Marc Bernardin, Author at Gizmodo

Which Single Episode Would You Magically Erase from Your Favorite TV Show?

Even legitimately great television shows have them: installments that just don’t fit, don’t work, or just out-and-out suck. Which ones would you like to wipe from memory? (Yes, BSG’s “Black Market,” we’re looking at you.) It’s not that any TV show is “perfect” — they’ve all got their clunkers, it’s just the nature of the…

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Get Your Dose of Fluffy Guerilla Combat with Cat Shit One

If you ever wondered what modern asymmetrical warfare would look like if the combatants were rabbits, cats, and weasels, look no further than this long-in-the-works anime series, which is finally due out this fall. That clip dropped almost a year ago, but word has come from the producers that Cat Shit One is approaching the…

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Will Chatroom Break the Crappy-Movies-About-the-Internet Curse?

It’s coming from J-horror trailblazer Hideo Nakata — director of Ringu and Dark Water — and it’s full of young people doing sexy-dangerous things. But can Chatroom do what no other film has: make the internet interesting? At first blush, Chatroom looks like a shabby-chic gloss on the virtua-world of Caprica: attractive young things looking…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 7

Household Robots May Prove Lethal

A team of German researchers have conducted a series of tests — featuring robots equipped with slashing or stabbing tools — to see if a prototype safety system could minimize the potentially deadly damage inflicted. Looking ahead at a world where humans and robots might be working together in close quarters, perhaps in a domestic…

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Rise of the Apes: Jamming More Monkey Business Down Our Throats Next Summer

Fox has settled on June 24, 2011 as the release date for their contemporary Planet of the Apes prequel — which, hopefully, will feature neither Tim Burton or Mark Wahlberg. According to Deadline, director Rupert Wyatt is planning to use WETA to create entirely CG apes, eliminating the need for actors in simian makeup. As…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 7

Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Firefly

You think you know it all, given that you’ve pored over the 13 episodes (and feature extension) of Joss Whedon’s scifi oater, but you’d be wrong. Here are two handfuls of new mysteries, solved! [Television Without Pity]

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Saucy Star Wars Condoms: Oh, You Naughty Frenchpersons

This probably isn’t real, but that’s too bad, because it’s hilarious. In case your French is rusty, the words on the fauxphylactic mean “I will not be your father.” And while we’re on the subject of Star Wars and impregnation, this might be the best impeding birth announcement ever: At least it didn’t impact on…

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There’s a Dam Hole in the World

No, these aren’t tunnels to alternate universes, or a path to your Sideways life: these are spillways, designed to prevent dam erosion. [via TwistedSifter]

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When Worlds Collide: The Muppets Versus Team Darlton

If anyone can weasel secrets of Lost’s final arc from Damon Lindelof and Cartlon Cuse, and make a little cash on the side, it’s a rat — Rizzo the Rat — and a giant bear. [Slashfilm]

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Inside Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class with Marvel’s Go-To Screenwriters

Zack Stentz and Ashley Edward Miller made their genre bones in TV, as writer-producers on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe. Now they’re shifting to movies with Thor and X-Men: First Class under their utility belts. How did you guys end up on Fox’s radar for First Class? Zack Stentz: We had one of…

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Raising Money to Keep Joss Whedon in the Hot, Ass-Kicking Chicks Business

You know, His Jossness doesn’t need the money, but anyone who can — in a mere two minutes — demolish Stephen Baldwin and exalt Whedon’s penchant for making TV with attractive, ball-busting women earns our love.

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Great Moments in Crazy Human Mutation

The sight of men and women changing into something new, different, and — albeit rarely — better has transfixed audiences for decades. Usually gory, frequently scary, and occasionally hilarious, here are some of cinema’s greatest moments of mutant transformation. SCANNERS The first time David Cronenberg blew minds — his characters’ and ours. Featuring some astonishing…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 6

Meaning to Do Good or Inflict Harm Stimulates Enhanced Strength

A new study reveals that harboring beneficial intentions — or, conversely, the desire to do evil — results in an increased threshold for strength and endurance. In other words, you can be super if you really want to. A study conducted by Harvard doctoral student Kurt Gray has found that people who either did good…

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Rubber: A Superhero Movie About a Tire That Kills With Its Mind. No, Really.

Just when you thought you’ve seen almost every permutation of the superhero mythos comes a French flick — premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — about revenge-mad automotive parts. Directed by Quentin Depieux, Rubber is about a tire who, after seeing a pile of his fellow tires burning, goes on a revenge odyssey and…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 5

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Sets a Due Date

The fourth chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s werewolves v. vampires v. high school girls saga is hitting theaters late next year. Summit has laid claim to Nov. 18, 2011 for the Bill Condon-directed film, based on Meyer’s final Twilight novel. It’s still unclear if Breaking Dawn will be one or two films, but either way…something Breaking…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 5

Do You Really Want Darth Vader Giving You Driving Directions?

It sounds like a good idea, at first: programming your GPS with the Sith Lord’s dulcet tones so he can tell you when to turn and when to stop. But how long before all that heavy breathing gets insufferable? We might’ve been a little hard on ol’ Darthy recently, but we’ve still got a lot…

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Great Movie Quotes, Rendered in Chart Form

While you might not think the best way for Han Solo to tell Luke “May the Force be with you” is via checklist, this rendering of some of cinema’s best quotations as data points is fascinating. [FlowingData]

Movies Marc Bernardin May 4

Chuck Versus the Taking Things For Granted

The newly committed Chuck and Sarah couple meet the CIA’s most successful married spies: Fred Willard and Swoozie Kurtz. Oh, and there’s a tiger, the Awesomes’ African adventure, and Morgan posting up on Big Mike. There’s an old saw that goes something like, “Take a good look at your girlfriend’s mother, because that’s who you’re…

Television Marc Bernardin May 4

The Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do

We’ve been watching movies and TV long enough to know that when a computer’s involved, it’s a magic box that can do whatever the story requires it to. Even if it bears no resemblance to reality. Most of this list, compiled by some expert wonks in the UK, is made up of perfectly valid examples…

Movies Marc Bernardin May 4

Kids! Reading Comics! Remember That?

LIFE.com has published an amazing gallery of children in the ’40s and ’50s devouring comic books. And these nostalgic images underline the fact that kids pretty much don’t do that anymore. Michael Chabon’s keynote speech at the 2004 Eisner Awards is full of wonderful turns of phrase and well-reasoned theories as to why the children…

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Which Single Episode Would You Magically Erase from Your Favorite TV Show?

Get Your Dose of Fluffy Guerilla Combat with Cat Shit One

Will Chatroom Break the Crappy-Movies-About-the-Internet Curse?

Household Robots May Prove Lethal

Rise of the Apes: Jamming More Monkey Business Down Our Throats Next Summer

Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Firefly

Saucy Star Wars Condoms: Oh, You Naughty Frenchpersons

There’s a Dam Hole in the World

When Worlds Collide: The Muppets Versus Team Darlton

Inside Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class with Marvel’s Go-To Screenwriters

Raising Money to Keep Joss Whedon in the Hot, Ass-Kicking Chicks Business

Great Moments in Crazy Human Mutation

Meaning to Do Good or Inflict Harm Stimulates Enhanced Strength

Rubber: A Superhero Movie About a Tire That Kills With Its Mind. No, Really.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Sets a Due Date

Do You Really Want Darth Vader Giving You Driving Directions?

Great Movie Quotes, Rendered in Chart Form

Chuck Versus the Taking Things For Granted

The Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do

Kids! Reading Comics! Remember That?

In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating ‘Attacks’ Against It

Artemis 2 Day 6: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

Anonymous Sources Detail Sam Altman’s Alleged Untrustworthiness in New Report

Steven Spielberg Still Wants to Make a Horror Film ‘Someday’

Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next

Samsung Pushes Monitor Deals Further, the 34″ ViewFinity Hits a Record Low at Nearly 40% Off

The Best Anti-Meta Smart Glasses Are About to Have Tough Competition

The Artemis 2 Mission Is Leaning in on the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Love

Here’s How Many Americans Have Ever Thought About Shooting Someone Else

As Meta Flounders, It Reportedly Plans to Open Source Its New AI Models

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Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound