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The Lars Homestead meets The Shire meets modern architecture in Villa in Vals, a Swiss home designed by Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Muller. (via)

This isn’t the best Nostalgia Chick, but it’s The Last Unicorn! It was my favorite movie as a kid – I watched it so much that my mother hates it to this day – so I couldn’t not post it. And hey, Christopher Lee!

I can’t believe that it was made by the same guys who did that horrible animated Lord of the Rings. That cartoon is why it took Peter Jackson four-plus hours and a cliffhanger to get me to actually read the trilogy.

Meanwhile, the Nostalgia Critic has a tribute to two other staples of my childhood, Siskel and Ebert. (Is that weird? That the syndicated tv show of two movie critics is a staple of my childhood? TOO BAD.)

Anything you can do to draw attention to your mouth is good. Clueless director Amy Heckerling is making a vampire romantic comedy. I can’t believe they found a way to actually might make me kind want to see a vampire movie. (No, Alicia Silverstone is not involved – Krysten Ritter is – but I am not one to resist a cheap Photoshop gag.) In related news Saturday Night Live’s Twilight spoof has been burning up the internet.

Oh, James Cameron. The New York Times claims that Avatar’s price tag is a cool $500 mil. Well, at least the latest trailer actually bothers to make it look like an action movie.

Mumble mumble fourth. The Los Angeles Times’ Geoff Boucher looks at the difficulty of making upcoming films for several different franchises: Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men and Pirates of the Caribbean. On that note, io9 quotes the relevant parts of a /Film podcast where X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty describes what X3 might have been.

Shocking! ‘Archival footage’ from that cheesy alien abduction movie actually fake. People, did we learn nothing from Blair Witch?

Also… The ‘lost’ cantina scene of Star Trek; Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen talk The Hobbit; New poster for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

Geek-favorite web comic xkcd’s latest tracks the characters of the original trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park and 12 Angry Men. Head on over to see them all in readable form.

With The Dukes of Hazard mashup, I’m really starting to think that I’m not okay with all this. (via)

Beneath the cut? The Lord of the Rings/A-Team. The 80′s are back, and they are PISSED. (more…)

Just as Mattias Adolfsson set Star Wars back to the baroque period, he’s taking Lord of the Rings ahead with Bots of the Ring. Above, the NazguloBot Unit. (via)

It’s Monday and I got nothing. Granted, I just got here, so don’t give up on us yet. But for now, take a look at The Secret Life of Toys. It has stormtroopers, Indiana Jones, and bloodthirsty Muppets. Score!

• How about teddy bears… IN SPAAAAACE! (Sorta.)

• Or if that fails, there’s always edible books. Genre standouts include Lard of the Rings and Sword and the Scone.
• Looking for something less stationary? How about Joss Whedon and Ron Moore playing themselves on the season premiere of Robot Chicken?

Thirty-five years ago today the world lost a master storyteller.

In Bender’s Game, the Planet Express crew spoof fantasy: the trailer is heavy with Dungeons and Dragons and Lord of the Rings references, in addition to the title riff on Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.

Scientific American sums up the important science fiction movies of our time… With only one sentence each.