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Toy Company Builds Life-Size Wonder Woman, Batmobile
Hot Toys, normally known for their smaller figures, outdid themselves at a mall event in Hong Kong this week by building life-size models of Batman, the Batmobile, Superman and Wonder Woman, all from...
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The Fact That None Of The 2016 Presidential Candidates Have A Space Policy Is...
Go to any of the 2016 presidential candidates’ websites and look for their space policy. Actually, don’t bother, because you would be wasting your time. None of them have one. It is a sad symptom of...
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Everything We Learned About Ghostbusters From Its Trailer
We have finally seen footage from Paul Feig’s rebooted Ghostbusters and it looks perfect. But hidden in all of that action was a lot of information about the characters and the plot, as well as plenty...
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Lady Gaga Will Be Back for American Horror Story's Mysterious Sixth Season
Lady Gaga arrives at the Oscars on February 28, 2016. Photo by Al Powers/Invision/APAfter her Golden Globe win for American Horror Story: Hotel—and the fact that she seemed to be having a rip-roaring...
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The 100 Pulled A Whedon, and It Was TERRIBLE
A lot of great things happened on The 100 last night. We got deeper into the show’s delicious lore. We learned more about ALLIE the AI from Eureka. Some great looking gals had some great looking...
View ArticleThe Boo! A Madea Halloween Trailer May Actually Mark the Dawn of the Apocalypse
The first teaser trailer for Boo! A Madea Halloween starts with several teases of the coming apocalypse. Oh, sweet irony—because the fact this movie exists feels exactly like the beginning of the...
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Now Superhero Movies Have to Defend Not Being Rated 'R'
Deadpool has been a huge success, but honestly, the most fascinating thing about it is how it’s changed the conversation about superhero movie ratings. Case in point? Suicide Squad producer Charles...
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The Coolest Rides Coming to Shanghai Disneyland
Construction of Shanghai Disneyland on December 26, 2015The new Disneyland in Shanghai doesn’t open until June 16th, but we’ve got a new drone’s-eye view of the progress at the new park. It will be the...
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In 1992, Bob Newhart Made a TV Show About Superheroes Becoming Too Dark and...
In 1992, Bob Newhart was a comedy god. He’d starred in two mega-popular sitcoms, The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, and then he decided to star in a show about a superhero comics artist. The resulting...
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Marvel Could Be Adding an Asian Martial Arts Hero to Iron Fist
Image Credit: Master of Kung Fu #3 cover by Francesco Francavilla The reaction to the news that Finn Jones will be playing Danny Rand in Netflix’s Iron Fist series has been mixed at best—with many...
View ArticleThis Fan-Edited Ghostbusters Trailer Fixes Several Problems From the Official...
We like the new Ghostbusters trailer. It’s got a true love for the franchise, as well as action, humor and character to spare. But at the same time, it’s obviously not perfect. There are some issues...
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Buy a Deadpool Funko Toy, Get a Digital Comic For Free
Today on Amazon, if you buy one of four adorable Funko Deadpool toys (starting at under $10), you’ll get a digital copy of Deadpool (2015-) #1 for free. [Deadpool...
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The Ugly New Front In The Neverending Video Game Culture War
Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but also many of the same tactics.If you’ve witnessed this kind of...
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Han Solo Now Has His Own Marvel Miniseries
Image Credit: Star Wars: Han Solo #1 Cover by Lee BermejoPrincess Leia had one. Lando had one. Chewbacca had one. Poor Luke hasn’t had one. Now Han Solo himself is getting his own, err, solo miniseries...
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Disney's Live-Action Nutcracker Looks Like It Could Be Fresh and Exciting
Fantasia (Disney, 1940)Disney’s picked Lasse Hallström to direct The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, a live-action adaptation of the classic Christmas story. Amazingly, this is a live-action project...
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This Timelapse of Shanghai Tower Construction Is the Most Spectacular Thing...
For the past four years, filmmaker Joe Nafis has been chronicling the construction of the Shanghai Tower. After 1,000 work hours and 350,000 photos, he’s put together a stunning timelapse video that...
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The Beautiful Bureaucrat Is an Utterly Nightmarish Literary Masterpiece
There’s been something of a Kafka resurgence in American literary fiction the past 15 years or so, led by people like George Saunders. Oppressively surreal worlds, with strange, totalizing...
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Data Conclusively Proves That The Force Awakens Is Just A Newer Hope
In other news, a bear shits in the woods and the Pope is Catholic.Okay, that’s a bit dismissive of a fair amount of actual data analysis. McGill University computer science professor Derek Ruths mapped...
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Watch SpaceX's Fifth Attempt to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket Live, Which Will...
Image of a previous Falcon 9 rocket launch (which may or may not have happened) back in 2014 / SpaceXFor the fifth time in just over a week, SpaceX is trying to launch its Falcon 9 Rocket. Am I stuck...
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Which Amazing Book Series Just Went On Too Damn Long?
The only thing better than one awesome book is ten awesome books set in the same world... right? Well, not always. Sometimes, the law of diminishing returns kicks in, and the tenth book in a series...
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