Pacific Rim: Uprising director Steven S. DeKnight still dreams of a crossover with King Kong and Godzilla. John Boyega teases a war in the stars for Star Wars: Episode IX. A Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star is coming to iZombie. Plus, Ant-Man and the Wasp concept art, a gory new look at Ash vs. Evil Dead, and a creepy new …
China’s terrifying “social credit” system isn’t planned to be fully implemented until 2020, but we’re already seeing facets of it being put in place. In May, people who have committed acts of “serious dishonor” will reportedly be unable to travel on trains or flights for up to a year.
Mackenzie Davis, star of AMC’s fantastic Halt and Catch Fire and the best episode of Black Mirror, is close to landing the lead role in Terminator 6. If the deal goes through she’d join the returning Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton as the new face of the franchise.
Emma Thompson is helping to bring a long-lost horror movie to life. Rampage is coming a little sooner than expected, thanks to Avengers: Infinity War. The Charmed reboot finds its final witch. Plus, John Wesley Shipp on Flash’s Flashtime powers, and Dan Stevens on Legion’s Professor X connection. Behold, spoilers!
With just three episodes left, The X-Files is fast approaching its series finale. Season 11 has been decidedly uneven, delivering both extreme letdowns and moments of pure brilliance. Last night’s “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” was admirable in that it took some stylistic risks—but its wanna-be Black Mirror-type story was too…
Over the course of just a few seasons, Black Mirror has ruined social media, political engagement, augmented reality, nerd culture, video gaming, and basically everything else—so of course love would be next. This Valentine’s Day, Black Mirror’s new social media campaign brings its True Love Test to the real world,…
Black Mirror’s fourth season is, in hindsight, a radically ambitious feat for Charlie Brooker and his team of reality-breaking creators. It faces the criticisms that season three fell into a rut of cynicism and familiarity with what producer Annabel Jones calls, in this Netflix featurette, “a series of firsts.”
Black Mirror, along with channeling the Twilight Zone, has the feel of an old-school weird comics anthology. Every episode could easily be reimagined as a haunting issue of some dusty, cheap periodical somewhere.
Gotham is apparently recasting another of its villains. Clark Gregg talks about his directorial debut on Agents of SHIELD. Scully gets an ominous vision in a new clip from The X-Files’ return. Plus, new footage from Black Lightning and Insidious: The Last Key, and what’s to come on The Gifted’s finale. Spoilers now!
Black Mirror took a journey to the final frontier with its season four episode “USS Callister,” a breakdown of fandom, entitlement, and totalitarianism that was also chock full of references to its inspiration, Star Trek. As the director has pointed out, many of them were purposeful, and one of them was actually a…
The dystopian scifi anthology series Black Mirror is known for making eerie predictions about the future, but it seems that The Ricky Gervais Show’s little round-headed buffoon Karl Pilkington was way ahead of the curve when he outlined the plot of two storylines from the new season of Netflix’s hit show back in 2012.
Ever since I heard Netflix’s Black Mirror was going to do a parody of Star Trek, with a focus on totalitarianism, a million ideas ran through my head. Was this going to be like Star Trek: Discovery, exploring the conflict between military might and scientific exploration—or, was it going to be the Mirror Universe…
Users of Turkey’s equivalent to Reddit received an unsettling message late last night. Across the site, users began complaining that they’d received a mysterious DM from an account named “iamwaldo” that left many people feeling paranoid and anxious. It appears that was the intention of the message, which is actually a…
Black Mirror’s showrunners didn’t intend for every episode of the fourth season to feature a female protagonist, but they’re thrilled that’s how it played out.
Rian Johnson confirms a very special Star Wars: The Last Jedi cameo. The Little Mermaid’s live-action adaptation is close to finding its director. Sophie Turner has seemingly confirmed we’ll be waiting a while for Game of Thrones’ conclusion. Plus, new pictures from the Doctor Who Christmas special. Behold, Spoilers!
More Star Wars: The Last Jedi footage teases Porg delights. Gambit suffers another setback. There are new rumors about Iron Fist’s next big bad. Emma Dumont hints at some big changes ahead for Polaris on The Gifted. Plus new looks at the midseason finales of Supergirl and Arrow, and what’s to come on Gotham and …
In this trailer for an upcoming season four episode of Black Mirror, dogs are not man’s best friends.
Ben Mendelsohn coyly acknowledges the rumors around his Captain Marvel character. Matthew Vaughn’s next project could be a scifi action film. Brandon Routh discusses Constantine’s arrival on Legends of Tomorrow. Plus, behind the scenes on The X-Files, and good news for Ghosted. Spoilers get!
