On last week’s episode of the NBC comedy Up All Night, TV producer Reagan (Christine Applegate) tells the Oprah-like daytime talk show host Ava (Maya Rudolph) that she’s booked Stevie Nicks to perform on the show. The two ladies then hug and scream with excitement. As I was watching this, I was thinking, yeah, pretty much, I can see me and my girlfriends reacting the same way. I mean, c’mon, it’s STEVIE NICKS!

You can watch the full episode of Up All Night, titled “Letting Go,” here below, along with a video interview with Nicks, who talks about being a fan of Up All Night as well as of the actresses on the show, which is why she wanted to do the guest spot.

The episode is peppered with Nicks references and music, as well as several scenes with the artist, so if you’re a fan of the Fleetwood Mac songstress, you’ll LOVE this. Be sure to watch til the very end of the episode for an awesome sequence that I’ve dreamed of experiencing myself [...]

This article only addresses events that happened during the first season of the HBO TV series Game Of Thrones, not how they were originally portrayed in the George R. R. Martin’s series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire.

Game of Thrones has delivered unto us a show that is as rich as it is complex, a fantasy show flush with blood, lust, and treachery. To say that the bar hasn’t risen to unfairly high levels for the second season is an understatement, and saying that the show’s propensity for the truly shocking has added to those great expectations is certainly another.

In advance of Sunday night’s premiere of Season 2, we thought it best to highlight some of those shocking moments from Season 1; those scenes that made your jaw drop and your pulse quicken.

Warning: There are tons of spoilers beyond this point. [...]

Have you noticed all our March Is Metal posts? What’s March Is Metal, Precious? It’s only this awesome event celebrating all things metal over at Amazon, where tons of hard rock and heavy metal music is on sale. Now, I don’t know about you, but I do not want this March Is Metal madness to end, but alas, all good things must come to an end. With today being the final day in March, I started to panic thinking about all these good metal deals on albums from bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, and more going away, therefore here’s my final March Is Metal post: 20 MP3 Albums For Under $7 Each

First up, let me remind you that there’s a ton of Rush albums on sale for $5 each, so seriously, get on that if you haven’t already. Second, FREE FREE FREE March is Metal Month – 2012 Sampler MP3 download. Get 18 songs from bands like Ice Earth, Corrosion Of Conformity, In Flames, Five Finger Death Punch, Lacuna Coil, and more for FREE. Free. free. FReE. Get it? Ok, good.

Also, head’s up: These Anthrax CDs are on sale for only $4.99 each, and they are awesome albums, so grab them up! Spreading the Disease, Among The Living, State of Euphoria

And for those about to rock, we salute you [...]

As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deal for March 2012, Grand Funk Railroad – Greatest Hits is on sale for only $5.

One of the biggest rock bands of the early 1970s, Grand Funk Railroad had not only risen their straight-forward bar band style of rock and roll to new heights, they also had some number one hits to boot. This 14-song collection of their hits is “jam” packed with all the high octane rock and roll they are famous for and then some, including “We’re An American Band,” “I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home,” the stomping “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and the great cover of Little Eva’s classic, “The Locomotion.”

Browse the main sale page to see the other 99 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of March 2012 [today!].

Also, don’t forget, March Is Metal, so check out all the sales on all things metal! [...]

Remember the Tronorail, Disney World’s Tron-themed monorail that operated in the theme park back in 2010 as a promotion for Disney’s Tron: Legacy? It caused quite the stir with some people outraged that Disney would put what they considered to be advertisements on the monorail.

Well, guess what? A new themed monorail is on the way to Disney World, this time for the Marvel Studios film The Avengers, according to the Disney Parks Blog. This Spring, one of the Magic Kingdom Park monorails will get an Avengers-themed makeover in time for the film’s opening on May 4.

Check out the sneak peek image of the upcoming Avengers-themed monorail here below [...]

Earlier this week, we brought you the news that comedy superstar Will Ferrell made a surprise appearance on the late night talk show Conan as the character Ron Burgundy, the egotistical news anchor with a heart of gold and a brain of vanilla pudding he played in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. His appearance was to wow the audience with a jazz flute jam and to make the special announcement that a deal had been worked out with Paramount Pictures for a sequel to the 2004 hit comedy to finally move forward.

Funny or Die, the website Ferrell co-created with friend and frequent collaborator (and co-writer and director of Anchorman) Adam McKay, has posted a video chronicling the moments before and after Ferrell’s Conan appearance. You can check it out here below [...]

This month has been very special. March Is Metal says Amazon and to celebrate your favorite music, the site has decided to offer hundreds of metal albums at low prices.

One choice pick is that of the MP3 version of Disturbed’s debut album The Sickness available for $6.99. The Sickness was released in 2000 and still stands out as one of the (say it quietly) nu-metal albums that hasn’t aged horribly. The album spawned the hits “The Game,” “Down With The Sickness,” and “Want.”

If you would prefer to have a physical copy of The Sickness, the CD is available for $9.99. Click HERE to view all of the March Is Metal deals and grab them while you can today.

And don’t forget to download the MP3 album March is Metal Month – 2012 Sampler for FREE right now. The sampler has 18 songs from bands like Ice Earth, Corrosion Of Conformity, In Flames, Five Finger Death Punch, Lacuna Coil, and more, so get it before the March Is Metal madness is over! [...]

Right now the Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box Collection Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Combo Edition Box Set is on sale for $49.99 (that’s 50% off the list price of $100).

This 10-disc Blu-ray Combo box set contains all three Disney/Pixar animated Toy Story films — Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 — in collectible packaging. The sert also includes the movies on DVD, as well as digital copies for each, along with tons of bonus features.

Note, this sale is valid only through Saturday, March 31, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

There’s also a sale through the end of the month where you can save 50% on Disney Movie Collections on Blu-ray box sets, on titles like The Lion King Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection, and Cars Director’s Edition [...]

As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deal for March 2012, David Bowie‘s Hunky Dory is on sale for only $5.

This wonderful 1971 album by music’s greatest chameleon, David Bowie, finds him in an early phase of his career. But, it is still a mélange of different sounds and styles that he would find himself interchanging as easily as shedding musical skin later on in his career. Hunky Dory, which contains one of his most well known songs, “Changes,” also has tunes as diverse as the cabaret style “Fill Your Heart,” the aching “Life on Mars?,” the steely knives pointed at the songs “Andy Warhol” and “Song for Bob Dylan,” the out and out rocking “Queen Bitch,” and the haunting “The Bewlay Brothers.”

Browse the main sale page to see the other 99 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of March 2012.

Also, don’t forget, March Is Metal, so check out all the sales on all things metal! [...]

American: The Bill Hicks Story
Netflix Streaming
DVD | Blu-Ray
Written, Produced, and Directed by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas
Starring Bill Hicks, Dwight Slade, Kevin Booth, John Farneti
BBC Worldwide
Originally Released: October 23, 2009

“That’s right. When L.A. falls in the fuckin’ ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona Bay” – Bill Hicks, 1993.

American: The Story Of Bill Hicks is actually a UK-made film that takes a look at the life, the history, the drive, the wit, and the significance of the visionary comic Bill Hicks. With a unique visual presentation, and interviews with family members and friends who he performed with, the documentary gives a unique inside view into the advancement of Hicks both as a person and as a performer [...]

I read The Hunger Games for a couple of reasons: pop culture relevance and simple curiosity. I wanted to get it read prior to the release of the film, too. The book is simple and incredibly melodramatic, but it’s also surprisingly engrossing and the characters are quite well rendered. It feels like a hundred other genre all-ages books I’ve read and it also lacks a central voice, other than the fact that “bad people suck,” to quote a friend. The classic genre films and books of this type had something to say deeper, and at least to the author, more important than just the adventures of so and so.

What this book and film has is a well-developed and interesting female hero in Katniss Everdeen. She’s strong and imperfect, but a good role model for young girls, unlike a certain vampire lover we all know too well. Now a good role model for young girls isn’t a requirement for me to like a book or movie, but if kids are going to grab onto this story, at least the hero is worth their time [...]

Being internet-less for a few days can feel like an eternity when you know how many bits of news and entertainment and information you’re missing out on. For me, that was this week.

Of of the gems missed out on earlier this week was this fan-made short prequel to the brilliant video game BioShock, titled New Year’s End: A BioShock Short Film, which anyone who’s played and loved the games should enjoy watching immensely. [...]

Have you ever thought to yourself “Gee whiz, could I sure use a terrifying life-size Sith lord standing guard over my home!”? Well, if you happen to have $6,000 hiding somewhere deep within the cushions of your couch, you can now have it.

Sideshow Collectibles has unveiled a life-size Darth Malgus figure from Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is now available for pre-order.

You can see a full-size image of the figure below. [...]

In the past three months we’ve seen the theatrical trailer for this summer’s eagerly-awaited Bat-sequel The Dark Knight Rises redone in the style of Batman: The Animated Series and mashed up with The Lion King. Now the inventive minds at Paranick Filmz have painstakingly created their own version of the trailer using LEGO toys and stop-motion animation.

You can watch the video here below [...]

With The Avengers set for release a little over a month from now Marvel Studios has good reason to celebrate. A decade ago the idea of getting Earth’s mightiest heroes together in one movie was laughable given that the film rights to the various characters were owned by different Hollywood studios who weren’t exactly receptive to the idea of a collaboration that would force them to share the potential wealth with their Tinseltown rivals. It wasn’t until Marvel formed their own movie division and started financing blockbusters like Iron Man and Thor that the company could finally take control of their celluloid destiny [...]