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10 Totally Excellent Fictional Movie Bands

Since today marks the release of a new movie featuring a pair of dudes who just wanna rock, but also have to do things like time travel and save the world, we got to thinking about other standout bands—some heroic, some flat-out evil, and a few with zero human members—that’ve appeared in our favorite movies.…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The New Mutants Apparently Had Some Serious Behind-the-Scenes Drama

We’ve been talking about The New Mutants for so long they’re more like “The Old Mutants” at this point. The first trailer came out way back in 2017 and ever since, rumors and speculation about its release became so abundant it truly felt like the movie would never happen. Well, it’s happening. This weekend. And…

Movies Germain Lussier

Bill & Ted‘s Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Playing Their Iconic Characters as Middle-Aged Dudes

You can be excellent to each other at any age, but as Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) find in Bill & Ted Face the Music, it’s hard to feel excellent about yourself when you feel like you’re not living up to your potential. Of course, most people weren’t told in high school that…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in September

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to people staying home during the global pandemic—the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most services do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision…

Movies Germain Lussier

Star Wars‘ Kelly Marie Tran Will Be the Star of Disney’s Next Animated Epic, Raya and the Last Dragon

From a galaxy far, far away to a magical new land, the heroine behind The Last Jedi’s Rose Tico is finding new ways to delight us. When Disney first revealed its next big animated movie, Raya and the Last Dragon, at D23 last year, it also revealed that it had cast Degrassi: The Next Generation’s…

Movies James Whitbrook

Brand New Star Wars Art Breathes Fresh, Collectible Life Into the Mos Eisley Cantina

Few scenes scream “Star Wars” more than the one set in the Mos Eisley Cantina: the creatures, the music, the introduction of Han Solo and Chewbacca. It’s as iconic and memorable as Star Wars gets. And now, artist Kevin-John has immortalized it like never before, in a series of original paintings done exclusively for Star…

Movies Germain Lussier

More Risky Business

Tom Cruise has donned a very bad mask—the kind with the valves—and hit a movie theatre in London to watch Tenet, the latest Christopher Nolan palindrome which you should absolutely not go out and see. While none of us are here to harsh on Tom’s cinematic buzz, there are a few issues with this visit.…

Movies John Biggs

Everything (We Think) You Should Know Before Bill & Ted Face the Music

Break out the air guitars. After almost 30 years, the long-awaited, highly anticipated third Bill & Ted movie is finally coming out this week. Perhaps it’s time for a most triumphant refresher? Bill & Ted Face the Music picks up the story of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) basically in real-time. The best…

Movies Germain Lussier

It’s Not Worth It

The New Mutants is finally getting ready for its debut. It’s the biggest movie to open in the United States since the novel coronavirus pandemic started, and will be followed by an even bigger film, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. The studios and theaters might swear things will be okay, but all you have to do is…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other

Josh Boone’sThe New Mutants is a movie years in the making. It’s also technically the final piece of the puzzle to 20th Century Studios’ massive franchise of X-Men cinematic spectacles that have been steadily drawing people into movie theaters for decades now. Sometimes the stories were great and sometimes they were patently awful. io9 caught up…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Breaking Down The Batman‘s First Trailer: Haunting Secrets and Enigmatic Clues

At DC Fandome this past weekend, Matt Reeves stunned us all with a first look at Robert Pattinson in action as the latest Dark Knight in The Batman. It didn’t just give us a good look at RBatz though: it was our first, proper look into the latest cinematic incarnation of Gotham City, and its…

Movies James Whitbrook

Matt Reeves Says The Batman Will Find the Caped Crusader at a Pivotal Moment in His Heroic Evolution

This isn’t an origin story. If anything, it’s Batman: Year Two. (No, not the one where he almost shoots Joe Chill.) Talking yesterday at DC Fandome, Matt Reeves, the director of The Batman starring the very gothcore Batman stylings of Robert Pattinson, shed some intriguing light on what kind of Batman, precisely, we’ll be getting,…

Movies Julie Muncy

Shazam 2 Reveals Its Full Title and a Surprising Cast Member

Shazam proved a pleasant surprise when it was released last year—it was earnest, it was hopeful, it made a ton of money, and above all it was delightfully entertaining. Like most comic book movies, it also ended with a tease for a sequel that we haven’t heard too much about since—until now. At DC Fandome,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Black Adam‘s Justice Society Is Revealed at DC Fandome

While Batmen both new and old are making their way to future movies set in WB’s universe of loosely connected stories based on DC’s comics, another sort of dark, brooding figure is making his way to the big screen in the form of Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam. Though the Black Adam standalone is still a…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Your Explosive First Look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Is Here

They might be the bad guys, but they’re the right ones for the job. DC Fandome us our first look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad in the form of an extended behind the scenes video. It sees the return of some of DC’s coolest anti-heroes alongside a new wave of baddies ready to do…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Suicide Squad’s ‘Heroes’ Are Ready for Action

Don’t get attached: They might not be around for that long. The Suicide Squad writer and director James Gunn introduced the world to his squad members during a DC Fandome panel on Saturday, giving us a peek at what these villains will be doing and why this isn’t a sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 film.…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Flash Movie Will Kick-Off the DC Cinematic Multiverse

In a flash, we just went from knowing very little about the new Flash movie to knowing…a little bit more. At DC Fandome on Saturday, director Andy Muschietti was joined by actor Ezra Miller, writer Christina Hodson, and others, to pull the curtain back on the long-awaited new Flash movie. And, as expected, this is…

Movies Germain Lussier

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it was secretly torturing children in a basement it didn’t actually have. Shots were fired and panic ensued, but no one was physically harmed. Improbably, those real-life events are now the subject…

Movies Tom McKay

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

Jurassic Park ushered in a new era of digital visual effects in Hollywood, but did you know the filmmakers originally planned to bring the movie’s dinosaurs to life using stop-motion animation? Twenty-seven years after the film’s release, some of the incredibly rare puppets used to create Jurassic Park’s earliest dino screen tests are going up…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Holy DC FanDome Batman! It’s the Friday Gif Party

“Stay cool, Bird Boy.” That’s right, DC FanDome is around the corner and we’re channeling our internal Mr. Freeze with a DC gif party. Terrible one-liners preferred but not required. DC’s digital-only convention is promising some major DC news and reveals, including a brand-new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, a first look at Matt Reeves’…

Movies Beth Elderkin

10 Totally Excellent Fictional Movie Bands

The New Mutants Apparently Had Some Serious Behind-the-Scenes Drama

Bill & Ted‘s Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Playing Their Iconic Characters as Middle-Aged Dudes

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in September

Star Wars‘ Kelly Marie Tran Will Be the Star of Disney’s Next Animated Epic, Raya and the Last Dragon

Brand New Star Wars Art Breathes Fresh, Collectible Life Into the Mos Eisley Cantina

More Risky Business

Everything (We Think) You Should Know Before Bill & Ted Face the Music

It’s Not Worth It

The New Mutants Director Josh Boone Is Confident It’s a Comic Book Film Like No Other

Breaking Down The Batman‘s First Trailer: Haunting Secrets and Enigmatic Clues

Matt Reeves Says The Batman Will Find the Caped Crusader at a Pivotal Moment in His Heroic Evolution

Shazam 2 Reveals Its Full Title and a Surprising Cast Member

Black Adam‘s Justice Society Is Revealed at DC Fandome

Your Explosive First Look at James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Is Here

The Suicide Squad’s ‘Heroes’ Are Ready for Action

The Flash Movie Will Kick-Off the DC Cinematic Multiverse

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

Holy DC FanDome Batman! It’s the Friday Gif Party

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