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Crazy Sexy Geeks: Tim Gunn and Horror Films!

It’s Halloween time and that means I and co-host Graham Skipper are ready to debate the merits and drawing power of movie monsters such as Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, the Aliens and the Predators.

Last week, the CSG gang spoke with Tim Gunn about super-hero fashion and then attended the DC Comics/Bloomingdale’s fashion show in NYC where they asked Batman and Catwoman how fashion techniques have influenced their costumes.

And if that isn’t enough for you, all previous episodes of Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series have been remastered with better audio quality! Enjoy!

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title=”Crazy Sexy Geeks Women Super Heroes!”>Women Super Heroes with guest Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)!

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title=”Crazy Sexy Geeks Remakes, Reboots and Sequels with Rob Zombie”>Remakes, Reboots and Sequels with guests Rob Zombie (“Halloween”), Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica”) and novelist David Mack (“The Calling“)!

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title=”Comics Without Spandex with Emma Caulfield”>Comics Without Spandex with guests David W. Mack (“Kabuki”) and Emma Caulfield (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)!

Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series – Horror Movie Debate!

Newsarama sold to TopTenReviews

Here we go again.

Newsarama, the long-running comics news site, has been purchased by
TopTenReviews, a content aggregation site out of Ogden, Utah, it was announced today. The site, along with Space.com, and LiveScience, were sold by Imaginova, a web publisher which purchased Newsarama in 2007.

Although Imaginova purchased Newsarama with an eye to beefing up
their consumer offerings, improvements seemed hard to come by,
with complaints from readers and their own bloggers about formats and technological issues along the
way. The bumpy fit was at least partially responsible for the original Blog@Newsarama team jumping ship to reform as Robot6 at CBR, which seems to have taken the lead in readership in that time.

The move will probably increase TopTenReviews pages served by about 15-20%.

What could make life interesting is TopTenReviews review contributor system. One wonders if it’ll be applied to Newsarama, and if so, what new voices will be heard.

‘Sita Sings The Blues’

In a discussion last week with Mike Gold, I mentioned I had a film his wife would love to see, and he’d get a kick out of it too. And, since it’s available via Creative Commons, I can share it with you as well.

Sita Sings The Blues is a bit of a find, and it’s a bit tricky to find as well. Created by cartoonist Nina Paley, and featuring the songs of Annette Hanshaw, it’s an award-winning retelling of the Ramayana in four different animation styles. Sita is a goddess/princess/woman utterly devoted to her husband Rama, the god/prince/man, and they just can’t quite make thier marriage work. You can’t see it in theaters, but you can download it, or you can buy a limited edition DVD. (Why it’s a limited edition is a loooooong story.)

It’s 82 minutes long and worth every second. Watch it.

The Point Radio: ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Creator Shares ‘The Plan’

Battlestar Galactica executive producer, Ronald Moore, shares why he is revisiting old territory with the new DVD release The Plan, plus League of Extraordinary Gentlemen costs two librarians their jobs and didn’t we tell you Paranormal Activity would be #1 at the box office?

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Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series – Women Super Heroes

‘Wanted’ director Timur Bekmambetov produces ‘Black Lightning’ movie – see the trailer now!

All right, so Black Lightning is the translation of the movie title Черная молния from Russian.

And it probably won’t have that name when it gets released in the United States, as it has as much to do with the DC Comics character created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden as Mr. Miyagi’s protege has to do with the Legion of Super-Heroes. (Hmm. Maybe not the best example there.)

But it’s still a great deal of fun. Take a look:

Now, if you actually want to see more work from Black Lightning’s creators, we’re happy to show you the latest chapter of The Original Johnson by Trevor Von Eeden here on ComicMix just up today (the print edition is available for pre-order now in the Diamond catalog, hint hint) and you can visit Tony’s web site for great reviews and commentary.