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The R-Rated Daredevil Film That Almost Was

The Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is currently rocking Netflix following the release of Daredevil season two this past weekend. But before Marvel got the rights back to Matt Murdock, Fox staged a last-gasp attempt to revive the character following their disastrous 2003 film… and featured an R-rated superhero long before Deadpool. https://gizmodo.com/ben-afflecks-daredevil-is-just-as-terrible-as-you-remem-1766054262 We’ve previously featured…

Movies James Whitbrook

Short Doc American Renaissance Captures a Charmingly Sincere Subculture

As this short doc by Jarred Alterman and Ryan Scafuro shows, American Renaissance festivals have become less about historical recreation, and more about community building and providing an outlet for offbeat creative expression. https://gizmodo.com/the-haunting-remains-of-the-virginia-renaissance-faire-1448130076 Most of the film is simply beautifully-shot portraits of attendees, lingering on the details of their costumes but never passing judgment…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

This Week’s TV: Pee-Wee Herman Comes to Gotham, and Is Darth Vader’s Secret Revealed?

This week’s television includes the series finales of the beloved Lost Girl, and the slightly less beloved Second Chance. Stitchers returns for a slightly retooled second season, while iZombie, Arrow and The Flash come back from hiatus! My body is ready—is yours? It’s all on This Week’s TV. Tonight Gotham (8PM, FOX) Mad Grey Dawn…

io9 Gordon Jackson

A Beer-Chugging Luke Evans Just Made Us Genuinely Excited for the Beauty and the Beast Remake

It’s no secret we’ve been pretty critical and dismissive of Disney’s seemingly non-stop need to remake every single one of their iconic animated films in live-action. And yet, with a single video, one of those upcoming remakes just got infinitely more exciting. We’re talking about Bill Condon’s upcoming remake of Beauty and the Beast. Emma…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Only Scene Worth Watching in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Was One They Cut

This week brings the latest Zack Snyder opus to the big screen, which led to the news that Snyder really wants to make Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead into a movie, which led all of us to talk about the last time Snyder put his id on rampant display: Sucker Punch. It was briefly suggested that…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Say Goodbye to Quint in This Sad But Gorgeous Poster for Jaws

There’s very little debate that Robert Shaw’s Quint is the best character in Jaws. Sure, we love Brody and Hooper, while the Mayor is funny and Bruce himself is killer. But Quint is the man, and his final moments are the focus of this great new poster by artist John Barry Ballaran, with the help…

Movies Germain Lussier

All Hail Foggy Nelson, the Real Hero of Daredevil

Season 2 of Daredevil was not lacking in vigilantes of various stripes. But the actual hero the city deserved wasn’t Matt Murdock’s red-costumed alter ego. It was Foggy Nelson. Daredevil spent a fair amount of its second season delving into the philosophies of vigilantism. Is it a net positive? A net negative? Is there a…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Marvel’s Vote Loki Sounds Almost as Bonkers as the Actual Presidential Election

At the beginning of the month, Marvel revealed Vote Loki, a wonderfully timed answer to the ongoing hot mess that is the US Presidential Election. Then we heard nothing… until now. Here are the first details on the comic, which sounds positively delightful. https://gizmodo.com/loki-is-running-for-president-in-marvels-new-comic-1762230020 We now know that Chris Hastings and Langdon Foss are the…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Zack Snyder Almost Added Two More Batman Villains to Batman v Superman

Batman v Superman is already overstuffed with characters. Currently, it’s got everyone from Man of Steel, Batman, Alfred, Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor, Aquaman, the Flash… and originally there were going to be even more. Speaking with Collider, Snyder said: The Joker and The Riddler both came close to being in this movie. We talked about…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Here’s Your First Look at the CW’s Outstandingly Red-Headed Archie

When New Zealander KJ Apa was cast as Archie Andrews in Riverdale, people were alarmed that a man with distinctly not red hair would play one of the most iconic red-haired characters in comic books. Never fear—the first pictures from Riverdale have hit the web, and Archie looks great. https://gizmodo.com/the-cws-archie-show-has-found-its-archie-1761233186 Obviously what you see above…

Television James Whitbrook

Zombies Aren’t the Only Things That Bite People on The Walking Dead

There’s very little I can say about last night’s wild episode of The Walking Dead without spoiling it. So let me just say that it managed to be shocking, boring, tragic, stupid, funny, clever, brutal, absurd and very, very strange. “Twice as Far” was one of those Walking Dead eps where the first forty minutes…

Television Rob Bricken

Marvel Is Probably Going to Do a New Jessica Jones Comic

The company didn’t exactly confirm a new comic focusing on its Netflix hero this weekend, but they came pretty damn close to it. Speaking at the company’s “All-New, All-Different” panel at the C2E2 convention this weekend, Marvel executive Tom Brevoort told fans that a new book starring the super-powered P.I. (well, the former P.I.) was…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Some Fascinating New Hints About Laura Dern’s Star Wars: Episode VIII Character

Two of the men on the Han Solo shortlist discuss the role. Jeremy Renner wants a Hawkeye Netflix show. Amber Heard confirms her Aquaman part. Liam Cunningham talks the next season of Game of Thrones. Plus, new Warcraft footage, a new look at Wynonna Earp, and teasers for The Walking Dead’s season finale. Behold, spoilers!…

Television James Whitbrook

19 Times Someone Gets Thrown Into the Vacuum of Space, From Worst to Best

We all know people don’t explode when exposed to space without protection. But science fiction has taken some … liberties with vacuum exposure over the years. Here are 19 scenes of people being exposed to space, ranked from the least realistic to the most. While the explosive decompression scene is a hallmark of science fiction…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Magicians Is At Its Best When It Goes Dark, And It’s Getting Darker

The Syfy channel’s fantasy show The Magicians is coming in on its home stretch this week: as it does so, it’s starting to get dark, and really, really good. Since it got off to a really good start, the show has covered quite a bit of ground, touching base with the books each episode, but…

Television Andrew Liptak

Yes, Ben Affleck’s Daredevil is Just As Terrible As You Remember

Daredevil returned this weekend for its second season on Netflix, and it has become one of the more interesting parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While we’re marveling at how good the show is, I wanted to take a look back at the 2003 film, and see if it was as bad as I remembered.…

io9 Andrew Liptak

William Shatner Recounts How Leonard Nimoy Approached Spock as a Character

The friendship of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner is legendary, and it is now the subject of a new book from Shatner: Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. Fittingly, the audiobook edition of the book is narrated by the Captain himself. MacMillian Audio has provided us with an exclusive excerpt from the audiobook,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Brian Staveley Shows How To End A Fantasy Epic With The Last Mortal Bond

Bringing a fantasy epic to an end is a lot harder than it looks, and as I cracked open the final installment of Brian Staveley’s Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne, The Last Mortal Bond, I wasn’t sure if he would be able to wrap everything up. My worries were unfounded. I’m not typically a fantasy…

Books & Comics Andrew Liptak

The Vernal Equinox Isn’t What You Think It is

Tomorrow is the vernal equinox! You might think that it’s simply the mid-point between each solstice, but that’s not exactly correct. Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay to be Smart, explains. The equinoxes aren’t in the middle of the solstices, and it doesn’t mean that day and night are exactly equal. It’s the point in…

io9 Andrew Liptak

All of the DC Films Shine In This Cinematic Retrospective

Film editor Miguel Branco has gone and taken most of the films adapted from DC Comic properties, and it makes them all look pretty good together, even if they’re not part of the same cinematic universe. There’s some real clunkers here: Green Lantern, and depending on who you talk to, Man of Steel and Watchman,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The R-Rated Daredevil Film That Almost Was

Short Doc American Renaissance Captures a Charmingly Sincere Subculture

This Week’s TV: Pee-Wee Herman Comes to Gotham, and Is Darth Vader’s Secret Revealed?

A Beer-Chugging Luke Evans Just Made Us Genuinely Excited for the Beauty and the Beast Remake

The Only Scene Worth Watching in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Was One They Cut

Say Goodbye to Quint in This Sad But Gorgeous Poster for Jaws

All Hail Foggy Nelson, the Real Hero of Daredevil

Marvel’s Vote Loki Sounds Almost as Bonkers as the Actual Presidential Election

Zack Snyder Almost Added Two More Batman Villains to Batman v Superman

Here’s Your First Look at the CW’s Outstandingly Red-Headed Archie

Zombies Aren’t the Only Things That Bite People on The Walking Dead

Marvel Is Probably Going to Do a New Jessica Jones Comic

Some Fascinating New Hints About Laura Dern’s Star Wars: Episode VIII Character

19 Times Someone Gets Thrown Into the Vacuum of Space, From Worst to Best

The Magicians Is At Its Best When It Goes Dark, And It’s Getting Darker

Yes, Ben Affleck’s Daredevil is Just As Terrible As You Remember

William Shatner Recounts How Leonard Nimoy Approached Spock as a Character

Brian Staveley Shows How To End A Fantasy Epic With The Last Mortal Bond

The Vernal Equinox Isn’t What You Think It is

All of the DC Films Shine In This Cinematic Retrospective

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