The Intense New Warcraft TV Spot Is Jam-Packed With New Footage

It’s been a while since we last saw a full trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie, but this new TV spot includes more Orcs and Humans than you can shake a stick at, and then Dwarves, magic, and more as well! The opening half itself is entirely new—that is, unless you were at San Diego…

The Most Ridiculous Rumor You’ll Ever Hear About The Walking Dead‘s Season Finale

And even more death is coming to the show. The Russo brothers tease the possibility of more than one Civil War post-credits scene. Get a brief glimpse of the Star Trek TV show… sort of. Plus, more Ready Player One casting, Batman v Superman B-roll, and a clip from Agents of SHIELD. To me, my…

Lloyd Alexander’s Utterly Brilliant Prydain Books Are Getting a Second Chance as Movies

Long before Harry Potter, long before countless other fantasy coming-of-age stories, there were Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain novels. I read these as a kid and my head just exploded. And now, Disney is trying (again) to make them into movies. The Prydain Chronicles start out following Taran, who is an Assistant Pig-Keeper in the…

Superman Gives Lex a Super-Stinkface in Another New Batman v Superman Clip

Batman v Superman is almost here, and yet somehow more new footage is dropping every day. A batch of six new clips have been released, including the one above in which Lex Luthor gives Supes a pep talk to fight Batman while Superman looks at Lex like he’s sizing him up for one of his…

Is Game of Thrones‘ Daario Secretly Benjen Stark in Disguise?!

No. Of course not. Don’t be absurd. However, this is an actual theory put forth on the Game of Thrones mega-fansite Winter Is Coming, which tops out at 2,300 words, and which almost certainly exists solely because the actor that played Benjen and the second guy who played Daario look vaguely alike. The theory does…

Guillermo del Toro’s Next Movie Is Going in a Startling New Direction (UPDATED)

Guillermo del Toro’s name is attached to so many movies, sometimes it feels like we’ll never see any of them. While we wait for those, though, del Toro is actually making a new film. It’s smaller, it’s shooting in August and the first details—including a rough plot description—have been revealed. According to The Hollywood Reporter,…

Lovecraft Country Is One of the Most Thrilling Books of the Year

Imagine that you’re driving home, and a cop pulls you over for no reason. He begins to search your car and finds a stash of rare science fiction books, including an Edgar Rice Burroughs first edition, giftwrapped for your uncle. The cop proceeds to mess up these books, while laughing at the title of A…

Here Are the Opposing Teams In Marvel’s Civil War II Comics

Marvel has spent the last few weeks teasing the cadre of heroes picking sides in its upcoming event Civil War II: Electric Registration Boogaloo. But now, it looks like they’ve revealed the key players in the debate of “What did you learn after watching Minority Report for the first time?” https://gizmodo.com/marvels-civil-war-sequel-sounds-a-lot-like-superhero-mi-1752220247 In Civil War II—an…

One of Brandon Sanderson’s Unreleased Fantasy Novels Is Becoming a Graphic Novel

Over the past decade, Brandon Sanderson has crafted amazing fantastical worlds in his Mistborn and Reckoner novels, and even contributed to another in the form of finishing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga after Jordan’s death. But one book of Sanderson’s, White Sand, has never been released… until now. Sanderson’s unpublished novel—part of his interconnected…

Zack Snyder Is Adapting Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead For an Audience of Moochers

This news made my brain throw up a “404 File Not Found” page as a form of self-defense. It just couldn’t reconcile this with reality. I’m so tired, guys. I need to lie down for a moment. Here’s what Zack Snyder told The Hollywood Reporter: I have been working on The Fountainhead. I’ve always felt…

Will We Ever Learn George Lucas’ Original Plan for Star Wars: Episode VII?

Good day to you, one and all! (But especially the one. You know who you are.) The week you guys asked if The 100 will fix its own stupid mistake, whether the Netflix shows are too dark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and when to tell your kid that Darth Vader is actually Luke’s father.…

Uhura’s New Star Trek Uniform Looks Great

Zoe Saldana shared a photo of herself doing reshoots for Star Trek: Beyond and, in doing so, gave us the closest look at the new Starfleet uniforms. They have improved tremendously. First off, mea culpa that it took Saldana’s instagram for us to notice the sleeves. I went back over the trailer, and she clearly…

8 Movies That Harry Dean Stanton Made Better Just by Being in Them

Veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton turns 90 this year. His wildly varied career contains a few starring roles (the haunting Paris, Texas is a must-watch), but the man’s true gift is portraying memorably offbeat characters that may only appear in a few scenes—but that still improve the entire movie. That quality has elevated all kinds…

Does Midnight Special Really Live Up To Its Spielberg Roots? Yes and No

Midnight Special, the fourth film from popular indie director Jeff Nichols, feels like the offspring of Steven Spielberg’s two scifi classics, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The potential of that kind of mainstream story, from the heady director of Take Shelter and Mud, sounded like a fascinating and exciting…

The Crazy Fan Theory That Ties V for Vendetta and Watchmen Together

The mystery at the heart of V for Vendetta remains iconic, whether you first encountered it in the comics or the 2006 movie: Who is the titular hero? But here’s a crazy theory: What if V was actually a reborn Rorschach from Alan Moore’s other seminal graphic novel, Watchmen? This theory, espoused by Redditor SumoJoe,…

Every Bit of New Information Contained in the Latest X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer

A brand new X-Men: Apocalypse trailer was released this morning. Most surprising of all was the enormous quanity of new footage it contained, including the appearance of a new-old villain in a not insignificant way. Here’s what we’ve gleaned from our painstaking frame-by-frame analysis. Spoilers ahead… An idyllic shot of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters…

The Sherlock Manga Is Coming to America, and Here’s Your First Look

Last month, Titan Comics announced it would be bringing the delightfully weird manga adaptation of the BBC’s smash hit Sherlock to the west for the very first time, four years after it debuted in Japan. Want a peek? io9 has a first look at the translation, as well as the variant covers for the manga’s…

The New Tarzan Trailer Is Very Terrifying

It doesn’t have Oscar Isaac cosplaying at Ivan Ooze, but The Legend of Tarzan also had a new trailer drop today. It’s definitely worth watching—if only because the movie looks like an uncanny horror movie where pretty much everyone is scary as hell. Seriously! The trailer begins with apes murdering a guy and stealing his…

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Marvel has confirmed that Finn Jones has been cast as Danny Rand in Netflix’s Iron Fist series. Despite the news breaking nearly a month ago, Marvel has finally gotten around to acknowledging it, as well as giving us the teaser image above.

Spoiler-Free Review: Daredevil‘s Back, and Somehow Even Better Than Before

When Marvel’s Daredevil premiered on Netflix last year, its brawls and its slow build were great. But it also had the particular pacing problems that plague many Netflix “binge” shows. The second season of Daredevil—what I’ve seen of it—has kept all of the good and fixed a lot of bad. Here’s a spoiler-free review. I’ve…