Donnie Darko

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Every One of the Rock’s Genre Roles, Ranked (By Rockiness)

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The Best Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in February 2022

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Sundance 2022 Is Coming, and We Can’t Wait to Watch These 19 Genre Movies

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9 Totally Nightmarish Imaginary Friends

Drop Dead Fred was released in May of 1991, meaning it’s now been shorthand for “imaginary friend out of control” for three decades. While not all imaginary friends in movies and TV are evil, a fair number of them (including these nine, who range from pesky to psychotic) do take advantage of their positions to make…

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Hop Into the Weekend With This Adorable Gif Party

While not everyone celebrates Easter, there are two things about Easter we can all agree on: candy and rabbits rule. And so, after a long week, as we approach a holiday weekend for many folks, we thought a gif party related to those things was in order. So sure, you can drop just cute bunnies…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 2

That Place You’ve Been Stuck in Since March? Time to Decorate It With New Art

Under normal circumstances, an online art show is a bit of a letdown. There’s no hustle and bustle of fellow patrons looking at the work. No free wine to drink. No way to see the art up close and personal. Did we mention the wine? However, 2020 has been everything but normal circumstances, which means…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier Aug 6

20 Sci-Fi Directorial Debuts That Became Genre Classics

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Movies Cheryl Eddy Mar 19

These Pop Culture Sculptures Are Too Cute For Words

Artist Brad Hill has a very distinct style. He takes some of your favorite pop culture properties and turns them into small, handmade sculptures. Some are very detailed, others are more kid-oriented, but they’re all beautiful, and you’ve got to check them out. Hill currently has an exhibition called “Off the Wall” on display at…

Movies Germain Lussier Oct 3

Either Donnie Darko Hasn’t Aged Well or the Director’s Cut Isn’t As Good

Donnie Darko is one of those movies I watched and rewatched endlessly during college. The small, but bold, tale of a troubled young man saving his family and friends spoke to me in ways I don’t quite recall 15 years later. I just know I loved it. However, rewatching the director’s cut of the film…

Movies Germain Lussier Apr 28

Be Wary: These Posters Are Full of Spoilers

Warsaw, Poland-based artist Dawid Fratczak has created an antidote to spoiler culture: a series of movie posters with a giant spoiler illustration. And then, if that’s not enough, he writes it out for you, too. Here are a few of our favorites, see the rest on Behance. [via Laughing Squid] Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jul 3

What Movie Did You Dislike, Until Someone Explained It To You?

Sometimes a movie just doesn’t work for you — until someone else explains all the cool stuff they got out of it, and all the extra layers of meaning they saw. Sometimes a really good explanation can retroactively make everything that much better. But which movie did you not like until someone gave you their…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 25

An 8-Bit Donnie Darko game is just as dark and good as the movie

I just love when movies are summarized into CineFix’s 8-bit cinema style. It combines the nostalgia of childhood video games with the memory of movies that I should watch more often. This time, it’s Donnie Darko that gets the 8-bit treatment. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of confusion, conversations and rabbits. SPLOID is…

Sploid Casey Chan May 27

10 Most Unnecessary Movie Sequels Of All Time

Sometimes, you see a movie that opens up a whole universe of possibilities, leaving you wondering where these characters will go next. So much adventure waiting to happen! And then… there are movies that really don’t need a sequel, but get one anyway. Here are 10 film sequels that it’s really hard to believe actually…

Movies Ryan Plummer and Charlie Jane Anders Apr 10

Voltron, Kermit, and Donatello sit for their portraits like true gentlemen

We can’t get enough of Hillary White’s mashups of classic fine arts with pop culture. In her latest series, she turns her wily brush to portraitures, with monsters, Muppets, villains, and superheroes as her subjects. White’s portraits are currently on display not at a gallery, but at Nosh Kitchen Bar in Portland, Maine, so you…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 16

Donnie Darko: Don’t Try Too Hard to Make Sense of It All

Donnie Darko is some kind of sci-fi psychological thrillerish movie with a twist of horror and a whole lot of weird; it’s hard to squeeze it into a genre. It stars a young Jake Gyllenhaal as the social awkward, possibly mentally ill Donnie, who can somehow sorta kinda time-travel and is plagued by hallucinations of…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 19

The weirdest (and most disturbing) giant rabbits in speculative fiction

Fossils of giant Mediterranean rabbits were recently discovered by paleontologists. In honor of the extinct Nuralagus rex, we present to you a round-up of some of the strangest, most frightening cottontails to thankfully never grace our reality. https://gizmodo.com/giant-bunnies-reigned-over-the-mediterranean-island-of-5784212 Tetsuo’s Hallucination from Akira In this anime classic, psychic test subject Tetsuo is attacked by the Espers,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 27

Donnie Darko

16 Awesome-Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2024

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Hop Into the Weekend With This Adorable Gif Party

That Place You’ve Been Stuck in Since March? Time to Decorate It With New Art

20 Sci-Fi Directorial Debuts That Became Genre Classics

These Pop Culture Sculptures Are Too Cute For Words

Either Donnie Darko Hasn’t Aged Well or the Director’s Cut Isn’t As Good

Be Wary: These Posters Are Full of Spoilers

What Movie Did You Dislike, Until Someone Explained It To You?

An 8-Bit Donnie Darko game is just as dark and good as the movie

10 Most Unnecessary Movie Sequels Of All Time

Voltron, Kermit, and Donatello sit for their portraits like true gentlemen

Donnie Darko: Don’t Try Too Hard to Make Sense of It All

The weirdest (and most disturbing) giant rabbits in speculative fiction

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