Happy Loop Day, everyone. Oh, you didn’t know it was Loop Day? That’s okay, it’s basically every day for the special youngsters from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Because they’re always about to be killed by Nazis.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 director James Gunn has had enough of your shit, people.
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook parts of the US Midwest earlier this morning, rattling homes from Nebraska to North Texas. The unusually strong quake will likely draw further scrutiny to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
Michael Bay is known for filming giant ‘splosions and even gianter cleavage, so it’s no surprise he’d get his own camera to bring him up close and personal with all those boobies and bombs. And it’s called the “BAYHEM.”
Game of Thrones recently announced the winner of its first (and likely only) presidential campaign for the Iron Throne. Surprise no surprise, Westeros’ new elected ruler is Jon Snow, but his VP is Lyanna Mormont so can we get another Night’s Watch coup over here?
The newest Godzilla epic, Shin Godzilla, has already been out in Japan for over a month, but it’s coming to the states for a weeklong limited release in October.
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The best price ever on the Roomba 770, TP-Link’s popular Smart Plug, and Labor Day apparel sales lead off Saturday’s best deals.
For those unfamiliar, books are a collection of words that form some sort of coherent narrative, printed on paper and bound together. These objects are very much alive and well, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, despite the fact that we live in an age where you can download the same information onto…
A team of Belgian researchers has closed the case on the origins of a mysterious smudge on Norwegian painter Edvard Munch’s most famous painting, the Scream. Long believed to be bird poo, they found that it is bees wax.
In Infinitude, abstract, geometrical shapes condense into stars, which explode into supernovae, sending an asteroid careening through space towards a nascent Earth. The mixed media short film is the creation of Canadian filmmaker Scott Portingale.
David S. Goyer’s Superman prequel for the Syfy channel, Krypton, has found its female lead in actress Georgina Campbell. If the pilot makes it to series, she’ll make her US TV debut, though she’s a BAFTA winner for her work in her native England, and will appear in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword next…
The Predator is on a mission to destroy a barrage of bean-headed aliens that have invaded a small office—with Boba Fett’s help, of course.
Police procedurals and crime dramas have been done to death at this point, yet TV networks keep grinding ’em out, raising the stakes every season with high-concept set-ups that have started to veer into the surreal. Are you ready for Oliver Twist with a twist? How about Oliver Twist’s twist with a twist too?
Yesterday, one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets went up in a blaze of flames, taking its satellite payload right along with it. But it wasn’t an explosion, says company founder Elon Musk. Instead, what we saw was just a really fast fire.
A new anthology is working to give geeky Muslims a bigger voice in science fiction with a collection of short stories both based on and inspired by Islamic culture.
Han Solo is cool. That’s his whole thing. He looks cool, says cool shit and does cool things. In this week’s Han Solo #3 comic, he continues the trend, wearing a get-up so awesome that I want it to exist outside of comics.
Thrawnalicious is definitely a word that Grand Admiral Thrawn would object to, but it is the best way to describe the new footage Disney has released for Star Wars Rebels.
The first close-up images of Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft are finally rolling in—and the gas giant before us is barely recognizable.
