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10 Movies That Will Traumatize Your Child With Anthropomorphism

Animated objects seem cute when they’re on screen. But when the movie ends, the idea that the objects around us have human feelings can be pretty damaging. There are a ton of movies seemingly designed to turn your child (or your inner child) into a quivering, ultrasensitive ball of neuroses. Here are ten movies with…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

In The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas is the world’s worst mad scientist

In The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas keeps a woman prisoner in his house and experiments on her. He uses her as a human guinea pig for an super-strong artificial skin that will resist burns and bug bites. But it’s what happens afterwards that makes Antonio Banderas’ character the worst mad scientist in movie…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Classic Board Games Photoshopped into terrifying horror films

Battleship, Monopoly, Ouija — these are all real board games Hollywood has been turning (or at least attempting to turn) into major motion pictures. But what about the rest of the classic brain teasers? A Photoshop contest challenged folks to imagine even more board game movies — by creating horror movie posters. The results were…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A Real Studio Movie Is Being Made from a Reddit Comment

Reddit has sold out! Er, not really. But! Warner Bros has bought movie rights to a story idea that originated as a Reddit comment. It all started when someone posted a question wondering if today’s US Marines could defeat Roman Empire legionnaires if they traveled back in time. James Erwin, an author and two-time Jeopardy…

Movies Casey Chan

The director of The Thing reveals the alien’s secret backstory

While writing and shooting the prequel to John Carpenter’s ice-cold horror story The Thing, director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. had a chance to explore the original movie’s backstory. Find out how and why the thing crashed on Earth in our exclusive interview. Was The Thing always going to be a prequel movie? Or did it…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch the Latest Muppets Trailer Before It Hits Theaters

I’m so ready to watch this movie already. We’ve seen official and unofficial trailers before but here’s the latest loaded with plot juiciness! The Muppets aren’t famous anymore! Kermit gets mistaken for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle! London! Paris! Singing chickens! NPH! Walter? https://gizmodo.com/finally-a-legit-muppet-movie-trailer-5813672 Yeah, let’s do this. It comes out Thanksgiving. [YouTube]

Movies Casey Chan

Awesome Movie Idea: Space Opera Author Discovers a Real-Life Space Opera That Involves Earth

We loved the horror-comedy Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, and we were sad it didn’t really have a supernatural or science-fiction theme. So we’re pretty excited about Hyperdrive, a new science fiction movie from Tucker and Dale co-writer Morgan Jurgenson. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Hyperdrive is about: a tough cop who recruits a geeky…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

All the John Carpenter Easter Eggs in The Thing prequel

The Thing prequel’s cast and crew reveal their favorite nods to the John Carpenter classic hidden in the new film. Which we then chopped up and recreated with original 1982 Carpenter footage so you’ll know exactly what to look for inside this horror film. Here’s the official synopsis: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery…

Movies Meredith Woerner

We’ve seen Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s 3D children’s movie

At the New York Film Festival this Monday, Martin Scorsese was on-hand to unveil the very first showing of his upcoming historical-fiction flick Hugo. It was an unfinished cut of the film — the occasional green screen popped into shots — but this screening gave audiences a taste of Scorsese’s lustrous Parisian wonderland. The director’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Paul Verhoeven thinks all science fiction films should be converted to 3D

The director behind classics such as Total Recall and Starship Troopers thinks all science fiction movies should be converted into 3D. In an interview with 3D Focus Verhoeven said: “I think all science fiction could be converted, because there are so many visuals and it is so much about the spectacle that you can do…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Lessons that Other Movie Series Can Learn from James Bond

The 23rd James Bond movie is about to start production, with Sam Mendes (American Beauty) directing. Imagine if there had been 23 Batman movies. Or 23 Star Trek movies. Few other movie series can boast that kind of staying power, not just in terms of number of movies but in terms of enduring cultural relevance.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The saddest Voltron fan film ever made, starring Lassie from Psych

We’re accustomed to Voltron being a psychedelic romp about candy-colored cat mecha, but what if the cartoon’s heroes met a horrific fate? Director Alex Albrecht ponders this doomsday scenario in his new fan movie, Voltron: The End, which stars Timothy Omundson (a.k.a. Eli from Xena: Warrior Princess and Carlton Lassiter from Psych). Grim stuff! Hopefully…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Exclusive footage from In Time shows the madness of a world where rich people live forever

Take an exclusive look inside Andrew Niccol’s (The Truman Show, Gattaca) futuristic class warfare flick In Time — where time really is money. Meet Will (Justin Timberlake), a working stiff who wakes up every morning with 24 hours on his life clock. Plus Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) a rich girl with plenty of time on her…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Alan Turing’s Biopic Might Get the Hollywood Hunk Treatment from Leo DiCaprio

Alan Turing, the venerable WWII-era nerd icon who helped crack the Nazi Enigma machines and came up with the robot sentience-checking Turing Test, is the subject of a new biopic, and apparently Leonardo DiCaprio “has the inside track” to play him. Warner Bros bought the script for The Imitation Game for seven figures after bidding…

Movies Kyle Wagner

Bonus Download Wednesday Continues: Apple’s iOS Movies App Is Awesome

Apple’s “iTunes Movie Trailers” app is one hell of a misnomer: it doesn’t just beam down the giant library of trailers we love. The new app lets you buy tickets, find nearby theaters, and chart film releases on a calendar. This could be really, really useful: watch a trailer that looks great, check if it’s…

Movies Sam Biddle

Gigantic Harry Potter cat house is the best cat house

Heights Workshop in Houston, Texas has brought out the crazy cat lady in us all. Laura Marshall commissioned one woodcutter to build a 9-foot tall recreation of the Weasley burrow, for her cats. Behold the “yard art.” (And no, it’s not the euphemistic kind of cat house.) If you’re in the area White House Woodworks…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Eddie Murphy/Ben Stiller Comedy That Could Change the Future of Movies As We Know Them

Chances are you haven’t been paying much attention to Tower Heist, the upcoming comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller. But this movie could be the turning point in the transformation of movies. As we wrote back in February, Hollywood is moving towards getting more of its revenue from video on demand (VOD) instead…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Eight new Tintin clips take Steven Spielberg’s adventure out of the Uncanny Valley

Up until now, it was always a bit difficult to avoid falling into the uncanny valley while watching trailers for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s giant Tintin movie. But we’re happy to report that this brand new collection of clips has whisked us all away into a REAL world and not a mo-cap nightmare. It’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How Amazonian tribes influenced James Cameron’s Avatar 2

Ever since the release of Avatar, James Cameron has been working to preserve Earth’s own Pandora with the Achuar people from the Amazon. Last night at Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Awards — where Cameron won the Breakthrough Leadership Award for his contributions to filmmaking — we asked the director how his many trips to the Amazon…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Avengers trailer screencaps show off Marvel’s brand new Hulk, and more!

You’ve seen The Avengers brand new trailer, now it’s time to dissect each frame and squeeze out all the superheroic goodies. Why is Loki getting arrested? Are those alien space ships? What’s with the lasers? Check out our trailer breakdown now. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-avengers-trailer-assembles-so-much-awesome-5848592 A threat from above? Cops, civilians and the national guard raises their eyes…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Movies That Will Traumatize Your Child With Anthropomorphism

In The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas is the world’s worst mad scientist

Classic Board Games Photoshopped into terrifying horror films

A Real Studio Movie Is Being Made from a Reddit Comment

The director of The Thing reveals the alien’s secret backstory

Watch the Latest Muppets Trailer Before It Hits Theaters

Awesome Movie Idea: Space Opera Author Discovers a Real-Life Space Opera That Involves Earth

All the John Carpenter Easter Eggs in The Thing prequel

We’ve seen Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s 3D children’s movie

Paul Verhoeven thinks all science fiction films should be converted to 3D

Lessons that Other Movie Series Can Learn from James Bond

The saddest Voltron fan film ever made, starring Lassie from Psych

Exclusive footage from In Time shows the madness of a world where rich people live forever

Alan Turing’s Biopic Might Get the Hollywood Hunk Treatment from Leo DiCaprio

Bonus Download Wednesday Continues: Apple’s iOS Movies App Is Awesome

Gigantic Harry Potter cat house is the best cat house

The Eddie Murphy/Ben Stiller Comedy That Could Change the Future of Movies As We Know Them

Eight new Tintin clips take Steven Spielberg’s adventure out of the Uncanny Valley

How Amazonian tribes influenced James Cameron’s Avatar 2

Avengers trailer screencaps show off Marvel’s brand new Hulk, and more!

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