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Someone Has Turned Every Song on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Into a Star Wars Parody
Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans (say it out loud in the same rhythm as you would Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band) is the project of Palette-Swap Ninja, who has gamely rendered a parody of every Sgt. Pepper’s song as the story of A New Hope. Here’s the crazy part: They’re all really good!
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Astronomer Wonders If We've Looked Hard Enough For Signs of Long Extinct Alien Life
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is the latest target in the perennial excitement around finding extraterrestrial life. Its warm subterranean ocean is thought to contain all the right ingredients to harbor alien microbes, which would arguably be the biggest scientific discovery in human history. While finding microbes—even…
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In Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband, Love, Loss, and Regret Become Something Beautiful
Regardless of your sexual orientation, there’s a very good chance that you’ve seen Gengoroh Tagame’s illustrations of bearded, muscular men... enjoying one another’s company. While Tagame’s most widely known for his adult-oriented manga, his latest book My Brother’s Husband focuses more on the uneasy relationship…
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Stranger Things Season 2 Will Have More Horror In It
May is here, which means we have almost exactly six months until Netflix releases the second season of Stranger Things on Halloween. And, according to the show’s stars, that second season is going to borrow heavily from a certain genre.
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Here's How a Bunch of British Spies Wind Up in Kentucky for Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Unsurprisingly, given that one of the big sets in this movie is a bourbon distillery, there is a lot of drinking going on in the Kingsman sequel. Also, presumably, the classic joke of uptight Brits in suits being given American liquor and being either pleasantly surprised or nearly killed by moonshine.
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The First Episode of American Gods Demands a Sacrifice to Reveal Its Magic
The most vital thing the first episode of American Gods establishes is the importance of sacrifice. Deities need you to give up a part of yourself if you’re going to get anything out of them. Miracles don’t happen for free.
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20 Amazing New Scifi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Reading List in May
May brings M.R. Carey’s new tale set in the same zombified world as The Girl With All the Gifts, a surreal new short-story collection from Haruki Murakami, a posthumous novel about dinosaurs from Michael Crichton—and many more. Dig in!
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5-25-77 Is a Movie About Love for Star Wars...We Think?
May 25, 1977 was a landmark for film fans; it was the day Star Wars was released and basically changed the entertainment landscape forever. That also seems to be the story the movie 5-25-77 , written and directed by Patrick Read Johnson, wants to tell. Maybe. Possibly? Honestly, after seeing the trailer it’s kind of…
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This Week's Doctor Who Was the Show at Its Very Best
The general arc of a companion’s introduction on Doctor Who is pretty much the same each time. They have their “bigger on the inside” moment, they do a bit of space-time travel, and then they learn that running around in a Police Box spaceship can be quite grim. With newcomer Bill, Doctor Who is back in that swing—but…
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Therapists Are Using Dungeons & Dragons To Get Kids To Open Up
Adam Davis, co-founder of the Dungeons & Dragons therapy group Wheelhouse Workshop, thinks kids with social issues aren’t being asked the right questions. In a dreary school counselor’s office, it can be hard to engage with “Why aren’t you doing your homework?” and “Have you tried joining clubs?” For Davis, more…
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Ghost Rider Will Return to Agents of SHIELD
I think it was pretty clear that Agents of SHIELD had left the door open for the spirit of vengeance, a.k.a. Robbie Reyes (Gabriel Luna), to return. The bigger question was if he would be back this season and, if he is back, how does he fit in with the current fight in the Framework?
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Ridley Scott Says Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 Won't Happen
Not only won’t happen, Scott says it was never that close to happening. His Covenant and whatever comes after it will be the only development in the Alien universe for a while.
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Trailer for It Comes At Night Promises a Freakishly Quiet End-of-the-World Horror Movie
Things start off tense in the first full trailer for It Comes At Night. But I didn’t really freak out until the moment that happens at 1:47. That right there is what we call an “oh, please, no” moment. I want to know more, despite also knowing it’ll hurt to learn.
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Punk Rock Physics Experiment Is Hunting for a Dark Matter Particle Named After Laundry Detergent
FERNEY-VOLTAIRE, FRANCE— Some particle physics experiments are easier to ride than others. The giant detectors that take pictures of particle collisions on miles-round rings don’t really have anywhere to sit, and the intense bureaucracy would probably demand an unwieldy amount of paperwork for would-be riders,. The…
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Victor LaValle Talks About the Power of Grief in Destroyer, His Modern Comic Book Sequel to the Original Frankenstein
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer tells a very different continuation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the story of a mother resurrecting her son, taken from her in a tragic police shooting. It’s a story that blends modern political discourse around institutional racism with classic horror, and a human tale of grief and loss,…
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Superman Will Fight The Ku Klux Klan In A New Movie Based On 1940s Radio Drama
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman going toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan because this is 2017 and race-related hate crimes are still very much a problem in our country! Seriously, though, Clark’s about to wreck some Klansmen.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising's New Giant Robot Has a Slick Look And a Rad Name
Considering the first Pacific Rim movie ended with all of its awesome giant robots, the Jaegers, blown up or ripped to shreds (or ripped to shreds and then blown up), the sequel’s going to be needing some new ones to take their place. We finally have some solid details on the main robot of the film, and it sounds …
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The First Music Video From Descendants 2 Brings Us Some Disney-Approved Wickedness
Hey, want to know what “wickedness” looks like when it’s conceived of by adults for children and then made into a musical number? Bobbing for apples. It looks like bobbing for apples.
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Today's Best Deals: Saucony Shoes, Electric Smoker, Star Wars Prints, and More
Running shoes, Star Wars prints, and a popular electric smoker lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.
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SpaceX Just Performed Its Most Mysterious Mission Yet
After a literal last-minute cancellation yesterday, SpaceX successfully launched and landed a Falcon 9 rocket earlier this morning in Cape Canaveral, Florida. While the details on most of SpaceX’s missions are very public, this one was purposely shrouded in mystery: the rocket was ferrying up a spy satellite, the…
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