Katharine Trendacosta

These Beautiful Special Book Collections Will Part You From Your Money

If anyone else is like me—a compulsive book buyer with not enough shelf space—the discovery of the Juniper Books’ gorgeous book covers is going to be both wonderful and painful. The top image is for the “Science Fiction Classics” set, which will run you $250 and includes the works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, H.G.…

Food and science have always had a significant overlap. The Guardian has a series of articles summarizing all the advances being made in the growth, production, cooking, and eating of food. All of it together will blow your mind.

Revel In This Surreal Short Where Flowers Are Coming For Us All

Anthophobia is one of those shorts that manages to create a whole world in just a few shots and very little dialogue. There’s a revolution coming, and we are on the wrong side of it. Everything director Valentin Petit uses in this short — the music, the cuts, the blocking — creates a creepy atmosphere.…

Breaking Up Mulder and Scully Is a Dumb Idea That Will Make The New X-Files Worse

Mulder and Scully on The X-Files are the couple who literally made “shipping” a thing, and they finally got together after years of romantic tension. But now, the new X-Files revival, airing next year, is going to break them up again. We’ve known for a while that this was happening—but yesterday, Chris Carter gave his…

A Truly Horrifying Nightmare Creature Menaces Mia Wasikowska in a New Crimson Peak Clip

If nothing else, Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Gothic horror movie Crimson Peak is using special effects to great effect. This thing is just terrifying. Update: Clip appears to be down now. Crimson Peak comes out on October 16. Contact the author at [email protected].

Woody Harrelson’s Playing the Human Evil in the Next Planet of the Apes

The only real danger in casting Woody Harrelson as your bad guy is that there’s every chance he runs away with the whole movie and we end up rooting for him instead of the apes. The next installment of the pre-boot of the Planet of the Apes—the lengthily titled War for the Planet of the…

The 10 Greatest Paranoid Survivalists Who Were Ready for Absolutely Anything

It’s survival week, so today we’re going to celebrate by looking at a group from movies and television that would look paranoid, except everyone really is out to get them. If it all goes to hell, stick close to these people. 1. Burt Gummer, Tremors We may as well start with possibly the best fictional…

The Red Planet’s Tiny South Pole

Our neighbor planet has a south pole like we do…with perhaps a slightly less impressive ice cap. Here’s the full image and one with the landmarks labeled: Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Contact the author at [email protected].

Take Disney’s Green Light Away: A New Mary Poppins Movie Is On the Way

I will give Disney this: at least there are actually other books to base this on. I will give them literally nothing else. Right, let’s get right down to the details: Disney is making a sequel to Mary Poppins because, why the fuck not at this point. It’ll take place twenty years after the original…

A Hunter Finds Himself In a Supernatural Swamp Where Nothing Is What It Seems

De l’autre côté is a short movie made for the French (who would have guessed based on the title?) channel Canal +. In it, a hunter meets a black wall while stalking a doe. Cutting through exposes the hunter to a strange world. [via Supinfocom] Contact the author at [email protected].

Fox Will Make a Good Fantastic Four Movie or Die Trying

Fox is moving beyond their Fantastic Four disaster (No, not that one. Not that one either. Yes, that one.) and focusing on making a sequel. Why is this the hill that they’re determined to die on? MTV caught up with writer/producer Simon Kinberg at the Toronto International Film Festival, who said he was “really focused…

These Gorgeous Science Fiction-Themed Prints Should Be On Your Walls Right Now

Artist Josh Lane has created a line of prints that incorporate classic science fiction shows and movies into the usual floral patterns. And now, I want a room devoted to each one of them. You can purchase these prints on pillows, shirts, posters, at Lane’s Society6 store—where you can also fall into a mini-panic over…

Nobody Pronounced “Voldemort” Correctly, in Eight Movies

If this tweet by J.K. Rowling doesn’t prove that authorial intent is irrelevant, then nothing will.

We Took Apart the American Horror Story: Hotel Trailer So You Wouldn’t Have To

We now have the first American Horror Story: Hotel trailer actually showing its characters. And all of it is stylized with cuts and zooms to the point where you’re going to have to go through it frame by frame to see everything. The reoccurring motif of this trailer are definitely the Addams Family-style children that…

An Adorable But Inept Creature Tries to Help a Man Overcome His Anxiety

If you were afraid of interacting with others, but even more annoyed by a suddenly-appearing supernatural creature, what would happen? The award-winning short But Milk Is Important is finally online. The graduation project from Anna Mantzaris and Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen, But Milk Is Important is eleven minutes of lovely stop-motion depicting the way social anxiety…

The Sadly Typical Routine of Off-Duty Stormtroopers

Photographer Jorge Pérez Higuera’s latest series of work is called “The Other Side,” and it will remind you that the vast majority of Imperials we see in the movies are just everyday mooks. Higuera told Wired: The most important thing for me is to value everyday life, underlining the fun aspects in each tiny detail…

What’s Going On In This Picture of Demons Dancing in the Moonlight?

Under a full moon, the demons gather in a circle. They dance until a mysteroius power lifts them off the ground, and they float above us all. What do you think is happening in this picture? And what happens to the people who encounter these demons? Image credit: Sing-Song. A nursery rhyme book. … With…

Watch This Short and Develop the Totally Rational Fear of Being Replaced by a Fox

Last year, we learned that Foxed! was going to be made into a full-length feature. Now, you can see the short for yourself, for free. And, yeah, it’s pretty terrifying. In James Stewart’s Foxed!, we meet Emily, a little girl kidnapped by foxes and forced to work in a mine. Her escape reveals that their…

Sky High Really, Really Needs To Be a TV Show

Last week, Sky High turned ten years old. And rewatching this classic superhero movie only made us appreciate it all over again—and now we’re wondering: Why isn’t this a TV show? This summer, Disney presented the world with another movie version of “children of heroes go to high school together and also save everyone.” It…

The First Krampus Trailer Reveals the Dark Side of Santa

It’s kind of amazing that there hasn’t been a Krampus-based horror movie released during the Holiday season. But this? This seems pretty perfect. The trailer hits the horror elements, but the interplay between Adam Scott and David Koechner is hilarious. And, surely, Koechner’s character gets Krampused, right? Or does this Krampus stick to his usual…