Katharine Trendacosta

Who would be the Inside Out-style voices in your head? Salon asked thirteen comedians that question, including Inside Out star Amy Poehler, who says she calls Phyllis Smith (Fear) all the time just to hear her voice.

Claire Denis’ First English Film Will Be a Space Tale With Zadie Smith

Well this is exciting: director Claire Denis (I Can’t Sleep) and author Zadie Smith (White Teeth) are teaming up to make a science fiction movie. Keep on eye on this one, it’s going to be fascinating. All we know about the plot is that it’s a science fiction film, set in space “beyond the solar…

There Will Be Another Back to the Future Over Robert Zemeckis’ Dead Body

Robert Zemeckis is taking a stand for all of us: No remake, reboot, retool, re-anythinging of Back to the Future. Not while he’s alive. And, he hopes, not after, either. Luckily for a world currently drowning in remakes and reboots, the original contracts for Back to the Future give Zemeckis and co-writer Bob Gale final…

Advantageous Is An Insanely Good Movie That Everyone Should Watch

Sometimes, you see a haunting short film that just cries out to become a full-length movie. Case in point: Advantageous, a short film by Jennifer Phang released in 2013. She’s expanded it to full length, and the added time and budget have turned a beautiful short into an eerily intense feature. Some minor plot spoilers…

Watch the Adorable Short That Played Before The Hunger Games

Trailer is a fun short about a voiceover artist having a bit of trouble selling the action film he’s supposed to be pumping up. If you saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in a Pathe cinema in the Netherlands, then you’ve seen Trailer before. But for the rest of us, it’s a new experience.…

A Milky Cloud of a Nebula Floats Through Space

Nebula NGC 6153 is 4,000 lightyears away, located in the constellation of Scorpius. The elliptical cloud is the remains of the star that was once there, all its remains ejected once it ran out of fuel. In addition to being pretty, the European Space Agency explains why it’s interesting to scientists: Measurements show that NGC…

Somehow, There’s Going to Be a Sequel to Lucy.

From a pure profit perspective, a sequel to Lucy makes some sense. But from a story perspective? Nope. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp announced at CineEurope that there would be a sequel to last year’s Lucy. Given that movie made over $450 million at the box office on a $40 million budget,…

Dark Matter: Friendship is Mutiny

Here’s a fun little question: Is it mutiny if you can’t remember being a part of the crew? In episode 3, Dark Matter went with “No.” Spoilers… Let’s recap this show in the manner that makes the most sense. Which, oddly, isn’t chronologically. Because we’ve got a beginning and end mostly related to some larger…

In response to the newsthat Hasbro is using male pronouns for the toys of the decidedly female dinosaurs of Jurassic World, there is now a Change.org petitionto stop the sex-swapping. As of now, 1,680 signatures have been obtained.

The Harry Potter Play Opening Next Year Won’t Be a Prequel

We’ve known that J.K. Rowling was working on a play, but now we know for certain that it will open next year. And that, contrary to earlier speculation, it’s not a sequel. Rowling revealed that the play was written with Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and it will bear the name Harry Potter and…

If Your Life Were Fanfiction, How Would It Be Tagged?

Now you can find out! Ever since I found it, I have been completely unable to stop clicking the “generate tag” button on the AO3 Tag Generator. Full warning: Not only are a some of these NSFW, even the ones that aren’t will break your brain. Sometimes the tags on the fanfiction of Archive of…

The Sun Emitted a Lovely, Mid-Level Solar Flare Today

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of a mid-level solar flare that pealed at 4:16 EDT this morning. It comes from the sunspot group that’s been flaring up since it was spotted. Today’s flare was classified as an M7.9, M-classes being one tenth the size of X-class flares, the most intense. Luckily, (or unluckily,…

HBO Is Finally Working on a Science Fiction Romantic Comedy

Although HBO’s been gathering accolades for genre drama with Game of Thrones, next year could bring it into the realm of genre comedy, a niche that the premium network has left untouched. Until now. According to USA Today, the network’s inked a deal with Greg Daniels (The Office, King of the Hill) to develop a…

Tonight, the 41st Annual Saturn Awards were given out. Congratulations to the nominees and the winners!

In AMC’s New Android Show Humans, People Are the Real Monsters

Humans has already premiered in the UK, but American viewers will finally get to see this android show on June 28 on AMC. We talked to writer-producers Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley and with stars Katherine Parkinson and Tom Goodman-Hill, and they told us human beings are this show’s real monsters. AMC’s Humans takes place…

USA has already renewed Mr. Robot for a second season. Despite only just premiering, the positive reaction to the pilot — which was put up online in May — has drawn USA into an early renewal for the hacker show. [Deadline]

Channing Tatum Really Hated G.I. Joe

Channing Tatum’s career is on a definite upswing, but he still regrets being in G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra. That’s not a huge surprise, given that his character, Duke, dies early in the second movie. But he still has some strong words about it. Speaking with Howard Stern, Tatum says, “Look, I’ll be honest.…

Amy Schumer Gives Disney Princesses a Heaping Dose of Reality

Inside Amy Schumer recognizes that there are a few things missing from Disney fairy tales. Like peasant revolts. Marrying cousins. Your literal only job being to produce a male baby. Being executed when that doesn’t happen. Some things aren’t cured just by having Tim Gunn as your attaché. Contact the author at [email protected].

Why Not Wear a Scarf With Your Brainwave Knitted Into It?

NeuroKnitting is a project from Varvara Guljajeva , Mar Canet, and Sebastian Mealla which translates the brainwaves generated from listening to music into a knitting pattern that we can wear around our necks. Guljajeva and Canet are artists that have been working on an “open hardware” knitting machine, which they combined with PhD candidate Maella’s…

From collaborator to inspiration, two tributes to James Horner: Both James Cameron’s reflections in Entertainment Weeklyon the composer who was the “heart” of Titanic and Bear McCrary’s in Playboy on a man who was childhood hero are must reads.