There’s no better way to start the weekend than watching the A-Team intro, secure in the knowledge that the A-Team movie has been scheduled for the summer of 2009 by Fox, directed by John Singleton. Defamer has a startlingly good cast list, but as long as the team is driving a black van and not some kind of Hummer or bullshit Taurus SUV, I’ll be there opening day. Have a great weekend, everybody! Try not to fuck your nieces and nephews!
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.