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Even Director Rian Johnson Loves This 16-Bit Video Game Version of The Last Jedi Trailer
Oh, Luke, telling the world the Jedi are finished doesn’t feel quite as dramatic when it’s via text bubble. With both Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Battlefront II on the horizon, one fan has started the 8-bit (technically 16-bit) parody trailer wagon rolling... and he’s got the approval of TLJ’s director himself.
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An Amazing Hypothesis for Why the Trappist-1 System Hasn't Destroyed Itself
When astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, Earthlings immediately celebrated the possibility that one of those planetary neighbors could host life. But to physicists, TRAPPIST-1 presented a puzzle: How could those seven planets, all packed around…
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Scientists Just Named a Newly-Discovered Dinosaur After a Ghostbusters Character
Hopefully, this opens the door for a Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters crossover.
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Judge Dredd Is Getting His Very Own Live-Action TV Show
The odds of Judge Dredd returning to the big screen are pretty slim, but the popular character will indeed be back, just in a different medium.
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Donald Glover Is Making an Adult, Animated Deadpool TV Show
Deadpool’s long-awaited arrival on the big screen ruffled the superhero movie genre a few years ago. Now, the merc with a mouth is hoping to do much the same with his own animated series, due to air on FXX next year—and one hell of a name is in the showrunner’s seat.
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Behold This Treasure Trove of Images From Behind the Scenes of Star Trek's Third Season
The end of April saw the release of the third installment of To Boldly Go: Rare Photos from the TOS Soundstage by Gerald Gurian. The book covers the third season of the show, and it’s got the usual rare and delightful peeks behind the scenes of Star Trek.
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First Look at The Gifted's Polaris Shows the Government's Still Rounding Up Mutants
Fox’s upcoming X-Men drama The Gifted is a Marvel story as old as time. People with powers walk among us, those without powers fear them, and the government is seemingly hell-bent on capturing and imprisoning all of the... well, the gifted.
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Everything New Is Terrible in the Latest Cars 3 Trailer
The baffling (and increasingly disturbing) Cars 3 is all about an intergenerational rivalry between the upstart Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer) and the old star Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson). In this trailer, it’s not just the technologically new and superior Jackson that isn’t good—it’s apparently every bit of new…
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Today's Best Deals: Hoover SteamVac, Sperry, Anker Lightning Cables, and More
Anker’s most durable lightning cable, a Hoover SteamVac, Sperry’s Almost Summer Sale, and more lead Thursday’s best deals.
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The Latest Handmaid's Tale Is About Taking What You Can When There's Nothing Left
The latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale deals with answering one important question: How does someone cope with having no power? When everything is taken away, how do you keep from falling apart? For Offred, Ofglen, and dozens of other handmaids in Gilead, it’s about taking whatever you can. Because when you have…
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Sleepy Hollow Has Been Mercifully Decapitated
After a turgid attempt to retool itself after an awful third season that saw the loss of one of the show’s most important elements in the form of Nicole Beharie’s Abbie Mills, the desperate, confused mess that was Sleepy Hollow is no more. Fox has officially canceled the show after four seasons.
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Is Deadpool 2 Looking to Cast Some Future X-Force Heroes?
One of the Hellboy reboot writers promises a darker take on the character. Get a look behind the scenes at Alien: Covenant. Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks about those Doctor Who rumors. Plus, hints for The Defenders’ big villain, the first look at the return of Cat Grant to Supergirl and a bizarre King Arthur clip. To me,…
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A Surreal Animated Tale of a Man, a Raft, a Paddle, and a Sarcastic Ghost
“A cautionary tale,” reads the description for this surreal nursery rhyme of an animated short, Klementhro. It’s repetitive at first, but stick with it... it takes a dark turn and features maybe the snappiest, most over-it ghost ever to float beside a river bank.
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The First Teaser for Bryan Singer's X-Men Show The Gifted Is Here
Fox’s latest X-Men show just got a series order, official title, and short teaser.
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The Co-Creator of iZombie Is So Sure It's Going to Be Renewed That He Changed the Finale
We’re barely halfway into season three of CW’s delightful iZombie, but executive producer Rob Thomas is pretty convinced the show will be back next year.
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A Spirited Away Superfan Remixed the Soundtrack With Magical Results
When you watch Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away for the first time, it’s easy to get lost in the movie’s breathtaking visuals and and sprawling plot. The movie’s music, though, is where you can really get a sense of the emotions that guide Chihiro as she journeys deeper into the spirit world.
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Somehow, Hitler Riding a T.Rex Isn't Nearly as Amusing as It Used to Be
In Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Hitler rides a T.rex. Back in 2014, when the first trailer for the movie came out, including the same scenario, it was an idea ridiculous enough to be kind of funny. Nowadays, with Nazis seemingly everywhere in pop culture and on the actual fringes of politics, it’s no longer particularly…
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The UAE Drops More Clues About Its Mysterious Plan to Colonize Mars
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Earlier this year, the United Arab Emirates’ grabbed the world’s attention when Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced a plan to establish a colony on Mars by 2117. Officials have been relatively mum about the details of the “Mars 2117 Project”—but today, a person helping to lead the…
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If You Love The Handmaid's Tale, Check Out These 10 Other Works of Feminist Science Fiction
You’ve read the book, you’ve seen all the episodes of the show so far, and you’ve spent the past week repeating “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches!” Hulu’s excellent adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is equal parts invigorating and infuriating—and its themes couldn’t be more eerily timely.…
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Antarctica's 'Dragon Skin' Ice Is Incredible
Dragon skin ice sounds like something you’d encounter beyond The Wall in the Game of Thrones fantasy realm. But good news nerds, you can find this magical-sounding stuff right here on Earth—though you’ve gotta be lucky, and willing to travel to some of the most hostile environments on the planet. Like the team of…
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