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On The Iron Man 2 Set With Lasers, Explosions And RDJ’s Ladies

Check out this behind the scenes look at Iron Man 2, including slow-motion scenes of Scarlett Johansson strutting in a tight outfit. See new footage, new carnage, explosions and hear from the entire cast. May 7, 2010 is so far away. But so far, it all looks really, really good. Except Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash costume……

Movies Meredith Woerner

All You Need To Know To Watch Smallville

If tonight’s episode of Smallville happens to be your first, here’s the bad news: You’ve missed eight years’ worth of backstory. Now, here’s the good news: We’re about to tell you all you need to know anyway. What’s It About? For a series that started with the simple idea of “It’s Superman as a kid,”…

Television Graeme McMillan

Learn What You Won’t See Online For Dollhouse’s Second Year

Hoping for some new exclusive web content to back up Dollhouse’s second season? You’re not going to get it – Well, not online, at least. Click through for what we’re missing (and why we won’t actually miss it). Whedon told Complex magazine’s Tim Leong: We’re not [producing web-only content this year]. Just because they’re not…

Television Graeme McMillan

Smallville’s Tess Explains How Lex Could Come Back

Michael Rosenbaum reportedly won’t come back to Smallville because he’s sick of shaving his head. But when we caught up with Cassidy Freeman (Tess Mercer) at Comic Con, she had a few suggestions: wear a bald cap! Wear a turban! As with a few other videos we ran lately, we talked to Freeman on the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A Diary of the Zombie Outbreak

Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection offers a detailed account of the zombie outbreak, recording the behavior and anatomy of the undead. It’s a survival story, but one in which the dead are more interesting than the living. Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, actually written by Don Roff and illustrated…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

On Oct 1st, You Probably Won’t Be Able To Escape 2012

…Well, not if you’re watching American television, anyway. To promote Roland Emmerich’s upcoming uber-disaster movie, Sony Pictures will screen two minutes from the movie on multiple channels on October 1st, aiming to reach 90% of the country’s television audience. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony has bought up two minutes of ad time between 10:50pm…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Matrix Put a Bit of Doubt In All of Us

Anyone who’s a fan of Jorge Cham’s PhD Comics should enjoy this first of what looks to be Cham’s new series called R.O.B.O.T Comics. [Willow Garage via BotJunkie]

Books & Comics Mark Wilson

Children Who Are Spanked Have Lower IQs

A psychiatrist who studies violence and trauma has revealed the results of a long-range study of the intelligence of children who were spanked. Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire says that even a little spanking adversely affects the intelligence of the children years after the event. According to Science Blog: Straus found that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Your iPhone Is Rupturing Bruce Willis’ Spleen

Bruce Willis looks like shit in his new movie Surrogates, and that’s the point. His robot self is cheesy, fake-looking and ridiculous, and the flesh-and-blood body slumped in a neural-net chair is saggy and fragile. Spoilers for Surrogates ahead. Surrogates, opening today, is at its most potent when it reminds us just how much having…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

First Look At Pegg’s Alien Epic “Paul”

Comic book nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s alien-on-the-run film Paul finally has an image. Behold the nerd awe as our Pegg, Frost, Kristen Wiig and Blythe Danner stare into the unknown. Paul follows the two geeky Brits on a journey across the United States, where they not only hit up San Diego Comic Con,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Scientists Discover Fossils of Feathered Dinosaur with Four Wings

A dinosaur that lived between 160 and 151 million years ago could be the missing link between birds and dinosaurs. Scientists in Beijing announced yesterday that a four-winged creature called Anchiornis huxleyi could finally prove birds are descended from dinosaurs. About the size of a big seagull, Anchiornis huxleyi is the oldest birdlike dinosaur ever…

io9 Annalee Newitz

6 Zombieland Clips Prove This Is No American Shaun Of The Dead

The problem with making a comical zombie film these days is, everyone is quick to compare it with the British comedic genius that is Shaun of The Dead. Thankfully, Zombieland stands alone with its own humor, as new clips prove. Plus check out this restricted clip from Myspace

Movies Meredith Woerner

He-Man Movie Back On At New Studio

Less than a month after Mattel put the end to plans to make a live-action He-Man and The Masters of The Universe movie at Warner Bros., the project is alive again at Sony. That’s the power of Grayskull for you. Mattel pulled the rights to the toyline from producer Joel Silver less than three weeks…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Don’t Ask The Wall Street Journal How To Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction

Somebody wrote to the Wall Street Journal’s book advice column to ask how you go about convincing your 13-year-old nephew to stop reading science fiction. Thank goodness the WSJ’s in-house book nerd was smart enough to say: You don’t. Be glad that when you were a teenager, you didn’t have an aunt like the person…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Howard Knows Screwing Up The Fake Life Of Lovecraft Could Unleash Fan Wrath

Mega-producer Ron Howard sounds like he’s realizing just how important the father of all eldritch awesomeness H.P. Lovecraft really is. But we’re still suspicious of this Van Helsing-crossed-with-Shakespeare In Love film, in which Lovecraft unleashes and fights monsters. Ron Howard revealed the first tiny details of his film to the LA Times. Howard called the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Norton: It Could Be Fun To Be Villain In Avengers Movie

He may not be guest-starring in Iron Man 2, but Incredible Hulk’s Edward Norton has an idea about when his gamma-powered alter ego should come back to movie theaters… and it’s one that’ll please old-school Marvel Comics fans. Asked by MTV whether the Hulk could show up as the villain in 2012’s Avengers movie, Norton…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Green Lantern’s Outer Space Odyssey Revealed, and David Tennant Visits Sarah Jane

The Green Lantern movie gets an extraterrestrial setting and some story clues, and the Tenth Doctor stops by The Sarah Jane Adventures. Also, promos and spoilers from Pandorum, The Hobbit, Supernatural, True Blood, and John Carter of Mars. Green Lantern Comic book writer Rob Liefeld, who is close to the Green Lantern production, revealed some…

Television Lauren Davis

On The Iron Man 2 Set With Lasers, Explosions And RDJ’s Ladies

All You Need To Know To Watch Smallville

Learn What You Won’t See Online For Dollhouse’s Second Year

Smallville’s Tess Explains How Lex Could Come Back

A Diary of the Zombie Outbreak

On Oct 1st, You Probably Won’t Be Able To Escape 2012

The Matrix Put a Bit of Doubt In All of Us

Children Who Are Spanked Have Lower IQs

Your iPhone Is Rupturing Bruce Willis’ Spleen

First Look At Pegg’s Alien Epic “Paul”

Scientists Discover Fossils of Feathered Dinosaur with Four Wings

6 Zombieland Clips Prove This Is No American Shaun Of The Dead

He-Man Movie Back On At New Studio

Don’t Ask The Wall Street Journal How To Wean Your Kids Off Reading Science Fiction

Howard Knows Screwing Up The Fake Life Of Lovecraft Could Unleash Fan Wrath

Norton: It Could Be Fun To Be Villain In Avengers Movie

The Green Lantern’s Outer Space Odyssey Revealed, and David Tennant Visits Sarah Jane

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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