It's a Really Bad Day to Be This Moon
Can I ask what is up with the moons today? First we’ve got Pluto’s four little scamps tumbling about like a bunch of circus monkeys. Now, word is that Mars’ moon Phobos is falling to pieces. Our Moon...
View ArticleJezebel We Are All This Woman Refusing to Put Down Her Book at a Trump Rally...
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View ArticleWe May Not See All Of Batman v. Superman Until The Epic Director's Cut!
The Flash movie is in a totally different universe to the Flash TV show. Not all of Doctor Who’s next season may air next year. Ghosts in the Shell casts an upcoming Game of Thrones actor. Plus, leaked...
View ArticleCan You Spot the Astronaut in this Picture?
Let’s play a quick game of hide-n-seek. In this photo, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren is seen working outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk on November 6th. Can you find him among...
View ArticleA Very Silly Flash Episode Suddenly Turned Into a Super Dark Flash Episode...
What started out as perhaps the silliest, most light-hearted episode of The Flash ever ended with one of the series’ darkest moments, all at the hand—or rather the feet—of Zoom, a foe that makes the...
View ArticleWhat Happens When a Civilization's Home Literally Dies Underneath It?
EXODE is one of those short films which builds a whole world in just a few minutes. The whole shape of this civilization—and why the death of this dinosaur-like creature has spurred an exodus—is...
View ArticleToday's Best Media Deals: Anime Essentials, Lone Survivor Ebook, and More
Several anime essentials are marked down to all-time low prices today on Amazon and Best Buy, including Akira, Studio Ghibli titles, and the heart-shredding Grave of the Fireflies. Akira ($15) |...
View ArticleHow To Get One Of Fallout 4's Best Guns At The Start Of The Game
When you first leave the vault in Fallout 4, you’ll notice there’s a locked container at the end of the level. It has a gun; a really good gun, by the looks of it. One problem: there’s no way to...
View ArticleThe New Superman: American Alien Comic Totally Nails the Vulnerability of...
Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis has his own Superman comic now, and while it treads on familiar ground, it promises to be like no other: seven snapshots from Clark’s life as he learns to deal with...
View ArticleThis Week on Blindspot, the Team Solves Police Brutality and NSA Overreach...
On Blindspot, the plots were more ripped from the headlines than ever. We get America’s police brutality problems, Edward Snowden NSA leaks, and sexuality snafus all in one one-hour package. This is...
View ArticleVideo: What movies thought the future would look like
It’s always fun to look back at movies set in the future and see what their vision of the future was. Even though it’s more a reflection of the time period the movie was made and their imagination is...
View ArticleWith Alien 5 Delayed, Neill Blomkamp Moves Onto A "Time Travel Procedural"
The director of District 9, Elysium and Chappie just can’t get away from sci-fi. After working on a fifth Alien movie for a few months (before it was put on hold waiting for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus...
View ArticleRob Liefield Is Returning To Deadpool With A New Graphic Novel
If there’s any character that sums up the extreme extravagance of Rob Liefield’s über-90s art style, it was his most famous creation: Deadpool. Bulging muscles, an amusingly fantastical grasp of...
View ArticleSpectre's John Logan Is Rewriting Prometheus 2 Because One Overly-Complicated...
What do you do when you’re working on a sequel to a movie that was visually stunning but made heads explode to think about? You hire someone to rewrite it who has just finished doing that. Brace...
View ArticleImage of astronaut Scott Kelly from the November 6, 2015 spacewalk outside...
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View ArticleThe Socialite, Her Scandalous Lover, and the Gory Murder That Made Them Infamous
Oh, what a happy picture. At left, that’s millionaire Jacques Mossler; at far right, his blonde wife, Candy. They’re with court officials, formally adopting the offspring of Leonard Glenn, who murdered...
View ArticleThe Star Wars Universe Doesn't Call Leia "Princess" Anymore And Other New...
By now, hopefully you’ve read this article about some of the crazy Star Wars rumors floated over the past few years. It’s perfect timing too because some new facts about The Force Awakens were also...
View ArticleAn Earth-Sized Neighbor May Be the Most Important Exoplanet Yet
Astronomers have discovered a rocky, Earth-sized planet 39 light years from home—right in our cosmic backyard. With a surface temperature of 440 degrees Fahrenheit, GJ 1132b is more of an intergalactic...
View ArticleThe Real-Life Scientific Dilemma Behind the Latest Episode of Manhattan
On the latest episode of Manhattan, the physicists assigned to developing the gun model design for the atomic bomb hit a major obstacle that threatens to sink the gun model for good. It’s a dilemma...
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