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Barry Allen Is His Own Worst Enemy in the Grim Trailer for The Flash's Season Finale
Last week, The Flash revealed its latest villain. Now, shit is about to hit the fan in some spectacularly speedforce-y ways that are not also just peak Flash, but suitably depressing, if this new trailer for the last few episodes of the season are anything to go by. Also, you really shouldn’t watch this unless you’re…
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Andy Weir's Follow Up to The Martian Is Coming in November
And it’s about Moon crimes.
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All the Mysteries Hidden in the Blade Runner 2049 Trailer
We got our first full-length trailer for Blade Runner 2049 today and while it tried to hide any possible answers it might have, no movie is safe from io9's sleuthing. We scanned and enhanced the footage to not only figure out the general shape of the film, but also to find the many allusions to its predecessor.
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In Chunri, a Woman Rises Up to Combat Mumbai's Underworld of Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery
In Kamathipura, Mumbai’s oldest red-light district, it’s estimated that there are currently some 20,000 sex workers doing business out of brothels. Oftentimes the “women” who are offered up by pimps and madams are are actually young girls who’ve been sold into sex slavery. In Baber K. Khan and M. Basit Ansari’s …
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New Transformers Promos Reveal an Autobot With 'Robot Dementia' and Optimus Prime Embarrassing Himself Beyond Measure
Transformers: The Last Knight looks like a bonkers film, but this clip is something else. I was a bit thrown by the Transformers butler, and thought that’d be the weirdest this clip gets, but then there’s a tank that turns into a British army officer transformer and Anthony Hopkins starts talking about robot dementia…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and The Empire Strikes Back Sure Have a Lot in Common
The Empire Strikes Back is one of the gold standards filmmakers aspire to when making a sequel. And though both Chris Pratt and Kevin Feige swear it was never mentioned during the making of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the films share a lot of similarities. A lot of similarities.
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UK Broadcaster Chastised for Airing Gory Alien Scene Immediately After Saturday Cartoons
When British actor John Hurt passed away in January, news editors around the world quickly started broadcasting clips from the actor’s many iconic roles. But it was maybe not the smartest idea for one of them to air Hurt’s most gory (and memorable) movie moment immediately after kids finished watching Saturday morning…
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Everything New We Can Learn From Wonder Woman's Final Trailer
We got the final Wonder Woman trailer last night. So we took that, and every other bit of footage we’ve seen, and teased out as many plot points and rumors as we could.
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Killer Whales Eat Enormous Great White Shark in South Africa
If you’re afraid of sharks, well, this blog should convince you it’s actually orcas you should avoid. Orcas are among the most savage killers in the ocean, wrecking tiger sharks, seals, beaked whales—and probably one of the most infamous apex predators out there, the great white shark.
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The Zelda Escape Room Is A Little Disappointing (And Not Really An Escape Room)
When I first heard that there was a Zelda escape room coming to the United States, I imagined a labyrinth of elaborate puzzles, growing more challenging and complicated with each subsequent chamber. I did not expect to be solving brainteasers at a conference table. But I am pleased to report, dear Kotaku readers, that…
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The New Blade Runner 2049 Trailer Is Here and It's Gorgeous
The second trailer for Blade Runner 2049 is here and, as expected, it’s just undeniably beautiful.
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New Comic Superb Will Introduce a Hero With Down Syndrome
While there have been a handful of comic book characters like Marvel’s M-Twins and Chip Reece’s Metaphase who are people with super abilities and people living with cognitive disabilities, there’s yet to be a hero with Down syndrome leading his or her own comic. In Lion Forge’s upcoming Superb, that’s going to change.
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The Mist Looks Like the Show That's Gonna Scare the Hell Out of You This Summer
The first trailer for Spike TV’s adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Mist was highly atmospheric and plenty spooky. But while this new teaser is shorter, it’s way gorier. This summer’s TV just got a lot more stomach-turning, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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This New Hubble Image Has Nothing to Do With Guardians of the Galaxy
On Thursday, May 4th, Hubble dropped a “cute” press release comparing a new image of a galaxy cluster to the Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2. It was a timely yet mega-dad corny way to make the image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370 seem relevant. While there’s literally no connection between the James Gunn…
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Torchwood Is Getting a Fifth Season—But Only in Audio Form
If you were still somehow hoping that the Doctor Who spinoff series Torchwood could return to TV, six years after it last aired, then we’ve got some news for you. The good news is Torchwood is finally getting an official continuation! The bad news is if you wanted it on TV, because it’s going to be a new audio drama…
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On American Gods, Remembering the Good Old Days Only Makes the Present More Painful
Word to the wise: If you suddenly find yourself on a road trip with a celestial con man, don’t play checkers with a god who used to kill things with a sledgehammer.
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Doctor Who Is on One Hell of a Streak Lately
Doctor Who’s tenth season is only four episodes in, but I can’t remember the last time the show hit the ground running as well it has this season. We’ve had great chemistry between Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie, great fun, and now in this weekend’s episode, “Knock Knock”, we got the rest of the perfect Who formula: a…
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Today's Best Deals: Mother's Day Gifts, Anker PowerHouse, Sony Bluetooth Headphones, and More
$170 off Anker’s PowerHouse battery, Sony Bluetooth headphones, and Mother’s Day watches and bracelets lead off Monday’s best deals.
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Watch What Happens When an Algorithm Tries to Predict the Next Frame 100,000 Times in a Row
Like an athlete trying to push their body to its extreme limits, artist Damien Henry was curious what would happen if you asked a predictive algorithm to calculate the next frame of video in a sequence, again and again and again, over 100,000 times.
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Star Jennifer Morrison Is as Done With Once Upon a Time as You Probably Are
Last night Once Upon a Time, the show that’s ostensibly about fairy tales’ reconciling their myths with a darker, more nuanced reality, had its musical episode, and Lana Parilla’s Evil Queen stole the show. This morning we learned that if Once Upon a Time returns for a seventh season, main star Jennifer Morrison won’t…
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