Holy Crap, We Really Want to Play Some Quidditch Beer Pong

As fans who grew up with the Harry Potter books gets older, ways to enjoy their fandom get more adult. The latest example might be the best yet, a blending of Quidditch and beer pong. A site called unofficialquidditchpong.com has created the rules and also has the necessary materials for purchase. Unfortunately, as of press…

A Force Awakens Luke Skywalker Twitter Feed Gives Emo Kylo Ren A Run For His Money

Mere days after Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters, a hilarious fake Kylo Ren Twitter feed instantly went viral. Well another huge spoiler from the film has now made its way on Twitter and it’s related to Luke Skywalker. Massive spoilers for The Force Awakens follow. The account is called @VeryLonelyLuke which, of course,…

The Director of Attack the Block Made Movie Spoofs Starring Stuffed Animals

Before Joe Cornish directed Attack the Block (and cowrote Ant-Man and Tintin), he was one half of the Adam and Joe Show, which was one of our favorite British comedy shows. And they used to make truly weird movie spoofs with stuffed animals and other toys. Here’s their riff on Se7en. The Adam and Joe…

The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin was one of our favorite books of the past few years. And apparently a lot of influential people agree—it’s being read by President Obama on his vacation. Contact the author at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @CharlieJane

It Is Time to Celebrate the GIFs

It’s is time for the GIFs to get their just desserts. This party is just for them. Contact the author at [email protected].

New Details From the Force Awakens Script Hint at Episode VIII Secrets

There’s a bunch of crazy new rumors about the Justice League’s role in Batman v Superman. James Gunn has nothing but praise for Marvel’s new Spider-Man. We might have a release window for Daredevil season two. Plus, sneak peeks at the return of Walking Dead and Teen Wolf. Spoilers Get! Star Wars Episode VIII /Film…

Taylor Swift’s New Video Is A Better Fairytale Movie Than Maleficent and Mirror Mirror Put Together

Seriously, Hollywood keeps making weird-ass fairytale movies. And they really ought to take a note from this insane new Taylor Swift video for “Out of the Woods,” which does for fairytales what her “Bad Blood” vid did for action movies. I can’t wait to see all of the GIFs that people make from this video.…

New Year’s Evil is the Sleazy Slasher Classic You Should Be Watching Right Now

New Year’s Evil is a 1980 slasher film from B-movie gods Golan-Globus; it stars Roz Kelly—a.k.a. Fonzie’s girlfriend, Pinky Tuscadero, on Happy Days—as Blaze, “the first lady of rock.” It’s about a prank-calling killer who menaces Blaze as she hosts a live music show (which has an on-stage phone bank) for NYE. “I’M GOING TO…

The Childhood’s End Miniseries Has Given Us Some Utterly Superb Spaceship Art

Syfy’s ambitious miniseries based on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End served up some beautiful spaceship visuals. Including the alien mothership, which looks striking and angelic. Concept artist Ben Mauro shared with us some of his beautiful Childhood’s End spaceship designs. First off, Mauro went through an “early design exploration” phase, which was “quick, dirty and…

They Use Every Part of the Creature

When the giant sea beasts beach themselves, everyone scavenges whatever they can—meat, teeth, skin. And the remaining carcass becomes shelter. This is “Empty Chest” by Mateusz Ozminski (artozi on deviantArt), who made this particular bit of art for as a thirty minute sketch for the Daily Spitpaint Facebook group. Contact the author at [email protected].

What Was The Most Tragic Disappointment of 2015?

This was a pretty good year for pop culture, but there were some terrible misfires along the way. Including some stuff that we’d all had high hopes for. But what was the biggest pop-culture letdown of the year for you? Please include a picture, poster, clip, book cover, comics panel or other illustration for your…

The Books About Artificial Intelligence That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina‘s Alex Garland

Ex Machina remains a strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2015. It’s jam-packed with ideas along with all that psychosexual weirdness. And now at last, writer-director Alex Garland has unpacked where some of those ideas come from. In case you missed it, Ex Machina is a film where Poe Dameron invites General…

Biggest Book Trends: Print Is Back, and Everyone’s Reading Science Fiction

Rumors of the death of the print book were massively exaggerated, it turns out. According to the L.A. Times, 571 million print books were sold in 2015, 17 million more than in 2014. And ebooks, which had been forecast to hit 50 to 60 percent of book sales, were stuck around 25 percent. The L.A.…

This Asian Time Travel Thriller Could Be Next Year’s Breakout Action Movie

Asia is becoming an increasingly important market for science fiction and fantasy movies, but we’re still waiting for countries like China to produce their own worthy competitors to The Avengers and Star Wars. A new movie now in production could help to change that. Reset is a co-production between Chinese and Korean studios, and is…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Finally Has A Worthy Opponent: Sherlock

Unless you totally unplugged for the holidays you are surely aware that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a box office juggernaut unlike anyone has ever seen, breaking records left and right. But in China, one movie may stand a chance against it: Sherlock. Yeah, you’re correct in thinking that Sherlock—the latest version with Benedict…

Syfy’s renewed The Expanse, the TV show based on a series of novels by James S.A. Corey, for a second season. The first four episodes have already aired, and The Expanse is already one of our favorite new shows. Watch it here.

Star Trek Fan Film Makers Didn’t Know They Were Being Sued … Until They Read the News

Yesterday, Star Trek fans were up in arms at the news that CBS had filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the hugely successful crowdfunded fan production Axanar, after a year of tolerating the project’s development. Also surprised? Axanar producer Alec Peters, who found out about it by reading said news. Ooh err. https://gizmodo.com/cbs-suddenly-wants-to-put-a-stop-to-axanar-the-crowdfu-1750290696 Following…

Soon, Your Mail Will Boldly Go Where No Person Has Gone Before

It goes without saying the gap between the fake exploration on Star Trek and the actual exploration at NASA is huge. But next year, they’ll be worth exactly the same at the post office. The United States Postal Service has revealed some of their new 2016 stamps and there are four commemorating Star Trek, which…

The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art of 2015

The word “art” can mean many things but most think of it as paintings and drawings. Visual media. In that broad topic, one of our favorite sub-categories is pop culture art, visual art based on movies and TV shows. And below we’ve picked some great ones. What you see here are some of our favorite…

A Not-So-Brief History of George Lucas Talking Shit About Disney’s Star Wars

There’s suddenly a storm of outburts about a week-old interview that George Lucas had with Charlie Rose. It’s the one where he compared selling Lucasfilm to Disney as selling his children to “white slavers.” This was a stupid thing to say, but not really a new note for Lucas to hit. There’s been tension in…