This Latest Game of Thrones VFX Breakdown Could Be The Most Impressive Yet
Every year we’re amazed at how much of Game of Thrones isn’t actually there. Each episode is basically a full Hollywood film in terms of visual effects, especially the ones we aren’t supposed to see....
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Man Whose Wife Plunged to Her Death Just Happened to Have Map with "X"...
Colorado resident Harold Henthorn headed to trial this week to answer to first-degree murder charges; he denies pushing his wife, Toni, to her death during a 2012 Rocky Mountain National Park hike...
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Sky High Really, Really Needs To Be a TV Show
Last week, Sky High turned ten years old. And rewatching this classic superhero movie only made us appreciate it all over again—and now we’re wondering: Why isn’t this a TV show? This summer, Disney...
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The Worst Hard Time Is The Most Heart-Breaking Kind of Apocalyptic Story
A group of disparate explorers settle in a bountiful alien land. Through technology they transform the world, making it beautiful, hospitable, profitable. And little by little, they doom themselves....
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Watch This Short and Develop the Totally Rational Fear of Being Replaced by a...
Last year, we learned that Foxed! was going to be made into a full-length feature. Now, you can see the short for yourself, for free. And, yeah, it’s pretty terrifying.In James Stewart’s Foxed!, we...
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The Aussie Mad Max Is So Much Better Than The Lame U.S. Dubbed Version
You may not realize this, but the Mad Max you grew up watching was likely the American-dubbed version and not the Aussie original. At the Jalopnik Film Festival later this month in Los Angeles we’ll be...
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Norwegian director Andre Ovredal (Troll Hunter) will direct a thriller called...
Norwegian director Andre Ovredal (Troll Hunter) will direct a thriller called Emergence about miners battling a terrifyingly destructive “rogue terraforming organism” on a far-off moon, Variety...
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When robots start acting like humans you can expect the worst
Corporations aren’t inherently evil, they’re only as greedy as the humans behind them. It’s the same thing with robots. Robots have no emotions—they’re just a pile of metal, screws and circuits—but...
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The Upcoming Monster El Niño Is About to Bring Us a Year of Weird, Persistent...
With the news today that we should almost certainly see the predicted monster El Niño through the upcoming winter and spring, people are wondering what to expect. The answer is flooding. So much...
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You Can Only Find the Best Version Of Wonder Woman in Sensation Comics
Sure, Wonder Woman has her own ongoing comic book. She has a starring role in Justice League, and appears in countless other DC series. But if you want to see Wonder Woman at her very best, triumphing...
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How Until Dawn Messes With Two Of Horror’s Most Overused Tropes
“Blondes make the best victims,” said filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to CBS in 1977. “They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”Blondes are hardly the only character-specific trope in...
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Today's Best Deals: All-Clad Pans, DJI Drone, Cheap Battery Packs, and More
Here are the best of today’s deals. Get every great deal every day on Kinja Deals, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to never miss a deal, join us on Kinja Gear to read about great products, and on...
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An Adorable But Inept Creature Tries to Help a Man Overcome His Anxiety
If you were afraid of interacting with others, but even more annoyed by a suddenly-appearing supernatural creature, what would happen?The award-winning short But Milk Is Important is finally online....
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10 Writing "Rules" We Wish More Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Would Break
Science fiction and fantasy are genres where almost anything can happen — as long as the author can make it seem plausible, and as long as it’s part of a good story. But that doesn’t mean there are no...
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On Key and Peele, Ray Parker, Jr. Has a Theme Song for Every Movie, Ever
Beloved comedy series Key and Peele bid farewell last night with a show that was heavy on laughs (including the genius “Negrotown”), and at least one shout-out to the series’ love of geek culture, with...
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New Discoveries Could Explain What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke
CROATOAN. The word was found written on a fencepost in the lost colony of Roanoke, and it still intrigues us after 425 years. But this 16th century settlement is more than a legend. It’s also the...
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This Guillermo del Toro Art Show Is As Crazy As the Director Himself
Guillermo del Toro has only made eight films. Sure, a ninth is on the way (with 10 on deck after that), but he’s become such a well-known pop culture persona, that number feels low. Maybe it’s because...
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View Article"We're Not Talking About Good Writing. We're Talking About Wire Racks":...
This 1982 roundtable discussion on science fiction is amazing. Watch Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe and Harlan Ellison talk to Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin about the randomness of genre distinctions and...
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"It's Good To Be Confronted With Death": A Conversation With the Directors of...
One of the biggest stories about horror cinema in 2015 is actually the story of a trailer: When the American preview for the Austrian film Goodnight Mommy dropped in late July, it immediately went...
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