Robb Stark cast as Prince Charming in Cinderella because OBVIOUSLY

Perfect, just perfect. Disney has just announced that Richard Madden, owner of the Robb Stark perm and ruler of our hearts, will be their Prince in the Kenneth Branagh-directed live-action Cinderella. This is just perfect. He joins Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother and Lily James as Cinderella. Still no word on who will play…

Crowdfund This: The Manos: The Hands of Fate puppet musical on DVD!

You probably haven’t seen Manos: The Hands of Felt, a theatrical puppet musical based on one of the most legendarily awful films ever made — it’s been performed around the U.S., but not often and not everywhere. But you have a chance to fix this egregious error by crowdfunding an official DVD release! This isn’t…

Get a close-up view of Doctor Who‘s brand new TARDIS control panels!

Knobs, buttons, levers and switches — get an intensely close look at the control panel of the latest TARDIS. What button does what? Which window is for communication? Is there a method to the Doctor’s TARDIS console-thwapping madness? Thanks to Doctor Who Magazine, we have a collection of amazing images from inside the 11th Doctor’s…

Who’s the most obsolete superhero of them all?

Superheroes have been around since the 1930s, and they’ve changed a lot in that time. Some of them have evolved and improved, while others have been stuck in the past. But which superhero is the most obsolete and in need of permanent retirement? Vote for your selection below — and please include an image to…

How Neil Gaiman did away with the “clanky clanky steampunk” Cybermen

This Saturday, renowned author Neil Gaiman returns to Doctor Who, with a brand new mission: make the Cyberman actually terrifying again. We talked to Gaiman, along with some other reporters, and he explained how he became the new Cyber-controller. Spoilers ahead… So we took part on a conference call with Gaiman and some other reporters,…

Michael Bay’s TMNT features Megan Fox on a trampoline, obviously

First the good news; Megan Fox, who plays April O’Neil in the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, was seen wearing April’s iconic yellow on set! Sure, it was only a jacket, and Megan Fox looks nothing like any April otherwise, and… sorry. That’s not good news. I was just trying to brace you.…

Chilling poster for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity sets up a space nightmare

Here’s another look at Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, showing the stark deadliness of outer space. The premise is simple: “Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting alone in space.” But the actual action is horrifying. Which is even evident in this simple, but stunning new poster showcasing…

John Scalzi, Lois McMaster Bujold and Kim Stanley Robinson are just some of those whose novels are honored by this year’s list of Locus Award Finalists.

Behold, The Madonnas of Science

Currently on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: the work of artist Chris Shaw, who re-imagines historical depictions of the Virgin Mary swaddling not wee baby Jesus, but an atom inspired by the discovery of the Higgs Boson, an armillary sphere, and a red, writhing squid. Bonus: admission is free. Boing Boing’s…

How much does antimatter weigh?

Antimatter is mysterious, dangerous, and rare. In fiction, it’s at the core of Isaac Asimov’s positronic brains, the engines on the Enterprise, and the bomb in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons. But in the real world, antimatter is fairly mundane stuff. If the entire universe turned into antimatter, we’d barely notice. Or would we? Top…

Jurassic Park 4 delayed. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

Hold on to your butts — Jurassic Park 4 has been pushed back… way back. But here’s why that’s a good thing. A collection of suspicious tweets have been popping up from members of the JP4 crew. Ain’t It Cool News screencapped a number of these messages from Digital Asset Manager Todd Smoyer and another…

Bitchin’ Artwork That Makes You Proud to be An American Werewolf

Can we get a “fuck yeah” for American werewolves? This brand new artwork for Benjamin Percy’s novel Red Moon celebrates the blood red in the red white and blue. Makes you want to pump your fist while howling at the Moon. Red Moon, by Esquire editor Percy, is a brand new werewolf novel, and we’re…

How the human brain sees a 100-mph fastball

Given how slowly our brains react to incoming visual information, it should actually be impossible for us to hit a blistering fastball. But we can. That’s because, instead of showing us the world as it really is, our brains offer us a glimpse of the future. Indeed, our innate ability to track fast-moving objects has…

Wine tasting is bullshit. Here’s why.

The human palate is arguably the weakest of the five traditional senses. This raises an important question regarding wine tasting: is it bullshit, or is it complete and utter bullshit? https://gizmodo.com/10-limits-to-human-perception-and-how-they-shape-yo-5926643 There are no two ways about it: the bullshit is strong with wine. Wine tasting. Wine rating. Wine reviews. Wine descriptions. They’re all related.…

Reality Check: You can’t easily replace Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark

Now that Iron Man 3 has made pretty much all the money in the world, there’s reportedly a contract dispute brewing between star Robert Downey Jr. and Marvel, over whether he’ll be back for Avengers 2 and 3, and possibly Iron Man 4 as well. Is Downey Jr. overpaid? We don’t know. But we do…

The ‘glass is a liquid’ myth has finally been destroyed

By studying a glob of 20 million-year-old amber, scientists have proven once and for all that glass does not flow. Some people claim that stained glass windows in old churches are thicker at the bottom than at the top because glass flows slowly like a liquid. We’ve known this isn’t true for quite some time…

12 Movies That Filmed Happy Endings You Never Saw

Everybody likes a happy ending… right? Actually, no. Sometimes a happy ending is the absolute wrong thing for a movie, because it throws away everything the film-makers worked to build up throughout the film. Sometimes, a movie has to end with fire, tears or blood. Here are 12 movies that had happy endings, but scrapped…

Jaron Lanier wants you to get money for your Instagram photos

Jaron Lanier is the guy who popularized virtual reality, back when it was still cool. He’s a futurist visionary, a musician, and a digital shit-disturber. We’ve got an excerpt from his new book, Who Owns the Future?, which proposes a new way to manage the economy for the information age. From the introduction to Who…

True love beats douchebaggery in a schizophrenic (but good) Grimm

Did anyone feel like they were watching two separate Grimm episodes last night? Because for the first 35 minutes, I honestly thought we were getting the most boring, useless Grimm of the season. Then, shit started happening. Good shit. So good that we’ve got some actual momentum heading into the last two episodes. Let’s recap…

The scientific equivalent of “When did you stop beating your wife?”

There’s a famous joke question: “When did you stop beating your wife?” The structure of the question is funny — or disturbing — because any response condemns you. You’d assume that a quick-witted person could see through it. But this study proves that you’re wrong. “Do you think your contempt for America might influence your…