Cheryl Eddy, Author at Gizmodo

The Alien-Abduction Comedy Series People of Earth Looks Both Weird and Hilarious

The trailer for new TBS comedy People of Earth features sarcastic aliens who call each other “dude” and Wyatt Cenac (of The Daily Show) as a reporter following a quirky group of alien abductees—while dealing with the aftermath of his own close encounter. It’s deadpan, it’s weird, and it actually looks genuinely funny. People of…

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Gloomy Kristen Stewart Has a Fancy Job and a Ghostly Problem in the Personal Shopper Trailer

Kristen Stewart re-teams with her Clouds of Sils Maria director, Olivier Assayas, for Personal Shopper—about an American woman who works as a personal shopper in Paris, and whose desperate need to connect with her dead twin may have awakened something in the spirit world. Something… that sends texts. The psychological thriller just debuted at the…

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All the New, Returning, and Canceled TV Series You Need to Know

Thanks to the big network upfronts, there’s been a barrage of TV updates this week. How to keep track of which shows were canceled? Which got another season? Which pilots got a pass? And, most excitingly, which new entries got the green light? We’ve got you covered with all the important TV announcements in one…

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Unless the Witchfinder General Remake Stars a Resurrected Vincent Price, I Don’t Want to Hear About It

Yesterday, we learned that the Nicolas Winding Refn-produced remake of legendary B-movie Maniac Cop was zooming full steam ahead. And now the Danish filmmaker is throwing his weight behind a remake of 1968 British historical horror film Witchfinder General. What’s next? Shriek of the Mutilated? Food of the Gods? Better not be. At least—at the…

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Geena Davis Is Either Crazy or Beset By Satan in The Exorcist TV Trailer

“There are things… going on… in my house,” Geena Davis solemnly announces in the trailer for the upcoming TV show The Exorcist, which looks to be very loosely inspired by the classic horror movie that provides its title. The demon is still present and accounted for, however. Fox offers an extensive summary of the fall…

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The Maniac Cop Remake Just Got a Huge Boost, But We’re Still Skeptical

The outstandingly trashy cult classic Maniac Cop—made in 1988 by legendary B-movie director William Lustig, and starring the singular Robert Z’Dar—has been threatened with getting a remake for some time, with John Hyams (The Originals, Z Nation) directing from a script by comics writer Ed Brubaker. And it just got a huge boost. Lustig and…

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Here’s the First Look at Idris Elba as the Gunslinger in The Dark Tower

The first photos of Idris Elba on the South African set of The Dark Tower have leaked, and they look great. Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) is directing the much-anticipated Stephen King adaptation, which stars Elba as the gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey as the man in black. See more at The Daily Mail, the source…

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Wayward Pines Returns, and Humanity Is Doomed Anew

Wayward Pines was a surprise hit last summer, and the M. Night Shyamalan-produced drama ended with an explosive finale that left the door wide open for a second season. But now that everyone’s in on the show’s central mystery, why should you keep watching? The first two episodes—discussed here without spoilers!—has a compelling answer. Understandably,…

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Kevin Smith Is Making an Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai TV Show

A series based on wonderfully weird 1984 cult science fiction classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension is likely coming to TV, courtesy of Kevin Smith, and we have The Flash to thank (or blame, depending on your point of view). Read on, Hong Kong Cavaliers. The source of this unholy tidbit…

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A Castaway’s Adventure Takes an Unexpectedly Happy Turn in Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle

The latest from Studio Ghibli, still reconfiguring itself since Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement, offers a very promising look toward the studio’s future. The Red Turtle, by animator Michaël Dudok de Wit, is Ghibli’s first co-production; it has no dialogue, but is filled with gorgeously simple, hand-drawn images. The story is also simple, but like all Ghibli…

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David Lynch Wanted David Bowie to Star in the New Twin Peaks

The late David Bowie had a memorable cameo in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as FBI Agent Phillip Jeffries—a man whose bizarre journey between dimensions foreshadows the one undertaken by Kyle MacLachlan’s Agent Cooper. Apparently director/creator David Lynch had plans for Jeffries to return for the new show until Bowie’s death in January. This…

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Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman Will Star In Netflix’s Altered Carbon Series

He’s already played a rebooted RoboCop and will next be seen as Rick Flag in Suicide Squad, but now Joel Kinnaman—a Swede whose big U.S. break was cop drama The Killing—is returning to the small screen. He’s set to star in Netflix’s series Altered Carbon, an adaptation of Richard Morgan’s gritty cyberpunk classic. The series…

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You’re Not Doing the Time Warp, It’s Just the New Rocky Horror Picture Show

Fox’s take on cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show—a musical too insane to be made into a live TV spectacle, thank goodness—won’t be airing until the fall, but Entertainment Weekly has a gallery of images already. Laverne Cox looks great as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, but we’re not sure what’s going on with Riff Raff. Some…

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A New Short Story By Science Fiction Great Ken Liu Will Get the Big-Screen Treatment

Science fiction author Ken Liu is an io9 favorite; so far, he’s released one wonderful novel, The Grace of Kings, with a follow-up, The Wall of Storms, due this fall. He’s also a master of short fiction—the Chinese American writer’s first English-language collection came out earlier this year, and his 2011 story “The Paper Menagerie”…

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A Defense of Joel Schumacher, the Man Who Ruined Batman’s Movie Career

Joel Schumacher will always be remembered for introducing the Bat-nipples to the world (even he thinks so). But the director has also made many, many more movies than his two Batman pictures, and is responsible for some of genre cinema’s most memorable entries, and he deserves to be remembered for those, too. Schumacher started in…

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Snake Plissken Kindly Suggests You Watch This John Carpenter Music Video Right Now

What’s this? Oh, just John Carpenter performing the theme from Escape From New York live in a Los Angeles recording studio. (Carpenter directed the video, too, natch.) Crank it up, imagine yourself infiltrating the prison that’s replaced Manhattan, and succumb to the incredible urge to suddenly don an eye patch. Carpenter, whose world tour will…

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6 Things We Want From the Twin Peaks Revival

While the much-anticipated return of David Lynch’s ground-breaking, bizarre Twin Peaks is never far from our coffee-addled minds, it’s been looming even larger since the entire cast was revealed. What better time to binge-watch the original 30 episodes—and ponder what we’d like to see when episode 31 finally arrives next year? The plot of the…

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The Movpak Is Like Having a Very Convenient Car on Your Back

We wrote about the Movpak back in May 2014 when the backpack/electric skateboard first launched as a Kickstarter project, sadly the project didn’t quite make enough to be funded. Now the company has added even more features ahead of a second attempt at funding via Indiegogo. The new design is sort of like having a…

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Horror Comic Locke & Key Is Taking Another Crack at TV

After a failed pilot in 2011, horror comic Locke & Key is getting another go at small-screen glory. Author Joe Hill himself is penning the new attempt and will be among its executive producers, along with IDW Entertainment and Circle of Confusion, which oversees The Walking Dead and Hulu’s cult drama The Path. A six-book…

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Cleaning Up Space Junk Is a Dirty Job, But the Trashonauts Are Here To Do It

Filmmaker Jack Corpening’s short Trashonauts is “dedicated to human space flight, animal rescue, and cleaning up pollution,” with a nifty musical homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey—and the most adorably animated little magnet ever. [Vimeo Staff Picks]

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The Alien-Abduction Comedy Series People of Earth Looks Both Weird and Hilarious

Gloomy Kristen Stewart Has a Fancy Job and a Ghostly Problem in the Personal Shopper Trailer

All the New, Returning, and Canceled TV Series You Need to Know

Unless the Witchfinder General Remake Stars a Resurrected Vincent Price, I Don’t Want to Hear About It

Geena Davis Is Either Crazy or Beset By Satan in The Exorcist TV Trailer

The Maniac Cop Remake Just Got a Huge Boost, But We’re Still Skeptical

Here’s the First Look at Idris Elba as the Gunslinger in The Dark Tower

Wayward Pines Returns, and Humanity Is Doomed Anew

Kevin Smith Is Making an Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai TV Show

A Castaway’s Adventure Takes an Unexpectedly Happy Turn in Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle

David Lynch Wanted David Bowie to Star in the New Twin Peaks

Suicide Squad‘s Joel Kinnaman Will Star In Netflix’s Altered Carbon Series

You’re Not Doing the Time Warp, It’s Just the New Rocky Horror Picture Show

A New Short Story By Science Fiction Great Ken Liu Will Get the Big-Screen Treatment

A Defense of Joel Schumacher, the Man Who Ruined Batman’s Movie Career

Snake Plissken Kindly Suggests You Watch This John Carpenter Music Video Right Now

6 Things We Want From the Twin Peaks Revival

The Movpak Is Like Having a Very Convenient Car on Your Back

Horror Comic Locke & Key Is Taking Another Crack at TV

Cleaning Up Space Junk Is a Dirty Job, But the Trashonauts Are Here To Do It

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees