Once Upon a Time‘s Version of Hades Is So Bad It’s Kind of Great

When Once Upon a Time left us in December, it did so with the promise that the main cast would be journeying into the underworld. Now, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, we know what Hades will look like come March. It’s pretty stupid. In the still above, it looks like Greg Germann accidentally stepped in front…

Disney’s New TV Show Is The Iron Giant, Power Rangers and Pacific Rim Rolled Into One

A young boy who can manipulate machines with his mind finds a massive robot that was built to defend the world from monsters. Together, he and his three friends must band together to pilot the robot—and help save the world! If that was the plot to a movie, it would almost surely be a big…

How The Expanse Pulled Off Two Miracles at the Same Time

The Expanse just finished its first season—leaving us with ten episodes of a show which beat all our highest expectations and made Syfy a destination in a way that it hasn’t been since Battlestar Galactica. How? Warning: Spoilers abound. The Expanse had a doubly difficult job to do. It had to adapt a book to…

That Crazy Post-Apocalyptic Zorro Movie Is Now a Ridiculous Futuristic Zorro Movie

What do you do when you’ve already made and remade every single famous property out there? You set them in the future. It’s happening with Robin Hood, and now it’s happening with Zorro, too. Last year, news broke that a post-apocalyptic Zorro film called Zorro Reborn was in the works. That film has now been…

The Young Octavia Butler Shaped Her Own Future Success Through Sheer Force of Will

When she was still a struggling writer, Octavia Butler vowed that she would become successful, no matter what it took. Her handwritten affirmation about her own future success is amazing to read, now that it’s come true. The Huntington Library was given a collection of Octavia Butler’s papers after her death, and they’ve catalogued 8000…

Legion Finds Professor X’s Son in Downton Abbey

Legion, the upcoming X-Men semi-spinoff TV series, has found its star. Dan Stevens, best known as Matthew Crawley in the hit British period series Downton Abbey, has been cast as David Haller, the estranged son of Professor X, who isn’t sure if he has immense mental superpowers or is totally insane. Stevens isn’t the only…

Do not discuss your life before: Wayward Pines’ first season made it clear that Matt Damon’s character would not return. So the M. Night Shyamalan-produced show returns this summer with a new lead: Jason Patric, as a surgeon who’s been un-thawed to serve the kids who’ve taken over the creepy town. [Deadline]

If Your Father Was a Pulp Science Fiction (and Porn) Writer in the 1970s, Life Got Pretty Weird

Andrew Offutt was a prolific author of pulpy science fiction and fantasy stories, along with porn, under a variety of names. Now his son Chris has written a memoir called My Father the Pornographer. And he’s been writing some fascinating essays about growing up with a dad who wrote cheap paperbacks. According to the Science…

In the New Movie Creative Control, Virtual Reality Is Dangerously Irresistible

The widespread use of virtual reality is inevitable, and it’s getting closer and closer. A new movie called Creative Control now takes the tech to the next level, and the results aren’t good. Written, directed by and starring Benjamin Dickinson, Creative Control premiered at South by Southwest 2015 to solid reviews and finally hits theaters…

A New Interpretation Of The Force Was Revealed On A Trippy Star Wars Rebels 

Star Wars Rebels keeps showing us these fascinating corners of the Star Wars universe that the main movies can’t quite get to. Last night, we discovered something very important—namely, that not everyone in the galaxy agrees on what the Force even is. In the episode, called “Legends of the Lasat,” Zeb discovered two members of…

A Sassy Lee Harvey Oswald Makes a Big Impression in This Clip From Hulu’s 11.22.63

Entertainment Weekly snagged this clip from Hulu’s Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63—which stars James Franco as a teacher who time-travels to prevent a certain history-changing presidential assassination from happening. This scene is clearly from early in the series, and it features a flashback to one character’s memorable first encounter with Lee Harvey Oswald. 11.22.63, which also…

Arrow Just Rocked Felicity Smoak’s World Again, and She Has No Idea

Felicity Smoak’s year is about to get worse, and she doesn’t even know it. The latest episode logistically, emotionally, and narratively made not one single lick of sense… until the very end. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Star City’s newest supervillain is the Calculator, and he’s a hacker. This means that he and Felicity…

I Wrote a Weird Book About Two People Who Belong in Different Stories

A young witch and a wild science genius—the characters in my new novel All the Birds in the Sky don’t even belong in the same book together. They’re misfits in the eyes of the world, but they’re also weird to each other. And that turns out to be the most fun thing to explore. Read…

Galaxy Quest‘s Happy Ending Is Actually an Evil Government Reality Show

In the last scene of Galaxy Quest, we see the once-washed-up actors, previously stuck in a decades-long hell of fan expos and ribbon-cuttings, back on the airwaves in a brand new show for the next generation of sci-fi fans! …Or so we think. There’s actually much, much more to it. And it involves energy-hungry feds…

Everything You Need to Know Going into Batman v Superman, According to Dr Pepper

Ah, promotional tie-ins. What better way to learn about a movie before it releases than through myriad promotional crossovers? Batman v Superman is no exception, and a new series of prequel comics tied into purchases of Dr Pepper have given us a pretty interesting glimpse into the movie’s world. Typically, if you wanted to read…

The First Clip from Midnight Special Is Full of Danger, Both Extraordinary and Mundane

Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival next week, which means we’re finally seeing images and the first clip from this science fiction, family, and small town drama. Here’s the official synopsis: Every mile that Roy and his eight-year-old son cover on their journey down highways and byways brings us closer…

The Producers of Game of Thrones Lay Into the Show’s Disastrous Pilot

It’s not exactly uncommon knowledge at this point that the never-released Game of Thrones pilot wasn’t just totally different to what we got; it was a downright disaster. But it eventually got reworked into something that sparked a cultural sensation is a miracle… and hoo boy, do David Benioff and D. B. Weiss know it.…

Supergirl Could Be Confirming A Crazy Fan Theory About the DC Cinematic Universe

A new villain for Star Wars: Rogue One may have been revealed. The Walking Dead teases the arrival of Negan and Jesus. Greg Wiseman raises your hopes for a third season of Young Justice. Plus, new looks at the Ratchet and Clank movie, the Descender adaptation gets a writer, and a new Daredevil image. Spoilers…

Bryan Singer Confirms He’ll Soon Begin Work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 

On his 50th birthday in September, director Bryan Singer posted an Instagram photo of a script he’d co-written for a new adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, dubbing it “a story I’ve wanted to retell since childhood … an adventure very dear to my heart.” And now, it’s happening. The 1954 Disney…

George R.R. Martin Made Me Feel Unspeakably Depressed Yet Again

Few authors have as much power to draw you in with fun characters and thrilling adventures—and then crush your spirit utterly—as George R.R. Martin. But the latest way that Martin managed to make me lose all hope for humanity was especially sneaky. And just tremendously soul-shredding. Here’s your spoiler warning—if you’re not up to speed…