Actor Nathan Fillion tweets a link to a website promoting the completion of principle photography for a mysterious project called Much Ado About Nothing, which appears to be an adaptation of the Shakespeare play done by the master of the Whedonverse.

Finally, the first real trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers, set to hit theaters May 4, 2012, is here! It looks just as awesome as you’d hope it would, and the bits of dialogue in it are such that, even if you didn’t know Joss Whedon had written them, you’d probably ...

Today is the 47th birthday of Joss Whedon, geek icon extraordinaire. Without Whedon, the world of geekdom would have had no Buffy the Vampire Slayer, no Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and no Firefly/Serenity. The mere fact that Firefly famously had only one incompletely broadcast series on TV, yet acquired such ...

It’s difficult to believe that it’s been almost three years since the Internet was captivated with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. The surprise phenomenon was spurred on by the Hollywood writer’s strike. Joss Whedon, the Horrible creator, said that the strike was “my opportunity. The only way to do it was ...

Last week, we had Twilight Week over at GeekMom and that prompted a discussion with a friend about whether the relationship between Edward and Bella was really that much different than the relationship between Buffy and Angel in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season One. Buffy is followed around by a mysterious, ...

As we all sit around and mourn the cancellation of Caprica, let’s revisit another excellent sci-fi show that was over all too quickly: Firefly. In case you’re not familiar with it, Firefly was a space western, about a band of outcasts and their overworked spaceship, finding work where they could ...

Welcome to GeekDad Guitar Lessons; a new bi-weekly video feature here on the GeekDad blog.  Each tutorial will present strategies on how to play your favorite Geeky/Techie/Sci-Fi influenced songs. First off, let me introduce myself.  I’m John Anealio.  In addition to being a GeekDad and a music teacher, I write and ...

August is promising to be a big month for Australian GeekDads. Our geographic isolation means we are subject to engaging with the ideas and stories of many fine writers, producers and thinkers from interviews and talks uploaded to video sharing sites. But, not in August 2010. Both Neil Gaiman and ...

The quality of a movie depends a great deal on its main characters, of course. A movie with uninteresting or implausible protagonists might still do well at the box office — just ask Michael Bay — but it will never be much more than an empty shell. What elevates a ...

With the world still reeling from the chippy grandeur of Brad Smith’s epic Moon8 – which, in case you missed it, recreates the entirety of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon via Famitracker – Doctor Octoroc has unleashed his own inspired 8-bit cover project. The spiritual successor to ...