Giant Freakin Robot

Halloween is coming up quickly. Always a favorite with genre fans, the holiday gives the geeky among us an excuse to proudly flaunt our franchise preferences. A costume has to walk a fine line. You want it to be obscure and original enough that there’s not like four of you at every given party on the face of the Earth. But on the other side of that coin, you don’t want to go so far in the opposite direction that no one recognizes the outfit you spent so much time on. Answering the “What are you supposed to be?” question gets annoying after the tenth time.

Here’s a pretty solid piece of the costume puzzle, if you don’t already have one planned out. This isn’t just a badass Predator helmet, it’s a badass steampunk Predator helmet. Totally different things.

Why wait for Blu-ray/DVD to get insight from a director on how they made their films? Director Rian Johnson is soaring high with the release of his sci-fi time travel film, Looper, so it seems fitting during the Internet Age to release bonus features while the film is still in theaters. Johnson recently released a pitch reel that illustrates the tone and concept of his latest effort. Check it out:

What did Walking Dead cast members Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Steven Yuen (Glenn) do with their summer vacations? Well, they spent at least part of it on the set of E!’s The Soup. When they’re not killing zombies for AMC, the duo apparently spends their free time massacring mindless zombies of another sort: the kind who spend far too much time watching reality television.

Well, now the search for a series of Betamax tapes can begin in earnest.