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The Wildest, Weirdest Star Trek Action Figures

Star Trek has a peculiar relationship with the world of toys—one that often makes its interactions with it incredibly weird

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Mar 13

Biden Signs Tiger King Bill Into Law

The new law effectively phases out private ownership of big cats and immediately bans cub-petting attractions.

Conservation Molly Taft Dec 22

Woman’s Webcam Starts Following Her Movements and Taunts ‘Hello’

Internet of Things devices are notoriously insecure and webcams are among the creepiest targets for hacks. A woman in the Netherlands recently learned just how disturbing these vulnerabilities can be, capturing footage of a home webcam that started tracking her movements and speaking to her in a sinister, unfamiliar voice. In a Facebook post, Rilana…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones Oct 5

Predator Is Brilliant Because It’s Rambo, But With an Alien

As Hollywood legend tells it, 1987’s Predator—which turns 30 today—was directly inspired by the Rocky series. But the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic even more closely resembles Sylvester Stallone’s other big 1980s franchise, Rambo, specifically 1985’s First Blood Part II. The major difference is that Predator improves upon the formula by adding a cunning, killer alien to…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Jun 12

So Why Do Action Movies Make Actresses Fight Like This?

I’ll admit to being dumb and not noticing this before, but action movies seem to make all actresses do the same move during a fight scene: the between the legs takedown. There’s different variations of it, of course, but the end result is almost always the same, someone ends up in between the action heroine’s…

Sploid Casey Chan Jan 6

Short Film Brilliantly Edits Together Scenes From 53 Movies to Show People Trying to Kill Bruce Willis

Why does everyone want to kill Bruce Willis? Because Pierre-Alexandre Chauvat hilariously edited together 53 different movies to make it seem like various characters from movies like The Bourne Ultimatum, Pulp Fiction, Hot Fuzz, Mad Max: Fury Road and more are after one our favorite action heroes. Hell, even Iron Man from The Avengers is…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 28

How to Do Violence in Movies Right

There’s so much violence in movies that it doesn’t even matter anymore. People get hurt, nameless bad guys get killed, cities get destroyed and we’re just like, “Oh whatever.” Superheroes fight superheroes and we don’t even care. That’s because most movies are numbingly uncreative when it comes to movie violence. Most films just use violence…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 10

5 Beyond Brilliant Action Scenes in Movies

Action movies are fun to watch but there’s a smart way to do action scenes and an epically dumb way to do it. The smart way focuses in on the details, tells a story within a story, and makes sure we know just what the hell is going on amidst all the crazy. The dumb…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 22

10 Cool Special Effects Scenes in Movies That Didn’t Use CGI

It’s always nice to know that not everything in movies is done with computers and CG and green screens. Pretty much very nearly almost all of it is, of course. But! There are still some directors using practical effects in some action movies and those scenes always look awesome. Here’s ten of ‘em. A lot…

Sploid Casey Chan May 9

Into the Badlands Is Over and I’m Already In Martial Arts Withdrawal

Just like that, all six episodes of AMC’s Into the Badlands have (already?!) wrapped up—and with it go some of the most mesmerizing, elegant on-screen battles ever produced on an American TV program. I’m going to fill the hiatus WITH prayers to the cable TV deities urging AMC to officially greenlight a second season. Spoilers…

io9 Bryan Lufkin Dec 21

How Did Into the Badlands Get To Be So Badass? Our Exclusive Interview!

The first season of AMC’s Into the Badlands is already almost over—the (hopefully very bloody) season finale is Sunday. We talked to star Daniel Wu and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar about what we can expect. Gough and Millar, a long collaborating team of writers and producers who worked on Lethal Weapon 4, Shanghai…

io9 Bryan Lufkin Dec 18

Into the Badlands Recap: AMC, We Need Season Two, Please

So… that fight scene. THAT FIGHT SCENE. What a shame that there’s only one episode left. Badlands took several episodes to really get going, and now that it’s finally crazy good, the season is almost over. Which leads me to a humble plea: AMC, please bring this show back for a second season. Spoilers ahead.…

io9 Bryan Lufkin Dec 14

Into the Badlands: Aramis Knight Talks Fighting Boot Camp—Plus M.K. and Tilda

Sixteen-year-old Aramis Knight plays the young warrior with hidden Hulk-like super strength on AMC’s Into the Badlands. He talked to us about being a total badass. As you can imagine, training to be on a martial arts show is hard as hell—especially when you have zero experience, like Knight and most of the cast did.…

Television Bryan Lufkin Dec 11

In the Future, Robots Kidnap the President to Win the War

In a future where humans battle robots, an elite military team has to save the President. And retrieving him from the middle of robot-territory is as easy as it sounds. Directed by Samuel Jorgensen, Singularity is one of those rare shorts that is also an action movie. Even if the final twist is exactly what…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Nov 12

Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Have Amazing Action Sequences in Movies

While there’s a ton of explosive action in movies out there today, it’s rare to find genuinely good action in our big-ticket films. Why? Is it because action scenes suck? Not really. As this video from Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital shows, it’s mainly because it’s really hard to get right. Fantastic,…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 25

Why do action scenes in movies suck?

Here’s a really good video essay from Sam and Niko about action scenes in movies. They first start by showing us what bad action scenes look like—quick cuts, implied action, reason-less fighting, etc.—and then delve into movies that do action scenes really well (involve characters we care about, actually show the action and the action…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 23

Awesome video seamlessly edits all your favorite movie characters into one scene

This is so much fun to watch. Hell’s Club by Antonio Maria da Silva of AMDS Films takes so many of your favorite characters from different movies and blends them all together into one coherent scene in a fictional club. The editing is really, really well done! And it’s great because you see the same…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 3

Honest trailer of Mad Max: Fury Road shows how improbably awesome it was

If there is one thing all of humanity can agree on it’s that Mad Max: Fury Road was pretty much the most awesomest action movie this year. But it’s even more awesome to think about how impossible that awesomeness was: it’s a franchise whose last movie was 30 years ago. Its director did Happy Feet…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 25

Incredible video shows every Jason Statham punch ever from all his movies

Some people dedicate their lives to doing good by like, building houses and killing mosquitos and being a doctor and making sure people can get water or something. Other people dedicate their lives to a much simpler cause that is totally different but is absolutely still improving the world around us: by punching as many…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 25

The Best Techno-thriller of the Weekend is American Ultra

If you love action and futuristic conspiracies, you can skip the blockbuster sequels this weekend and head straight for the funny, fiendish flick American Ultra. It’s billed as a stoner comedy, but this weird secret agent, mind control ninja story is so much better than that. American Ultra stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mike, a twenty-something…

Movies Annalee Newitz Aug 21

Action

The Wildest, Weirdest Star Trek Action Figures

Biden Signs Tiger King Bill Into Law

Woman’s Webcam Starts Following Her Movements and Taunts ‘Hello’

Predator Is Brilliant Because It’s Rambo, But With an Alien

So Why Do Action Movies Make Actresses Fight Like This?

Short Film Brilliantly Edits Together Scenes From 53 Movies to Show People Trying to Kill Bruce Willis

How to Do Violence in Movies Right

5 Beyond Brilliant Action Scenes in Movies

10 Cool Special Effects Scenes in Movies That Didn’t Use CGI

Into the Badlands Is Over and I’m Already In Martial Arts Withdrawal

How Did Into the Badlands Get To Be So Badass? Our Exclusive Interview!

Into the Badlands Recap: AMC, We Need Season Two, Please

Into the Badlands: Aramis Knight Talks Fighting Boot Camp—Plus M.K. and Tilda

In the Future, Robots Kidnap the President to Win the War

Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Have Amazing Action Sequences in Movies

Why do action scenes in movies suck?

Awesome video seamlessly edits all your favorite movie characters into one scene

Honest trailer of Mad Max: Fury Road shows how improbably awesome it was

Incredible video shows every Jason Statham punch ever from all his movies

The Best Techno-thriller of the Weekend is American Ultra

Two Songs We Really Wish Were the Anime Outros for ‘Steel Ball Run’

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