Locke & Key Is Just As Haunting As An Audio Drama As It Is A Graphic Novel
Audible is taking one of the best comics in recent years has turned it into a dramatic audio presentation: Locke and Key. The production is a stunning adaptation and it proves that Joe Hill and Gabriel...
View ArticleThe 12 steps that basically every hero in a movie goes through
It’s pretty simple even if we don’t want to acknowledge it: movies are pretty much set up all the same and a hero’s journey roughly follows a pretty universal 12-step process. Or at least that’s what...
View ArticleExploration Is The Perfect Trailer To Show Off NASA's Legacy
NASA is holding a short film contest called CineSpace, and one entry, Exploration, by Ryan J. Thompson caught our eye. It’s the perfect movie-style trailer to show off NASA’s scientific legacy. With a...
View ArticleSuperfans Recreate Massive Lord Of The Rings Battle
Last month, an event called Bitva o Fort went down. That’s Battle of the Fort in English, and it saw hordes of Lord of the Rings fans converge on the village of Radíkov in the Czech Republic to...
View ArticleOur Favorite Images From NASA's Incredible New Apollo Gallery
Earlier this week, NASA uploaded an incredible treasure trove of images to a new gallery on Flickr: unprocessed photographs from all of the manned Apollo missions. They represent an incredible look...
View ArticleWhere Should NASA Send a Space Probe Next?
Going to Pluto was incredible, but as we continue to soak in the glorious images, NASA’s already trying to figure out which celestial target to hit next. The space agency revealed five finalist...
View ArticleGuillermo Del Toro Wants To Put Maisie Williams In A Jaeger
A sequel to Pacific Rim might be a long ways off, but it’s still on director Guillermo del Toro’s mind. And, he has a fantastic idea for who he wants behind the controls of a new Jaeger.Sounding off on...
View ArticleThe Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet [Very NSFW]
The other night, my friend Fivestar said, “Hey, I’m going to be directing a Star Trek gang bang movie, you want to visit the set?” Just in case you are wondering, the answer to that question should...
View ArticleThis Toddler Playing In Microgravity With Dad Is Adorably Awesome
This toddler and her dad playing with microgravity is how you do life right. Outside of being extremely adorable, learning how to fly the fun way from Dad is just the coolest thing. Remember when I got...
View ArticleIt's Black And White In The Animated Video For PilotPriest's The Last Goodbye
In PilotPriest’s video for their song The Last Goodbye, an astronaut goes off on a desperate chase after her companion jets off into space. It’s a really simple story of loss, and what strikes me the...
View ArticleOpen Channel: What's Your Favorite Movie About Mars?
The Martian is doing pretty well at the box office this weekend: it’s poised to take the #1 spot and overtake Gravity’s record from a couple of years ago. So, with that in mind, what’s your favorite...
View ArticleMaybe Clara Did TOO Good a Job of Becoming Like the Doctor on Doctor Who
Season eight of Doctor Who had a pretty strong character arc for Clara, the ageless Doctor’s traveling companion. She started out distressed by the Doctor’s callousness, but then she learned to be more...
View ArticleMinecraft: Story Mode Works Surprisingly Well
The reveal of Minecraft: Story Mode was met with a lot of internet skepticism in 2014—could a narrative-driven take even work for such an open-ended exploration game? I’ve played through the first...
View ArticleA Terrifying Entity Makes a House Call in This Chilling Clip from The Diabolical
It’s Halloween season, and to paraphrase the movie of the same name ... everyone deserves a good scare at least once a day. Here’s an exclusive clip from the upcoming horror-scifi movie The Diabolical...
View ArticleHere's the Hottest Item from New York Comic Con: Weta's Bust of Smaug the Dragon
Weta doesn’t just create props and VFX for the movies—they also create awesome collectibles. Including this beauty, which was the hottest item at New York Comic Con. Behold the official bust of Smaug...
View ArticleMattel Crowdsourced its DC Superhero Girls Doll Designs To Be Less Pretty and...
DC’s new kid-focused, female-led superhero line Superhero Girls is heading to toyshelves soon. A new interview with the range’s designers reveals that first, the toys had to be tweaked to be a bit more...
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Just a reminder: You can email us news and info any time at tips@io9.com, or email the site’s authors directly. You can take part in our official user forum, Observation Deck. And please don’t forget...
View ArticleCan You Spot the Time-Keeping Innovation in This Picture?
Here’s a hint: It’s not the clock. There’s a time-keeping device in this picture that’s incredibly simple (and quite famous) but wasn’t invented until 1829.The thing in this picture which changed...
View ArticleHow the US Air Force reloads the largest combat jet gun on the planet
When you got one of the biggest guns in the world, you can’t just pop in a new magazine and start firing again. Well, you can but the new ‘magazine’ for the GAU-8 Avenger is so ginormous it needs to be...
View ArticleDavid Duchovny Got Us Up to Speed on the New X-Files Series
It’s been seven years since we last saw live-action Mulder and Scully, and 13 years since The X-Files was on TV. So of course the question we have to ask is what about that gap makes the new X-Files...
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