Comic-Con HQ: 3 Shows You Need to Be Watching
GeekMom Melody gets a night out and shares with you three Comic-Con HQ shows you should be watching.
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Tag: Nathan Fillion
Emerald City Comic Con 2016 Approaches
Emerald City Comic Con 2016 is now less than a month away. Are you ready?
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11 Rules for When Your Geeklet Starts Dating
What dating advice can we take out of eleven geek culture quotes? Lots. The trick is limiting ourselves to just eleven.
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Con Man Is a Love Song to Fans
Alan Tudyk’s Con Man doesn’t just mock his fans. It mocks the stars, the agents, the behind-the-scenes people…and it does it all with love.
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‘Yamasong’ Puppet Feature Film Trailer Released
Here’s a brief glimpse at ‘Yamasong: March of the Hollows,’ a feature-length puppet film that’s currently in the works, executive produced by Heather Henson and Toby Froud, and directed by Sam Koji Hale.
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Emerald City Comic Con 2015 Rundown
Emerald City Comic Con 2015 is over, and we are already anticipating going again next year. ECCC is definitely my favorite convention of the year.
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Indiegogo Alert: ‘Con Man’ by Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion are crowdfunding a movie together. Need more? It’s sort of about ‘Firefly’ (though not really).
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Commuter Gamer: ‘Firefly Online Cortex’
Like many of you I am dying in anticipation of the release of the ‘Firefly Online’ game, hopefully in the next few months. In the meantime, we can get a taste of the world SparkPlug Games is creating with the ‘Cortex,’ the official companion app for ‘Firefly Online.’
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Con Man Offers Mourning Firefly Fans Reprieve!
Today, Firefly favorites Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion announced their new project, Con Man, now open for funding on Indiegogo!
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Happy Birthday, Nathan Fillion!
One of my favorite actors, and a man of many talents, Nathan Fillion, celebrates another year in the verse. Most of you are familiar with his roles as Rick Castle or Captain Mal, but I encourage you to explore some of his lesser known characters. My recent favorite is Constable Dogberry in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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7 Realizations Upon Introducing Our Kids to Firefly
I’ll admit, we’re probably a little behind the curve, but we finally introduced our boys (both teens, 14 and 15) to that mythical show, Firefly.
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Green Lantern vs. The Hammer: Who is Cockier?
Who is more cocky?
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10 Things Humans Should Know About Monsters University
A spoiler-free review of, and useful answers to likely questions from parents about, the new Disney/Pixar film Monsters University.
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Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is a “Shakesperience”
Much Ado About Nothing absolutely feels like a gathering of old friends, with many familiar faces from the Whedonverse, all joining together to match wits and talk of love and marriage. The film opens nationwide on June 7, 2013.
Continue ReadingTonight’s Castle: Fillion, Frakes, and Fan In-Jokes
Even if you’re not a regular viewer of the ABC show Castle, the fact that you’re reading GeekDad means you might want to tune into tonight’s episode anyway. It takes place at a science fiction convention, and as if that …
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — August 29th, 2012
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingSDCC Firefly Panel: Prepare to Bawl
SDCC’s Firefly reunion panel brought tears to nearly every eye — including Joss Whedon’s.
Continue ReadingCastle: I Can’t Quit You
When Castle and Beckett took it to the next level on the season finale of the show, it should have been satisfying. Instead, it felt like the wrong way to do it.
Continue ReadingInterview: Nathan Fillion Talks Firefly, Dr. Horrible, and Why Kids Need to Read (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Nathan Fillion has, in the space of seven years, risen to the status of a geek icon. Beginning with his best-known role as Captain Mal Reynolds on Firefly, his work on several of Joss Whedon’s projects has transformed the former …
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #11 The Nerdist and The Sparkle in Nathan Fillion’s Eyes
Nicole Wakelin is again joined by GeekMom Kristen Rutherford to talk about her work on the special The Nerdist Year in Review which airs right after Doctor Who this Christmas Eve on BBC America. She also shares some interesting tidbits about the show’s special guests including Wil Wheaton and Nathan Fillion. They also talk about the scary […]
Continue ReadingNetflix + Firefly = A Browncoat’s Dream Come True
Ever since Firefly was canceled all those years ago, Browncoats all over the world, including me, have been longing for more of the TV series. While we were lucky enough to get a major motion picture in Serenity, more of the series would be like a dream come true. There have been several times that it […]
Continue ReadingMuch Ado About Joss Whedon Shooting Shakespeare
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 …
Continue ReadingJoss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
When Nathan Fillion tweets a link, it doesn’t take long for thousands of his loyal fans to click on it. He tweeted a link last night that has Joss Whedon fans all over the internet buzzing. The link was to a website that just had a little information such as that this is a film […]
Continue ReadingCastle The Show Needs to Take Lessons From Its Comic Book Spinoff
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 …
Continue ReadingAs If Nathan Fillion Needed More Geek Cred…
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 …
Continue ReadingThe Guild + Nathan Fillion = Geek Nirvana
It’s not as though The Guild needed any help being one of the best sources of geeky entertainment available right now. Now in its fifth season, geek icon Felicia Day’s brainchild web series, about a group of online gamers who …
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast Episode #2: Zombies, Dragon*Con and Autographs!
In episode two Nicole Wakelin and “Chaos” Mandy Horetski talk about the perils and benefits of exposing your kids to zombie cosplay, attending Dragon*Con while pregnant (it can be done) and the fun of collecting autographs. Questions? Thoughts? Suggestions? Email podcast@geekmom.com (Note: Mandy was bit soft at the start, but it levels out within a minute or […]
Continue ReadingNathan Fillion’s TV Daughter Dresses Up As Mal Reynolds For Comic-Con 2011
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 …
Continue ReadingWhy Firefly?
It may come as a shock to some that I don’t like sci-fi. Well, strike that. With the exception of Star Trek and the original Star Wars, I don’t like sci-fi and, for some hardcore sci-fi fans, it could be argued that both of those are entirely too mainstream and commercialized to boot. This is […]
Continue ReadingNathan Fillion as the Green Lantern
While there is a new major motion picture Green Lantern opening soon in theaters, there is also a new animated movie Green Lantern: Emerald Knights starring the voice talents of Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan. The synopsis of this movie is while the Green Lantern Corps are waiting before a battle, Hal Jordan and the […]
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