Vin Diesel Has a New TV Deal and It'll Usher in the Return of Riddick
Is there anything Vin Diesel can’t will into existence? His 2009 return to the Fast and Furious fold helped turn that franchise into a monster. He’s got a xXx sequel on the way, and has already made...
View ArticleThe Force Awakens Actor Was A Marine Before Picking Up A Lightsaber And...
Adam Driver, until recently best known for his work on the HBO hit series Girls, was a U.S. Marine before becoming an actor and eventually becoming The Force Awakens’ primary villain, the masked Kylo...
View ArticleHere's a Book About Time Travel That Could Change How You Look at the Past
Lisa Goldstein has an incredible track record as a fantasy writer, including the award-winning The Red Magician and the beautiful collection Travelers in Magic. Now she’s written a science fiction book...
View Article10 movies that used the same exact props as other films
Movies use the same footage as other movies. They use the same sets. And yes, they use the same props too. Screen Rant reveals movies that have lifted props from other films in their latest video list...
View ArticleThe 10 Best (and 2 Most Baffling) Hammer Horror Movies
Hammer Film Productions’ heyday spanned the 1950s through the 1970s, with gloriously gothic takes on classic monster stories that starred Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and other British stars of the...
View ArticleWatch a Young Mark Hamill Explain Star Wars: "The Stuff that Fairytales Are...
Back when Star Wars was brand new and nobody knew what it was, Mark Hamill had to go on the BBC’s iconic children’s show Blue Peter and explain it to the kids. And his explanation is just perfect.As...
View ArticleYou Won't Have To Wait Too Long To Learn All About Supergirl's New Comic Book...
No, Doctor Strange will probably not feature a Spider-Man cameo. The Flash casts another comic book villain. Lev Grossman teases the differences between The Magicians books and the show. Plus, good...
View ArticleAlan Tudyk Is Turning Con Man's Show-Within-a-Show Into a Comic
Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion’s Con Man already had a bit of a twisty turn-y satirical premise—it was a series about actors in another series within it, a Firefly-esque show called Spectrum cancelled...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Latest HoloLens Is Here, and It’s Amazing
The HoloLens headset from Microsoft is the world’s first untethered wearable that generates holograms before your eyes. It’s been nearly a year since we first strapped on a prototype, and as the tech...
View ArticleThe Biggest Video Game Disappointments Of 2015
Every year in video games brings with it some lovely surprises, but every year also brings some sorry disappointments.At the end of each year, we like to take a moment to look back and complain about...
View ArticleA Brief Visual History of People Waiting in Line for Star Wars
Have you been waiting in line for days to see the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens? Of course you haven’t. You bought your tickets online like a normal person. But there once was a time when...
View ArticleSuperman: American Alien's Take On Teen Clark Kent Is Refreshingly Human
Superman is having a rough time in comics lately. In an attempt to make the character feel more human, he’s lost some of his power, he’s been exposed to the world—but the excellent “Young Superman”...
View ArticleWatch an Old Stormtrooper Transform into a New Stormtrooper
Here’s an old Imperial Stormtrooper from the original Star Wars trilogy turning itself into a new First Order Stormtrooper from Star Wars: The Force Awakens in one sweet GIF. Made by GadgetLove, they...
View ArticleThe Batman v Superman Marketing Needs to Stop Pretending Lex Luthor Is a Real...
“Viral” marketing has always straddled the line between “it’s kind of cute that they made a website for The Daily Bugle” and “that seems kind of desperate.” But with Batman v Superman, “viral”...
View ArticleSpider-Man Scripter David Koepp Will Write the Modern Bride of Frankenstein...
We’ve written about Universal’s hoped-for dream casting of Angelina Jolie Pitt in the Bride of Frankenstein remake. Now, Variety cites anonymous sources that the studio would love for Jolie to direct...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Television Moments of 2015
This year’s genre television gave us high highs and low lows—sometimes on the same show! In no particular order, we’ve rounded up the year’s best moments, along with some of the absolute worst....
View ArticleCould This Be The Most Important Easter Egg in The Force Awakens? (Probably...
For months, we have pored over every screenshot, every glimpse of footage, and every toy package relating to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But did we miss the Kurt Vonnegut shout-out? Or are we just...
View ArticleSelected Star Wars Toys of Mine, Ranked
I saw Star Wars in the movie theater in 1977, the summer before I turned six. Then I saw it again, and again, and again. Pace Joseph Campbell, the mythology of my childhood was structured around the...
View ArticleThe 13 Craziest Goddamn Rumors About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As one of the most anticipated movies of all time, it’s not surprising that The Force Awakens has inspired hundreds of rumors from fans, desperate to know what’s going to happen a long time ago in a...
View ArticleDid George Orwell Borrow Animal Farm From a 19th Century Russian Author?
George Orwell had a known penchant for borrowing from other authors—his dystopian novel 1984 owes a clear debt to a number of works, including We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, for example. But did his other...
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