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Insidious: The Last Key Takes the Franchise in Some Surprising (and Welcome) Directions

The fourth film in a horror franchise, released on the first weekend of the new year, is just about the easiest movie to write off ever. And yet, you shouldn’t do that with Insidious: The Last Key, despite it being all of those things. It’s a creepy, unpredictable, and surprisingly heartfelt addition to the franchise—and easily…

Movies Germain Lussier

Thanos’ Real Name Is Thanos and Everybody Needs to Calm Down

Thanos, the Mad Titan who wields the Infinity Gauntlet and its six powerful gems does not go by all that many different names. But a revelation in a recent issue of the Thanos solo comic written by Donny Cates, with illustrations from Geoff Shaw and Antonio Febela, has thrown readers for an odd loop. Issue…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Report: Spotify Has Confidentially Filed to Go Public

It’s been a whirlwind over the past few years as big tech unicorns continue to leave private waters to seek out that lucrative public money. According to Axios, the latest company to join those ranks is Spotify, which reportedly filed for an IPO sometime during the end of December. Unfortunately, Axios says the filing was…

Games Sam Rutherford

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Has Become a Timely, Afrofuturist Opera

Last month, artist and performer Toshi Reagon launched a Kickstarter campaign to help finally realize a project that she and her mother, also a singer and writer, have been working on for almost a decade: a musical adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Now, the show is premiering in New York City. Within…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

All the Most Spectacular New Comics Coming in 2018

A new year is upon us, filled with new opportunities and new hopes… and lots of new comics for you read instead of fulfilling those new opportunities and hopes. Unless they were “read more comics,” because boy howdy, do we have some new series we’re looking forward to in the first few months of the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Netflix Is Officially Making a Sequel to Bright But Leaving One Player Behind

There’s a moment early into Netflix’s Bright, a cop movie that tries to blend social commentary about race with high fantasy, where Will Smith’s character beats a fairy to death with a broom while saying “fairy lives don’t matter.” Bright was not a good movie, but apparently, Netflix wants a sequel. According to The Hollywood…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

I Didn’t Think the Microsoft Kinect Could Be Deader, But Here We Are

It’s been a rough life for the Xbox One’s least appreciated accessory. At launch, people weren’t happy that the Kinect was the reason why the Xbox One cost $100 more than the PS4, despite its innovative motion-sensing abilities and handy built-in mic. That prompted Microsoft to quickly regroup and put out an Xbox One config…

Games Sam Rutherford

These New Game of Thrones Stamps Are Probably Way More Reliable Than Ravens

Winter is coming, and so is the post office. Britain’s Royal Mail has announced it’s releasing a collection of 15 exclusive Game of Thrones stamps. Most of them feature key characters, both living and deceased, from the hit HBO series while a few more focus on the giants, dragons, and White Walkers. There’s also a…

Toys & Collectibles Beth Elderkin

There’s a Whole Lot of Freaked out Kids and Not Much Else in the First Slender Man Trailer

One of the internet’s most beloved urban legends is making its way to primetime horror moviedom. But the first trailer for Slender Man doesn’t actually have a lot of the Slender Man himself in it—it does, however, make his impact known among a group of rightfully petrified teens. Debuted through IGN this morning, Sylvain White’s…

Trailers James Whitbrook

New Details About the Background of Black Panther‘s Big Villain

Gotham is apparently recasting another of its villains. Clark Gregg talks about his directorial debut on Agents of SHIELD. Scully gets an ominous vision in a new clip from The X-Files’ return. Plus, new footage from Black Lightning and Insidious: The Last Key, and what’s to come on The Gifted’s finale. Spoilers now! Black Panther…

Television James Whitbrook

Watch How Blade Runner 2049’s VFX Masters Created a Perfect Digital Double of Sean Young

Back in October, Entertainment Weekly revealed some of the secrets behind Blade Runner 2049’s most startling cameo, Sean Young’s Rachael Replicant from the original 1982 film. But the VFX company who resurrected Rachael for the sequel has finally shared a fascinating and detailed breakdown of how it created the flawlessly lifelike digital double. https://gizmodo.com/the-secrets-behind-blade-runner-2049s-most-surprising-s-1819675592 A…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

The Untitled Cloverfield Movie Will Now Be Out In April

When a major studio movie is supposedly a month away from release and doesn’t have a poster, trailer, or even a title, odds are it’s not going to stay on that release date. And that’s what just happened with the new Cloverfield movie. Written by Oren Uziel, directed by Julius Onah, and sometimes referred to…

Movies Germain Lussier

Disney Passed on What Could Have Been a Great Animated Haunted Mansion TV Show

The 2003 Haunted Mansion movie stands out as pretty bad, even in a sea of middling Disney theme park ride movies—that oddly specific, yet well-populated genre. But one of the creators behind Kubo and the Two Strings pitched a pretty awesome-sounding reboot of the idea, that would’ve given it an animated twist. Shannon Tindle, the…

Television James Whitbrook

One of the Most Iconic X-Files Endings Was an Unscripted Addition

Mulder and Scully’s intimate dance at the end of “The Post-Modern Prometheus” represents an important development in their relationship on The X-Files. It’s one of the first times we see them be so tender with each other, laying the groundwork for their eventual relationship. And according to Chris Carter, it came out of nowhere. Speaking…

Television James Whitbrook

24 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Add to Your January Reading List

The holidays are over, thank goodness, and pop culture is slowing coming back to life. Take advantage of these slower (and/or snowy, depending on where you live) first weeks of the year by diving into some brand-new reading material. January books are here! Cobra Traitor by Timothy Zahn The author wraps up his Cobra Rebellion…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Ridley Scott Thinks Alien Should Be as Big as Star Trek and Star Wars

In the realm of science fiction, it’s hard to get bigger than Star Trek or Star Wars. Each has a long history in multiple mediums, massive fan bases, and are still going strong. It would be difficult for any franchise to match those levels of success, but Ridley Scott thinks Alien should have. “There’s no…

Movies Germain Lussier

io9 Chats About the TV Shows They’re Most Psyched for in 2018

There are a lot of great new shows coming out this year, and a few of those picks stand above the crowd. io9’s Evan Narcisse and Charles Pulliam-Moore are here with the five shows io9 is most excited about this year. Check out the livestream below.

Movies Beth Elderkin

That Major Star Trek Reference in Black Mirror‘s ‘USS Callister’ Was Not a Coincidence

Black Mirror took a journey to the final frontier with its season four episode “USS Callister,” a breakdown of fandom, entitlement, and totalitarianism that was also chock full of references to its inspiration, Star Trek. As the director has pointed out, many of them were purposeful, and one of them was actually a major hint.…

Television Beth Elderkin

io9’s Guide to All the Movies You Should Give a Damn About in 2018

Last year was a great year for movies and it looks like 2018 is going to be the same. Let’s face it, though—we may want everything on this list to be good, but several will be bad. Very bad. But who knows? Best to just drum up some optimism and take a look at all…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Gifted Might Just Be a Supervillain Origin Story

This week’s episode of The Gifted, “3 X 1″ is unique from all of the rest because it definitely feels like the entire series might actually be a stealthy supervillain origin story. The Stepford Cuckoos are playing an incredibly long game that no one else in the Mutant Underground seems to realize. It was clear…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

Insidious: The Last Key Takes the Franchise in Some Surprising (and Welcome) Directions

Thanos’ Real Name Is Thanos and Everybody Needs to Calm Down

Report: Spotify Has Confidentially Filed to Go Public

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Has Become a Timely, Afrofuturist Opera

All the Most Spectacular New Comics Coming in 2018

Netflix Is Officially Making a Sequel to Bright But Leaving One Player Behind

I Didn’t Think the Microsoft Kinect Could Be Deader, But Here We Are

These New Game of Thrones Stamps Are Probably Way More Reliable Than Ravens

There’s a Whole Lot of Freaked out Kids and Not Much Else in the First Slender Man Trailer

New Details About the Background of Black Panther‘s Big Villain

Watch How Blade Runner 2049’s VFX Masters Created a Perfect Digital Double of Sean Young

The Untitled Cloverfield Movie Will Now Be Out In April

Disney Passed on What Could Have Been a Great Animated Haunted Mansion TV Show

One of the Most Iconic X-Files Endings Was an Unscripted Addition

24 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Add to Your January Reading List

Ridley Scott Thinks Alien Should Be as Big as Star Trek and Star Wars

io9 Chats About the TV Shows They’re Most Psyched for in 2018

That Major Star Trek Reference in Black Mirror‘s ‘USS Callister’ Was Not a Coincidence

io9’s Guide to All the Movies You Should Give a Damn About in 2018

The Gifted Might Just Be a Supervillain Origin Story

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