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The Inhumans Are Loose in the Agents of SHIELD Season 3 Premiere

Don’t particularly care to wait until September 29th to see new Agents of SHIELD? Well, good news, because here’s the first four minutes of the season 3 premiere, in which Skye/Daisy helps out a new Inhuman who is accidentally on a small rampage… but it turns out she and her Secret Warriors aren’t the only…

The 19 Worst Movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 Ever Riffed

Although Mystery Science Theater 3000 was dedicated to making fun of bad movies, not all the movies the show featured were truly awful. Many were merely crappy, but some of them were so ineptly made, so heinous, so unwatchable that trying to imagine viewing them without Joel, Mike and the ’Bots is terrifying. Here are…

Supergirl Still Looks Super, Thanks for Asking

The preview trailer for the first season of Supergirl (not just the first episode) is here, and it gives us a much better look at Supergirl’s many superpowers and her superpowered foes, escaped from the Phantom Zone and looking for revenge. It also has one unbelievably cheesy line delivered with extra cheese—“Now it has… Supergirl!”—but…

Gotham Is Still Bizarre, Still Extremely Silly, and Somehow Much Better

Welcome back to Gotham City, my friends. I’m surprised as you are that I’m happy to be here, what with its crime-ridden streets, its incompetent police force, its cartoonish villains, its maddening dialogue, and its general insanity. But “Damned If You Do…”, Gotham’s second season premiere, is a definite improvement over season one’s aimlessness, although…

The Martian has premiered… just not on this planet. The astronauts on the ISS managed to get the first exclusive screening of the upcoming Ridley Scott scifi movie about an astronaut who gets left behind in the vastness of space (Mars, specifically). If you’re wondering, yes, the ISS crew have also screened Gravity, because astronauts…

You Can Own Princess Leia’s Actual Metal Bikini From Return of the Jedi

Assuming you have a great deal of disposable income. Like, a lot. Yes, the famous, infamous and iconic metal bikini that Carrie Fisher wore as Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi—while trapped as the enslaved sexy dancer of the alien/slug crimelord Jabba the Hutt—is going up for auction. It’s expected to sell for $80,000…

The Strain Is a Bad TV Show That Just Got Immeasurably Worse

Oh, The Strain. You did not just go there. But you did! You took one of your two-dimensional female characters and subjected her to the infinitely tired, awful sexual assault storyline, in a bid to give your show badly needed drama and some kind of personal stakes for its ancillary cast. I’d say shame on…

See How Daenerys’ Dragons Come to Life in Game of Thrones‘ Emmy-Winning VFX

Okay, first things first: No, Game of Thrones’ fifth season almost certainly shouldn’t have won the award for Best Drama Series over Mad Men at last night’s Emmys. Second: Yes, this is another Game of Thrones VFX reel, and yes, Game of Thrones absolutely deserved to win its fourth Special Effects Emmy, as this video…

Seriously, Hunger Games Marketing Department? Seriously?! 

So there’s a new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II trailer out today, and it’s fascinating. It’s fascinating because it’s awful, and it’s awful because—well, well, to explain it would be to spoil a major moment in the movie, but even just watching this trailer could spoil you! So unless you’ve read the books (or…

7 Moments in the Bible When Jesus Acted Very Un-Jesus-Like

When it comes to weirdness, Jesus Christ has nothing on his old man. While Yahweh was looking for excuses to drunkenly wrestle Moses, Jesus was usually preaching about love, tolerance and forgiveness. The key word there is “usually.” Yes, Jesus also has a few moment of strange behavior in the New Testament, and indulges in…

Democracy Is the Anti-300, and One of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year

In ancient Greece, a small Athenian army tries to sleep the night before a battle against Prince Xerxes and his massive Persian hordes. They are unable to sleep, so one soldier begins to tell a story—a story of courage, of battle, and the price of freedom. Now, in Frank Miller’s original graphic novel 300, the…

It’s the First Trailer For Disney’s Wild(ly Unnecessary) Live-Action Jungle Book

On the plus side, Disney’s live-action adaptation of Disney’s animated classic The Jungle Book seems action packed. Certainly, watching a realistic Bagheera and Shere Khan tussle adds a certain spice to the proceedings. And seeing a super-young Mowgli toss himself of a cliff is pretty damned exciting. Plus, Idris Elba voices Shere Khan! What could…

Obscure But Awesome ’70s Time Travel Movie Inexplicably Becomes New TV Procedural

There is a movie called Time After Time. This late 1970s flick isn’t a masterpiece, but it does feature Malcolm Macdowell as scifi author and actual Time Machine-owner H.G. Wells, who is aghast to learn his friend, played by Jonathan Pryce David Warner, is Jack the Ripper. He’s even more aghast when Jack steals his…

Humanity’s Fate Is Left in the Hands of Morons on The Strain

Good news, everyone! Something happened on last night’s The Strain. Actually, a few things happened, even though they uniformly proved our heroes are mind-bogglingly incompetent, it’s still a significant improvement over the previous waste of an episode. “The Assassin” is mainly about Eph finally trying to kill Eldritch Palmer, after deciding to kill him a…

Skye Debuts Her Secret Warriors Uniform on Agents of SHIELD

SHIELD agent, Inhuman, daughter of a supervillain, hacker, superhero—Skye has worn a lot of hats on AoS, so it makes sense she would get a new outfit as well. LA Times has just released the first look at Skye’s new Secret Warriors uniform from Agents of SHIELD season 3. As you may recall, Agent Coulson…

What Is the Huge Easter Egg in Guardians of the Galaxy That No One’s Found Yet?

Director James Gunn was sharing GotG facts and trivia on his Facebook this weekend, when he made a remarkable admission: The biggest Easter Egg that Gunn hid in the hit Marvel movie still hasn’t been found. Here’s what he said, although doesn’t really offer any clues other than its existence: Jose Francisco Billini Have a…

Should Star Wars: The Force Awakens Have a Post-Credits Sequence?

There’s a new rumor going around that The Force Awakens will have a post-credits sequence when it debuts in December. We don’t know what it would be—a promo for Rogue One, maybe a teaser for Episode VIII—or if it even exists. But some people are losing their minds at the idea. So what do you…

10 Historical People Who Were Real-Life Magicians 

If you think magic is just for Dungeons & Dragons players and Criss Angel, you’re sadly mistaken. Magic is totally real, and was totally practiced by totally real people who lived in history! Here are just 10 real-life wizards and sorcerers who used magic for a lot more than just party tricks. 1) Nicholas Flamel…

Things Are Ridiculously Mysterious in Doctor Who‘s Prologue to Season 9

The ninth season of nu-Who doesn’t debut until September 19th, but you might as well get started with this moody but maddening vague two-minute “prologue” to the upcoming episodes. As you can see, the Doctor is on Karn, last featured in the memorable minisode “The Night of the Doctor,” where Paul McGann returned as the…

Bruce Campbell May Host a Horror-Themed Reality Series, and Here’s Why That’s Terrifying

If the idea of another nerdy reality competition TV series fills you with dread… well, that’s kind of what the upcoming series Bruce Campbell’s Horrified is going for. The good news is, obviously, that the impossibly charismatic Bruce Campbell will be involved. The bad news is everything else. The show comes from King of the…