A comic-book artist draws her dream man, a hotshot film director, who comes alive in animated form as he’s shooting his new movie, an artsy drama about a novelist whose latest project is about a comic-book artist. All three stories intertwine and reality collapses in on itsel in Zoom.
Stranger Things has been out in the world for a month, and it’s still all anyone can talk about. As you jam to the soundtrack and prowl thrift stores for the perfect puffy coat for your Barb Halloween costume, you can immerse yourself in the perfectly retro opening credits with the Stranger Things type generator.
It’s Steven Universe meets Adventure Time meets The Amazing World of Gumball meets The Regular Show meets Clarence meets Uncle Grandpa. Basically Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers is a whole lot of meeting followed by a whole lot of hitting.
When Disney opens 14-acre Star Wars areas in California and Florida in the coming years, there’s no doubt everything will be state of the art. In fact, a new patent suggests they’ve figured out a new way to make lightsabers work in the real world, but maybe not in the way you think.
It’s been over a year since Adam West revealed that he and Burt Ward would reprise their roles as Batman and Robin for a new animated feature—but now we have the first look at it in action: Holy footage, Batman, it’s a trailer for Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders!
Clue, the shining example that all board game movies (if they have to exist at all) should strive to emulate, is getting a remake.
A filter-free vacuum, a life-changing alarm clock, and a $20 fitness band lead off Wednesday’s best deals.
Pretty much ever since the Hobbit movies were announced, fans have clamored for an ultimate box set that gathered the (then-future) extended editions of those films with the extended Lord of the Rings cuts in a single box set. Well, you’ll soon be able to—and it’s pretty spectacular.
We’ve seen the suit in action, we’ve seen concept art, we’ve even got nice and close up with his shiny new webshooters—and now, here’s your first poster for Spider-Man: Homecoming, featuring Peter Parker being the loveable dork he’s always been.
Peeing in the public pool is gross, immature, but basically harmless, right? A quick fix when you’ve really gotta go? Not exactly. In advance of the its annual summer meeting, the American Chemical Society has just released a video explaining, in gory scientific detail, why peeing in the pool makes it a more unhealthy…
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On Amazon right now there are listings for three new books under a banner called “Pottermore Presents.” They look like three themed volumes of writings from J.K. Rowling about the world of Harry Potter collected from the site.
Aquaman’s writer gives a few hints about the setting of the film. Gabriel Luna talks about becoming Robbie Reyes for Agents of SHIELD. Powerless has lost one of its showrunners. Plus, Doctor Who casting and another look at Gotham’s new Poison Ivy. To me, my Spoilers!
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a good deal on Philips’ life-changing wake-up lights, so if you’re not among the 20,000+ Gawker media readers who have already pulled the trigger, the entry level model just dropped to $46, or within a few cents of the best price we’ve ever seen.
Freeform—the network formerly known as ABC Family, but now with license to be more racy than anything with the word “Family” in it—is developing a new drama that sounds completely nuts. Maybe in a good way? It involves witches, warfare, and an alternate-history timeline—and its exec producers include Adam McKay and…
If you missed Todd Rohal’s M.O.P.Z. when it aired on Adult Swim, here it is for your brain-exploding pleasure. Put very simply, it’s about a lovelorn school janitor who (tries to) invent a robot helper—and it would be weird enough even without being shown entirely in fast-forward, “because we know you’re busy.”
The puns, they almost write themselves. A cognitive psychologist at McGill University has scanned the brain of Grammy-winning musician Sting to glean insight into how creative people find connections between seemingly very different thoughts or sounds. The results were just published in Neurocase.
In November 2017’s Justice League, fans will be introduced to Ezra Miller’s Flash and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg. Four months later, the two will team up again for Flash’s solo movie.
Some butterfly species sport striking patterns on their wings which they use to visually camouflage themselves from predators. But the luna moth is a nocturnal creature. Scientists have suggested that the unique twisty tails of these moths help throw off predators like bats that rely on sound to hunt and navigate—a…
Jurassic Park still holds up. It’s an excellent movie that’s still fun to watch, the dinosaurs are still scary as hell, and the visual effects still look spectacular. How is that possible? Even though Jurassic Park changed the way films use visual effects, the restraint it used with its own effects is what has made it…
