As we might have mentioned before, our favorite office game is to sort characters into Hogwarts Houses. We are not unique in this of course—a good portion of fandom has Sorting Disease—but we like bringing the party to you, as it were.

And with Muppets Most Wanted coming out, it seemed only natural to get the crew sorted! Join us while we play the music and light the lights!

This is a lot of fun!

Disney head Bob Iger dropped a big piece of news offhandedly during the Disney Investor’s Meeting today, stating that Brad Bird is working on the story for The Incredibles 2 and that Pixar is also working on a new Cars movie.

No surprise with the Cars sequel; I’m sure they will continue that franchise until it runs out of gas and stops making them money in toy stores and at theme parks. The Incredibles sequel, on the other hand, is big news, and fans should be excited that Brad Bird is involved.

Well it’s about time! I mean, another Cars film: meh. The Incredibles: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY…

The campaign to revive Veronica Mars delivered a number of cool things—an enormous number of new Kickstarter users and, lest we forget, a full-length motion picture of a deeply loved TV series that arrived Friday. But the movie’s arrival introduced something else to Veronica Mars fans: their first interaction with the UltraViolet video locker service, the method the movie’s distributors are using to fulfill the downloads promised to people who backed the movie on Kickstarter. It’s been ugly, to say the least.

UltraViolet is the worst of the worst when it comes to studios trying to keep…

It’s hard to call Season 6 the best season of TNG, but it had a lot of good episodes, and we got to see James Doohan reprise his role as Scotty so definitely call that a win! This season also included great episodes like:

• Chain of Command, Part 1 and Part 2
• Ship in a Bottle
• Face of the Enemy
• Tapestry
• Birthright, Part 1 and Part 2
• Starship Mine
• Timescape
• Descent Part 1

It’s great to see a great show getting remasterd in glorious HD and I look forward to watching these in HD somehow, even though it would be cost prohibitive for me to buy the entire series — again.

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At the end of last week’s Agents of SHIELD, we met Larelei who stole one half of a newlywed couple so that he could do her bidding. In this opening clip from the upcoming episode Yes Men airing Tuesday, Lorelei takes over a biker gang.

Lorelei is an Asgardian from the comics, but since I’m more into the cinematic universe and not the comics I don’t know much about her except that she’s sort of not a “good guy”.

Agents of SHIELD has sort of been like a snowball, continuing to build as it rolls along. I have loved the show since day one but it’s been getting better and better.

One of the biggest secrets we learned while on the set of Captain America: The Winter Soldier: is that the Captain America sequel ending will have big ramifications for the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will lead directly into Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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Later in the afternoon, Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige let the following slip:

It is smack dab between Avengers and Avengers 2. It takes place after both Thor and Iron Man. So it’s sort of the continuity of the release of the film is the continuity of the film as well. Which was sort of the case with the first…

Changing one letter can change the entire meaning of something. I mean check it out! I nearly busted a gut laughing. And really, who doesn’t like Worf? Worf is awesome!

Also, this is some amazing editing right here. I’m one of the biggest trek nerds you might ever find and I’m not sure I could have found all those clips and pieced this thing together. I didn’t think to check while I was watching, but I’m pretty sure they pulled from all seven seasons of TNG to find the right clips for this thing. And yes, they even have a singing bit right where it would have been the the real The Wolf of…

Regardless of any other feelings about the film, whether it was good, bad or otherwise, one must admit that the graphics in the film were incredible and breathtaking. Oftentimes the film exceeded my expectations of the things that had been described in the book — which is indeed a rarity for me. I often find that my imagination has supplied far better graphics that what films have been able to give us. Not so this time.

So take a moment to watch this motion graphics reel for Ender’s Game. It captures only a small portion of the goodness available in the film.

As with the first Hobbit film, I found the CGI in the second film to often be hit or miss. Some of it was best in class, and some of it was pretty terrible. This is a great disapointment in the wake of some of the best CGI work we’ve ever seen in the preceeding Lord of the Rings films.

But one element that was best in class was, indeed, the very dragon who’s name made it into the title of the film. Smaug’s execution as a CGI creation is nothing short of stunning. It really was, to me, as if they had found this creature in reality and filmed him so real was he on the screen. Therefore getting…