Ron Perlman Visits Child in Full Hellboy Makeup for Make-A-Wish

Ron Perlman Visits Child in Full Hellboy Makeup for Make-A-Wish



The day-long visit includes a transformation into the bright red superhero for the wish recipient, too.

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'Dark Knight Rises' Website Releases Detailed Production Notes

'Dark Knight Rises' Website Releases Detailed Production Notes



Warner Bros.' official site for the film makes publicly available some 50 pages of production information about the highly anticipated sequel.

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Best Fail Ever: Watch All Of San Diego's July 4 Fireworks Go Off At Once

Best Fail Ever: Watch All Of San Diego's July 4 Fireworks Go Off At Once



San Diego's Big Bay Boom is a popular July 4th fireworks event, with over 500,000 attending last year. Last night, it really outdid itself: Due to a technical issue, all of the fireworks planned for the 18-minute spectacle went off at one, resulting in an amazing but only 15-second show. Take a look:

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Scary Movies Can Cure Kids of Boredom

Scary Movies Can Cure Kids of Boredom

Grown-ups are experts at unwinding. We stuff our faces with name-brand farm animals, argue for hours about 20-year-old music, and guzzle cognac-and-espresso speedballs to stay up for karaoke. But won't someone please think of the children?

#326; In which the Day is seized

#326; In which the Day is seized



This Classic Wondermark originally ran (in black & white) on August 10, 2007! It was later colored by Marcus Parcus.

Ratio of PC to Mac Sales Narrowing to Lowest Level in Over a Decade

What sucks about this is that more viruses are going to be designed for Macs...


Ratio of PC to Mac Sales Narrowing to Lowest Level in Over a Decade

Apple must be doing something right in the PC space -- or PC makers or doing something wrong. The ratio of PC sales to Mac sales has dropped to the lowest point in about 15 years.

How Breaking Bad Resurrects Its Antihero Again and Again

How <cite>Breaking Bad</cite> Resurrects Its Antihero Again and Again

Vince Gilligan and his writers' finely tuned plot machine deftly keeps the chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cooker hitting rock bottom -- and bouncing back for more madness.

Photos: The Fierce Ladies of 2012's Anime Expo

Photos: The Fierce Ladies of 2012's Anime Expo

                            

The 21st annual Anime Expo celebrates its final day today at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and thanks to one local photog, we're able to bring you a peek at some of the event's fiercest feminine fashions.

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Why Store-Bought Tomatoes Suck (And Why Your Farmers' Market Rocks)

Why Store-Bought Tomatoes Suck (And Why Your Farmers' Market Rocks)



Turns out it's not just pesticides and long travel times that make grocery store tomatoes so lifeless. They're actually missing a gene that allows for sugar production.

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'You Don’t Know Jack'’s head writer on mixing trivia with satire and the story behind that ill-fated TV version

Games: The Gameological Society: You Don’t Know Jack’s head writer on mixing trivia with satire and the story behind that ill-fated TV version



Special Topics In Gameology is an in-depth look at a specific corner of the gaming world, in miniseries form. For this edition of the feature—Funny People—Anthony John Agnello interviews a few icons of video game comedy. The series debuted last week with Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe. This week: You Don’t Know Jack head writer Steve Heinrich.
You Don’t Know Jack was weirdly prophetic. The series of trivia video games styled as interactive live TV shows was a phenomenon before the rebirth of the primetime game show or the Wii boom. It was a popular multiplayer game years before online PC gaming became ubiquitous. For all its prescience, though, Jack didn’t kick off a trend of hilarious game design. Few games have matched or even aspired to the brand of antagonistic humor that developer Jellyvision executed so deftly in the 1990s Jack CD-ROM games ...

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South Park (Classic), “Starvin’ Marvin”/“Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo”

South Park (Classic), “Starvin’ Marvin”/“Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo”



 “Starvin’ Marvin” (season 1, episode 8; originally aired 11/19/97)
A fair number of people think they’re performing satire when all they’re really doing is clearly stating what they assume their core audience believes—mot opportunistically, necessarily, but because it’s what they themselves believe, and how could anybody who’s smart enough to like them think any differently? Sometimes, someone who says what he thinks for a living pushes past the accepted bounds of common decency, and when that happens, somebody in his camp is going to salute him for his courage, but it’s a blunt, unimaginative kind of courage, and can look a lot like thoughtless complacency borne from having been allowed to get away with too much for too long.
When Rush Limbaugh did his little riff about how women who advocate government funding for birth control medication are nymphomaniac sluts who ought ...

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TV: TV Club: Gravity Falls

TV: TV Club: Gravity Falls



In interviews promoting Gravity Falls, creator Alex Hirsch cited shows such as The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and The Simpsons as influences on his new Disney Channel cartoon. Those are some awfully big shoes to fill, so it’s to the show’s great credit that its first two episodes make comparisons to past classics seem completely reasonable. The setting of Gravity Falls, Oregon is a wonderfully strange place, full of paranormal creatures that need investigating and eccentric townspeople with their own deeply buried secrets. More importantly, this is a very funny show, one with a sense of humor that often makes you forget you’re watching what is ostensibly a kids show.
Gravity Falls follows 12-year-old twins Dipper (Jason Ritter) and Mabel Pines (Kristen Schaal), who are sent to the tiny town in the wilds of Oregon to spend the summer with their great-uncle, “Grunkle” Stan (Alex Hirsch). Stan is ...

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