David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales
We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends... and it turns out a...
View ArticleThe Man in the High Castle Season Two Is Too Good to Binge
Image: AmazonAmazon’s original series Man in the High Castle returns for season two today, and the series—about an alternate 1960s where the Nazis and Japanese jointly conquered the United States...
View ArticleNext Year's Big Superman Event Is Teasing Big Changes—and an Infamous Throwback
DC has started teasing a big story that will play out in the pages of Action Comics and Superman next year—a four-part event promising “drastic change” in the life of the Man of Steel (as if he’s not...
View ArticleNew, Witchy Film From Studio Ghibli Veterans Looks Just As Magical As Miyazaki's
Mary and the Witch’s FlowerStarved Studio Ghibli fans now have something new to look forward to. Yesterday, Ghibli veterans, under the auspices of Studio Ponoc, released a trailer for a fantastical,...
View ArticleAmazon Waved Its Discount Wand on the 8-Film Harry Potter Blu-ray Collection
Harry Potter; The Complete 8-Film Blu-ray, $40Now that Harry Potter is culturally relevant again, it may be a good time to pick up the 8-film Blu-ray set for $40. That’s $5 more than Black Friday, but...
View ArticleThe Best, Worst, and Most Unforgettable Movie Moments of 2016
In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with...
View ArticleIn the People of Earth Season Finale, an Alien Looks for Help With His Grief...
Image: People of Earth, TBSOne of the increasingly enjoyable parts of TBS’ People of Earth, a show about an alien abductee support group that isn’t actually wrong about what happened to them, is the...
View ArticleAll the Major Star Wars Cameos and Connections You May Have Missed in Rogue One
Rogue One is billed as a standalone Star Wars movie, but it’s far more entrenched in the story of the saga than many of us had thought. That’s not just in terms of its setting, though—it’s because it’s...
View ArticleWe Finally Know Why Freaky Sounds Come From the Deepest Stretch of Ocean
Dwarf minke whales have been identified as a possible source of the strange sounds. (Image: Oregon State University)During exploratory missions to the Mariana Trench in 2014 and 2015, scientists...
View ArticleOne Does Not Simply Pay Full Price For the Lord of the Rings Extended Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings: The Extended Motion Picture Trilogy, $40There are quite a few permutations of the Lord of the Rings films out there on Blu-ray, but the extended editions are the ones you want,...
View ArticleThe Environmental Disaster Film Geostorm Sounds All Kinds of Crazy
For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about an environmentally centered science fiction disaster film called Geostorm, starring Gerard Butler and directed by Independence Day and...
View ArticleFox Is Making a Family Drama Set in an A.I. Future
Image: Fox’s last A.I.-driven show, Almost HumanFox is developing Familiar, a show about a family trying to put an A.I. in every home. Also, presumably, while having high family drama.Familiar comes...
View ArticleThese Rogue One Characters Might Not Be Done With the Star Wars Universe
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has made it very clear that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a standalone movie. The sequel is A New Hope and that’s that. However, if that’s the case, why do some...
View ArticleTilda Swinton Sent Us Her Email Exchange with Margaret Cho About Doctor...
Photo: GettyEarlier today, we posted about Margaret Cho’s account of a “fight” she had with Tilda Swinton regarding her controversial casting in Doctor Strange, in which Swinton played the Ancient One,...
View ArticleA Reminder That George A. Romero Almost Made the First Resident Evil Film...
Milla Jovovich stars in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Image: Ilze Kitshoff © 2016 Constantin Film Produktion GmbHBack in 1998, Capcom hired George A. Romero to direct a Japanese commercial for...
View ArticleJust Like The Video Games, Hollywood Wants to Shove More Assassin’s Creed...
For a while there, Ubisoft kept pumping Assassin’s Creed games out like they were going out of style. The French game publisher cranked them out once a year, effects on quality or franchise fatigue be...
View ArticleMr. Robot's Sam Esmail Is Making a Metropolis Miniseries
Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis. Image: Kino LorberSam Esmail is best-known for creating, writing, and directing the USA hit Mr. Robot, a show fond of making cinematic references (Fight...
View ArticleThis Daenerys Targaryen Figure Will Take What Is Hers, With Fire and Blood
Turns out that what is hers, is your wallet. Truly, she is the breaker of chains.ThreeZero has unveiled its latest Game of Thrones figure, of everyone’s favorite Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen. Based on...
View ArticleSpace Survival Game Astroneer Will Kill You In All The Best Ways
While playing Astroneer, I kept messaging my colleagues about cool ways it had killed me. It was a morbid thing to be excited about. But a satisfying death is the hallmark of a good survival game, and,...
View ArticleCome On, LEGO Batman, Read Us the Whole The Night Before Christmas
LEGO Batman’s Twitter recently shared a short clip where Batman teases the end of his retelling of The Night Before Christmas, and now I’ve got to hear the rest. For crying out loud, Batman, Marvel...
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