Katharine Trendacosta, Author at Gizmodo

Robert Kirkman Won’t Tell AMC How The Walking Dead Ends

In fact, not only won’t Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman tell the network that runs the hit show based on his comic, he won’t tell showrunner Scott Gimple what’s going happen in the comics, either. The crazy thing is that Gimple is such a TWD fan, he doesn’t want to know. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly…

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Crystal Star Really Is the Worst Star Wars Book Ever

Of the approximately eleventy billion books in the original Star Wars Expanded Universe, there are the hallowed (the Thrawn books by Timothy Zahn), the good (the X-Wing books), the bad (The Jedi Academy), and the mediocre (…most of them). And then there’s The Crystal Star, a novel so bad it ruined me. Let this article…

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Here’s a Photo of the Rock Wielding a Flamethrower While Riding a Motorcycle on the Jumanji Set

Today, as in most days, we wish we were the Rock. I don’t know why exactly, but this image speaks to me. At the very least I feel better for having seen it. Whatever reservations I have for the very idea of doing another Jumanji, I’m so glad this exists. And that someone in this…

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You Will Be Haunted By This Animated Short About Two Sisters

“Eñvor” is a short by Leïla Courtillon that not only has some really lovely animation, but some of the best uses of sound I’ve ever seen in a short. There is very little dialogue but it’s used to great effect, especially when you’re comparing the beginning to the end. And the chanting background music is…

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I Don’t Know How to Blog About Movies Today

I’m sorry, I don’t know what to say today. I had no plan for this. I like to think we have fun here. We write about television, movies, and comics—things we unabashedly love. And we write honestly about the faults we find in those things because we think that’s valuable. We’ll keep doing that, as…

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Fox Is Scrambling to Reboot Its X-Men Franchise: Report

Fox’s X-Men universe is in trouble and Fox knows it. Its bona fide star, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, is done after Logan. The last X-Men movie made much less than the one before it. And Deadpool just lost its director. Add to that Gambit’s stalled production and it all adds up to Fox’s only successful…

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Everyone and Their Mother Was Right: Michael Keaton Is Playing the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming

For the longest time, Marvel had confirmed two things that could easily be put together: Michael Keaton was in the movie and the movie’s villain was Vulture. Marvel president Kevin Feige finally put us out of our misery by casually confirming that Keaton would be playing the character. This has been the rumor literally since…

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A Cut Fantastic Beasts Scene Involved a Lot of Singing

I know that when I think of falling in love, I think of my school song. Slashfilm has the details on two deleted scenes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from director David Yates. One is a heartbreaking bit where Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) loses his fiancee because he didn’t get a loan…

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Warner Bros. Needs to Stop Whining About All the Money Its DC Movies Made

Yesterday, the New York Times published a short profile on the current state of Warner Bros. titled “Warner Bros., Quietly Thriving, Recasts Its Own Story.” That article repeats a refrain we’ve heard from this company before: Why does everyone keep saying we’re in trouble? All those badly-reviewed movies still made money. The article draws a…

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If Johnny Depp Is Going to Be Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2, He Better Have a Love Affair With Dumbledore

Along with the news that the Fantastic Beasts movies are looking to cast a young Dumbledore, all we care about is if the emotional core of the next couple of films is going to be the betrayal Dumbledore feels when the man he falls in love with turns out to be evil. It’s not a…

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The Story Behind Independence Day‘s Title: ‘We Can Come Up With Something Better Later’

Originally, Independence Day was just a generic alien invasion flick, until its makers picked a release date designed to get their movie into theaters before Mars Attacks! Then Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin did what we’d all do with that: theme the whole movie around that date. The Guardian interviewed Emmerich and Bill Pullman about…

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Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

We knew that the old classic songs would be there and that there would be new music as well, but that there are Howard Ashman lyrics from Disney’s original animated film that will be used in the upcoming live-action movie is great news. The unused lyrics will be mostly in “Gaston,” causing a bunch of…

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A Great Explanation of the Obscure Psychology Theory That Drives Westworld

In episode three of Westworld, Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) describes the theory of the mind that his co-founder, Arnold, used to try to create consciousness in the hosts. It’s called the bicameral mind, and for those of us who don’t want to read a nearly 500-page book from 1976 in order to learn more about…

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Star Ezra Miller Says That What the Third Flash Director Needs Most of All Is Heart

Given that two other directors have left the project over “creative” issues, we would have answered “a tolerance for interference” as the answer. But depending on how you count it, the 2018 Flash movie is on its third or fourth director. This leaves poor Ezra Miller writing a list of qualities on a piece of…

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Westworld Might Be at Its Best When It’s Not Teasing Us With Timeline BS

I had almost convinced myself that the “plot” of Westworld wasn’t that important. That it was both semi-impossible to figure out what the twists and turns were and, more importantly, that doing so was a distraction from what the show was actually about: the characters’ journeys of self-discovery, the nature of narrative, and exploring what…

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Jason Momoa Assumed Zack Snyder Wanted Him to Play a Villain in Justice League

You can’t actually fault Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. for their out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to casting. And, when it came to Aquaman, it was such an unusual offer that it wasn’t even close to what Jason Momoa thought he was being called in for. For all of its other problems, most of the…

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Last Night’s Westworld Had a Creepy Homage to the Original Film

There was a moment in last night’s Westworld that made everyone who’s seen the original film freeze in shock. Thankfully for our sanity, showrunner Jonathan Nolan has confirmed that we all saw what we thought we saw. In “The Adversary,” Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) travels down into the bowels of the Westworld office in order to…

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The Complicated Morality of The Good Place

In The Good Place, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is a woman who dies and goes to the titular afterlife, a quaint paradise that is almost perfect—except for the fact Eleanor is a terrible person who has arrived there by mistake. It’s an unusual plot for a primetime sitcom, even more so since The Good Place…

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Did Captain Hook Chop His Kid’s Hand Off?

Or are hook hands hereditary in the world of Disney’s Descendants? Today, were were treated to an image of the son of Gaston (Gil, played by Dylan Playfair), the daughter of Ursula (Uma, played by China Anne McClain), and the son of Captain Hook (Harry, played by Thomas Doherty). I’m shocked he’s not named Hooky,…

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The 10 Best Comic Book Characters That Weren’t Actually Created in the Comics

There are a lot of things from the movies and TV shows making their way into the comics these days, since both influence each other in an endless marketing cycle. This list is about characters who, these days, are important enough to the original comic book world they were spawned from that it’s genuinely strange…

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Robert Kirkman Won’t Tell AMC How The Walking Dead Ends

Crystal Star Really Is the Worst Star Wars Book Ever

Here’s a Photo of the Rock Wielding a Flamethrower While Riding a Motorcycle on the Jumanji Set

You Will Be Haunted By This Animated Short About Two Sisters

I Don’t Know How to Blog About Movies Today

Fox Is Scrambling to Reboot Its X-Men Franchise: Report

Everyone and Their Mother Was Right: Michael Keaton Is Playing the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming

A Cut Fantastic Beasts Scene Involved a Lot of Singing

Warner Bros. Needs to Stop Whining About All the Money Its DC Movies Made

If Johnny Depp Is Going to Be Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2, He Better Have a Love Affair With Dumbledore

The Story Behind Independence Day‘s Title: ‘We Can Come Up With Something Better Later’

Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

A Great Explanation of the Obscure Psychology Theory That Drives Westworld

Star Ezra Miller Says That What the Third Flash Director Needs Most of All Is Heart

Westworld Might Be at Its Best When It’s Not Teasing Us With Timeline BS

Jason Momoa Assumed Zack Snyder Wanted Him to Play a Villain in Justice League

Last Night’s Westworld Had a Creepy Homage to the Original Film

The Complicated Morality of The Good Place

Did Captain Hook Chop His Kid’s Hand Off?

The 10 Best Comic Book Characters That Weren’t Actually Created in the Comics

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!