This is going to be a long one. No, that’s not what she said. It was me. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, people. Anyway, what I’m trying to type is that it is once again time to clean out the ol’ review closet. That means you’re all winners. ...

Between the premiere of season four of Castle and the upcoming release of Deadly Storm, based on the not-real book series starring Derrick Storm written by the fictional writer Richard Castle, played by Nathan Fillion in the television show, it seems like Castle is becoming something of an industry, especially ...

Nathan Fillion, who played the lead in Firefly, the voice of Green Lantern, and currently starring in ABC’s Castle, will once again become a comic book character. He was first preserved on paper as Mal from Firefly in the graphic novel Serenity: Those Left Behind. Now the series of ghost-written mysteries ...

This is definitely my favorite costume story from San Diego Comic-Con this year. Molly Quinn showed up at the Comic-Con Castle panel wearing a well-planned Captain Mal Reynolds costume. I’m still trying to dig up a picture of Fillion’s face when he saw her in costume, but it must have been ...

I think we can all agree: The best dads are geek dads. After all, we generally share a lot of interests in common with our kids—like, reading comic books, playing video games, and building Lego— and we are far more likely to want to play a game of D&D with our kids ...

HEY. Earth to Hollywood: 3-D is STUPID. If your movie sucks, don't gimmick it up with another dimension. That just makes it a sucky movie with a Z-axis (sucky being the technical term). Like a bunch of other parents with a limited budget, Da-da will ...

Ok, so I’m being totally shameless and using my own photo as the Picture of the Day, but I just had to share. My seven-year-old daughter got out her little watercolor paints and went upstairs and worked for quite a while, coming downstairs a couple times to change out the ...

When Castle first came on three television seasons ago, I was ready to love it. It had many things I adore in stories: A bantering couple. Crimes to solve. A writer as a lead character. I was incredibly disappointed. The dialogue was very uneven.The mysteries were not that involving. And I had ...

They really don’t build things like they used to. Huge sums of money held by kings, the church and other entities used to fund large, quality buildings that really stood — and still stand — the test of time. While the kinds of taxes and cheap or slave labor required ...