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Tonight, We All Need a Funky Trip Through Space With Electronic Music Legend Jean-Jacques Perrey

Pioneering musician Jean-Jacques Perrey passed away earlier this week at the age of 87, leaving a legacy that helped lay the foundation for electronic pop music as we know it today. He was also a longtime scifi fan who looked to the genre for inspiration. As a tribute, his collaborator Dana Countryman shared this wonderfully…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Nov 8

A Cut Fantastic Beasts Scene Involved a Lot of Singing

I know that when I think of falling in love, I think of my school song. Slashfilm has the details on two deleted scenes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from director David Yates. One is a heartbreaking bit where Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) loses his fiancee because he didn’t get a loan…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

See How Supergirl Flies in a Set Video Posted by Director Kevin Smith

Visting an actual, working film set is an experience most people never get to have. Thankfully, with social media, that wall has begun to come down a bit and Kevin Smith just shattered it with a fun (and, NSFW warning, profanity-laced) video from the set of Supergirl. Smith is currently shooting the ninth episode of…

Television Germain Lussier Nov 8

Why the 1978 Superman Soundtrack Works So Damn Well

I’ve been listening to John Williams’ soundtrack for the old Superman film a lot, ever since I wrote this post about a mash-up video for Kal-El’s appearance on Supergirl season two. But I’ve been listening to it very differently. https://gizmodo.com/john-william-s-superman-theme-makes-supergirl-even-bett-1787193198 I was six or seven the first time I saw the 1978 Superman movie and,…

io9 Evan Narcisse Nov 8

Warner Bros. Needs to Stop Whining About All the Money Its DC Movies Made

Yesterday, the New York Times published a short profile on the current state of Warner Bros. titled “Warner Bros., Quietly Thriving, Recasts Its Own Story.” That article repeats a refrain we’ve heard from this company before: Why does everyone keep saying we’re in trouble? All those badly-reviewed movies still made money. The article draws a…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

Something Kind of Cool and Creepy Was Cut from Real Steel

As someone who digs sports and giant robots, I hope I’m not the only person who is a fan of Real Steel. The 2011 Hugh Jackman film about robot boxing is one of those predictable but fun Hollywood films designed to give you goosebumps. And it really would have done that, had a certain moment…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8

Exploring a World of Detective Princesses and Jerk Ponies In Mega Princess

Getting the powers of every fairytale princess ever sounds like it’d be great, right? Perfect pitch, detecting beans under untold layers of bedding. But how do you use those powers to help save your missing brother? That’s the question at the heart of Mega Princess—the new creator-owned fantasy comic from Boom Studios. Written by Kelly…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Nov 8

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Add a Batman Parody to Their Seemingly Endless List of Genre Projects

Jesus H. Christ, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and the Rock could team up and have the unstoppable power to produce every single piece of future entertainment. https://gizmodo.com/dwayne-johnson-adds-doc-savage-to-his-endlessly-expandi-1779497714 Rogen and production partner Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures has announced the acquisition of two single-camera comedies by Fox and ABC. Produced by Brad Copeland (and executive produced…

Television James Whitbrook Nov 8

Early Reviews Rave About Disney’s Moana and Compare It to The Little Mermaid

Later this month, Disney is releasing the animated musical Moana, which is directed by the same people who made The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. And if the early reviews are right, the directors have lived up to that incredible standard. When most people think of modern Disney films, the bar was set in the 1990s.…

io9 Germain Lussier Nov 8

If Johnny Depp Is Going to Be Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2, He Better Have a Love Affair With Dumbledore

Along with the news that the Fantastic Beasts movies are looking to cast a young Dumbledore, all we care about is if the emotional core of the next couple of films is going to be the betrayal Dumbledore feels when the man he falls in love with turns out to be evil. It’s not a…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

Watching Vintage Star Wars Toys Get Made Is Strangely Cathartic

I mean, it’s not like there’s anything particularly stressful going on in the world today or anything, but sometimes, you just want to watch people putting legs on plastic AT-AT walkers for a few minutes, no? Filmumentaries—a.k.a documentarian Jamie Benning, who recently also gave us rare footage of Chewbacca’s English lines on the Empire Strikes…

io9 James Whitbrook Nov 8

Neil Gaiman, Peter Bagge, and Others Talk About the Only Comics Artist Ever Found Guilty of Obscenity

Since the medium’s inception, comics have had a few significant moral panics where people screamed that cartoons would topple society as we knew it. But only one comic-book artist has been found guilty of obscenity and told not to draw anything again, even in the privacy of his own home. Now raising funds for completion,…

Movies Evan Narcisse Nov 8

11 Most Blatantly Evil Presidents in Scifi Movies, TV, and Comics

Today is the day we’ve been anticipating/dreading for over a year. You’ve probably already voted by now and are nervously awaiting what the next four years might look like. But it could (arguably) be worse! Consider these examples of evil presidents from the annals of science fiction. 11) President Skroob, Spaceballs Spaceballs director Mel Brooks…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Nov 8

Iron Man Will Battle Giant Hydra Robots In Marvel’s First Disneyland Attraction

He’ll be doing so in Hong Kong, of course, because that’s where Marvel’s first ride for a Disney park is being built. After hearing about it for ages, we finally have a good look at the Iron Man Experience—and it’s basically Star Tours but… well, Stark Tours. Following three years of construction in Disneyland Hong…

io9 James Whitbrook Nov 8

Doctor Strange Almost Had a Completely Different Villain

Stephen Strange’s first outing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe saw him go up against Kaecilius and… well, another villain that in hindsight was quite obvious, but one we’ll avoid openly mentioning just yet. But according to director Scott Derrickson, Strange almost went up against another of his iconic early foes. https://gizmodo.com/well-heres-a-ginormous-doctor-strange-spoiler-1788203327 Empire sat down with…

Movies James Whitbrook Nov 8

48 Things We Learned From J.J Abrams’ Director Commentary on The Force Awakens 3D

Did you know Harrison Ford wore digital hair extensions in The Force Awakens? Well, that’s just one of the awesome tidbits J.J. Abrams gives up during an illuminating director’s commentary that’ll be available November 15 on the film’s 3D Blu-ray release. It’s definitely worth a listen but, if you don’t have two hours to kill,…

Movies Germain Lussier Nov 8

The Story Behind Independence Day‘s Title: ‘We Can Come Up With Something Better Later’

Originally, Independence Day was just a generic alien invasion flick, until its makers picked a release date designed to get their movie into theaters before Mars Attacks! Then Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin did what we’d all do with that: theme the whole movie around that date. The Guardian interviewed Emmerich and Bill Pullman about…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

We knew that the old classic songs would be there and that there would be new music as well, but that there are Howard Ashman lyrics from Disney’s original animated film that will be used in the upcoming live-action movie is great news. The unused lyrics will be mostly in “Gaston,” causing a bunch of…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Nov 8

Holy Crap, GTA Online‘s Latest Update Turns It Into Tron

Welp, guess I’m gonna have to start playing GTA Online again… For a little while now, Rockstar Games has been doing interesting little experiments with the online multiplayer component of Grand Theft Auto V. Various updates have offered up different variants that bend the experience’s tone into more genre-inflected territory. https://kotaku.com/gta-online-s-coolest-christmas-present-turns-players-in-1749617208 The brand-new Deadline update…

io9 Evan Narcisse Nov 8

Supergirl Just Did One of the Best Coming Out Stories in Recent Memory

There’s this time between realizing you’re gay and saying you’re gay that we don’t see a lot in media. Usually a character goes straight from “holy shit” to making out with someone in the course of an episode—sometimes in the course of a single scene. And so when they actually announce they’re gay, it can…

Television Alex Cranz Nov 8

Tonight, We All Need a Funky Trip Through Space With Electronic Music Legend Jean-Jacques Perrey

A Cut Fantastic Beasts Scene Involved a Lot of Singing

See How Supergirl Flies in a Set Video Posted by Director Kevin Smith

Why the 1978 Superman Soundtrack Works So Damn Well

Warner Bros. Needs to Stop Whining About All the Money Its DC Movies Made

Something Kind of Cool and Creepy Was Cut from Real Steel

Exploring a World of Detective Princesses and Jerk Ponies In Mega Princess

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Add a Batman Parody to Their Seemingly Endless List of Genre Projects

Early Reviews Rave About Disney’s Moana and Compare It to The Little Mermaid

If Johnny Depp Is Going to Be Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 2, He Better Have a Love Affair With Dumbledore

Watching Vintage Star Wars Toys Get Made Is Strangely Cathartic

Neil Gaiman, Peter Bagge, and Others Talk About the Only Comics Artist Ever Found Guilty of Obscenity

11 Most Blatantly Evil Presidents in Scifi Movies, TV, and Comics

Iron Man Will Battle Giant Hydra Robots In Marvel’s First Disneyland Attraction

Doctor Strange Almost Had a Completely Different Villain

48 Things We Learned From J.J Abrams’ Director Commentary on The Force Awakens 3D

The Story Behind Independence Day‘s Title: ‘We Can Come Up With Something Better Later’

Disney’s Live-Action Beauty and the Beast Is Using Lyrics Cut From the Original Animated Film

Holy Crap, GTA Online‘s Latest Update Turns It Into Tron

Supergirl Just Did One of the Best Coming Out Stories in Recent Memory

Disney’s Massive Layoffs Have Seemingly Hit Marvel Hard

Anthropic Is Jacking Up the Price for Power Users Amid Complaints Its Model Is Getting Worse

Bose SoundLink Max Bluetooth Speaker Quietly Drops to Its Lowest Price, Now Cheaper Than Last Week’s Low

The Wicked Stepmother of ‘The Testaments’ Is So Much Fun to Hate

Apple’s Smart Glasses Are Stepping Into a Privacy Minefield

Allbirds Is Getting Out of the Shoe Business and Pivoting to AI Infrastructure

Anker Nebula P1i Portable Projector Debuted at CES 2026 and Now Hits Record Low Just Weeks After Launch

There’s No Saving Windows 11. It’s Time for Windows 12

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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