Marvel’s Agent Carter Has Become One of the Best Comedies on Television

Agent Carter’s first season was a terrific blend of humor and darkness, as a sexist establishment crushed Peggy’s spirit. But season two is shaping up to be much more of a comedy, while still keeping the same themes. And holy crap, is it more fun than a bathtub full of silly string. See for yourself—the…

In Three Pages, This Week’s Darth Vader Comic Shows Us the Ballsiest Thing Vader Has Ever Done

I genuinely love Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larocca, and Edgar Delgado’s work on the Darth Vader comic. The team has completely nailed what makes Vader a terrifyingly powerful, yet funny character. Case in point is the opening to this week’s Darth Vader #16, which features Vader at his most defiant. https://gizmodo.com/pro-tip-never-ask-darth-vader-to-dance-1749505306 Very minor spoilers ahead for…

This Legendary Slasher Flick Finally Has a Blu-ray That Captures Its Outstanding Sleaze [NSFW]

Pieces might sound like a lot of other early 1980s slasher films, since it’s about a shadowy maniac who chops up pretty college girls. But anyone who’s seen it knows that Pieces is one of the most WTF entries in the genre—and now it’s getting a smashing new Blu-ray release, full of extras that highlight…

Hollywood Is Trying To Make A Battlestar Galactica Movie—Again

Battlestar Galactica is a beloved space opera franchise, but many people are only slightly familiar with its premise, beyond killer robots and spaceships. That combination of name recognition and an empty page makes it perfect for Hollywood development. So it’s unsurprising that producers are trying to make a BSG movie yet again. The Hollywood Reporter…

Hayley Atwell’s Got a New Job, But What About Agent Carter?

Hayley Atwell’s been cast as the lead in ABC’s Conviction. Which is great for her, but does make us wonder if this means that Agent Carter is done after its second season. Conviction has Atwell playing Carter Morrison, a “brilliant but rebellious daughter of a former president” who is blackmailed into working for Los Angeles’…

Watch the First Four Minutes of This Sunday’s Walking Dead Mid-Season Premiere Now

This Sunday, The Walking Dead returns for the second half of its sixth season, but let’s be honest—you don’t want to wait that long. AMC to the rescue! Thankfully, the network just posted the first four minutes of the premiere, and you can watch it here. The show starts with last year’s post-credits tease showing…

A Producer Is Tweeting Descriptions of Women from Movie Scripts and It’s Hilariously Awful

Ross Putman is a film producer with a few credits under his belt, and now he’s started a Twitter feed where he just tweets the initial descriptions of female main characters in the movie scripts he’s reading. It’s endlessly fascinating, and kind of garbage. According to Putman’s Twitter bio, “These are intros for female leads…

A Bizarre Star Wars Mystery Has Finally Been Solved

How do you appear in one of the biggest movies of all time without anyone, including the people who worked on the movie, knowing your name? You’d have to ask BoShek, the gloriously sideburned human hanging out in the cantina in Star Wars. For nearly 40 years, no one has known who played this character.…

The Author of Dark-Hunter Is Suing the Author of Shadowhunters for Potentially Obvious Reasons

Scifi/fantasy author Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing scifi/fantasy author Cassandra Clare, claiming that the latter’s Shadowhunters series (also known as The Mortal Instruments) is copying elements of the former’s Dark-Hunter series. Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter books first premiered in the US in 1998, while Clare’s first Shadowhunters book debuted in 2007. Both series are about secret groups who…

Shadowhunters Is Full of Monsters, But It’s Also a Show About Unrequited Love

Simon’s been mooning over Clary since before Shadowhunters began—they’ve been friends their entire lives. (Emphasis on friends.) But until last week, we never realized how deeply Alec felt for Jace. Lingering awkwardness led to the below heart-to-heart ’twixt bros on last night’s “Moo Shu To Go.” Don’t feel too bad for Alec, though; he has…

Bruce Wayne Just Made a Terrible Mistake

It’s not been a good time for DC’s biggest superheroes making sound decisions lately. Last week, Superman’s idea to restore his superpowers was very dumb, and it lead to him getting a silly new superpower. This week, Bruce Wayne made a decision that has huge ramifications for the future of Batman… which was both dumb…

The Harry Potter Play Will Become the Eighth Harry Potter Book in July

Good news for everyone who won’t be able to make it to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: the script for the play will be on sale July 31. That’s right after the official opening of the play. And on Harry’s birthday. Announced on Pottermore, the version of the script you can buy will be…

The Purge: Election Year Could Be the Political Horror Movie We Desperately Need

When The Purge came out in 2013, I dismissed it as a ham-fisted parable of income inequality. The story of a future America where crime is legal for one night, and the rich use this fact to kill the poor for sport, it seemed almost too bludgeony. But The Purge: Anarchy was totally brilliant, and…

The 8 Worst Kinds of Fictional Romances

Romance abounds in fiction—and science fiction and fantasy are full of epic romances, too. But sometimes a romance feels less like something that’s true to the characters and more like a plot device the writers threw in at the last moment. Here are eight kinds of romance that we don’t ever need to see again.…

I Have Never Seen a Superhero Act Stupider Than on Last Night’s The Flash

Man, last night’s episode of The Flash was fun. “Welcome to Earth-2″ sent Barry and Cisco to a parallel world where Barry is a nerd in tweed, Joe West is a lounge singer, and TVs are vertical instead of horizontal. (Madness!) And yet the most amazing change is that it turned Earth-1’s Flash into an…

Thunderbirds Are Go is go in America, as Amazon has licensed the CG reboot of the classic UK puppet series to debut on Prime Video. In fact, Amazon has not just licensed it, but ordered four seasons of the adventures of the Tracy brothers. The season one trailer is here. Contact the author at [email protected].

A Treasure Trove of New Archer Clips Is Exactly What We Need This Morning

It’s hump day, everyone, so you know what that means A) We can celebrate nearly being in the back end of the week with a veritable bounty of clips from Archer’s long-awaited seventh season, and B) phrasing. These new trailers aren’t quite as Magnum P.I.-esque as everything else we’ve seen so far, but they’re full…

Star Wars Rebels Could Have a Nasty Fate in Store for One of Our Favorite Characters

Deadpool could be teaming up sooner than you expect. Maisie Williams throws her hat into the ring to replace Peter Capaldi on Doctor Who. A new viral site teases a ton of information for 10 Cloverfield Lane. Riverdale casts its Betty and Jughead, and a familiar villain returns to The Flash. Spoilers Now! Deadpool Following…

Unfortunately, a ‘Live-Action Hybrid’ Sonic the Hedgehog Movie is Happening

Not like this, Sonic. Not like this. Sega has announced that its gotta-go-fast mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog, is getting a new movie, courtesy of a partnership with Sony Pictures. The company’s CEO, Hajime Satomi, broke the news in an extensive interview with The Worldfolio: Sega Sammy Group is currently planning with Sony Pictures to create…

9 Blatant Lies About Pop Culture That Everybody Instantly Saw Straight Through

These days, creators struggle to keep the details of their upcoming movies and TV shows from leaking on the internet, so they can preserve their big surprises. And this leads to some pretty feeble attempts at misdirection, with cast and crew vehemently denying what everybody already knows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, though… it just looks…