The New Amityville Horror Movie Poster Conveys Terror Via Instagram

There are a few notable things about Amityville: The Awakening. It stars Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh and teen dream Bella Thorne. It’s directed by the guy who did the Maniac remake (Franck Khalfoun) and produced by prolific horror master Jason Blum. And its marketing campaign is equal parts hilarious and…
Two Previously Unknown J.R.R. Tolkien Poems Have Been Found

The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien contributed two poems to a school magazine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, back when he was an Oxford don. One is an early version of a poem that later appeared in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (pictured above), while the other is a Christmas poem, set in a landscape not unlike Middle…
The World Needs More Goofy, Gory B-Movie Monster Flicks Like Deep Rising

Stephen Sommers is best-known for directing the first two Mummy movies, but his breakout, Deep Rising, is well worthy of its own praise. Yes, it is a silly movie, and it bombed when it opened in 1998. But it’s a magical kind of silly that results when a killer B-movie premise meets an ensemble cast of random yet great…
Watching a Machinist Make an Entire Clock From Scratch Is So Soothing

A velvet-voiced Australian craftsman named Chris is the Bob Ross of clock-making. He shows you how to make a skeleton clock from scratch at home on his YouTube channel, Clickspring. In this installment of a multi-part series, bask in the close-ups of brass melting away like golden velvet to make shiny washers and…
Today's Best Deals: Oculus Rift Bundles, Cole Haan Shoes, Powerful Vacuum, and More
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China's Giant 'Alien-Hunting' Telescope Comes With a Human Cost

China is building the biggest radio telescope on Earth. And the country is displacing over 9,000 people to do it.
The R-Rated Superhero Movie That Kicked Our Asses Long Before Deadpool

Now that Deadpool has become a monster hit, there are a billion articles about how ground-breaking this R-rated, raunchy, fourth-wall-smashing superhero movie really is. And no mistake, Deadpool is hilarious. But there’s one film, starring an insane hero in a red suit, that never gets enough credit for how far it…
All the Coolest Stuff From Toy Fair 2016

If January’s CES is the main course when it comes to trade shows, February’s New York Toy Fair is the dessert you can’t wait to dig into afterwards. The world’s biggest toymakers converge on the Big Apple to reveal everything that kids—and collectors—will be dying to buy for the rest of the year.
The Next Big Gravitational Waves Experiment Is Now Getting Started in Space
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Kanye Can't Stop Piracy

The Life of Pablo has been downloaded over 500,000 times since its release on February 14, according to TorrentFreak.
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Watch the Iron Man Demo Reels That Deadpool's Tim Miller Made for Marvel

The story of Deadpool’s surprising success can be directly traced back to the CG demo reel Tim Miller and Blur Studios produced to sell Fox on Deadpool. But it turns out Miller and Blur also did something similar for Marvel Studios—and it helped the first Iron Man movie get made in the first place.


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