Another delightful guest post today from the one and only Andrew M. Boylan of the famous Taliesin Meets the Vampires blog! Enjoy! Thank you to Andrew for allowing the publication of this piece on the Eternal Vigilance website! If you are unfamiliar with his blog, do check it out today and be sure to bookmark [...]

Last night the much anticipated new paranormal teen romance television series The Vampire Diaries debuted on the CW Network to a sizable audience of eager vampire fans. Earlier in the year when I first caught wind of the show and saw a few initial promo pics, I couldn’t help but immediately jump to the conclusion [...]

I like, many of you, was drawn in by the cleverly ambiguous and mysterious viral marketing campaign developed for the new sci-fi action film DISTRICT 9, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by cinematic newcomer Neill Blomkamp. However, these days I rarely allow myself to become overtly excited about any new film, especially when that [...]

When I mention the title The Vampire Diaries do not, for even a fleeting moment, confuse this film with the watered down teen angst soon to be unleashed upon unwitting CW Network viewers of the same name. Banish anything of that nature from your mind for, while yes, two of the main characters happen to [...]

My latest article for SciFi Wire is live! Please check it out! Land of the Lost, which opened today in theaters nationwide, isn’t the first film to be based on a Saturday morning television series. Hollywood has been trying to mine gold for years from those sometimes classic, sometimes campy shows we watched back when [...]

It is undeniable: 2009 has become the new “Year of the Vampire”. In the cyclical resurgence of public enthusiasm for the horror genre, the Vampire subgenre is definitely reaching the apex of fanatical zeal. With a flood of such cinematic reenvisionings of the vampire myth as UNDERWORLD, TWILIGHT, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, 30 DAYS [...]

I always say that the worst state of being one can be in after watching a film is a state of apathy. By this I mean that the movie has affected the viewer in little to no way. There has been no profound sense of emotion or opinion, either positive or negative and the end [...]

The character Gambit is in large part one of the initial reason I started reading comic books as a child. I can remember being in Eckerd’s Drugs when I was about seven years old with my parents. In the front of the store was a rotating metal magazine rack filled with various different comic books. [...]