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Anatomy of a Movie Trailer

If you’ve ever wondered how film makers chop up and reassemble a two hour film into a two minute trailer, you need wonder no longer. The New York Times has visualized the contents of five recent film trailers, so you can see how they’re put together. In the visualizations, the horizontal axis represents time elapsed…

Movies Jamie Condliffe

Here’s Everything Wrong with Inception

Though it only seems like yesterday that Inception came out (because of everyone overusing the Inception horn), it’s been over 2 years since a big budget mainstream movie has wrinkled people’s brain like it did. But because it was so committed to wowing us with illogical logic, there were bound to be mistakes in the…

Movies Casey Chan

First look at the Battle School logos from Ender’s Game

It’s been months since we’ve seen anything from Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game movie, until now. The logos for each futuristic space station battle school have been revealed. When entering Battle School each student is shuffled off into a different battle team within the school. Hero Ender Wiggin is assigned to the Dragon Army. And it’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The very best responses to Safe Haven’s batsh*t ending

If you haven’t seen the movie adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ Safe Haven (or read the book) and wish to remain unspoiled on the most half-baked twist ending next to The Happening, then stop reading right here. For the rest you ready to hee-haw at the absolute WTF-ness of it all, we’ve rounded up some of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

It turns out being a Redshirt is less perilous than you think

A recent still from Star Trek: Into Darkness shows Benedict Cumberbatch surrounded by redshirts. This, we surmised, could only mean one thing. Anyone with a hint of SF-savvy knows that the grisly fate of a Starfleet crew member clad in crimson is as certain as Cumbermouth’s tubercle is sharply defined; in the Star Trek Universe,…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

Could this be the official ending to John Carpenter’s The Thing?

One great ambiguous ending is the last scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing. Even short films have been made dissecting the last few minutes where Kurt Russell and Keith David drink to their impending doom. Earlier this week a completely unverified rumor popped up on Reddit claiming to know who was infected in the final…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Worst Scifi Snubs in Oscar History

It’s Oscar season, so brace yourself for more snubs when it comes to science fiction movies. Speculative fiction has a crummy track record when it comes to the Academy Awards, and even when an iconic scifi flick scores Oscar nods, it tends to be ignored in everything but the technical categories (see: E.T., Star Wars,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

First clip from Oz the Great and Powerful shows the wicked temper of Oz’s witches

We’ve seen a collection of clips and featurettes for Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful, but we’ve yet to see one actual clip… until now. Behold the first real look at the ladies of Oz, sisters Evanora and Theodora, wildly accusing each other of collusion. Love the costumes, ladies. Here’s a quick featurette on…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A totally rad satire of computer hacker movies — in space!

CodeHackerz has everything you want from a hacker movie: crazy slo-mo scenes in blue light of two guys hacking, an asteroid headed straight for Earth (which can only be stopped by hacking), jokes about ARM processors and the Android OS, and random pictures of Bill Gates looking sexy. CodeHackerz was created by Jonathan Franco, Matthew…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Paranoid Movie Watches You Watch It and Changes to Your Liking

If Choose Your Own Adventure books weren’t your go-to in fourth grade there’s something seriously wrong with you. But you’re going to have another chance to dictate the creative process thanks to a movie that chooses its ending based on sensor data from the audience. Many Worlds is a 15 minute short film that taps…

Movies Lily Hay Newman

Take a closer look at the video game caricatures hanging on Wreck-It Ralph‘s bar walls

When Ralph heads into the bar-themed game Tapper’s in Wreck-It Ralph, the animators wanted to replicate the look of the famous New York restaurant Sardi’s, which has celebrity caricatures on the wall. But of course, the celebrities of Wreck-It Ralph are video game characters, giving the animators an excuse the cook up their own caricatures.…

Movies Lauren Davis

First clip from The Croods shows off a sex-crazed prehistoric bird monster

Dreamworks’ upcoming prehistoric comedy The Croods is really growing on us, with some truly beautiful production art and a host of odd-looking animals. This first clip gives us a peek at some of those critters in action, including Guy’s sloth, Belt, and one tiger-striped fellow who’s in danger of becoming lunch. But the star of…

Movies Lauren Davis

Stan Lee makes Batman, Inception, and Star Wars better by adding more Stan Lee

The folks at How It Should Have Ended are pros at cooking up better, hilarious endings to blockbuster films, and Stan Lee has a tendency to show up in every Marvel movie. So what happens when the two team up to insert Stan Lee in non-Marvel movies? Let’s just say there would be fewer Star…

Movies Lauren Davis

Sing the Monster University’s fight club song with Helen Mirren

A new Monster University viral showcases the MU fight song and Head Monster Helen Mirren’s voice. Yes Helen Mirren is playing the Monster Dean of Monster University. And she kind of looks like a dragon, because if you’re going to make the great actress Helen Mirren into a monster, it’s gotta be a freaking dragon.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Princess Bride wedding will make you believe in True Wuv again

This might be the most beautiful themed wedding we’ve ever seen. It isn’t just pulling at our heart strings — it’s yanking out feelings of whimsy and magic. The detail (the grandfather is dressed as Peter Falk and officiating). That DRESS! This is the most amazing Princess Bride wedding, nay cosplay wedding we’ve seen in…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Khal Drogo cast as Drax the Destroyer in Guardians Of The Galaxy

By my sun and my stars, what great news! Just last month rumors of casting for the brutish Drax the Destroyer in the new Marvel Guardians Of The Galaxy movie had narrowed the part down to three actors. Allegedly Isaiah Mustafa, Brian Patrick Wade and Dave Bautista were up for the part. But thank goodness…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Pacific Rim concept art reveals what the townsfolk do with rotting Kaiju carcasses

New Pacific Rim concept art proves that once again Guillermo del Toro thinks about monsters in a realistic manner uncommon to Hollywood. Take a look at the skull of a fallen Kaiju, stripped of its flesh and scales (or whatever matter covered this beastie) and half-converted into a temple. The scaffolding around the bottom looks…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Weta’s FX reel shows why working on The Hobbit made Ian McKellen cry

Months before The Hobbit premiered, Sir Ian McKellen revealed an exceptionally personal (and completely understandable) moment about how working tirelessly for hours talking to imaginary beings in greenscreen can wear an actor down. In an interview with Contact Music, Gandalf explained how working in this environment eventually brought him to tears “In order to shoot…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Criterion Collection Is Giving You All Their Movies Free on Hulu This Weekend

Criterion Collection, a company that collects and restores classic and otherwise culturally relevant films, is bestowing us with a wonderful little post-Valentines or mid-February or extremely-post-Groundhog’s Day gift: their entire catalogue of movies on Hulu will be 100 percent free this weekend. The equally gorgeous as they are massive selection of DVDs all come with…

Movies Ashley Feinberg

The 12 Most Horrifically Bad Dates in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy

No matter how disastrous your Valentines Day is shaping up to be, just remember: It could be worse. Science fiction and fantasy teach us that candle light and soft music can often lead death, disembowelment or being stuck at a table with a Captain Kirk who won’t pay and won’t let you finish your pizza.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Anatomy of a Movie Trailer

Here’s Everything Wrong with Inception

First look at the Battle School logos from Ender’s Game

The very best responses to Safe Haven’s batsh*t ending

It turns out being a Redshirt is less perilous than you think

Could this be the official ending to John Carpenter’s The Thing?

The Worst Scifi Snubs in Oscar History

First clip from Oz the Great and Powerful shows the wicked temper of Oz’s witches

A totally rad satire of computer hacker movies — in space!

Paranoid Movie Watches You Watch It and Changes to Your Liking

Take a closer look at the video game caricatures hanging on Wreck-It Ralph‘s bar walls

First clip from The Croods shows off a sex-crazed prehistoric bird monster

Stan Lee makes Batman, Inception, and Star Wars better by adding more Stan Lee

Sing the Monster University’s fight club song with Helen Mirren

This Princess Bride wedding will make you believe in True Wuv again

Khal Drogo cast as Drax the Destroyer in Guardians Of The Galaxy

Pacific Rim concept art reveals what the townsfolk do with rotting Kaiju carcasses

Weta’s FX reel shows why working on The Hobbit made Ian McKellen cry

The Criterion Collection Is Giving You All Their Movies Free on Hulu This Weekend

The 12 Most Horrifically Bad Dates in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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