A Con-Season Costuming Primer

 The “Sexy Han Solos” are actually in Exhibition Room B… [image source] Don’t make fun – this is seriously the time of year I start thinking about my Halloween costume. It’s clearly the only good holiday in the entire American celebratory pantheon, and if discussing it in July gives you the eye-rolling heebie-jeebies, let’s just […]



Director Richard Linklater Offers Advice on How to Deal with Rude Moviegoers [VIDEO]

The Alamo Drafthouse is a Texas-based theater chain known for their witty PSA about not talking or texting while in their theater. They will throw you out, so you’ve been warned. Director Richard Linklater was in Austin, Tex., promoting his new film Boyhood, and on behalf of the Drafthouse, offered frustrated moviegoers some advice — […]

‘ELLO POLLY! London Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Monty Python with Dead Parrot Statue

In honor of Monty Python turning a whopping 50 years old this year, London has placed a 50-foot-long fiberglass parrot statue in Potters Fields Park, near Tower Bridge. Naturally, the parrot is “sleeping” on its back. The statue is of a Norwegian Blue, the type of parrot discussed in the comedy troupe’s infamous Dead Parrot Sketch. […]