A Spy Falls, and a Monstrous Choice Is Made, on Manhattan

There’s just 48 hours left until the Trinity Test, and Charlie Isaacs must make a choice: Be a good man, or be a monster, thereby condemning tens of thousands of innocent civilians to a gruesome death. Spies are unveiled, and trusts are betrayed, in the penultimate episode of Manhattan. Spoilers below…. The members of the…

25 Years Ago, Edward Scissorhands Changed Monster Movies Forever

Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, which came out 25 years ago this week, is more than just an updating of Frankenstein. It’s the story of a gentle robot who tries to live among regular people—and when I saw it as a little kid, this movie meant everything to me. Spoilers for a quarter-century-old film follow. I…

I Asked For a Transformers Toy For Christmas. What I Got Instead Was Horrible.

We all have our own stories of getting the wrong toy for a birthday or the holidays. But there’s nothing worse than what happened to author Tobias Buckell. Nothing! So it’s the 80s, I’m a little boy growing up in Grenada, WI and money is tight. Some of my friends are super into Transformers. I…

The Killer Is Revealed and the Terror of Scream Queens Is Finally, Finally Over

In a double-episode finale, Scream Queens’ jigsaw plot finally came together in a semi-coherent manner. The Red Devils were all revealed, and most of the guilty parties were punished. But the satisfaction of knowing the truth wasn’t enough to redeem a show that’s consistently cloaked its satire in grating shrillness. Spoilers! We knew already Boone…

The Two Most Powerful Words That You Can Say To Yourself While Writing

“I’m bored.” These two words are the hardest thing to admit, when you’re writing your deathless novel, or screenplay, or short story. You’re supposed to be creating a work of timeless brilliance. How can you be bored? But admitting that you’re bored is the first step to not being bored. The power of boredom A…

Watch a Paper-Puppet Short About the Life and Work of Mary Leakey

We’ve featured videos from Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shatttuck’s Animated Life series for the New York Times before. The subject this time is paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, with a particular focus on her discovery of the Laetoli footprints, which showed how hominids walked upright 3.5 million years ago. In addition to covering the science, the video…

The New Power Rangers Comics Feature Really Stylish Teens

Outside of their iconic ranger suits, Power Rangers’ the fashion of the series’ teen heroes can probably best be described as “Achingly 90s.” But that’s not going to be case in Boom studio’s new Power Rangers comic: these are teenagers with attitude and really nice clothes. Comics Alliance exclusively revealed concept art from the series’…

J.J. Abrams Told Us the Origin Story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars is something that’s so special to so many people, that the mere idea of actually creating something new and fresh in that universe would be daunting. And yet, that’s what J.J. Abrams did with The Force Awakens. Abrams co-wrote the script for Episode VII with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back…

We Still Might Get A Live-Action Star Wars TV Series

When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, the company prematurely ended plans for two major projects—Star Wars: Underworld, a live-action TV show, and the video game Star Wars 1313, both of which would’ve followed the seedy underworld of Coruscant. But in surprising news, neither project might truly be as dead as we thought. /Film spoke to Kathleen Kennedy…

The Fascinating History of the NYC Fire Station That Starred in Ghostbusters

Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters! But where ya gonna call them? At their iconic firehouse headquarters, of course. In the film, the spook chasers’ firehouse is as much of an iconic piece of the action as the Ecto-1 car or their homemade proton packs. It appears in Ghostbusters video games and even has its own…

First Look at the New Tarzan Movie, Starring Alexander Skarsgård’s Abs

The first images and poster from July’s big budget Tarzan film The Legend of Tarzan are here and while they’re trying to sell a new era of the classic character, it’s hard to not just stare at Alexander Skarsgård’s abs. I mean, come on. USA Today debuted the first photos of the film, which is…

Good news: The kickstarter-funded “Geek Girl” comic anthology The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is getting worldwide distribution through Dark Horse. The Mary Sue have revealed that the collection, featuring work from Margaret Atwood, Kate Leth, Mariko Tamaki, and many more will be out in October 2016.

Everybody Makes Their Choices In a Stone Crazy Agents of SHIELD Episode

Last night was the midseason finale of Agents of SHIELD, and it put a pretty definitive capstone on the “alien planet” storyline as well as the ATCU storyline. Most importantly, it gave a few of our main characters some defining choices, which turned out about as well as you’d expect. Spoilers ahead… In “Maveth,” Ward’s…

The Batman Comic Is Teasing Big Changes to Its New Status Quo

The last few months have seen some huge changes for Batman. First of all, he’s not even Bruce Wayne—he’s a heavily armored Jim Gordon. Bruce can’t remember being Batman, and arguably doesn’t want to be him again. But today’s issue of Batman has begun to tease some big changes to the new normal. Spoilers ahead…

This Exclusive Boy and the World Clip Looks Like a Trippy Side-Scrolling Video Game

No, you didn’t drop acid and start playing Super Mario Bros. That’s just the unique, beautiful aesthetic of Boy and the World, a new animated film which hits theaters on December 11. We’ve got an exclusive clip—a clip that undoubtedly feels like the most amazing side-scrolling video game you will never play. In the film,…

Harrison Ford Says Han Solo’s Lines in The Force Awakens Trailers Aren’t What They Seem

When Han Solo declared “Chewie, we’re home” in the second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it brought tears to even most hardened fans. And in another trailer, he thrilled us by declaring, “It’s true, all of it.” But Harrison Ford says both those lines are being wildly misinterpreted. Though he’s now in his…

The Ninth Doctor Is Getting His Own Ongoing Comic Series!

Hooray! Titan Comics are adding another Doctor to their ever-expanding roster of ongoing Doctor Who comic books. After a pretty smashing miniseries, the Ninth Doctor is back for good with a whole host of new comic adventures in time and space. https://gizmodo.com/nine-rose-and-captain-jack-return-in-our-doctor-who-1-1690608674 The five-part miniseries from Cavan Scott and Blair Shedd came to a close…

Comic Con is headed to Tokyo, courtesy of Steve Wozniak. It’s the first time the convention will ever be held in Japan, and it’s planned for December 2016. It’s going to be a sister event to the Apple co-founder’s Silicon Valley Comic Con, and the Woz himself appeared in Tokyo last weekend to get people…

The io9 Guide to The X-Files

You may have heard that The X-Files is coming back in January. If you were a fan when the show was originally on in the ‘90s—or caught it later in syndication or streaming—this is potentially great news. If you missed the whole phenomenon, we’re here for you. Once again, we venture into the io9 Guide…

On The Flash, Barry Is an Oblivious Christmas Turkey (Seriously)

How do you follow last week’s epic, ridiculous, wonderfully fun Flash/Arrow crossover? You don’t even try to match it. You just make a Christmas episode, throw in a couple of major emotional revelations for a few characters, bring back three great villains, and then add a metric ton of silliness. “Running to Stand Still,” as…