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MST3K Robots Pitch New Shows to Netflix, Like Fuller House but With Piles of Bodies
We are smack dab in the middle of TV pick-up season, what with Syfy’s just-announced round of shows and Fox’s The Gifted getting its first teaser trailer, so it’s only natural that Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Netflix’s MST3K reboot would want to get in on the action. Only, most of their shows seem to involve…
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The Newest Twin Peaks Trailer Offers Tantalizing Glimpses of Faces and Places Old and New
May 21 is rapidly approaching, and while some things will certainly have changed in the spooky realm of Twin Peaks—including some new characters we’re seeing here for the first time—there are also some frozen-in-time moments, too. There’s Lucy, still holding down the desk at the sheriff’s department, and Shelley,…
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Five Episodes of The Twilight Zone That Are Only Slightly More Horrifying Than Our Current Reality
Donald Trump is president of the United States. Britain has left the European Union. Captain America is the new fascist supreme leader of Hydra. Unfortunately, this isn’t the Twilight Zone, a place where I’d much rather be right now.
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American Gods Will Return for a Second Season
Surprise! But not really, given the ecstatic response to Bryan Fuller’s Neil Gaiman adaptation already, but excellent news nonetheless. Praise Media, because American Gods is getting a second season.
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The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Is Heading to Some Weird Places
Marvel’s Star Wars and Dr. Aphra comics kicked off a new crossover event this week, Screaming Citadel, and it’s a realization of something the comics have been doing for a while, quite unlike any other aspect of Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars comic: it’s digging into some really weird corners of the galaxy far, far away.
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The Kingkiller Chronicle's Kvothe Has Never Looked Better Than in These Beautiful Illustrations
I suspect the chances of your owning a copy of Patrick J. Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind are high. The author’s debut novel, which launched The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy, stunned pretty much everyone when it was released in 2007, becoming one of the biggest fantasy book series of all time. So when I tell you you’re…
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Superman's Mom Hates to Be Honest, But Justice League Is Worse Than Avengers [Updated]
Looks like Superman’s mom doesn’t think he’s the most special boy in all the world, or at least shes’s not that impressed with his superpowered friends. When asked whether the Justice League movie will blow Marvel’s The Avengers out of the water, Diana Lane simply said: “No.”
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Syfy's Plan to Save Itself: Harry Potter, Comic Books, and George R.R. Martin
For years now—since around the time the channel purposefully misspelled its name from Sci Fi to Syfy—the former home of science fiction on television has been something of a joke. And now the channel and its owners at NBC think they can save it.
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Ridley Scott Admits Fan Backlash Over Prometheus Influenced Alien: Covenant
With Alien: Covenant coming out next week, lots of people have been discussing or revisiting the film that came before it: Prometheus. That even includes the director of both films, Ridley Scott, who admitted fan reaction to Prometheus influenced Covenant.
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A Beautiful New Documentary Highlights the Women Who Love Star Wars
For decades, Star Wars has been treated as a series for boys—but ever since 1977, girls and women all over the world have loved the saga too. A new documentary plans to speak to those female fans to see what inspired their relationship with the galaxy far, far, away, and the heartwarming trailer is worth a watch.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Inhumans, Marvel's Latest TV Stars
So we finally have our first look at the Inhumans, the stars of Marvel and ABC’s new limited TV series that finally brings Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s outlandish superteam to live-action after years of groundwork being laid by Agents of SHIELD. Don’t know your Terrigenesis from your Tritons? We’re here to help.
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Game of Thrones' Craziest Stunt Flamebroiled 20 People in a Single Day
Game of Thrones isn’t one to shut away from gutsy stunts, whether it’s the epic horse skirmish in “Battle of the Bastards,” or that stupid thing where we all watched ice melt to find out when season seven was coming. But all of them pale in comparison to what may be considered GoT’s craziest stunt, which probably…
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Last Night's Arrow Solved a Five-Year-Old Mystery With the World's Most Noncommittal Shrug
The opening scene of Arrow’s very first episode included an easter egg that had comics fans in fits from the get-go: the mask of the villain Deathstroke, perched upon a makeshift stand, speared by an arrow. Ominous, right? Well, last night’s Arrow finally answered how and why that mask was there, and... well, the…
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Today's Best Deals: Amazon Jeans Sale, InstantPot, Grid-It, and More
Amazon’s premium denim sale, $10 off an Instant Pot, the Grid-It organizer, and more lead Thursday’s best deals.
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Wonder Woman Could Bring a Classic DC Comics Team to the Big Screen
Don’t get your hopes up about the latest Deadpool 2 rumors. Get a sneaky glimpse at the set of the Han Solo movie. Ghost Rider and Captain Cold return in new pictures for Agents of SHIELD and The Flash, respectively. Plus, more Transformers Thru History for The Last Knight, and great news for iZombie, Gotham, and The…
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Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About the Origin of the Universe
Cosmologists are in the business of figuring out how and why we got here. But if you call their work unscientific, you’re sure to set off a nerve.
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Check Out Fantastic Concept Art of the New Ships in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
If you’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, you probably know what ships we mean. If you haven’t, well, go see it and come back later.
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What Happens in Vegas Follows You Into the Desert and Tries to Eat You in This New Zombie Trailer
It Stains the Sands Red is a zombie movie that seems to borrow a bit from It Follows—it’s about a woman who can’t shake the plodding pursuit of the undead new man in her life. But it’s also set in the Nevada desert, lending a flashy danger to that region not seen since Nomi Malone hitchhiked into Vegas in Showgirls.
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All of a Sudden, Time Travel on TV Isn't So Hot Anymore
Last year it felt like every TV show was about time travel, with network series Making History, Time After Time, Timeless, and Frequency, plus a few others peppered around the dial and streaming. But three of those new time-travel shows have since bitten the dust, with a fourth likely soon to follow.
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This Alien: Covenant VR Experience Lets You Claw Your Way Out of Your Human Host
Unsurprisingly, witnessing a xenomorph emerge from its host from the xenomorph’s perspective is really, really gross.
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