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Elizabeth Bonesteel On Building New Worlds And Blending Genres
One of the books that we’ve been most excited about this spring is Elizabeth Bonesteel’s debut, The Cold Between, the first novel in her Central Corps series. The book comes out this week, and we had a...
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Top Gun Is King, But Other Movies Featured Amazing F-14 Tomcat Footage As Well
Top Gun made the F-14 Tomcat a true household name and a movie star. But a decade later, the movie Executive Decision also featured some glorious Tomcat scenes, and of VF-84—the “Jolly Rogers”—no less....
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Travel To The Worlds Of Lovecraft With These Fantastic Posters
We’re suckers for fantastic travel posters, and artist Steve Thomas has created a set that we absolutely have to put up on our walls: posters inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft!These were pretty...
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Heath Ledger 'Completely Ruined' Christian Bale's Plans For Batman
While out on publicity for his latest movie, The Knight of Cups, Christian Bale has expressed some second thoughts about his portrayal of Bruce Wayne/Batman for Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy....
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Successful $100,000 Kickstarter Dev Calls It Quits Due To Drama
In 2014 nearly 4,000 backers pledged $100,000 for a silly game about being a bear. Yesterday, despite seemingly happy backers and 78 percent positive reviews on Steam, Bear Simulator’s developer says...
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Pluto Might Be Home To Methane-Covered Mountain Peaks
Image credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRIEven though New Horizons swept past Pluto last year, more than half the data that it gleaned from the planet during its flyby is still on the spacecraft, which means that...
View ArticleWatch How Real Science Influenced The Tech Of Ghosbusters In This Featurette
The new Ghostbuster film got a bit of help from an MIT Physicist to imagine just how the new proton packs would be built, and that equations on the whiteboards were accurate. Dr. James Maxwell...
View ArticleBurger Fiction Shows Off (Most) OF The Ways To Curse On Film Without Cursing
Directors and writers who want to let their characters unload on someone can’t resort to profanity like the rest of us: Burger Fiction has put together an entertaining video with some great insults...
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DC Super Hero Girls Bring Comic Book Toys To A Brand New Audience
Boys read comic books. Girls play with dolls. Or at least that’s how it used to be in ancient times. Mattel’s new DC Super Hero Girls dolls blur tired old lines both ways, so I recruited my doll-loving...
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Sunday's Best Deals: $20 off Kindles, Tri-Ply Sauce Pan, Anker Cables, and More
Kindle e-readers, Anker PowerLine cables, and a Wi-Fi smart plug kick off Sunday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...
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This Street in Beirut Is Completely Made of Trash Bags
Photo: Hassan Ammar/APThe capital of Lebanon has been facing gruesome garbage issue since last July, when state authorities closed a major landfill without planning to open a new one. In this photo...
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This Amazing Fan Film Showcases All The Things We Love About Darth Maul
There is one good thing to come out of Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Darth Maul. This fan film, Darth Maul: Apprentice showcases all of the things that we loved about the red-and-black Sith Lord.When...
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The Damien TV Series Is Giving the Antichrist a Bad Name
In A&E’s TV sequel to the classic movie The Omen, Damien is a most reluctant Antichrist. But it turns out watching a guy fretting he may be the spawn of Satan isn’t nearly as entertaining as...
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Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man Movie Just Cast Zendaya in a Major, Mysterious...
Image credit: Rich Polk / Stringer for Getty ImagesOf course we have Tom Holland, and Marissa Tomei’s Aunt May already, but the cast of Sony’s new Spider-Man reboot is largely unknown at this point....
View ArticleWatch the Super-Violent Hardcore Henry Trailer and Try Not to Get Motion...
Hardcore Henry is either going to be the most awesome film of all time, or it’s going to make you puke with its POV shaky-cam action. Or both. Basically it’s like a whole movie shot by a cyborg wearing...
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Hold on to Your Tail Feathers: Here's the First Image From the New DuckTales
Image: Disney XDDisney XD has released the first image from its reboot of DuckTales, presenting one of the first cases of a single still getting a song stuck in my head with no prompting. “Life is like...
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This Week's TV: The 'Sex-Drenched' Biblical Drama We've All Been Waiting For
The Bible rules television this week. First, Damien brings the Antichrist to TV—and competes with Lucifer! Then ABC unveils its long-delayed Bible soap opera Of Kings and Prophets. Also, Joe Dante...
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Be Excited About These New Clips from Scifi Thriller Midnight Special
Sometimes, letting yourself get too feverishly excited about an upcoming film can backfire. But a letdown doesn’t seem imminent with Jeff Nichols’ upcoming scifi thriller Midnight Special, which has a...
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New Horror Story Proves Working for Amazon Is More Soul-Crushing Than We Thought
It’s unspeakably awful to work in an Amazon warehouse. You have to walk between seven and 15 miles a day, enter and exit the buildings through a set of airport-style security scanners that take 30...
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Holy Crap, J.K. Simmons Is Playing Commissioner Gordon in the Justice League...
The world might have lost its greatest J. Jonah Jameson, but at least it found itself a Commissioner Gordon that can top Gary Oldman: J.K. Simmons has been cast as Jim Gordon in DC and Warner Bros.’...
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