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Let’s Fancast the Wild Amount of People That Are In The Suicide Squad

Friday evening, James Gunn finally revealed the cast of his Suicide Squad quasi-sequel-reboot, the unhelpfully titled The Suicide Squad. There’s… well, there’s an awful lot of them. So why don’t we try our best and wish for who could be playing who from DC Comics’ vast roster of potential squaddies? We’ve had some previous thoughts…

Movies James Whitbrook

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British Prime Minister Wants to Hulk Out for Brexit, Because This Is Where This Farce Is at Right Now [Updated]

If you’ve been trying to pay attention to whatever in god’s now-ungodly-name is going on in the UK right now over the nightmare that is Brexit, recently you’ve heard about some bizarre, arcane parliamentary terminology. Prorogation! The Speaker! The Black Rod! Boris Johnson! Well, here’s one new term you probably don’t need explaining: The Hulk.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Marvel, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek: Discovery Win Big at the Saturn Awards

It wasn’t just merry Mutant namedrops at this year’s Saturn Awards. It was also a reminder of some of the summer’s biggest dramas in pop culture, albeit on a more amicable scale. https://gizmodo.com/iron-man-had-an-alternate-post-credits-scene-where-nick-1838119810 As Deadline reports, the 45th annual Saturn Awards took place in Hollywood California Friday night, and befitting a venue used to announce…

Movies James Whitbrook

Will We Ever Get Multi-day Battery Life on the Apple Watch?

Yesterday we got a glimpse at the Apple Watch Series 5. While it boasts a new LTPO screen and some software updates, one thing that hasn’t changed is its 18-hour, “all-day” battery life. It’s an omission I noted in my initial Series 5 writeup, and one that earned scoffs from plenty of Apple Watch users…

Tech News Victoria Song

19 Climate Change Activists Arrested for Drone Protest Against Heathrow Airport Expansion

UK police have now arrested at least 19 environmental activists who threatened to fly drones and disrupt air travel at Heathrow Airport in protest of the planned construction of a third runway at the UK’s main air hub, the Guardian reported on Saturday. The protesters are an offshoot of the Extinction Rebellion movement, which has…

Climate Change Tom McKay

Sci-Fi Miniseries Restoration Feels like Altered Carbon With a Case of the Body Snatchers

Seems like any other day. You head to the doctor to undergo a routine digital back-up of your consciousness, but find yourself suddenly trapped in someone else’s body. That’s the premise behind Restoration, an Australian sci-fi miniseries now available to watch for free online. Created by Stuart Willis and Matthew Clayfield, Restoration is a five-part…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Amazon-Owned Whole Foods Slashes Health Care Benefits for Part-Time Workers

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is slashing benefits for 1,900 part-time workers at the start of 2020, with staff working 20 hours a week told the bar to buy into the company health care plan will now be set at 30 hours a week, Business Insider reported this week. The changes won’t affect full-time employees, according to…

Commerce Tom McKay

Watch as a Sculptor Perfectly Captures Deet From The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

The Jim Henson Company might have bit of competition. Artist Nicholas Brown from LoreCraft has released a video where he created a sculpture of Deet, one of the stars of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. This puppet lookalike might not be on strings, but damn if she doesn’t look alive. In the video, Brown…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Iron Man Had an Alternate Post-Credits Scene Where Nick Fury Referenced the X-Men

Iron Man’s post-credits scene was a game-changing moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, because it was the very thing that established the MCU in the first place. However, as revealed by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, there was a version that not only teased the arrival of the Avengers, but could’ve blown Marvel’s whole door…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Drone Attack on Oil Facilities Shuts Down Half Of Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production

Saudi Arabia has shut down approximately half of its oil production capacity after “coordinated drone strikes on facilities in [its] Eastern Province” set blazes at the Hijra Khurais oil field and Abqaiq, the world’s largest oil stabilization facility, the Wall Street Journal reported. Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who took control of Yemen’s capital of San’a in…

Tech News Tom McKay

Ad Astra Director Broke the Rules of Space for Brad Pitt’s Acting

It’s no surprise that most movies and shows don’t follow space logic. Even works like Firefly or Gravity, known for attempting a sense of realism, bend or break the rules. Director and co-writer James Gray may have promised Ad Astra will have the “most realistic depiction of space travel” ever, but he did make one…

Movies Beth Elderkin

Matt Reeves and Netflix Team Up to Adapt Sci-Fi Novel Way Station

The Batman director Matt Reeves isn’t just focused on the cowl, he’s also heading to deep space. Netflix has announced that Reeves has secure rights to Clifford D. Simak’s sci-fi novel Way Station, about an immortal war veteran who is humanity’s only link to alien life, with plans to turn it into a film for…

Movies Beth Elderkin

A Year After Hurricane Florence, Coal Ash Is Still a Huge Concern For North Carolina

Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina a year ago today. And while its winds were only Category 1-force, its record rainfall and floodwaters caused major devastation—especially to coal ash ponds, which can contain toxins like mercury and lead. This toxic sludge can pose a major public health threat if it reaches waterways or nearby…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

A Mysterio Figure to Make That Money in Your Wallet an Illusion

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest toys making hefty dents into our life savings lately. This week: Mysterio floats into Hot Toys’ Marvel line, enter the Age of Resistance with an incredible Dark Crystal puppet, and Lego is already getting us in the Christmas mood. Check it out! Hot…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski

Supernatural Proves It’s Not Kidding With a Trailer for the Final Season

For years, Supernatural’s been this thing that’s just…around. Like streetlights, rent checks, and that ever-present sense of dread, Supernatural felt like something that was never not going to exist. Until now. The trailer for the 15th and final season is here, proving that even demon hunters need to take a break. The CW has released the…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Disney CEO Cuts Ties With Apple Because They’re Not Called the ‘Streaming Wars’ for Nothing

Disney CEO Bob Iger has bowed out of Apple’s board of directors ahead of what’s sure to be a heated competition come November when both companies release their dueling standalone streaming services. According to a filing Apple submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, he resigned on September 10, coinciding with the company’s…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

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Mr. Sinister’s High Camp Perfectly Cuts Through the Drama of Powers of X

So far, Jonathan Hickman’s bold re-envisioning of the X-Men’s place at Marvel Comics in House and Powers of X has been exactly that: bold. It has audaciously upturned everything we ever thought we knew about them, it has plunged headlong into esoteric ideas. This week, it wanted to remind us it is still very, very…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The First Peanut Allergy Drug Might Be Approved Soon—but Not Without Controversy

On Friday, a panel of experts assembled by the Food and Drug Administration voted that the agency should approve a drug called Palforzia designed to help people manage their peanut allergy. But the non-unanimous verdict rendered by the panel highlights the ongoing debate over whether this therapy, a pill containing peanut protein, is actually worthwhile…

Health Ed Cara

J.J. Abrams Reportedly Turned Down $500 Million Deal With Apple Because Apple Can’t Share

Well, well, well, isn’t this Apple rumor just delicious. This week, it was announced that J.J. Abrams had, with his wife and business partner Katie McGrath, inked a multi-year agreement with WarnerMedia to develop exclusive content, games, and other media through their production company Bad Robot in a deal that is believed to be worth…

Tech News Catie Keck

‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ Makes Me Worry for Charlie’s Angels

Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey are talented performers who, despite their fondness for cultural appropriation, have all cranked out more than their fair share of legitimately fantastic music. “Don’t Call Me Angel,” the new single tied to Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming Charlie’s Angels, is not a particularly bright spot on any of their…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore

Let’s Fancast the Wild Amount of People That Are In The Suicide Squad

British Prime Minister Wants to Hulk Out for Brexit, Because This Is Where This Farce Is at Right Now [Updated]

Marvel, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek: Discovery Win Big at the Saturn Awards

Will We Ever Get Multi-day Battery Life on the Apple Watch?

19 Climate Change Activists Arrested for Drone Protest Against Heathrow Airport Expansion

Sci-Fi Miniseries Restoration Feels like Altered Carbon With a Case of the Body Snatchers

Amazon-Owned Whole Foods Slashes Health Care Benefits for Part-Time Workers

Watch as a Sculptor Perfectly Captures Deet From The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Iron Man Had an Alternate Post-Credits Scene Where Nick Fury Referenced the X-Men

Drone Attack on Oil Facilities Shuts Down Half Of Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production

Ad Astra Director Broke the Rules of Space for Brad Pitt’s Acting

Matt Reeves and Netflix Team Up to Adapt Sci-Fi Novel Way Station

A Year After Hurricane Florence, Coal Ash Is Still a Huge Concern For North Carolina

A Mysterio Figure to Make That Money in Your Wallet an Illusion

Supernatural Proves It’s Not Kidding With a Trailer for the Final Season

Disney CEO Cuts Ties With Apple Because They’re Not Called the ‘Streaming Wars’ for Nothing

Mr. Sinister’s High Camp Perfectly Cuts Through the Drama of Powers of X

The First Peanut Allergy Drug Might Be Approved Soon—but Not Without Controversy

J.J. Abrams Reportedly Turned Down $500 Million Deal With Apple Because Apple Can’t Share

‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ Makes Me Worry for Charlie’s Angels

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