Cheryl Eddy

Amazon Echo’s Brain Is Finally in Gadgets I Actually Want to Use

Amazon’s voice-controlled assistant, Echo, is getting a few siblings you can bark your orders at. Meet the Echo Dot, which is designed to connect to whatever speakers you already happen to own, and the Amazon Tap, a portable version of the Echo. You’ll recall Echo, the tabletop speaker tube with a baked-in intelligence engine called…

Shadowhunters Reveals the Most Irritatingly Trivial Thing About Becoming a Vampire

We already knew that Simon was on his way to becoming a full-fledged vampire on Shadowhunters, and last night on “Bad Blood,” he finally crossed the line from whiny sidekick to whiny bloodsucker. Great. But his weepy transformation did reveal one hilarious thing about vamps in the Shadowhunters universe. It’s this: They can’t say “Oh…

Well, it looks like that season-ending cliffhanger was not in vain: Zoo is returning for a second season. NBC’s James Patterson-adapted thriller about a global animal uprising will be back this summer, with at least two new characters, one of which is a “mysterious stranger” with a “dangerous secret.” Contact the author at [email protected].

Yep, That Was 1990s Tough Guy Tom Sizemore on Lucifer Last Night

Remember Tom Sizemore? He was in True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Heat, and Saving Private Ryan. In Lucifer, he pops up as the head of a biker gang (“the Diablos,” haaah) who knows more than he lets on about the whereabouts of a stolen shipping container that conceals something very precious to Lucifer. The casting…

The Bizarre Facebook Hoax That Escalated Into a Real-Life Double Murder

The media scrambled to make sense of this strange, baffling double homicide—the angle that most outlets came up with was “unfriending on Facebook leads to murder!” (Including 20/20, which devoted an episode to the case.) But as prosecutor Dennis Brooks explains in Too Pretty to Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee, the situation was…

The New Nancy Drew Show Finds Its Lead Detective on Person of Interest

CBS has finally selected the lead of its Nancy Drew reboot, titled Drew: Sarah Shahi. She has an extensive TV resume that includes roles on Person of Interest, Chicago Fire, and Fairly Legal, and joins a cast that includes longtime ER star Anthony Edwards as Nancy Drew’s dad. The choice of Shahi, the Texas-born daughter…

The Walking Dead‘s Glen Mazzara Explains Why He’s Bringing the Antichrist to TV

Glen Mazzara is best known for working on seasons two and three of The Walking Dead, but his latest project is all his own: He’s the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Damien, a new drama that imagines the Antichrist character from The Omen as a young adult grappling with his true identity. We’ve seen…

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Is a Criminally Underrated B-Movie

John Carpenter has films that are considered classics: Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China. But the films he made after his heyday don’t get nearly enough love. One big example: Ghosts of Mars, which takes The Thing and mushes it into Assault on Precinct 13, except with way more graphic mutilations.…

Instead of Taking Your Kids to See Gods of Egypt, Give Them A Copy of The Egypt Game

Gods of Egypt is here! And Gods of Egypt is terrible. But not every Egypt-centric adventure is as horrifyingly head-scratching as Gerard Butler’s latest career move. One of my all-time favorite books as a kid was The Egypt Game, which is wonderfully written and makes ancient history exciting in a unique way. https://gizmodo.com/murder-is-legal-and-torture-is-mandatory-because-gods-1761496886 Author Zilpha…

Two X-Men Directors Are Making Dueling 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Movies

Shots fired! Or harpoons launched? Just weeks after Bryan Singer said that following X-Men: Apocalypse, he’d turn his attentions toward his long-awaited adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, another X-Men movie director has announced some mighty similar intentions. https://gizmodo.com/bryan-singer-confirms-hell-soon-begin-work-on-20-000-le-1756973166 That’d be James Mangold, who made 2013’s The Wolverine and is working on…

The Silence of the Lambs Is Secretly About Mind Control

The Silence of the Lambs turns 25 this month. All this time, you thought it was merely a story about FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s hunt for a brutal serial killer named Buffalo Bill—with help from Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter. But the Best Picture winner has a secret: everything in the film is actually part of…

Clary Is No Longer the Most Annoying Character on Shadowhunters

After ending last week’s episode by announcing she knew how to find the Mortal Cup, Clary gets her mitts on it in “Major Arcana.” Now that the hunt for the cup is over, the Shadowhunters gang can spend the rest of the season trying to rescue Clary’s mom and take down Valentine forever. Truly, if…

This! Is! Awful! A Guide to Gerard Butler’s Movie Career

Gerard Butler is everywhere lately pimping out his latest movies, Gods of Egypt and London Has Fallen. Both look amazingly ridiculous—a theme that comes up again and again, throughout Butler’s surprisingly lengthy filmography. How could one man star in so many silly movies? Let us count the ways. After realizing the law degree he’d studied…

Smart Guns Are Here, But No One Wants To Buy Them

Smart guns got a publicity boost in January, when President Obama advocated their potential as part of his emotional speech in the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting, and the San Francisco Smart Gun Symposium aimed to capitalize on that. The symposium, held on Tuesday, assembled some big names: San Francisco Police Chief Greg…

We Need to Talk About That X-Files Finale

Last night, the X-Files revival ended after six episodes that went by all too quickly, leaving us with fond memories of a certain Were-Monster and Mulder getting high as balls … and some extremely confused and unresolved feelings, especially after that head-scratcher of a finale. We need to talk, you guys, because WTF? Obviously, this…

Maze Finally Shows Her True Face (And Kicks Some Serious Ass) on Lucifer

The silly mystery on “Sweet Kicks” concerned dueling street artists, a shooting at a fashion show, and posturing gangsters. But the episode was mostly notable for all the ways Maze made it great: plotting, kicking many butts, and finally—revealing what’s beneath her earthly disguise. Spoiler below, duh. Yup, just like the comics—there’s her half-misshapen face,…

The BBC Is Bringing Back The Twilight Zone As a Radio Drama

Ten classic episodes of The Twilight Zone will be broadcast in the UK for the first time—but, much like the show’s trademark, there’s a twist. The episodes will be reinvented as radio plays taken from Rod Serling’s original TV scripts, thanks to BBC Radio 4 Extra. According to the Independent, veteran actor Stacy Keach will…

IFC’s New Comedy Has Simpsons Cred and a Killer Premise

IFC is getting in on the current witch/Satan/hellfire trend with an eight-episode order of Stan Against Evil, a comedy from Emmy-winning Simpsons writer and producer Dana Gould. The description sounds a wee bit like Ash vs Evil Dead—which is a total compliment—though a lot will depend on who gets cast. Here’s the description from Variety:…

An Unusual Duo Foils a Dastardly Plot in This Wonderfully Zany Animated Short

Who is DuckManBoy? One’s a duck-headed, man-bodied, suit-wearing, long-suffering business type; the other’s a boy-headed, duck-bodied free spirit whose fondness for meat-based shakes sets the bickering duo on a collision course with a madman who’d like to add them to his latest recipe. Gasp! This short, by Louis Hudson and Ian Ravenscroft, was produced as…

Which Superpower Will Factor Into Doug Liman’s New Virtual Reality Series?

It’s called Invisible … any guesses? The show’s logline is amusingly vague, referencing only a NYC family that built an empire thanks to a certain “extraordinary ability” passed down through generations. Based on the title, we’re probably not talking time travel, super strength, or flight. Anyway, one cool thing about this show that’s most likely,…