New Comedy Making History Sounds Like It's From the Bill and Ted School of...
Leighton Meester photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/APTime travel can be treated as a serious plot device; think Hulu’s 11.22.63. It can also be silly as hell, as in the Bill and Ted films or Hot Tub...
View ArticleGravitational Waves Explained to the Beat of 'Can't Feel My Face' Sounds Awesome
Are you tired of hearing about how awesome it is that we’ve discovered gravitational waves? LIGO is so last month, right? Here’s something to make the topic seem fresh and wondrous again: a delightful...
View Article16 Fun, Escapist Books To Get Your Mind off This Crazy Election Year
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet art by Christopher DollYeesh, this is a scary, weird year to be living on planet Earth. And we haven’t gotten those danged off-world colonies set up yet, for some...
View ArticleSpotting This Flying RC Goth Overhead Would Be Even Creepier at Night
Weighing in at just four-and-a-half pounds, Otto Dieffenbach’s latest flying creation is a remarkably lifelike replica of Bjørn Alexander Brem, the lead singer of an Osl0-based band called...
View ArticleA Basic Spelling Error Cost These Hackers Nearly $1 Billion
GettyMost spelling mistakes are innocent, fleeting, and only mildly embarrassing. Then there are the ones that result in a loss of over $800 million during a bank heist. Those ones suck.Reuters reports...
View ArticleDaisy Ridley May Raid Some Tombs as the New Lara Croft
When your debut movie makes over $2 billion, your career is sure to get a bit of a boost. That’s certainly the case for Daisy Ridley, who is not only currently shooting Star Wars Episode 8 but also...
View ArticleJena Malone's Secret Batman v Superman Role Is No Longer a Secret
The long-running saga of Jena Malone’s mysterious Batman v Superman role is seemingly over. After being rumored and rumored for ages—and after Malone was cut from the film’s theatrical release...
View ArticleThe Fan Theory That Fixes One of the Most Annoying Plotholes in The Lord of...
It’s a question every Lord of the Rings fan asks him or herself eventually: If giant eagles could give Frodo a ride home after he dropped the One Ring into the fires of Mt. Doom, why couldn’t they have...
View ArticleThe Final Badass Civil War Trailer, Starring Your Spectacular New Spider-Man
It’s here—your next major look at Marvel’s big superheroic dust up, Civil War. You’d think someone would be pleased, but no, Teams Cap and Iron Man are far too busy being glum at the thought of...
View ArticleMetroid Prime: The Kotaku Review
When she shoots, Samus Aran doesn’t miss. That’s one of the fundamental truths of the original Metroid Prime, the first-person sci-fi game that came out on the Nintendo GameCube in 2002. You lock her...
View ArticleAmericans Think the Robot Revolution Is Coming But Not For Their Jobs
Robot developed by Toshiba stands at a welcome desk inside a tourism fair in Berlin (Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images)Remember travel agents? Or Victrola repairmen? Their jobs disappeared as society...
View Article'Game of Thrones Is (Very Gently) Tearing My Marriage Apart!'
Is the Postman suddenly giving out marital advice? He is! He’s also offering parents tips about nerdy child psychology for some reason! But he still has time to discuss Rey’s parents, why comic movies...
View ArticleBotanists Just Answered One of the Biggest Questions About Farming on Mars
Artist’s concept of astronauts on Mars / NASA/ JPL-CaltechResearchers have successfully grown a crop of tomatoes, peas, and radishes harvested in Martian soil—and with those comes an answer to one of...
View ArticleWatch a Spectacular Lightning Show Splinter Across the Skies Over Dubai
Dubai’s skyline is an ever-growing collection of impressive towering skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. And you know what loves tall buildings even more than...
View ArticleAll the Cool Stuff in the New Captain America: Civil War Trailer
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new Spider-Man may be the biggest bombshell from the latest trailer for Captain America: Civil War, but there’s plenty more to discuss. Here’s all the information we...
View ArticleKubo And The Two Strings Looks Like The Biggest Movie Adventure This Year
We’ve been writing about Kubo and the Two Strings since we first realized it existed. Since then, with each subsequent look, the stop-motion animated film from the people behind Coraline and Paranorman...
View ArticleZack Snyder Wanted to Have Christian Bale in Batman v Superman Just to Mess...
Image: The Dark Knight, Warner Bros.Even though there were early rumors that Warner Bros. might back a Brinks truck up to Christian Bale’s home in order to have him appear as Batman in the new DC movie...
View ArticleDonald Trump Cosplay Is the Future of American Politics
Fourteen-year-old Kaylie Kilpatrick and James Hanna dress like Donald Trump during a campaign rally in South Carolina (Jim Watson//AFP/Getty Images)There’s something new happening in this presidential...
View ArticlePatagonian Ice Bridge Collapses in Spectacular Fashion
An arched section of the Perito Moreno Glacier collapsed in front of thousands of awe struck spectators in Argentina earlier today. Some 3,000 tourists had gathered at the site in anticipation of the...
View ArticleThe Official Suicide Squad Movie Tattoos, Ranked
If you’re attending this year’s SXSW, you can get tattooed by Harley Quinn.... or at least her marketing team. There’s some kind of “Harley’s Tattoo Parlor” event being set up to promote the Suicide...
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