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Melissa McCarthy Will Star in Puppet Noir Movie The Happytime Murders
For her next, almost certainly R-rated comedy, Melissa McCarthy will team with some puppets.
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In Kill Switch, Dan Stevens Explores What Happens When Parallel Universes Collide
“Dan Stevens, you just starred in a billion-dollar hit and have your own popular TV show, what are you doing next?” “I’m doing an indie scifi film about a big portal in the sky!”
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This Gorgeously Animated Neil Gaiman Poem Examines a Disturbingly Modern Problem
The Visible Poetry Project aims to make poetry more accessible by lifting words off the page and transforming them into short films. The colorful Hate for Sale, from Dutch animator Anna Eijsbouts, is from an original poem about the seductive power of hate by Neil Gaiman. It’s read in perfectly droll tones by Peter…
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This Video of Cuttlefish Trying to Bang Will Scar You For Life
When you hear “cuttlefish,” naturally, you think “cuddly,” right? Turns out these charming little cephalopods can—and will—throw down if they have to, especially when it involves mating. In a newly-released video, two male cuttlefish suitors duke it out for a lady, and there’s nothing that can prepare you for the…
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Here Are Your 2017 Eisner Award Nominees
For some people, this is just early May. But for us, it’s time to run down the list of Eisner award nominees—and to remind ourselves that San Diego Comic-Con, where the winners will be announced, is just a few short months away.
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Marvel Desperately Reassures Fans Captain America Is Still a Hero After Secret Empire Backlash
Marvel’s new big event Secret Empire officially begins tomorrow, but an immense level of backlash has been leveled at the company’s use of a symbolic figure like Captain America as the villainous head of Hydra, an organization affiliated with Nazis. It’s gotten to the point where Marvel has had to release an official…
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American Gods Examines the Hidden Cost of Immigrating to the United States
America is a country of opportunity, as we’re constantly told. People come here with nothing yet can make themselves billionaires. But there’s a price that immigrants have to pay when they come to this country, an unspoken loss that lies at the heart of American Gods. “We are a country of cultural appropriation,” says…
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Robin Williams' Last Movie Is Finally Getting a US Release
The bad news: the movie is actually rather terrible. The good news: Williams is probably the best thing about it.
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It Ain't Heavy, It's My Smartphone Dock
The following contest is scheduled for one fall. Making their way to the ring, weighing at least half a pound each: a bunch of smartphone docks.
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The Ultimate Lawn Ornament Is This Life-Size $75,000 Alien Queen Statue
If your neighborhood has a home owner’s association that tirelessly works to ensure everybody’s lawn is neat and presentable, you might find yourself dealing with a few angry letters when you install this 16-foot tall replica of an Alien Queen in your front garden. But it’s still more tasteful than a ceramic gnome or…
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Wesley Snipes Battles Aliens in the Crazy-Looking Scifi Action Film The Recall
Aliens are invading Earth. Who better to keep you safe than Wesley Snipes?
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Chris Pratt Had a Very Bad Idea for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Nostalgia is a huge part of the charm in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s the classic pop music, of course, but also the reverence Chris Pratt’s character Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, has for the pop culture of his childhood, things the character loved before he was snatched off Earth. This posed a problem…
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The Gunslinger and the Man in Black Reveal the First Two Snippets from The Dark Tower
The first trailer for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower will be here tomorrow. And in anticipation, stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey just revealed the first two pieces of footage.
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This Unbelievable Mr. Nancy Scene Is Why Everyone Needs To Be Watching American Gods
Mr. Nancy—played by Orlando Jones—makes his debut on the next episode of American Gods, and his fiery introduction is one of the season’s best scenes. He manifests in the cargo hold of a slave ship, bluntly telling the kidnapped Africans about the future that they and their descendants will inherit.
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Well, We May Have an Answer About Which Side Elektra Will Take in The Defenders
We’ve known for a while that Elektra (Elodie Young) will be making an appearance on The Defenders, but exactly what that will mean for the show has been something of a mystery. A very short teaser released by Marvel and Netflix has a bit more of an answer.
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This Is Our First 'Sound' From the Creepy Void Inside Saturn's Rings
Today, Cassini prepares to once again boldly go where no spacecraft has gone before: into the gap between Saturn and its rings. While we’re all excited to see the the results of Cassini’s second dive, astronomers are still parsing through the findings from her first. And some, including a soundscape generated from the…
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The Green Turtle, the First Chinese American Superhero, Is Back in Shadow Hero Comics
When MacArthur Genius Gene Luen Yang revived the Green Turtle in his 2014 book The Shadow Hero, he both reimagined the little-known hero’s origins to truly make him the first Chinese American superhero and breathed new life into the character. Now, thanks to a collaboration between Yang, artist Sonny Liew, and Panda…
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This Crazy Person Loves to Cover His Hand With the World's Grossest Bugs
Do you have hobbies? Maybe cycling or carpentry or something low key? Well, this guy has a cooler hobby than you.
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This New Featurette Makes Me Care More About The Mummy More Than Any of the Trailers Did
I was totally ready to let the upcoming reboot of The Mummy pass me by. The trailers seemed to offer yet another installment of “Tom Cruise Running From Things.” But this new look at the movie focuses on just why Princess Ahmanet wants to break stuff, and now I’m quite intrigued.
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Good News, Logan's Black-and-White Version Will Get a Home Release, Too
Can’t make it to the May 16, one-night-only showing of Logan in the black-and-white-Johnny-Cash-music-video style it always dreamed of being? Well, don’t worry on missing out: it looks like the film’s home release will include the alternate version of the film, too.
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