We’ve been talking about The New Mutants for so long they’re more like “The Old Mutants” at this point. The first trailer came out way back in 2017 and ever since, rumors and speculation about its release became so abundant it truly felt like the movie would never happen. Well, it’s happening. This weekend. And a new…

Westworld is a very successful HBO show based on an original idea by iconic author Michael Crichton. Now, the team behind that show is hoping to do it again, way down on the ocean floor.

Ten days ago, Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel lifted the lid on Nocternal, a brand new creator-owned series they’re funding through Kickstarter that promptly smashed its base funding goal the day it went live. The campaign is still underway, but Nocternal is making a little change—for the benefit of the series and…

You can be excellent to each other at any age, but as Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) find in Bill & Ted Face the Music, it’s hard to feel excellent about yourself when you feel like you’re not living up to your potential. Of course, most people weren’t told in high school that they’d eventually save the…

Going to Galaxy’s Edge right now is, well...not a good idea (and don’t you dare “never tell me the odds!” us). So while you read that guidebook to pretend you’re there—before you play that VR game to pretend you’re there—why don’t you watch some animated shorts to, uh...pretend you’re there?

Given the track record for comic book adaptations, Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series, an adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel, stood an equal chance of telling a ripping action-adventure story as it did ending up like so much space squid on a windshield. But with the help of producers like Stephen Williams and…

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to people staying home during the global pandemic—the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most services do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your…

If you search “Babysitter” on Netflix, two main things pop up. There’s The Babysitter’s Club, a kid-friendly adaptation of the famous Ann M. Martin novels, and then there’s The Babysitter, a 2017 horror comedy about a babysitter who leads a satanic cult and tries to murder the kid she’s watching.

From a galaxy far, far away to a magical new land, the heroine behind The Last Jedi’s Rose Tico is finding new ways to delight us.

Many, many things about The New Mutants make it stand apart from the rest of the superhero movies out there. Its many delays are one. The fact it’s being released in the middle of a pandemic is another. But inside the story, it’s also one of the first Marvel movies to have an honest, open, LGBTQ relationship.

Ikea and Lego, two companies known for selling products that customers have to build themselves, have finally revealed the fruits of their collaborative labor first teased two years ago. Confusingly, though, it’s not furniture assembled from giant modular bricks, but a collection of plastic storage boxes adorned with…

There’s something very—very—Star Wars about the fact that, while you cannot attend a big in-person convention celebrating the galaxy far, far away right now, you can still buy merchandise as if you had.