Helpful CBS Lawyers Explain the Many, Many Ways a Star Trek Fan Film Is...
Axanar.Remember how CBS is suing to prevent the crowdfunded fan film Axanar from being completed? Now the channel is suing the filmmakers even harder. CBS’s lawyer have submitted 28 pages of documents...
View ArticleThe Director of Children of Dune Will Helm Spike TV's Red Mars Adaptation
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy—a scifi classic about terraforming that was inspired by the author’s dreams of backpacking on the Red Planet—will be a scripted series on Spike TV next year. Now, we...
View ArticleWhen Your Cool Future Is Obsolete Before You're Even Finished Writing It
When you decide to write a story set in the near future, or speculating about things that might happen, you’re running the risk of looking like a jackass. Nobody expects a science fiction story to...
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View ArticleIan McShane Tells Upset Fans Game of Thrones Is Just 'Tits and Dragons,'...
Gif from Game of Thrones season 4 bloopersI’d like to ceremoniously welcome Ian McShane to the DGAF Club—for actors who are going to say exactly what’s on their minds, even if fans, producers or suits...
View ArticleHere's What Everyone Is Saying About the First Episode of Preacher
Earlier today, we found out that the AMC show Preacher would be premiering May 22 at 10pm. But a lucky few who are attending South by Southwest in Austin actually got to see the pilot, and they took to...
View ArticleMathematicians Discovered Something Super Freaky About Prime Numbers
Mathematicians have discovered a surprising pattern in the expression of prime numbers, revealing a previously unknown “bias” to researchers. Primes, as you’ll hopefully remember from fourth-grade math...
View ArticleToday's Best Deals: Flash Storage, Chromebook, French Press, and More
SanDisk flash storage, a cheap Chromebook, and a $15 french press kick off Monday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is independent of...
View ArticleThis Lesbian Disco Song About the First Dog in Space Is Just What Your Monday...
The story of Laika, the first dog in space, is one of the all-time saddest things ever. But at least now it’s given us this sweet, bizarre lesbian anthem from the Eurovision Song Contest. The Hungry...
View ArticleThe ExoMars Launch Was a Resounding Success
ExoMars 2016 lifted off on a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT on 14 March 2016. Image Credit: ESA–Stephane CorvajaAfter more than twelve hours of nail-biting anticipation, the...
View ArticleRoboCop Looks Better Than Ever in These Awesome New Posters
Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 film RoboCop gets better and better with age. The social commentary, the intentionally excessive violence, the humor, the character design, everything is just perfect. And if you...
View ArticleHow Japanese Artists Make Fake Plastic Food Look So Damn Delicious
It’s a technique that’s used around the world to show off the meals available in restaurants, but artists at a small factory in Japan are absolute masters at making the plastic demo meals look almost...
View ArticleWhy Captain America: The First Avenger Is Unlike Any Other Marvel Movie
Whenever someone asks which of Marvel’s in-house productions has been the company’s best movie, I tend to answer Guardians of the Galaxy. Or I sagely nod along with the vox populi and point to the...
View ArticleFirst-Person Action Movie Hardcore Henry Is a Great Idea That Might Make You...
Hardcore Henry is the dream of 1990s video games come to life. It’s a movie that fully realizes some video game makers’ horny pursuit of the hyperreal, only to invert that desire with viscerally...
View ArticleThis Week's TV: Does the City Really Need Daredevil?
Daredevil returns with Elektra and the Punisher! The season finale of Colony! The Ninja Turtles meet their 1980s counterparts! And saints be praised, there’s a new Pee-Wee Herman movie! All this, and...
View ArticleIt's an All-Out Ninja War in the Final Trailer for Daredevil Season Two
Sure, Daredevil season 2 might be dropping in its entirety at the end of this week, but there’s still time for teasing, as this trailer packed with new footage shows. Also? Plenty of time for so much...
View ArticleFacebook Nerd Throws Heavy Shade at Google Over AlphaGo Victories
Getty In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was so very close to creating an artificial intelligence machine that could learn to successfully play the ancient Chinese game Go. The very...
View ArticleAn Animated Explanation of Marvel's Deeply Confusing Civil War Story Arc
Marvel’s Civil War arc is both legendary and insanely convoluted, involving just about every hero you’ve ever heard of (and a ton you haven’t) over 50 issues published across over a dozen titles. Even...
View ArticleMysterious ‘Fairy Circles’ Discovered In Australia’s Outback
Fairy circles in Australia near Newman. Image: Kevin SandersUniformly spaced gaps called “fairy circles” often appear in the grasslands of Namibia. The unprecedented discovery of these enigmatic...
View ArticleHollywood's Richest Directors Think $50 for a Movie Is Totally Reasonable
Photo credit: AP ImagesRejoice, world, the plan to use the internet to ensure you never leave the house continues apace. Because a bunch of big Hollywood names are reportedly backing Sean Parker’s...
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