Katharine Trendacosta

Help Get the Webcomic Chief O’Brien at Work Out of Cyberspace and Into a Book

We’ve written aboutChief O’Brien at Work, the webcomic about the true misery suffered by Miles O’Brien during his days on the Enterprise, before. But now you can support it on Kickstarter and allow him to move from digital to physical form, even if he still never gets to leave the transporter room. Chief O’Brien at…

Sing Muse and Bring Us Your Best Science Poetry

Left brain, right brain, BS! Today we are uniting the arts and the sciences, which means that we want your best science-based poetry. Haiku, sonnet, free verse—even the lowly limerick. All are welcome. Here’s an attempt of my very own: Water seems simple But drink too much, too quickly And get water drunk. Contact the…

Watch Teachers Flee From the Deadly Children in This Cooties Clip

We really loved Cooties, and now we have an exclusive clip to prove to you why. In it, you can see the all-star cast of teachers—Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, and Nasim Pedrad—trying to get to safety when their charges turn into zombies. Cooties will be available in theaters and…

Sesame Street’s Version of Clash of the Titans is Vastly Superior to the Film

Things I love: Pegafish, Moo-dusa, “Release the cracker!” Things that are clear improvements over the 2010 version of this film: Cookie Monster instead of Sam Worthington. Plus, this one comes with a lesson on focus and memory. Everything here is better than the 2010 film. h/t researchgrrrl Contact the author at [email protected].

Syfy has renewed both Dark Matter and Killjoys for second seasons, thirteen episodes for the former and ten for the latter. When the shows return in 2016, they’ll join new shows The Magicians and The Expanse and returning show 12 Monkeys.

Chloe Grace Moretz Details All the Ways Humans Were Killed in the 5th Wave Trailer

Things do not look good for humanity in the first trailer for Sony’s The 5th Wave, based on the Rick Yancey novels. We’ve got Moretz’s Cassie going through the empty world with a gun at the ready, while her voiceover lists the four other waves of alien destruction. Then Liev Schreiber shows up to talk…

Game of Thrones Could Be Filming Some of the Book Plots the Show Skipped Over Before

There are a ton of Game of Thrones rumors, some more plausible than others. Bill Murray explains why he’s coming back to Ghostbusters. Find out what Skye is up to on Agents of SHIELD. Plus our first look at Lucy Lane in Supergirl. Spoilers now! Ghostbusters Bill Murray explained how his cameo in this film…

Find 25 Minutes to Watch This Short About a Young Boy and His Powers

Umkhungo (The Gift) is really, really good. It’s a self-contained story about Themba, a young boy whose powers have branded him cursed. When his parents die, he ends up with a street thug named Mthunzi. The two eventually come to an understanding, just as Themba’s uncles and the authorities close in. Umkhungo started as one…

Explore the International Space Station (Toilets and All) With This Interactive Map 

Before the end of her record-setting stint on the International Space Station, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a number photos of each module of the ISS, which the European Space Agency has stitched together into an awesome interactive tour. The panoramic tour allows visitors to move through the ISS, seeing it as it was in June,…

Which would come out on top in a duel, a lightsaber or the Sword of Gryffindor? This is the mindbending question posed by theRadioTimes (via Ask Science Fiction). As Harry Potter’s Sword pulls in whatever makes it stronger and Star Wars’ lightsaber is crystal-focused energy, what happens when they meet?

Yet More Evidence That Andrew Garfield Deserved Better as Spider-Man

No matter what else went wrong with the Amazing Spider-Man movies, Andrew Garfield’s passion for the character was never in doubt. Unfortunately, along with being deeply invested in something comes the opportunity to be deeply let down. Garfield was asked what he learned from being Spider-Man and his answer is, well, very bleak: Well, nothing,…

 Dark Matter Ends With a Twist No One Saw Coming — Which Is a Bad Thing

Two hours of episodes brought an end to season one of Dark Matter. One was a pretty standard by now background story, the other team story ending on a season finale cliffhanger. And the cliffhanger is stupid. Spoilers… So, episode 12: We meet Two’s creator, who is Wil Wheaton. I don’t care what his character’s…

Key and Peele Has the Canonical Take on How Gremlins 2 Came to Be

What Joe Dante is linking to is an article with the Key and Peele sketch “’Gremlins 2 Brainstorm,’” which is not just an accurate description of how Gremlins 2 was written, but appears like a direct link to the mind of every sequel writer’s room ever. Here’s the sketch — it’s the uncensored version, so…

The Walking Dead Will Make a TV Special About Zombies on a Plane

It’s not a surprise that the success of Fear the Walking Dead has spurred AMC to make more content set in that period. But this time, they’re going to make a special that both stands alone and introduces a new character to one of the ongoing series. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that AMC will make…

Atlantis: The Lost Empire Is a Beautiful Gem of a Movie That Deserved Better Than It Got

In 2001, Disney released its 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. They did a lot of things differently with this movie, and that may have influenced its mediocre box office. But it was all those risks that make it so wonderful. From a purely design perspective, Atlantis is a beautiful movie. In the beginning…

Jessica Lange Isn’t Done With American Horror Story 

Even though it’s been said for ages that Freak Show was going to be Jessica Lange’s final season of American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy’s now saying that they’re finding a way of bringing her back. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Murphy was pretty definitive: I’ve been talking to her. It’s always possible. I’m trying to deal…

So, Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Character Ever Walk Into a Bar … 

Artist Noah Stacey (Zen-Master on DeviantArt) created this piece of art for the menus at Storm Crow Tavern in Vancouver, which imagines a galactic way station where Lando absolutely destroys Link at holographic monster chess. See the full art below. Contact the author at [email protected].

Guillermo Del Toro Wants Pacific Rim 3 to Have Godzilla as a Guest Star

Guillermo Del Toro wants to move Pacific Rim from kaiju homage to straight-up kaiju canon. Good luck with that. Speaking with Movie Pilot, Del Toro said: So far with the sequel, what we’re writing, what we’re creating, is very different, so there are no plans. Hypothetically, I would love the fuck out of it. I…

Here’s the Trailer for the Remastered Iron Giant For You to Cry At

No, I’m not crying. You’re crying. Brad Bird’s amazing 1999 film has been remastered for a Blu-Ray release this fall. But before that, it’s going back into the theaters on September 30 and October 4. So if you’ve only caught it on small screens, this is your chance to catch Vin Diesel’s greatest ever performance…

ITV’s Jekyll & Hyde Looks Adequately Ridiculous 

ITV released the first clip from its 10-part Jekyll & Hyde series. And it turns out that Jekyll/Hyde is basically a Victorian superhero in it. I can’t quite decide what I like best about this: the random slow-mo? The sad little face of Jekyll when he’s roughed up? The way the music swells when he…