Things We Saw Today: Our New Official FemShep

Announced this weekend at PAX Prime. (IGN)

Quentin Tarantino‘s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is going to start showing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in the Rocky Horror style: one Friday night per month at midnight, starting September 23rd. Costumes are encouraged! (/Film)

Either somebody got their scale wrong or Nick Fury is one tall mutherhushyourmouth. (nerdapproved)

Lisa Bloom explains how to talk to little girls. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Andrew Garfield talks Spiders, Men, and becoming Amazing. (The LA Times.)

Yeah. What would having spider DNA constituting a percentage of your blood — what would that do? So I studied spiders, I studied their movements and how they operate in the world and I tried to incorporate as much of that as I could. He’s a boy/spider in terms of how he  moves, and not just in the suit. It also shapes the way he interacts with people. A spider is so sensitive; their skin is sensitive to everything. That’s the thing with the spider sense and the way he takes in everything. Imagine all of your skin was as sensitive as a spider, the slightest gust of wind would feel like a tornado going by. You’d always be rushing, that rush. What does that do to you? The idea of how he adjusts to that. And I looked at the idea of having more legs, more arms, and the spacial awareness. A spider moves up, down, side-to-side, all around. He’s not linear and with the knowledge of that  spatial awareness and the fact that he can be here and then over there incredibly fast. The stillness of a spider and the lightness I found all of that very interesting to explore as well.

And here’s the scene of the Let’s Kill Hitler episode of Doctor Who that was too expensive to film. (Blastr) Warning: Do not read the words in that article unless you want to be spoiled about who River Song is, like this writer, who has only gotten as far as the Weeping Angels two-parter in season five, just was. :(

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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