Katharine Trendacosta

Maddy Myers has an excellent take on the resulting—if small—fandom for Kilgrave following Jessica Jones. “Although I may not fully understand the fandom surrounding Kilgrave, I do understand the general desire to reclaim a bad experience or experiment within a fictional or virtual space.” Read the whole thing here.

You Can Finally Watch One of This Year’s Best Shorts Online

We were really impressed with the trailer for The Shaman when it came out in March. And now, after a successful run at film festivals, you can finally see it for yourself. At seventeen minutes, The Shaman is a bit longer than many other shorts, but that’s not to its detriment. It just contributes to…

Bruce Wayne Meets Clark Kent in the Latest Batman v Superman Trailer

During Jimmy Kimmel Live, Warner Bros. premiered the newest trailer of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (still its real, long, name). In its three minutes, we see Bruce tell Clark how he feels about Superman. And it’s not a good opinion. We also spend some quality time with Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex, who is just…

Paramount’s Adaptation of The Stars My Destination Finally Gets a Writer

We first heard that Alfred Bester’s intense The Stars My Destination was being made into a movie back in March. And it looks like Paramount and Disruption Entertainment are full-steam ahead, finally figuring out who has the chops to adapt this sucker. Deadline reports that David DiGilio (Traveler) has been picked to write the screenplay.…

iZombie Shares the Unexpected Benefits of Stalking

I’m not saying being a stalker or a crazy jealous girlfriend is a good thing in real life, but, story-wise, it’s good for Liv to be a bit suspicious of Major as last night’s iZombie episode “The Hurt Stalker” proved. Spoilers… Instead of either a massive episode focusing on one of the season-long plotlines or…

The Best Star Wars Books Are the X-Wing Novels. Fight Me.

The original Star Wars Expanded Universe novels are a mixed bunch, to say the least. There’s some good, some bad, and some mediocre. And while Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn saga usually gets the most attention, I am here to say that the best books are actually the X-Wing novels. Come at me. As usual for these…

Bruce Campbell “Leaks” a Script for the Ash Vs. Walking Dead Crossover We’ve Always Wanted

Just a fun little reminder that every show’s supernatural problems would be easily fixed just by having Ash show up. Read the full tweet below. Contact the author at [email protected].

The Outlander Season 2 Teaser Brings Our Heroes to a Decadent France

In a teaser that’s less than a minute long, Outlander shows our heroine ditching the rustic wools of Scotland for the lush silks of France. Also, Claire is super pregnant in one of the scenes. I am going to dock Jamie for answering Claire’s question about whether they can change things with “You tell me,…

The Librarians Proves That a Show Can Be Deep Without Being Dark

I don’t know what to tell you about The Librarians. This week they put John de Lancie as the devil and John Larroquette as Galahad in cocktail party to snipe politely at each other. If you’re not watching for things like that, you are beyond help. Spoilers for “And the Infernal Contract” follow. I’ll tell…

Things Are Finally Happening on Once Upon a Time 

After weeks of barely any forward motion and endless nesting flashbacks, Once Upon a Time is finally moving forward with an actual plot. Why they couldn’t have told this story in order so it didn’t feel like we were stuck in a time machine hopping all over the place, I still don’t know. On the…

Peter Jackson Filmed a Mini-Episode of Doctor Who to Announce He’s Directing a Full Episode of Doctor Who

Peter Jackson just dropped a video “announcement” on his Facebook page to confirm something we first heard rumblings about three years ago: The director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies will be bringing his skills to an upcoming episode of Doctor Who. In all honesty, this should be great match of director…

Celebrate the Women of Marvel and DC With This Art

From Thony Silas are this two-work series called “DC Girls Vs. A-Force.” You can find more of his work at his blog and his DeviantArt page. Contact the author at [email protected].

In the Trailer, Fox’s Second Chance Resurrects a Cop and Makes Him Better, Stronger, Faster  

They have the technology. Second Chance used to be Lookinglass which used to be Frankenstein Code. Looks like we’ve dropped the literary pretenses entirely, save for the fact that Jimmy Pritchard is wearing a Lookinglass-branded outfit and “Mary” is undoubtedly named after Mary Shelley. But what we’ve been left with feels pretty much exactly like…

Jessica Jones Is a Show About Trauma That Doesn’t Skip Over The Complexity of PTSD

Plenty of media narratives touch on trauma and recovery nowadays, and PTSD has become a common trope. But in real life, everybody deals with trauma differently—and Marvel’s new series Jessica Jones actually shows the vast array of responses that people can have to traumatic events. Spoilers for Jessica Jones follow. One of the best choices…

This Sad Short About a Woman Who Can’t Find Anything at a Lost and Found Has a Happy Ending

“Lost Property” is a short where everything is perfect. The metaphor of the office and the photos is wonderfully executed. The characters are animated with a lot of sympathy. And the visuals are beautiful. Maybe it’s because of the holidays, but Åsa Lucander’s short just pushes all of the emotional buttons. [via Vimeo Staff Picks]…

Every Hint and Clue Hidden in the Captain America: Civil War Trailer

You’ve seen the trailer and basked in its glory. It’s huge-cast, heroes-fighting-heroes glory. Now it’s time to slow down and figure out what it all means. Spoilers in the form of references to rumor and theory ahead. The trailer starts in what looks like the exact same garage as the tag from Ant-Man. We’ve got…

Netflix and Marvel Know the Exact Ten Seconds Which Will Make Us Squeal 

Last week, the Daredevil Twitter account had a short video of Luke’s taking over for Josie’s in Hell’s Kitchen. Now, Jessica Jones is getting in on the act. I guess if you need a lawyer in New York, and you’re the kind of girl who can punch through walls, this is the card you’ll eventually…

This Star Wars Expanded Universe Story Proves That Luke Is the Worst Jedi Master

Hello, and welcome to a nostalgic trip through the old Star Wars Expanded Universe. This time, I’m looking at the first EU books I ever read, Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy. Brace yourselves, because there’s a lot of stupid going on in here. Twenty-year-old spoilers follow. To this day, I remain shocked that third-grade…

HBO Teases Game of Thrones‘ Worst Kept Secret in a New Poster

This is a spoiler alert. So is this. And this. This makes four spoiler alerts. Seriously, by clicking on this article, you acknowledge that you understand the risks herein, okay? No one is allowed to complain about being spoiled. So here’s the new poster: Looks like HBO’s given up pretending that there’s any answer to…

The Librarians Saves the Library, Bores the Hell Out of Us

In The Librarians “And the Hollow Men,” we, sigh, spent most of the time on Flynn and Baird’s relationship with him. An electron microscope could not find how little I care about either. Spoilers… Last night’s episode started with both the Librarian team and Flynn running into each other while hunting down a Sumerian artifact.…