It’s Xenomorphs Vs. Vampires In The Aliens/Vampirella Crossover Comic

The aliens of, err, Alien have been a part of many crossovers, especially in the comics realm. Versus Predator, of course. Versus Batman. The list goes on. But their latest comic book crossover will see them go up against horror heroine Vampirella, and presumably, there will be blood. Announced at C2E2 today, Dynamite Entertainment and…

Check Out Professor X And Harry Potter As Dr. Frankenstein And Igor

The first set pic of Victor Frankenstein has arrived, showing James MacAvoy as the titular mad scientist on the right, and Daniel Radcliffe as what is most likely the most handsome version of Igor ever seen on screen on the left. Those are some snazzy pants too, gents! This version of the Frankenstein tale will…

Another one of our favorite short films could become a feature-length movie. Fox just picked up the rights to Controller, Saman Kesh’s proof-of-concept film about a woman who psychically takes control of her boyfriend’s body in order to free herself from captivity.

That Movie About An Eternally Young Blake Lively? It’s A Dud.

In The Age of Adaline, Blake Lively plays a woman who gets struck by fancy weird-science-lightning and stops aging, for decades. But she keeps her condition secret, which means she needs to be alone. This could have been the premise of a neat movie, but instead it’s the basis of a grinding mess. Minor spoilers…

Calbuco’s Massive Volcanic Plume As Seen From Space

Two days ago, Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in over four decades. It spewed an ash cloud nearly 10ten miles high, resulting in evacuations within a 12-mile radius around the volcano. Here’s what the action looked like from space. For a period of about 90 minutes, Calbuco violently ejected ash and pumice…

Attention, GIFs! Please Join Your Party Inside

There’s no time to waste, GIFs! This party is happening now. How was your week? Do you have any upcoming plans or new things to share? Detail your own very recent past and tell us what the not-too-distant future will hold for you using our language of both choice and necessity: interpretative GIFing.

The Mushrooms You See In Every Children’s Book Are Psychoactive

These adorable mushrooms are in every children’s book illustration. They’re so cute, with their bright red umbrellas and white spots! They’re also psychoactive. And toxic. They’re called Amanita muscaria, or fly agaric. You might have even sat on stools painted to look like this mushroom while reading the children’s book. If a kid stumbles across…

Yet Another Marvel Hero Is Confirmed For Captain America: Civil War!

Steven Moffat explains what has to happen for us to get a Doctor Who movie. Watch a new Jurassic World clip! Mysterious casting news for Star Wars: Rogue One, Suicide Squad, and the Arrow/Flash spinoff. Gambit may not be in X-Men Apocalypse. Plus, what happens when the original Agents of SHIELD team reunites? Spoilers! Top…

Jurassic World Footage Puts The Focus Back On The Dinosaurs

Universal brought out its big star Chris Pratt to show off a whole new sizzle reel for Jurassic World. And what I saw was definitely better than the earlier released clip, mainly because it was very dinosaur-heavy. And it helped the evil smart dinosaur a little as well (a very little). Spoilers ahead. Pratt and…

CSI: Cyber and the Perverted Harem Selfie of Death  

Want to not get murder-kidnapped by a hyper-sexual control freak? CSI:Cyber provides a very helpful guide on what not to do: Don’t use your phone’s location services while taking selfies if you’re a 5’2 brown-haired young girl who uses social media! Duh. A very grossly decomposing dead girl named Elizabeth Marks is updating her FriendAgena…

Fuck Belle Gibson And The Enablers She Rode In On

“Wellness Guru” Belle Gibson lied about having terminal brain cancer and made a killing peddling bogus cures. At Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin excoriates Gibson and “the culture of magical thinking and hero idolization that built her myth into a profitable business, ignoring decades of real science, and placing vulnerable people with cancer at real risk…

This Film About High-Diving Giraffes Is An Instant Cure For The Blues

We’re not sure what possessed director Nicolas Deveaux to make a five-minute film about animated, acrobatic giraffes diving from the high board into a swimming pool, but we’re glad he did — because we’re grinning ear to ear watching them tuck and plunge. 5 mètres 80 won best in show at SIGGRAPH Asia for its…

Grandparents Are Monsters In Trailer For M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan gets into (at least partially) found footage-style horror with his new film The Visit. In the trailer, we meet the brother and sister who go to Nana and Papa’s house — only to learn that something very, very weird is going on with their grandparents. Shyamalan wrote and directed The Visit, which…

Avatar Exhibition Will Tour The World To Remind You Avatar 2 Is A Thing

Cast your minds back to the heady days of 2009 — and to the days when Avatar, for better or worse, was the only movie people would talk about. Six years on, a new exhibition celebrating Pandora will travel the globe, a less than subtle reminder that James Cameron still wants to make another one…

Hypnotic Timelapse Videos Show A Face Of Mother Nature We Rarely See

We don’t usually get to witness the movements of plants and fungi, which happen so slowly that we don’t notice it with our naked eyes. But these timelapse videos speed up the process, letting us appreciate the sometimes graceful growing and dying of these organisms. Spring Awakening, shot in Poland by Artur Homan Life cycle…

How Do You Turn A Monkey Into A Therapist?

Harry Harlow’s most famous experiments involved isolating an infant rhesus monkey until it was socially and emotionally devastated. Less well-known is the experiment in which he revived them using “therapist monkeys.” In the 1960s, Harry Harlow made headlines when he revealed the experiments he done on rhesus monkey infants. He’d raised infants in isolation, with…

Why Even Magic Needs To Play By The Rules In Fiction

Sometimes magical events and characters can really push a story into a much more interesting place, but sometimes their appearance seems to stop things in their tracks. What makes the difference? Remembering that even magic has to follow the rules. Author V.E. Schwab joined us today to take questions about her latest novel, A Darker…

There Is More Than One Type Of Near-Death Experience

Researchers have attempted to categorize near-death experiences according to seven major themes. Photo Credit: Gareth via flickr | CC BY-NC 2.0 At BBC Future, Rachel Nuwer describes the work of Sam Parnia, director of resuscitation research (what a title!) at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York. Parnia, along with several colleagues, has…

It Follows Director’s New Gig: Developing A Mystery Series For TV

Great news for fans of indie horror smash It Follows: director David Robert Mitchell is bringing his retro-artful-terrifying touch to the small screen, in the form of a crime series titled Mr. Postman. As the title suggests, it’s about a postman. Who solves mysteries. Dark mysteries. https://gizmodo.com/it-follows-proves-that-horror-movies-dont-need-to-be-du-1691019297 https://gizmodo.com/how-it-follows-uses-dread-and-beauty-to-create-the-perf-1690601352 The Hollywood Reporter got the scoop: Mr.…

The Universe’s Earliest Star Clusters May Have Been RIDICULOUSLY Bright

New research from Western University in Ontario suggests the universe’s first stars amassed in conglomerations so bright they shone with the power of a hundred million suns. Above: An artist’s impression of some of the first stars in the early Universe. Five protostars are seen here forming in the centre of disks of gas. Caption…