s ‘SUPERMAN DAY!’ Kicks Off ‘The Summer of Superman!’
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
‘Emergency!: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray (review)
‘The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season’ 4K UHD Blu-ray (review)
‘Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series’ Blu-ray (review)
Emmy Winning Apple Original Series ‘The Morning Show’ Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 1
‘Believe’ Again…’Ted Lasso’ Arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray on 11/7!
Forces of Geek 2025 Halloween Gift Guide
‘Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold’ Reveals The Truth Behind The Most Controversial Video Game in History (Plus, Win a Copy on Blu-ray!)
Super7 and Hasbro Set Out to Save the Microverse with All-New Micronauts ReAction+ Line
FOG! Visits The L.A. Comic Con!
Celebrate Batman Day With 85th Anniversary Products From Warner Bros. Discovery
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes to ‘SUPERMAN’!!!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To ‘F1® The Movie’!
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To ‘The Legend of Ochi!’
Massachusetts Minecrafters, Win Passes ‘A MINECRAFT MOVIE’ Advance Screening 3/30 at Foxwoods
Boston Cinegeeks! We’re Giving Away Passes To See Bong Joon Ho’s ‘MICKEY 17’
‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Celebrates it’s 35th Anniversary With a 4K Digital Release and the Chance to Win a Copy!
Win ‘Dexter: Resurrection Season One’ on Digital
Win ‘Smoke’ and ‘Blue in the Face’ on Blu-ray!
Win a 4K UHD Blu-ray 4 Film ‘Airport’ Bundle
‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Available on Digital Now; 4K UHD, Blu-ray November 11th, Plus, Win a Digital Copy!
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If you’ve read my column or followed my Facebook for any decent duration of time, then you know my general fandom for the sitcom...
A backdoor pilot is essentially a spinoff hidden within the parent series. Last time I mentioned that Star Trek had one of these and...
Well, here we are. The latest row about pop culture diversity continues with Iron Fist. It wasn’t enough that a vocal group of people...
Sometimes a pilot is hiding right there out in the open and you didn’t even see it. There are times an established series wants...
Sometimes good ideas elude those who have no talent and sometimes good ideas need a little more time to cook. This Pilot Error we...
The time is 4:45 and I’m at my Homegirl Claire’s apartment (she’s got a big screen TV with stereo sound) where we’ve just begun...
I hate Gregg Araki. I despise his films and feel he is one of the worst and yet somehow most pretentious filmmakers of the...
There is no real theme this Pilot Error other than what should have been cool ideas being completely bungled. Wonder Woman Wonder Woman...
Sometimes a pilot is aired but not the way it was shot. There are often times multiple versions of a pilot shot before the...
Sometimes, the best way to allay a fear is to confront it. In the early 1980s, in the midst of a Cold War that...
I am still looking at comic strip related TV specials… sigh… lets dive right in. Remember how much I hated the B.C. Thanksgiving special...
It’s been weeks now since Insecure (HBO) finished up its first season, and I still have its contents moving around in my mind. The...
‘Tis the season for junk television. Especially on the two-hour movie front. If you are feeling even a little bit down around the holidays,...
If Lost has a legacy, it is its narrative structure: A season-long subplot that tantalizes viewers by raising more questions than answers during the...
Description Sexy robots, programmed for your pleasure have taken over this episode of OH NO THEY DIDN’T! We’re talking Westworld (the 1973 version, the...
Not going to be looking at pilots per se this time… but a couple of TV specials that could be considered pilots although they...
Have you ever watched a network flail about desperately attempting to get a concept to work and yet failing again and again and AGAIN?...
So, that went by fast. We’re already in November and man oh man, there’s some great discs out there. This installment has some amazing...
It’s still the Halloween season, so lets look at some horror related unaired pilots from TV past. The Munsters and The Addams Family were...
Produced by Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, Suzanne Hillinger Written by Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock Inspired by the book RATS by Robert Sullivan Directed by...
The Halloween season is upon us and so this time we are going to forego the actual mission of this column (that of obscure,...
Last time we looked at an obscure as hell HBO pilot (series)… now lets move to their stepchild with two Cinemax ones. In 1986...
On the latest episode of OH NO THEY DIDN’T! we’re talking about the penultimate nostalgia reboot bonanza from Netflix, STRANGER THINGS. Join us as...
Lets look at a few more Pilot Errors shall we? This time, as with the last column, these all aired on TV but odds...