What Happens After an Entire Town Burns to the Ground?
Everyone who fled the Camp Fire has a story about when they knew things were going to be very, very bad on that fateful…
More Than Three Quarters of Venice Underwater After One of the Worst Floods on Record
Venice isn’t just a city of canals: Normally, there are nice dry spots to take in the sights. But on Monday, dry…
The House That Survived Hurricane Michael Reminds Us What Climate Change Will Cost
In the sea of destruction that is Mexico Beach, the Sand Palace stands out like an oasis. Hurricane Michael’s wind and…
UN Launches International Commission to Help Earthlings Adapt to Climate Change
To address climate change, we’ve got two options. We can reduce our carbon pollution, and we can adapt to changes we’re…
In Hawaii, Sea Level Rise Could Displace Thousands and Cost $19 Billion
Sea level rise could mean paradise lost in Hawaii. The only island state in the union could face widespread…
The Massive Thomas Fire Reminds Us We Need to Get Our Shit Together
The Thomas Fire on its way to being the largest wildfire in California history. It started just two months after the…
Evolution Can’t Keep Up to the Blistering Pace of Climate Change
As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, species can adapt to changing environmental conditions through the…
An Assassin Returns in a New Movie Produced by the Russo Brothers
The Russo Brothers, Anthony and Joe, are about to release Captain America: Civil War and have begun to prep Avengers:…
Concept art from the Pippi Longstocking movie Hayao Miyazaki never made
In 1971, animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata began preproduction on an adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Pippi…
Gavin Hood breaks down the Mind Games from Ender's Game
Yes the Mind Games are in the movie! We spoke with Ender's Game director Gavin Hood on creating the wild Mind Game…
Is the Peak-End Rule responsible for overlong movies?
Most people think they judge a movie by its overall quality, but that might not be true. We might instead judge it by…
Zardoz director John Boorman almost made a Lord of the Rings movie
John Boorman is the director behind Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, and Excalibur, but his CV nearly included a Lord…
Do authors ever prefer the movie to their own book?
It's common to say that the book is always better than the movie, but sometimes that isn't true. Occasionally, a movie…
Heathers writer and Mean Girls director teaming up for the undead ass-kicking Vampire Academy movie
We've been excited about the big-screen adaptation of Richelle Mead's fabulous and fun Vampire Academy series, about a…
This is not an ant
Seriously. It's not. And no, it's not an image of an ant, either. In fact, the creature you see pictured up top isn't…
New World War Z trailer looks like 2012 with zombies
The new trailer for the much-troubled World War Z is out. And yes, there's a lot of Brad Pitt, and yes, there are…
10 Science Fiction Novels That Will Definitely Never Be Movies
So they actually did it: They turned the sprawling, insane Cloud Atlas into a movie, one that actually makes the book…
Hope Larson's A Wrinkle in Time comic is a love letter to the original
Say what you will about Twilight, but its fans deserved better than the hatchet job of a comic adaptation it received.…
Watch the trailer for a full-length Hobbit movie made by school kids
There's yet another Hobbit trailer out this week, but this one isn't for Peter Jackson's three-part epic. Instead,…
Brutal Battle Royale TV show could be coming to the CW
Now that The Hunger Games is a huge hit on the big screen, it's no surprise that production teams are mining other…