Katharine Trendacosta

How Much Scarier Than the Original Will the Ghostbusters Reboot Be?

Check out some wild speculation about a major death in Avengers: Age of Ultron. A new clip shows Bruce Willis pontificating in his escaped-android movie Vice. And there’s a breakdown of the differences between the movie and TV show versions of 12 Monkeys. Spoilers now! Top image: Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron…

The original Enterprise model from Star Trek is undergoing renovations before being moved to main entrance of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. You can read an interview with the conservator leading the preservation project, Dr. Margaret Weitekamp, at Trek Core.

Dad’s Illustrations Prove His 3-Year-Old Is Brilliant

Look, can any of us honestly say this isn’t how we’d rather spend our time? I could be working or I could be drawing pooping superheroes. Pooping superheroes win! Martin Bruckner’s collected and illustrated a number of gems from his daughter, the now-three Harper Grace, on Spaghetti Toes: Things Said By and To a 2…

This Beautifully Minimalist Prosthetic Is Made From 3D Printed Titanium

Designer William Root has designed this mostly see-through prosthetic with an emphasis on personalization and low cost. It’s available in a number of colors and patterns, with every end product remaining lightweight and strong. On the design page for the Exo Prosthetic, Root says that the current process has too many steps and is very…

Sam Raimi: The Problems With Spider-Man 3 Were “My Mistake”

In his appearance on the Nerdist podcast, Sam Raimi had a lengthy discussion on everything that went wrong with Spider-Man 3. He both identifies mistakes he made and has a pretty good sense of humor about it. The whole thing is well worth listening to, if only for Raimi talking about what Bruce Campbell was…

Which Major Villain Is Daredevil Saving For Season 2 Or 3?

Oscar Isaac claims that everyone’s Star Wars theories are completely off the mark. Is there a good reason why we haven’t gotten an announcement about a standalone movie starring Ben Affleck’s Batman? And Krysten Ritter talks about being cast as Jessica Jones. Spoilers now! Top image: Daredevil Star Wars Oscar Issac says that the Internet…

The Evolution of the Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver in One Image

This print by David Wildish is available at Society 6, and is a very nice retrospective of one of the most iconic objects in science fiction. Even though these are presented in order of show continuity, if you move the War Doctor’s to the end — where it belongs if it’s in order of appearance…

The Walking Dead is the show with the most tweets and readers of tweets in 2015. A Nielsen report revealed that the show had an average of 576,000 tweets per episode and 4.93 million people reading at least one tweet before the next morning. This reflects the show’s popularity and the high value viewers place…

Did Venus Once Have Oceans of Liquid Carbon Dioxide?

A new study suggests that it is possible that the planet’s past included strange bodies of liquid carbon dioxide. Image: Pioneering Venus/NASA Venus is a hot hellscape that make it difficult to imagine it ever being covered in the water that may have been in its atmosphere — the water probably could not have cooled…

Watch Rats Own a Cat and a Dog in a Trick Competition

The cat Kaiser and the dog Nana once went head to head in a competition to see who was the best trained animal around. And now, years later, they’ve teamed up to show a pair of rats named Raven and Famous who’s boss. But, for sheer number of tricks, the rats win. They also win…

Do We Finally Know What The Star Wars Spin-Off Movie Will Be About?

Plus, read a possible description of Max van Sydow’s Force Awakens character. Roberto Orci talks clears up some Star Trek rumors, Mark Ruffalo hints at a big mistake from Bruce Banner in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Robert Kirkman trolls us with a possible huge death in The Walking Dead. Spoilers now! Top image: Star…

This Cyberman Feeder Turns Squirrels Into The Doctor’s Deadly Foes

Doctor Who fan Emma Young made this Cyberman feeder for her backyard. Forget any other plan the baddies have ever had in canon, the Cybersquirrel is by far the scariest. Where would you even hide from a hundreds of upgraded squirrels? Young said, “My whole family love Doctor Who so I decided to create a…

Damman, Saudi Arabia as seen from the International Space Station. This photoof a glittering, opalescent city was taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who couldn’t remember where she took it. You can help identify all the photos taken from space at the Cities at Night project. Image credit: ESA/NASA

The Surprise Hero of The Librarians Is John Larroquette

This episode cemented more than anything that this show’s true hero is John Larroquette. Both the actor and his character. Seriously, no one is funnier on this show than Larroquette and this week we learned that he’s the Big Good to Matt Frewer’s Big Bad. There are worse people to rest your show on, I…

In The First SHIELD Comic, Coulson and Crew Meet All the Marvel Heroes

The characters of Agents of SHIELD will join the Marvel comic book universe on December 31st, in the first issue of S.H.I.E.L.D. And the variant covers have the team meeting everyone. Yes, including Deadpool. The comic book isn’t a tie-in, it’s the comic versions of the Agents of SHIELD characters showing up as canon immigrants…

What Does The End Of Last Night’s Doctor Who Mean For Season Nine?

There’s some new confirmation that even DC’s wildest film will still share the same universe as Batman v. Superman. Plus wild speculation about who will be the next big villain on The Walking Dead. And also, sneak peeks at the next seasons of Orphan Black and Penny Dreadful. Spoilers now! Top image: Doctor Who Shazam…

Yet Another Way Game Of Thrones Could Leave The Books Behind Next Year

An actor drops a major hint at another way Game of Thrones could depart from the books next year. Some long-discussed concept art of Han Solo and Chewbacca may have surfaced. Sleepy Hollow prepares you for its return with a pack of featurettes. And we may know which episode of Once Upon a Time is…

Will Gotham‘s Next Supervillain Arc Feature The Riddler?

Emily Blunt explains why Into the Woods was changed from stage to screen. James Gunn gives the definitive answer about a Guardians of the Galaxy/Avengers crossover. The Walking Dead spinoff gets its female lead. And are we close to seeing an Ant-Man trailer? Spoilers now! Top image: Gotham Into the Woods Emily Blunt talked about…

Once Upon a Time is doing a sequel to its graphic novel Shadow of the Queen. The sequel, due out in April 14, 2015, will be called The Darkest Past and will have “four never-before-told stories of fan favorite characters.” [Bleeding Cool]

Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer Are Sixtiestastic In Man From UNCLE Photo

It’s been a long time since we heard anything about Guy Ritchie’s big screen reboot of the 60s classic Man from U.N.C.L.E., but here we are with the first official still. I actually think Armie Hammer looks pretty great as Illya Kuryakin. There was a long casting process for this project, with the project starting…