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Tales From The Loop Is A Stunning Book Of Alternate Nostalgia  

We’re enormous fans of Simon Stålenhag’s artwork around here, ever since we first came across him in 2013. His work mixes high-tech futurism with scenes from every day Sweden. Now, he’s released a...

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Watch California Transform Through Time With This Incredible Satellite Dataset

If you have’t taken a moment to appreciate the fact that hundreds of Earth-orbiting satellites are photographing our planet right now, and that this is a goddamn technological wonder, here’s your...

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A Mission To Venus Goes Poorly In Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

For this weekend’s Weekend Matinee, we’re going back to 1965, with Curtis Harrington’s Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. In it a crew of astronauts land on Venus and are attacked by its inhabitants....

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In 1983, If You Wanted To Pirate A Movie, You Needed A Gun

Welcome to this week’s Reading List, where you’ll find the best popular culture and science fiction stories on the internet assembled in one delightful package. This week: We look at hidden comic book...

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Digging Deeper Makes The Case For The Lost World's Relevance In The Jurassic...

Digging Deeper has impressed us before with some interesting analysis on Joss Whedon’s Serenity, and now, they’ve gone and taken an in depth look at The Lost World, making us look at it in a bit of a...

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Tonight's SpaceX Launch Has Been Scrubbed

Space X was supposed to launch its most powerful rocket this weekend, but has just scrubbed their launch. The reason? They want to stick the landing this time. Elon Musk took to twitter earlier today...

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The Force Awakens Obliterated Box Office Records In Its First Weekend 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was always destined for a huge box office debut. The question has been how much of a huge opening would it have? The answer came this weekend: A staggering $238 million in...

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Ash Faces His Most Terrifying Opponent Ever on Ash vs Evil Dead

“Ashes to Ashes” brought Ash back to where it all began at last: the Evil Dead cabin in the woods. It was a not-so-sweet homecoming—as Ash’s past came back to haunt him (literally), and some of his...

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Meet The New Harry Potter, Ron Weasley And Hermione Granger

Since October, we’ve known that a new story set in the Harry Potter universe, The Cursed Child, would be coming as a stage play in the summer of 2016. Now, we know just who will be headlining the play....

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Icelandic Volcano Earns Name a Year After it Finishes Erupting

The informally-named Holuhraun volcano in Iceland now formally bears the same name, making fans of naming it after dragons, witches, or internet service providers sob furiously.Holuhraun is part of the...

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Kotaku Look At World Of Final Fantasy.

Kotaku Look At World Of Final Fantasy. Just Look At It. | The Concourse Steve Harvey Announces Wrong Winner Of Miss Universe, Chaos Ensues | Jezebel Winner of Pornhub’s College Scholarship is a...

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We've Already Got Our First Surprising Hint About Star Wars: Episode VIII

Yes, some surprising Force Awakens castmembers may be making an appearance in Episode VIII. Nicole Kidman may be out of Wonder Woman. Margaery Tyrell may have a new ally on Game of Thrones. Legends of...

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The Awesome Black Widow/Captain America Battle That Nearly Made It Into Age...

Ever since Age of Ultron got its home release, we’ve heard about a lot of scenes that didn’t make it into the movie (and we’ve also desperately wanted Whedon’s fabled “Director’s Cut” to get released)....

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The Amazing Spider-Man Comic Will No Longer Have a Fantastic Peter Capaldi Cameo

Aww. In Marvel’s current “All-New, All-Different” comics, Peter Parker is the head of a global business that also helps Spider-Man confront threats all over the world. In an upcoming trip to London in...

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The Very Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2015

This has been a really great year for science fiction, fantasy and horror books, taking us to fabulous worlds and opening our minds to new ideas and brilliant new characters. Here’s our list of the...

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Matt Damon Explains How Bourne 5 Links to the Previous Movies

It goes without saying that the next Bourne movie will take place after the last ones. At the end of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne went off the grid with his enemies assuming him dead. In...

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The 10 Scariest, Weirdest, Coolest Robots of 2015

2015 was an insanely wild year in robotics: From leaps in AI technology to piloted, Gundam-like battle machines. We’re living in a bizarre, sci-fi world that entangles humans with robots more than ever...

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33 Questions We Desperately Want Answered After Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It’s been a few days since we saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and our minds are still reeling. This movie added so much to the Star Wars universe, and opened up so many new mysteries. Here are the...

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The Librarians Weaponizes "Happily Ever After"

In “And the Happily Ever Afters,” The Librarians ramped up to the final confrontation with Prospero (which I still don’t care about) and delivered us a look at everyone’s greatest wishes.Spoilers.We...

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Year of the Fanboy Profile: Writers Fawning Over Subjects Because They Don't...

Five years ago, I was an editor at Vibe, and I got an assignment to interview Usher. It was my second time profiling him for a cover story, but this setting would be more intimate than the previous...

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