Rob Bricken, Author at Gizmodo

The Most Incompetent Evil Henchmen of All Time

It’s hard to find good help these days — or any day, really. If you’re an evil mastermind, hiring a decent henchman to help you take over the world is usually a lot harder than the taking over the world part. Here are just a few of the most famous evil henchmen who never won…

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Ian McKellan is about to marry Patrick Stewart

Yes, as unbelievable as it sounds, Sir Ian McKellan will be marrying Sir Patrick Stewart… to Stewart’s fiancee, jazz singer Sunny Ozell, in their upcoming wedding ceremony. Because McKellan will be officiating it. I’m sorry, did you think I meant something else? McKellan made the announcement during a recent appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show,…

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Escape from New York is getting rebooted into a trilogy

It’s been a while since we last heard about a proposed Escape from New York remake, but alas, Hollywood can’t keep its grubby hands off needless reboots for long. Deadline reports that not only is Joel Silver and Studio Canal planning on remaking John Carpenter’s cult classic, but they plan on making it a trilogy,…

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New DVDs: Does The Hobbit deserve a place on your DVD shelf with Lord of the Rings?

Peter Jackson’s first installment of his Hobbit trilogy arrives on DVD and Blu-ray! But now that you’ve had some time to process it, how many of you still feel the need to add An Unexpected Journey to your DVD/Blu-ray shelves? Will you wait to see how the rest of the trilogy turns out? Have you…

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The Avengers are Earth’s Morphinest Heroes in this Power Rangers mash-up

The Power Rangers opening credits done with Avengers clips and soundbites? Don’t mind if I do. It works out pretty well, unless you start trying to figure out who’s who — I mean, Iron Man is the Red Ranger, naturally, Captain America is Blue, Hulk is Green… and then it gets tricky. Let’s say Thor…

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10 Omnipotent Beings Who Are also Jerks

What is it about limitless power that turns people into such assholes? It’s not the old saying that absolutely power corrupts absolutely, because while there are certainly evil gods out there, these 10 god-like entities aren’t evil so much as they’re just jerks — jerks who use their power to make we poor mortals miserable…

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The angriest Wolverine action figure of all time

Have you been enjoying the pics of shirtless, impossibly ripped Hugh Jackman from the set of The Wolverine recently? Would you like a tiny, shirtless Hugh Jackman of your own? Diamond Select has you covered with its upcoming Marvel Select movie Wolverine figure, but be warned — this may well be the angriest action figure…

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Andrea and the Governor play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse-and-zombies in The Walking Dead

Just like the Governor and Rick finally got to confront each other in last week’s episode, Andrea and the Governor finally get to confront each other in “Clear.” But unlike Rick and the Guv, Andrea and the Guv do a lot less talking and a lot more stalking, as the Governor finally reveals his true…

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Grimm reveals the many, many reasons psychotic werewolves shouldn’t rob banks

Last night’s episode of Grimm wasn’t as strong as last week’s mid season premiere, but I don’t mean that as a criticism. Premieres and finales always get the good stuff; it’s the in-between episodes where a show proves its worth. And while I may have a nitpick or two, I have no real complaints about…

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You can tell a lot about a country by the porn it searches for on the Internet

In an achievement that takes our “Map Porn” tag to its ultimate limit, the scholars/gentlemen of Porn MD have composed a completely SFW interactive map that displays the top 10 pornographic search terms of many, many countries. The results are both informative, terrifying and hilarious. For instance: • USA’s #1 term is “MILF,” which I…

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Mickey wields his lightsaber in the first official Disney-Star Wars promo art

I have bad news for the five people who believe that Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm would lead to the destruction of the perfect and completely unspoiled Star Wars franchise. It’s happened! Yes, Disney has desecrated the integrity of these beloved movies by merging it with its own cartoon characters, in this despicable attempt to advertise…

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Behold the majesty of the Amazing Spider-Beard

Behold the Spider-Man-themed beard of Chad Roberts, who understandably won the recent 2nd Annual Garden State Beard And ‘Stache Competition, held by the Garden State Beard and Mustache Society. I can only assume the judges deemed the beard amazing, spectacular and probably even superior. Unfortunately, the beard is rumored to have recently traded his entire…

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Mulder and Scully reveal the dire consequences of hate sperm in this ridiculous X-Files episode

The X-Files had some high and lows during its 9-season run, but man, those lows were abysmal. Trying to figure out the Worst Episode Ever of The X-Files is as big a mystery as most of the X-Files themselves. Still, if you had to pick, you probably couldn’t do much worse than “Fight Club,” a…

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No, Joss Whedon is not going to Kickstart a Firefly movie… for now

You know you’ve already wondered, and rest assured Joss Whedon has already been asked. I imagine it took less than 10 minutes after the Veronica Mars Kickstarter reached its goal for someone to wonder aloud about using the service to renew the adventures of Captain Mal. Unfortunately, Firefly isn’t taking off anytime soon. As Whedon…

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The Girl Who Would Be King introduces the best superhero/villain pair in ages

To call Kelly Thompson’s The Girl Who Would Be King a simple superhero novel would be to do it a disservice. To call it a wonderful coming of age story about two girls who happen to have superpowers makes it sound like it might be some sort of “girls only” book, and that’s not true…

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Meet the three Blade Runner producers who hated Blade Runner

If you ever needed proof that Hollywood studio executives have no idea how to make good movies, please, look no further these screening notes from a pre-release viewing of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Because these professional movie producers absolutely hated the film, which is now acknowledged as not just as a scifi masterpiece, but one…

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90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

Stan Lee has done plenty in his 90 years on this planet Earth, but now you can add “parkour master” to his titles of “creator of some of the greatest comics characters of all time” and “movie cameo star.” Watch Stan jump, roll and climb his way through L.A. with skills that would even inpress…

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The Avengers team up again to take on a tech-eating parasite and the Punisher’s bad attitude

It’s not exactly Avengers 2, but Iron Man, Black Widow and Hawkeye have gotten back together — along with War Machine and an extremely grumpy Punisher — to take on the Technovore in Marvel’s upcoming animated movie (literally, it’s anime). The direct-to-DVD flick is called, perhaps unsurprisingly, Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, and is due…

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There’s no debate necessary — here’s the person who should make the next Star Wars cartoon

The Clone Wars are over… or they almost are. Disney has announced they’re ending the Clone Wars cartoon, and are beginning work on a new Star Wars cartoon set in a new timeframe. Whatever the end up picking, there’s only one man for the job of directing this thing: Genndy Tartakovsky. Okay, Genndy Tartakovsky might…

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Everybody wants to be in the Star Wars sequels except for Jason Statham

Total Film asked a wide variety of actors and directors if they’d like to be involved in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Episode VII. As it turns out, yes, most actors would like to be part of a movie that will likely make $1 billion… except for Jason Statham, who is far too important to lower himself…

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The Most Incompetent Evil Henchmen of All Time

Ian McKellan is about to marry Patrick Stewart

Escape from New York is getting rebooted into a trilogy

New DVDs: Does The Hobbit deserve a place on your DVD shelf with Lord of the Rings?

The Avengers are Earth’s Morphinest Heroes in this Power Rangers mash-up

10 Omnipotent Beings Who Are also Jerks

The angriest Wolverine action figure of all time

Andrea and the Governor play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse-and-zombies in The Walking Dead

Grimm reveals the many, many reasons psychotic werewolves shouldn’t rob banks

You can tell a lot about a country by the porn it searches for on the Internet

Mickey wields his lightsaber in the first official Disney-Star Wars promo art

Behold the majesty of the Amazing Spider-Beard

Mulder and Scully reveal the dire consequences of hate sperm in this ridiculous X-Files episode

No, Joss Whedon is not going to Kickstart a Firefly movie… for now

The Girl Who Would Be King introduces the best superhero/villain pair in ages

Meet the three Blade Runner producers who hated Blade Runner

90-year-old Stan Lee is a parkour master with his own theme song, obviously

The Avengers team up again to take on a tech-eating parasite and the Punisher’s bad attitude

There’s no debate necessary — here’s the person who should make the next Star Wars cartoon

Everybody wants to be in the Star Wars sequels except for Jason Statham

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