Cheryl Eddy

Love Is A Bloody Battlefield On The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

Romance is in the air in Fall River, but so are gushing sprays of blood. Episode five, “Cold Storage,” is the series’ halfway point, and Lizzie is now a full-fledged serial killer. Sure, she’s been coldly taking down anyone who dares get in her way for weeks now. But in this ep, she ups her…

Magical Words In Real Estate: Plan 9 From Outer Space Was Filmed Here!

Granted, 5628 1/2 Santa Monica Boulevard has changed a lot since Ed Wood and his merry band of grave robbers prowled Hollywood. The 14,000 square foot property, built in 1925, is now an apartment building with a bar, “Gold Diggers Entertainment,” beneath. But still … it could be yours! Or could have have been yours,…

Problem solving at its most pungent: After studying thousands of hours of footage, scientists have discovered that Antarctica’s Gentoo penguins “poop on their frozen landscape to melt it, creating the ideal location to rear their young when the time comes.”

Nine Directors Bring Their Unique Styles To Animated Take On The Prophet

A passion project for producer Salma Hayek, who also heads up the voice cast along with Liam Neeson, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet taps eight animators (including Bill Plympton and Nina Paley) to bring Gibran’s poetry to life. The frame story is helmed by The Lion King co-director Roger Allers. [Via Cartoon Brew]

Trailer For Absolutely Anything Shows The Downside Of Penis Enlargement

Simon Pegg stars in what more or less looks like a riff on Bruce Almighty, except with aliens instead of Morgan “God” Freeman. It also boasts the voices of Monty Python (Terry Jones directed and co-wrote) and Robin Williams (in his final role). Check out the Absolutely Anything trailer below!

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Toys And Merchandise Will Arrive Sept. 4 

After the recent reveal that Josh Trank is no longer directing the second Star Wars Anthology film, the folks at Starwars.com dropped some cheerful intel ahead of tomorrow’s May the Fourth geekout: all your Force Awakens swag needs (“toys, collectibles, books, and apparel”) will be met on September 4. The dramatically worded press release, which…

SNL Hilariously Skewers Marvel’s Idea Of “A Girl Superhero Movie”

Spoiler alert: it’s a rom-com! “For Black Widow, falling in love can be hard, but it can also be … INCREDIBLE!” Cardigan-clad Scarlett Johansson, last night’s Saturday Night Live host, is a true hero for participating in this (probably depressingly accurate) sketch. [Via]

In 2014, Italian archaeologists discovered a 15th century skeleton of a young woman, dubbed “witch girl” because she was buried face down. But new analysis of her bones has shown she suffered from scurvy, an ailment whose frightening symptoms (seizures, bleeding) likely led to her becoming an outcast.

An Iceberg Rises Above The Frozen Water Of Greenland’s North Star Bay

As a support scientist for NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission, Jeremy Harbeck spends most of his time processing data at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. But it was on a recent visit to Greenland that he snapped this striking composite image of an iceberg frozen into North Star Bay. According to NASA: He had…

Two Candy-Crazed Monsters Battle For Sweet-Tooth Supremacy In This Short

Brown-eyed beastie Chubzilla may seem like a harmlessly delusional fellow (except for all the indiscriminate stomping), but don’t get between him and dessert. Seriously, DON’T. This thesis film was co-directed Elizabeth Lee and Dominik Koscinski, students at New York City’s School of Visual Arts. [Via Kuriositas]

Tom Hardy Does Double Duty As The Kray Twins In Legend Trailer

Looks like Tom Hardy will continue to prove his versatility (huge blockbusters, period films, one romantic comedy, that movie where he was alone in a car the entire time) with Legend, in which he plays British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray. Here’s the Roy Orbison-a-rific trailer. As you may recall, “the most dangerous men in…

Texas Storm Spawns Baseball-Sized, Windshield-Smashing Hailstones

A severe storm front in Texas spawned many inches of rain, multiple tornadoes, and hail huge enough to smash windshields last week, according to the National Weather Service. (Thankfully, no injuries were reported.) This baseball-sized hail fell April 26 near Rising Star, 150 miles southwest of Dallas. Photo: Ben McMillan via AP

Josh Trank Will Not Direct The Second Star Wars Anthology Film After All

The official announcement came directly from the Star Wars website: Fantastic Four director Josh Trank, a mysterious no-show at the recent Star Wars Celebration convention, will not direct the second Star Wars Anthology film after all. Here’s the statement that was posted yesterday: Josh Trank, who was attached to direct the second Star Wars Anthology…

These Baby Falcons Would Like To Wish You A Very Pleasant Saturday

Oh yeah and if you have any worms or whatever, insert ‘em HERE! K thanks! This pair of li’l baby falcons was born on a farm near the northern Serbian town of Coka. Once they’re grown, these birds of prey will be trained for falconry, a practice which dates back to 2,000 BC. AP Photo…

Watch The Trailer For What Could Be The Scariest Documentary Ever

If the new trailer is any indication, the latest documentary from Rodney Ascher (last seen deconstructing The Shining with Room 237) is going to deliver what it promises: nightmares. The Nightmare takes on the peculiar phenomena of sleep paralysis and night terrors. Here’s the synopsis; the doc will be out June 5: The movie chronicles…

We Saw Half Of Shyamalan’s Wayward Pines, And It’s Surprisingly Decent

It’s not a spoiler to say something wrought by The Sixth Sense’s M. Night Shyamalan has twists. This is useful, because Wayward Pines, his series adapted from the books by Blake Crouch, is chock full o’ twists. We’ve seen the first half of the 10-episode season, and these are our (spoiler-free!) first impressions. From its…

A Vampire Rips Up Small-Town Life In Gritty Trailer For The Stranger

Uruguayan writer-director Guillermo Amoedo makes his English-language debut with Chile-shot The Stranger, which is produced by Eli Roth but conveys its own unique flavor of dark and creepy (an early review compared it to “the best parts of Near Dark”). The title character is a man whose sudden appearance in a small town is… not…

View A Trailer For A Doc On The Real-Life Heavenly Creatures Murderers

Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures dramatized one of New Zealand’s most shocking murders, in which a pair of teen girls brutally killed one of their mothers. Director Alexander Roman’s documentary, Reflections of the Past, uses interviews, vintage images, and reenactments to further explore the story. As a side note, one of the girls — Juliet Hulme,…

Edgar Award-Winning Crime Book Takes On An Unsolved Hollywood Mystery

Fans of true crime books know the Edgar Awards offer great inspiration for one’s reading list, and this year’s crop of “Best Fact Crime” nominees was particularly robust. The winner, announced yesterday, takes on the still-unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor. The book is William Mann’s Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the…

#Clickbaitbooks Will Make You See Your Favorite Books A Whole New Way

We very much enjoy hashtags (and other uses of Twitter) that inspire clever creativity. Today, we’re guffawing over #clickbaitbooks, which imagines works of literature compressed and reconfigured into pageview-grabbing Internet headlines. You won’t believe how funny they are!