Katharine Trendacosta

Everything in Outlander Is Out to Get Jamie

Every week brings more information that one of our main characters is a cosmic chewtoy. Nothing has gone right for Jamie, ever. Even his love for Claire is marred by the, you know, time travel parts. This week, we add dead brother to Jamie’s dead parents, crippled best friend, price on his head, whipping, and…

Joss Whedon Explains What Happened to Loki’s Age of Ultron Cameo

Late last year, Idris Elba let slip the names of some of the major Thor characters that would make brief appearances in Avengers: Age of Ultron. And yet, when the movie actually arrived, no Loki. What happened? Tom Hiddleston was noticeably — if you were aware he’d filmed scenes for Age of Ultron — absent…

RIP Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek‘s Yeoman Janice Rand

Grace Lee Whitney, instantly recognizable as Yeoman Janice Rand from the original Star Trek, has passed away at the age of 85. Whitney died in her home in Coarsegold, California, her son, Jonathan Dweck, confirmed on Sunday. Despite only appearing in eight episodes of the original series, Whitney officially reprised her role in Star Trek:…

Vagina Monologues Writer Eve Ensler Consulted on Mad Max: Fury Road

In an Esquire interview, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley gave a few fairly amazing details about the band of escaped women traveling with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and Mad Max himself (Tom Hardy). The first: the girls made their own costumes out of bandages. The second: Eve Ensler flew out to spend a week letting the girls pick…

Pilot Season Round-Up: Minority Report and The Muppets Are Done Deals

It’s that time of year where we get a good look at what’s going to be on TV come fall. And we’ve got some things rising from the dead, some obvious done deals, and some things wavering on the bubble. It’s a good time to be a superhero or a Muppet, though. Deadline’s got a…

Behold The Suicide Squad In the Flesh, Including Harley Quinn 

As has been the tradition for Suicide Squad thus far, David Ayer’s tweeted the first full-on cast photo, with pretty much everyone (save the Joker and Amanda Waller) in costume. UPDATED: Now with a look at Deadshot’s full costume. We’ve heard that Suicide Squad will have Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Flagg, Killer Croc, Enchantress, Boomerang, Deathstroke,…

IM Global Television will adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s classic science fiction satire Cat’s Cradle as a television series. No word yet on writer, directors, cast, or when we’ll get to see it. [Entertainment Weekly]

The Great Mouse Detective Is a Perfect Gateway Drug to Sherlock Holmes

I only own one animated Disney feature on DVD. And it is The Great Mouse Detective, the mouse version of Sherlock Holmes. Why every parent doesn’t use this movie to get kids to read Sherlock Holmes, I do not know. Let me tell you a story about a child who watched The Great Mouse Detective…

Green Eggs and Ham Is Going to Be the Most Expensive Cartoon Show Ever

Also, there’s going to be a 13-episode Green Eggs and Ham television show. Because everything that isn’t already getting a movie is getting a show. Netflix has picked up the show, which is being produced by Ellen DeGeneres, for a premiere date that is three years away in 2018. Production is starting in May, and…

So, They’re Remaking Cube

Lionsgate’s rebooting Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction horrow movie Cube. Why? Because why not, I guess. The original Cube — and it’s sequel Cube 2: Hypercube and prequel Cube Zero — had a group of people waking up in a cube-shaped room, with hatches to identically shaped rooms on every side. The rooms are booby-trapped…

Scientists Find New Dinosaur With Bat-Like Wings

Among newly discovered, 160-million-year-old, fossils in northeastern China is one of Yi qi (“Yi” meaning “wing” and “qi” meaning “strange”), a pigeon-sized dinosaur without feathered wings. Instead, Yi qi has a long bone extending from the wrist, which resembles the structure of bat wings. The long bone is completely new to dinosaurs, and only by…

First Look at Pixar’s Hindu Superhero Short Sanjay’s Super Team

Along with every Pixar film is the Pixar short, a delightful appetizer before the main course. For The Good Dinosaur, coming November 25, there will be Sanjay’s Super Team, from Pixar artist Sanjay Patel. The film combines the heroes of Patel’s favorite childhood cartoons and the gods of his parents’ religion. The concept art above…

Rejoice! Kingsman: The Secret Service Is Getting a Sequel

All hail the next generation of spy movies. The gleefully, insanely violent Kingsman, which hit theaters for Valentine’s Day this year, is getting a sequel. This fills the Emma Peel/John Steed sized hole in my heart. The Wrap reports that, even though there’s been no announcement from Fox and there’s no official schedule for it,…

First Last Witch Hunter Teaser Is So Ridiculous It’ll Capture Your Heart

Vin Diesel is a witch hunter. Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) is a witch. Michael Caine is a priest. Together, they fight crime! Wait, no. That’s wrong. They fight evil witches! This movie looks amazing and ridiculous and I think I’ll have to marry it. It tells the story of an immortal witch hunter —…

How Edge of Tomorrow Created and Destroyed a Digital Paris

This new featurette from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes behind the epic final battle of Edge of Tomorrow. Intellectually we know there’s a lot of special effects in these movies, but it’s actually amazing how few things were actually filmed for this. The video goes from photos of real world Paris…

Behold the Mighty Thor’s Helmet … Nebula

It’s definitely looking into my soul and finding me wanting. Image credit: J.A. Toala & M.A. Guerrero (IAA-CSIC), Y.-H. Chu (UIUC/ASIAA), R.A. Gruendl (UIUC), S. Mazlin, J. Harvey, D. Verschatse & R. Gilbert (SSRO-South) and ESA From the European Space Agency: The neon colours in this image are not just beautiful, they also tell us…

Here’s The Final Mad Max Trailer — So What’s Tom Hardy Doing?

What’s so fascinating about the Mad Max: Fury Road trailers we’ve seen so far is that we’ve heard a lot from Tom Hardy as Mad Max, but we’ve seen far less of him in action than we have of Charlize Theron’s Furiosa. Which is actually fine, she’s badass beyond belief. From other trailers, we’ve seen…

This Is Definitely How Jack Nicholson Reacted to Jared Leto’s Joker

A perfectly edited scene from About Schmidt by ToniEmCee shows how one former Joker, Jack Nicholson, would react to the newest look of the Joker. Spoiler alert: not with joy. Yep, that seems about right. [via A.V. Club]

The io9 Guide to Discworld

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld might look intimidating — there are 40 books, and they’re humorous fantasy, which seems like it could be an acquired taste. But everybody should read at least one Discworld book, because they’re wonderful, and there’s something for everyone. Here’s our complete guide to Pratchett’s masterwork. What is Discworld? In our universe, Discworld…

Artist Creates Tiny Views of the Universe

Lorraine Loots, who has been working on her 365 Paintings for Ants since 2013, has expanded her tiny painting oeuvre to include pinhole views of the starry expanse of space. You can see, and buy, some of her work at her website and follow her on Instagram. Here’s the top image with a pencil for…