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Watch The Dark Knight Returns, starring a French Batman…and Wolverine?

In the spirit of such fan films as Batman: Dead End comes Batman Deliverance, a nine-minute short that details the ignominious end of Bruce Wayne at the claws of Canada’s most famous superhero (I don’t mean Captain Canuck). Here’s a synopsis of this curious film from filmmaker Pierre Desgranges at Atomic Production. It fails to…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Robert Rodriguez releases Spy Kids 4 trailer, now with more Ricky Gervais as a robot dog

The Spy Kids movie series has dodged a bullet. How do you make a movie about Spy Kids when the original tykes are in their 20s? Simple, reboot the whole thing with Jessica Alba and throw in a talking dog! Here it is, the trailer for Spy Kids 4: Joel McHale, We Thought You Were…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Why does the military want to watch these kids’ movie? High-res Super 8 photos provide new hints!

What’s the secret at the heart of J.J. Abrams’ Super 8? The studio just released some high-res photos from the film, which look cool — but also provide some hints. In particular, the military seem especially interested in one little roll of film from the kids’ Super 8 camera. And in another picture, you can…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

First Warehouse 13 Season 3 Images: New Eyewear, New Challenges!

Get ready to bag and tag some strange new phenomena. Warehouse 13 comes back July 11, and the first photos from the season opener reveal some radical new eyewear. Looks like Claudia has swapped her goggles for Lennon glasses. But more importantly… what’s with Myka’s librarian glasses? Also, these photos reveal our first look at…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

In Japan, You Watch TV, but TV Also Watches You

Google has long dreamed of hardware that knows exactly who’s watching TV, which would let them target content and ads towards the viewer. Japanese network NHK is now testing that technology in the real world, hoping to accomplish something similar. https://gizmodo.com/google-tv-might-watch-you-according-to-patent-277162 According to New Launches, the experimental software runs on a tablet, which uses its…

Television Adrian Covert

Alligators use cannibalism as the ultimate population control

If you’re a baby alligator, there’s about a 1 in 16 chance that your elders will eat you. It’s nothing personal…it’s just the simplest way for these gators to deal with a temporary food shortage and keep their population stable. Florida researchers examined the stomachs of 267 adult alligators between 1981 and 1987. Since some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Visit a crashed military jet in the woods of New Jersey

In the bucolic New Jersey town of West Milford lies the abandoned remains of a military aircraft. Despite crashing almost 50 years ago, no one’s thought to entirely clean it up. Shades of Mr. Eko’s beechcraft, anyone? In 1962, a Lockheed T2V-1 SeaStar crashed in West Milford, which is approximately 50 miles from Manhattan. The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

No, George Lucas does not have 50 hours of a live-action Star Wars TV show in the can

Everybody’s talking about George Lucas having already filmed his mysterious live action Star Wars TV show today. Just a reminder, we debunked this rumor last week. Sorry, there’s no huge stash of never-before-seen live-action Star Wars in the Lucas Bunker. https://gizmodo.com/no-george-lucas-does-not-have-50-hours-of-a-live-actio-5806117

Television Meredith Woerner

World Health Organization: Cell phones as big a risk as “lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform”

After a meeting with scientists from around the world, the World Health Organization announced this morning that it has now categorized cell phone radiation as a “possible carcinogenic hazard.” This is a label that the WHO has also placed on lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform. The WHO says in a release that this new warning…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Awful, Wonderful Truth Behind Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The world is full of retellings of the Brothers Grimm lately, but Lisa Goldstein’s new novel The Uncertain Places makes the world of fairy tales feel like a living place, with a long history that intersects with our own world. The Grimms’ stories are much stranger and darker than many people realize from looking at…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Black hole shoots out plasma jets that are even bigger than its galaxy

The galaxy in this picture is Centaurus A, but it’s being upstaged in its own cosmic neighborhood. Its central black hole is emitting jets that are a million light-years long…and this is our best look yet at this mysterious phenomenon. We still don’t quite know how supermassive black holes like the one at the heart…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Prozac is killing bacteria in the Great Lakes

So many humans are taking Prozac that traces of the antidepressant drug are showing up in the Great Lakes of the United States, where bacteria are dying as a result. Microbiologist Steve Mauro has studied water samples from the Great Lakes in Erie, Pennsylvania, and found that Prozac ingredient fluoxetine is killing E. coli, a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

10 Worst Recastings of Science Fiction’s Rock-Star Characters

Can James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender make us believe they’re playing the same characters as Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen, in X-Men: First Class? We have high hopes. But recasting iconic characters doesn’t always work out that great. Sometimes you swap out an actor, and believability — and character growth — go out the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NBC’s Wonder Woman pilot pics show off the superhero’s secret jet!

Sad that David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman show got the thumbs down from NBC? Now you can see what you missed! A batch of stills from the pilot have leaked, showing off Adrienne Palicki’s shorts, business meetings and jet! Back in April we reported on the Wonder Woman pilot script overhaul, which tried to make…

Television Meredith Woerner

This week in comics, alternate reality Batman is extremely annoyed

This week’s comic haul brings new issues of Marvel and DC’s big summer events, a new Hellboy miniseries from Dark Horse, and an unfamiliar, cheesed-off Caped Crusader who’s more Punisher than Adam West. First Issues A few Flashpoint tie-in miniseries are out this week. I’m particularly jazzed for Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s Batman: Knight…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

It’s official: Doctor Who producer says the Daleks are taking a nice rest

Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has confirmed that the Doctor’s arch-enemies, the Daleks, won’t be showing up again any time soon. He told BBC News: They aren’t going to make an appearance for a while. We thought it was about time to give them a rest… There’s a problem with the Daleks. They are the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Girly girls and manly men are more realistic about their dating prospects

One of the most important skills to have if you’re looking for dates is knowing whether somebody else is interested in you. According to psychologists who studied speed dating, this is actually an incredibly difficult skill to master. But one group is almost always accurate in their predictions of who wants to date them: men…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Attack the Block soundtrack is an intergalactic brain-melter

Some of us at io9 were lucky enough to catch Joe Cornish’s aliens-versus-South-London-delinquents flick Attack the Block at South by Southwest, but yours truly only recently had a chance to catch a stateside screening. I’m not going to get into a hyper-detailed assessment of the film here (see our first impressions post for that), but…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Holographic Dark Information Energy: It’s a real thing. Maybe.

There’s a theory that involves every cool buzzword in physics. This theory links the dark energy in the universe with the way photocopies degrade over time. Find out how a loss of information may drive energy creation. Many people reading this will have had a run-in with a photocopier at some point or another in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Colin Farrell is a vampire dick in the first ever Fright Night clip

Here’s the first clip from the Fright Night remake. Looks like Colin Farrell has channeled the 80s cheese from the original flick into an even more aggressive vampire villain who loves to ladle on the TMI. The more we see from this feature, the higher our hopes are raised. We loved the trailer and the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch The Dark Knight Returns, starring a French Batman…and Wolverine?

Robert Rodriguez releases Spy Kids 4 trailer, now with more Ricky Gervais as a robot dog

Why does the military want to watch these kids’ movie? High-res Super 8 photos provide new hints!

First Warehouse 13 Season 3 Images: New Eyewear, New Challenges!

In Japan, You Watch TV, but TV Also Watches You

Alligators use cannibalism as the ultimate population control

Visit a crashed military jet in the woods of New Jersey

No, George Lucas does not have 50 hours of a live-action Star Wars TV show in the can

World Health Organization: Cell phones as big a risk as “lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform”

The Awful, Wonderful Truth Behind Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Black hole shoots out plasma jets that are even bigger than its galaxy

Prozac is killing bacteria in the Great Lakes

10 Worst Recastings of Science Fiction’s Rock-Star Characters

NBC’s Wonder Woman pilot pics show off the superhero’s secret jet!

This week in comics, alternate reality Batman is extremely annoyed

It’s official: Doctor Who producer says the Daleks are taking a nice rest

Girly girls and manly men are more realistic about their dating prospects

The Attack the Block soundtrack is an intergalactic brain-melter

Holographic Dark Information Energy: It’s a real thing. Maybe.

Colin Farrell is a vampire dick in the first ever Fright Night clip

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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