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or, Savant picks The Most Impressive Discs of 2015

This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.

What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...

Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. As usual here’s our weekly look at the podcasts from Gcrn, This Week in Geek and the latest toy review videos from Baltmatrix, with descriptions and links to each and every podcast for your audio/visual pleasure!

Interviews – Steven Melching

Steven Melching joins TFG1Mike and Steve/Megatron to talk about his career as a writer. We bring up The Mask, Batman, X-Men, Beast Machines, and of course Transformers Prime. So sit back, and get comfy, as we find out the secrets of an animation writer.

Beyond The Knight – Episode 02

In the 2nd episode of Beyond the Knight, we find our crime fighters faced with three new episodes of Knight Rider Classic. This time TFG1Mike and the MusicMan Duyahn attend Slammin Sammy’s Stunt Show Spectacular (Say That Five Time Fast!

If you're a fan of pop culture, you should be listening to the Pop My Culture Podcast hosted by Cole Stratton and Vanessa Ragland. If you're a fan of animation (especially animation voice-work), you should at least be listening to their latest episode. In the first part of their Best of 2011 edition, voice talent Rob Paulsen--Raphael of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko and Pinky of Animaniacs, and Arthur of The Tick (also G.I. Joe, Transformers, Johnny Quest, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Darkwing Duck, The Mask, Spider-Man, Samurai Jack and so much more)--discusses his love of the IFC show Portlandia, AMC's Walking Dead, and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture of The Venture Brothers) discusses Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account and proclaims Rebecca Black a "fascinating individual." Meredith Salenger (who provided several voices for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and who appeared in...

Rachel Grubb Appears In New Web Comic Series “A Life Behind The Mask”

“A Life Behind The Mask” is a comedic look at heroes and villains as they go about their lives in and out of their masks and capes, as they go about the same trials and tribulations of everyday occurrences as we all do except they approach things a little differently than most of us.

The web series will rotate around a different super hero and villain every month as they deal with their everyday lives in and out of their alter egos and try to manage a variety of everyday events in their own unique way and approach.

The series will feature a variety of women throughout the entertainment world that span the spectrum of models, actresses, and scream queens; Comic Book Divas will feature the likeness of the women to bring the characters personalities to life.

There has been so much sequel news over the past two weeks much of it I have completely ignored... until now. Here we have one quick shot with links, quotes and everything else I had stored up in relation to sequels and prequels and whatever else you want to call 'em, although reboots have been excluded. Terminator 5 We begin with McG talking to Film Journal about the plot for Terminator 5 when Terminator Salvation hasn't even hit theaters yet: "They've figured out time travel to the degree where they can send more than one naked entity. So you're going to have hunter killers and transports and harvesters and everything arriving in our time and Connor fighting back with conventional military warfare, which I think is going to be f**king awesome." This would bring us back to a pre-Judgment Day 2011 and McG has even said he would like...