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Escape Into Pop Culture With These Choice Coffee Table Books

One of my many retail addictions is buying pop culture-themed table books. You know the kind: big, heavy, hardcover books filled concept art, behind-the-scenes photos, and extensive interviews with the people involved. They can provide many valuable hours of entertainment as we find ourselves at home for long periods of time. If you’re like me…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

5 Short Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films to Watch When You Don’t Have Time for a Full Netflix Binge

Since we’re now all spending our hours indoors, there’s been newfound time to inhale entire seasons of a TV series or full movie franchises in one sitting. But in the event that you’re just looking for a quick hit of sci-fi or fantasy (or horror!), we’ve got five shorts worthy of briefly capturing your attention.…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

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Our Fascination With Canon Is Killing the Way We Value Stories

As the pop culture we love becomes increasingly dominated by vast franchises of interconnected worlds and stories, so does it become dominated by one, singular question from diehard fans: Is the thing we’re about to consume canon to everything else we’ve consumed before? It’s an attitude that’s turning our love of stories into some bizarre,…

Movies James Whitbrook

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6 Times TV Took Time Loops to a Whole New Level

Everybody loves a good Groundhog Day episode; The X-Files, Fringe, 12 Monkeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, and more have done them. But there are some television shows that took the beloved but familiar trope and did something to set their version apart. As we’re all social distancing at home, sometimes feeling like we’re stuck in our own…

Television Beth Elderkin

Riverdale’s Sam Witwer on That Infamous Scene: ‘I Read the Script and Laughed’

Riverdale’s given us so many batshit scenes over the past four seasons that our list of WTF moments couldn’t possibly include them all. One of the weirdest from season four featured Jughead’s teacher Mr. Chipping (played by Sam Witwer) jumping out of a window, seemingly for no reason. The actor playing him was just as…

Books & Comics Beth Elderkin

3 Nerdy, But Useful, Things to Do Around Your House While Stuck at Home

Being stuck at home sucks. One of the best things you can do—besides absolutely staying at home—is to make some updates to said home. How do you do that? There are lots of ways. For example, you could clean things; your windows, floors, kitchen, surely those things could use a once over. Of course, that’s…

io9 Germain Lussier

Prince of Persia’s Groundbreaking Character Animations Started Life in a High School Parking Lot

At a time when most video game characters looked and moved like crude stick figures, Prince of Persia introduced a hero who ran across the screen and leaped between platforms with incredible fluidity and lifelike movements. It was a big part of what made the game so enjoyable, but realizing that animation style was a…

Games Andrew Liszewski

These Doctor Who Short Stories Should Always Be a Thing, Pandemic or Otherwise

As the world slows down and people shut themselves indoors to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the cast and crew of Doctor Who are just one of many production teams that have risen to the task of both comforting and entertaining people in these trying times. But one thing they’ve been doing is…

io9 James Whitbrook

Rick and Morty‘s New Season 4 Trailer Reveals the Next Episodes Are Going to Be Wild as Hell

Though Rick and Morty’s been on a bit of a hiatus as of late, the Samurai & Shogun short film made it obvious that the creative team behind the series has been hard at work getting the remaining episodes of the fourth season just right before rolling into production on the dozens more episodes Adult…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Stargirl Reveals Its Young New Justice Society

Edward Chiado says there’s been talks to bring Killer Klowns From Outer Space back. Colin Trevorrow drops a tiny little tease for Jurassic World: Dominion. Don’t expect a sequel to Solo any time soon. Plus, what’s to come when Siren returns, and we could be getting a glimpse of Halloween Kills soon. Happy liars day!…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

In the Greenland Trailer, Master of Disaster Gerard Butler Faces Down a Planet-Killing Comet

Gerard Butler’s career has been taking us on a delightfully baffling journey for years, and his next big CG-stravaganza, Greenland, just dropped a new trailer that does not disappoint. His foe this go-round is a crumbling comet that’s making fiery Swiss cheese out of the Earth. And we do mean cheese. The subtitles add an…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy

Edgar Wright May Direct a Pop Culture-Infused Robot Movie and We’re Freaking Out

Any day there’s news of a new Edgar Wright film, that’s a good day. When that news is Wright will direct a movie about a robot who becomes so inspired by movies of the 1980s and ‘90s he goes on a quest to convince the world of robot humanity, that’s not just a good day,…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Put the Comics Industry Between a Rock and a Hard Place

More and more comic book stores across the United States are having to close their doors because of the ongoing covid-19 outbreak—whether that’s due to state restrictions or an actual lack of new product. One of the biggest questions looming has been what, if any, steps publishers and distributors like Diamond might be able to…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

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Friday the 13th Unleashes Terror and Thanos Gets a Love Letter in the Latest Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. It’s now been a couple of weeks since social distancing started, making at-home game nights feel more important than ever. We’ve got some suggestions on things to play at home, as well as some upcoming releases that take Thanos, Friday…

Games Beth Elderkin

Tales From the Loop’s Showrunner on How Sci-Fi Can Bring Us Comfort in Uncertain Times

Amazon’s new series Tales From the Loop was a unique creative challenge. Instead of adapting a book like Game of Thrones or His Dark Materials, showrunner Nathaniel Halpern was making a series out of paintings. Specifically, the Tales From the Loop artbook from Simon Stålenhag. Luckily for Halpern, he was “uniquely cut out” for this. io9…

io9 Beth Elderkin

10 Genre Road Trip Movies to Satisfy Your Need to Get Out

Practicing social distancing means doing everything you can to minimize the need to physically leave your house so as to avoid exposure to/transmission of the novel coronavirus. Being cooped up, though, can lead one to feeling the need to wander out into the open world. The problem is, that’s not in the public’s best interest.…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

There’s Something for Everyone on April’s Giant List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Releases

Many of us suddenly have more time for reading these days, and lucky for sci-fi and fantasy fans, April is chock-full of new releases—with tales of witches, monsters, vengeful forces of nature, space colonists, AI gone wild, and so much more. Crack open a new book and escape into its pages! Devil’s Blade by Mark…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

In This Exclusive Sonic the Hedgehog Clip, the Cast Discusses the Joys of Gaming

One of the big things Sonic the Hedgehog had going for it that video game movies often do not was a cast that clearly grew up loving the characters and franchise they were now a part of. That, in theory, made it easier to act through a movie with a somewhat less than thrilling plot (though…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Rise of Skywalker Could’ve Given Us a Giant Tank Shaped Like BB-8

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker already had so much going on, but our exclusive look at some of the concept art behind making it reveals the film could’ve had even more, including something truly delightful. Three words, my friends: BB-8. Battle. Tank. This wonderful reveal is part of io9’s exclusive look inside Phil Szostak’s…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

10 Great Places to Start Watching Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the most iconic mecha franchises of all time, but it’s also been going on for so long, and in so many different forms, that getting into it can seem incredibly intimidating. But if you’re looking for shows to binge-watch that are full of rad robot action (and little horror…

io9 James Whitbrook

Escape Into Pop Culture With These Choice Coffee Table Books

5 Short Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films to Watch When You Don’t Have Time for a Full Netflix Binge

Our Fascination With Canon Is Killing the Way We Value Stories

6 Times TV Took Time Loops to a Whole New Level

Riverdale’s Sam Witwer on That Infamous Scene: ‘I Read the Script and Laughed’

3 Nerdy, But Useful, Things to Do Around Your House While Stuck at Home

Prince of Persia’s Groundbreaking Character Animations Started Life in a High School Parking Lot

These Doctor Who Short Stories Should Always Be a Thing, Pandemic or Otherwise

Rick and Morty‘s New Season 4 Trailer Reveals the Next Episodes Are Going to Be Wild as Hell

Stargirl Reveals Its Young New Justice Society

In the Greenland Trailer, Master of Disaster Gerard Butler Faces Down a Planet-Killing Comet

Edgar Wright May Direct a Pop Culture-Infused Robot Movie and We’re Freaking Out

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Put the Comics Industry Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Friday the 13th Unleashes Terror and Thanos Gets a Love Letter in the Latest Gaming News

Tales From the Loop’s Showrunner on How Sci-Fi Can Bring Us Comfort in Uncertain Times

10 Genre Road Trip Movies to Satisfy Your Need to Get Out

There’s Something for Everyone on April’s Giant List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Releases

In This Exclusive Sonic the Hedgehog Clip, the Cast Discusses the Joys of Gaming

The Rise of Skywalker Could’ve Given Us a Giant Tank Shaped Like BB-8

10 Great Places to Start Watching Mobile Suit Gundam

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