You may or may not be aware that Los Angeles recently banned people from dressing up like superheroes and loitering on Hollywood Boulevard. Well, this week the heroes fought back -- and when I say fought back, I mean, Darth Vader, Superman, the Hulk and the White Power Ranger went to City Hall and held hand-made signs. Let's just say it wasn't exactly Civil War. My favorite part is the newsguy listing who RSVPed for the protest but didn't come, including Batman and Elmo. Batman, I understand, the Joker probably escaped again or something. But what the fuck was Elmo doing? What an asshole. Thanks to Mordbrand for the tip.

​Men, have you been wanting to fuck your Nintendo Wii console? Ladies, have you been wanting to stick your Wii-mote in your vaginas, or at least get more pleasure out of doing so? Have I got good news for you. Some exceedingly creepy company is beta testing the Mojowiijo, a two-part attachment to the Wii-mote that allows both of these things. It's basically a dick-clamp and a dildo, but the key is that shaking one makes the other vibrate in kind. You apparently don't even need a Wii, just two Wii-motes, a PC, and absolutely no dignity whatsoever. My favorite part of this is that it's allowed Wired to coin the word "teledildonics," which had better show up in an upcoming FFF. You can sign up for the beta here, and theoretically receive a set; I look forward to 2014, when the mainstream media discovers these and assumes that these are being marketed to kids. Thanks to all you perverts who sent this tip in.

​/Film found this first look as David Tennant as Peter Vincent in the Fright Night remake, and I'm posting it mostly because he looks totally insane. Vincent is supposed to be some kind of magician now, as opposed to the TV show host played by Roddy McDowell in the original, and now all I can think of is Tenant yelling, "I perform illusions. Tricks are what a whore does for money." I swear, if "Final Countdown" isn't blared at least once in this film, I'm going to be immensely disappointed.

World's Greatest Movie Reviewer Mr. Plinkett has taken a break from reviewing the Star Wars prequels to take a 67-minute look at the 2009 Star Trek reboot. Shockingly, he pretty much likes it. Not shockingly, the review is brilliant, genuinely insightful about modern moviemaking, and darkly funny. It also actually makes me want to watch Star Trek again, so I'm going to count that as a score for both Trek and Plinkett. Even if you hate the movie, if you're a Trek nerd, it's worth watching as he discusses Trek in general and the previous movies in particular. Please note that there are only two videos for this review; the 27-minute one above, and the 40-minute part II after the jump. Even if you can't watch it now, save it for your lunch break -- it's totally worth the time. (Via Techland)

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​The big news that happened almost immediately after I was done with work for the day yesterday (sigh) is that Warner Bros. wants to make a Sandman TV series. Yes, Neil Gaiman's Sandman of the Endless. No, it has nothing to do with HBO's aborted attempt to make a Sandman TV series a few years ago. The Hollywood Reporter has the few, vague details in pesky complete sentences, but the only thing that matters right now is this:

Warner Bros. is talking to Supernatural creator Eric Kripke to run the show.

Wow. Again, I've not seem Supernatural, but from everything I've heard about the show, Kripke sounds like the perfect choice to make a Sandman series. He knows how to make weird material exciting and watchable to modern audiences, without dumbing down the material, and can handle both serialized storylines and overarching plots with panache. If he's any kind of a nerd -- and I'm guessing he is -- I imagine he'd treat the source material with the respect it deserves, too. I don't know that this will actually happen, seeing as Sandman has been stuck in development limbo for a while. But if a TV show is actually going to get made, this seems as auspicious a start as we're going to get.

​No one knows how to reward patience like TV's Smallville. Sure, the show has it's problems. But if you kept up with the first few seasons, you only got Clark Kent battling forgettable meteor freaks (Jonathan Taylor Thomas anyone? Remember him? Anyone?) or some lab experiment Lex Luthor was cooking up. But if you stuck around past those initial episodes, things started to get interesting, and more and more familiar faces started popping up in Metropolis, to the point where most of the major DC heroes have popped by to say hi to the young Clark Kent (with two notable exceptions, of course).

Of course, there have been so many villains straight from the pages of the comic books that they deserve their own list, but one could cobble together a pretty good Justice League Unlimited from the ranks of Smallville guest stars! Warning, though -- many of these videos are fan-made tribute videos with completely ludicrous music choices. You've been warned.

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(deep breath) Okay. It's a bunch of girls doing a Spider-Man-themed dance routine. I was trying to decide whether to make the standard Mephisto/One More Day joke, since this seems some thing the devil would be directly involved with, or a Spider-Man 3 movie/Emo Peter Parker dance routine association, since the two are pretty similarly goofy. But honestly, after watching that, I'm genuinely afraid I ingested some angel dust or something, because it just doesn't seem possible that that really happened. So I'm just going to see a doctor. Have a swell afternoon.

​Please note that these potential screenshots from Batman: Arkham City are unconfirmed and from mysterious sources, so there's no telling if they're real or not. They sure look real, though; real enough that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and posting them anyways. I mean, that very much looks like what Harley Quinn might look like in the Arkham Asylum sequel, since 1) she doesn't need a nurse's outfit, and 2) the gamemakers obviously have a major boner for her. Then assuming the sexxxed up Harley, it follows that the game's Catwoman would also prowl the night with her breasts ready to make a jailbreak from her leather catsuit at any given moment. And Two-Face... well, he just looks like he was made from the same designer as the villains in Arkham Asylum. More and better pics after the jump.

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​Slow news day? Why do you ask? (Via Unreality)

I've shown a lot of depraved and fucked up things in Super Terrific Japanese Thing before, but this... this is likely the worst. There is no call for this item other than to inflict pure evil on the third, to spread pain and misery, and to actively work for the death of hope and goodness. I give you Tropicana Fruit Sweets, a new beverage being offered in Japan. Sound innocent? Of course it does. But check out the flavor.
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ORANGE WITH RARE CHEESE FLAVOR.

ORANGE AND CHEESE.

A CHEESE DRINK. WITH ORANGE.

You've gone too far this time, Japan. Even I can't support you now. Mostly because I'll be busy throwing up for the next six months or so. (Via Japanator)