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What if superpowers were a sexually transmitted disease… and fatal?

The characters of Titan’s new comic Death Sentence are not heroes. They’re normal people who had unprotected sex, received superpowers, and will die in six months — and that’s the fantastic premise of Death Sentence #1, which you need to check out. Plus zombies attack Riverdale, The Walking Dead goes to war and more in…

The directors of Zero Charisma explain the war between nerds

When a classic, obsessed, socially-dysfunctional nerd named Scott meets a new wave hipster nerd named Miles, there a clash as epic as any Dungeons & Dragons battle. This conflict is examined by directors Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews in Zero Charisma, out on video-on-demand today. Both directors were kind enough to give us their joint…

Pimp2-D2 is the newest, greatest action figure in the galaxy

This is real. This is happening. Somehow, some way, Manly Art is producing this amazing Pimp2-D2 figure as an exclusive at this weekend’s New York Comic-Con. It’s $50 (AND YOU BETTER HAVE HIS MONEY) but I wouldn’t worry about it because this droid is going to sell out almost instantly. [Via Geek Sexy]

We were getting Star Wars sequels even before Lucas sold it to Disney

Apparently Star Wars: Episode VII was not Disney’s idea. According to his son Jett, George Lucas was outlining future installments to the Star Wars saga a full year before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney — and Jett had more sequel secrets to reveal, too. Jett talked a lot about his father’s involvement with the sequels…

The 12 Best Cops of Science Fiction

They are the peacekeepers. They uphold the law. They protect us from those who would do us harm. And they do it all with nothing more than a badge… and a robot… or perhaps a spaceship… or maybe even superpowers. These are the dozen best fictional police officers in the universe, and we appreciate them…

Bong Joon-ho has seen the U.S. edit of Snowpiercer and he hates it

Remember how everybody said Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer was great? And remember how Harvey Weinstein wanted to re-edit it for stupid Americans? And then remember how Bong said Weinstein’s cuts were light? Well, screw all that, because now the director is pissed about the U.S. version of Snowpiercer. Bong Joon-Ho recently presented his original version of…

The He-Man movie gets a new writer and a new director

The Hollywood Reporter reports from Hollywood that the long-in-development Masters of the Universe has a new scriptwriter — namely Terry Rossio, the co-writer of big-budget movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lone Ranger and the Zorro films — but G.I. Joe 2’s Jon M. Chu is no longer attached to direct. After the surprise…

The secret reason for Sweden’s lack of child-eating gnomes revealed

Seattle-based band King Luan posits there are no gnomes in Sweden in their amazing song “There Are No Gnomes in Sweden,” and if you’ll listen to it, I think you’ll agree that their evidence is quite compelling. Truly, it’s the most informative music video since we learned what the fox says.

NBC’s ordered a scifi pilot from Transformers movie scriptwriter Ehren Kruger titled Tin Man. It is not, thankfully, yet another show about The Wizard of Oz, but “a psychological crime thriller set in the near future that focuses on a fugitive robot accused of first degree murder,” according to Variety

The other Avengers have a deal too good to be true in This Week’s DVDs!

Sorry, Black Widow, but our favorite avenging female super-spy will always be Emma Peel of the classic British spy-fi show The Avengers, which you can pick up for a steal tomorrow — plus American Horror Story goes crazy, Chucky returns and Captain Mal is an ass, all in this week’s DVD releases! • The Avengers:…

The Avengers assemble awesome Star Wars costumes for Halloween

Reddit user OdoWanKenobi took his amazing 12-inch Avengers figures from Hot Toys and got them ready for Halloween by dolling them up in Star Wars clothes, and the results are brilliant. Having Hawkeye as one of the least accurate soldiers in the galaxy is a spectacularly nice touch. [Via /Film]

This vending machine only gives you coffee when you yawn

Douwe Egberts is a Dutch producer of coffeemakers. Direct is a very clever South African advertising agency. Combine the two, and what do you get? An awesome vending machine in Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport that distributes free cups of coffee to the people it sees yawn. As the video explains, there’s some rather impressive…

The Hobbit‘s Beorn is revealed in all his muttonchopped glory

We had a small, blurry pic of The Hobbit’s shapechanger Beorn from the back, but now we have a large blurry pic of Beorn from the front, and he looks like… huh. Looks like actor Mikael Persbrandt got his sideburns on. Okay, to be honest, I think he looks more than a little like Wolverine’s…

Batman Begins his driving exam in this exclusive ADHD short

He’s beaten the Joker, the Penguin, and even Bane, but can Batman defeat his fiercest foe: The Gotham City driver’s license exam? As this exclusive short from Fox’s Animation Domination HD reveals, he’d probably have any easier time going against Bane again.

The awesome car chase scene from the CG Gatchaman movie that never was

The Japanese live-action Gatchaman movie has come and gone, but we’re still lamenting the loss of the CG animated Gatchman movie Imagi was working on before it closed its doors in 2011. This recently uncovered, unfinished car chase scene has us lamenting a little harder. The first video is a mix of early CG motion…

Here’s all the ways Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D went wrong

I refuse to believe Dario Argento wrote and directed this film. I refuse to believe that the director of some of the greatest horror films ever — Suspiria, Opera, Phenomena — could ever make a movie as awful as Dracula 3D. So if you’re a fan of truly bad movies, this is going to be…

I, Frankenstein could be the most bonkers movie of 2014

If you’ve had a dream about a shockingly in-shape Frankenstein’s monster with Wolverine’s personality who wields ridiculous blades when fighting a legion of evil gargoyles while things constantly explode, congratulations! I, Frankentsein is the movie of your dreams. Everyone else: Holy shit this looks insane. As Charlie Jane said in her review of this very…

And Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the official Quicksilver of Avengers 2

Perhaps spurred on by Samuel L. Jackson’s accidental confirmation of Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch yesterday, long-rumored frontrunner (get it? GET IT?) Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been confirmed as her brother Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since basically the two people who have always been rumored to be most likely to get the roles…

Insane pundit “explains” Obamacare in Star Trek Gorn mask

Whether you think the Affordable Healthcare Act is good or bad, I think we can all agree that Alex Jones is completely out of his mind, right? I mean, not only is he posing as an evil lizard alien who loves Obamacare, nothing he says in this video makes any fucking sense. By the end,…

The first new Godzilla movie footage is monstrously awesome

This first footage from Gareth Edwards’s upcoming American Godzilla movie — which unfortunately Warner Bros. has taken off YouTube —is simple, reassuring, and incredibly effective. Here are a few comments on what we saw. The quote playing over the video is from Manhattan Project participant J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is obviously quite appropriate. “Now I…