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All the Nerdy Things You Like Didn’t Win the Golden Globes Last Night

Well, that wasn’t particularly surprising, but it was slightly disappointing. Genre entertainment lost out big time at the virtual 2021 Golden Globe Awards. Critical darlings like The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit, and Nomadland won big over the few nerdy nominations such as The Mandalorian, Lovecraft Country, and Palm Springs, but there are still a few…

Movies Rob Bricken Mar 1

Tales From the Loop’s Showrunner on How Sci-Fi Can Bring Us Comfort in Uncertain Times

Amazon’s new series Tales From the Loop was a unique creative challenge. Instead of adapting a book like Game of Thrones or His Dark Materials, showrunner Nathaniel Halpern was making a series out of paintings. Specifically, the Tales From the Loop artbook from Simon Stålenhag. Luckily for Halpern, he was “uniquely cut out” for this. io9…

io9 Beth Elderkin Mar 31

Hotel Artemis Almost Lives Up to Its Excellent Characters and Setting

As a moviegoer, few things are as exciting as instantly being compelled by the world being built on screen—that feeling of diving into a whole new universe filled with unanswered questions and fascinating characters that, for the next two hours, you get to learn all about. The new film Hotel Artemis is like that. It…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 7

Hotel Artemis Gets a Retro-tastic Trailer for Its Beautiful, Bloated Cast

It might not be at Avengers: Infinity War levels, but Drew Pearce’s new scifi crime flick Hotel Artemis has got a big cast of characters, and the movie knows it might be hard to figure out who’s who. Luckily, the latest trailer is here to shine a spotlight on all the cuddly criminals checking in…

io9 Beth Elderkin May 31

The New NSFW Trailer for Hotel Artemis Introduces the Expletive-Laden Side of Its Criminal Underworld

“Things are going to hell in a handbasket full of blood and shit” is both a sentence I’d never expected to hear out of Jodie Foster’s mouth and a pretty good description of the red band trailer for Drew Pearce’s new scifi crime movie, Hotel Artemis. Set in a riot-torn, near future LA, Hotel Artemis…

Trailers James Whitbrook May 23

Parenting is Hard In New Black Mirror Season Four Trailer

Kids these days. What with their fidget spinners and shooty games and invasive neural implants. Or, well, that last one isn’t reality. Yet. In a new trailer for the fourth season of Black Mirror, the possibility is considered, and as is usually the case for Charlie Brooker’s nouveau Twilight Zone, the results don’t seem promising.…

Television Julie Muncy Nov 25

Contact Is More Than a Movie About Science vs. Religion

When Contact first opened, 20 years ago today, I thought it was a masterpiece. For a soon-to-be high school senior, Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Carl Sagan’s novel was the perfect Hollywood mix of thought-provoking ideas and spectacle. It wasn’t until years later I realized how divided fellow films fans were on the film. So I…

Movies Germain Lussier Jul 11

Celebrate the End of Prohibition with This Odd Movie

On this day in 1933, Prohibition ended in the United States — which means it’s time to celebrate with what’s probably the strangest film made about that dark time in history: 1976’s Bugsy Malone. Cheers! Alan Parker’s musical gangster extravaganza stars an all-kid cast, including a slick-haired Scott Baio (in his debut) and a spit-curled…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Dec 5

Rumor: Robert Downey Jr. wants to get Mel Gibson into The Avengers

Back in 2011, Robert Downey Jr. used an award acceptance speechto ask people to forgive Mel Gibson — and now, rumor has it, he’s pushing hard to get Gibson and their friend Jodie Foster into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Downey Jr. is probably the single most valuable actor in the Marvel cast at this point,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 7

Matt Damon and Jodie Foster take you inside the worlds of Elysium

If you’re as hungry for Elysium news as we are, you’ll appreciate this short featurette which includes a bit of new footage, but also features director Neil Blomkamp explaining what inspired him to make the movie, Matt Damon discussing how terrible Earth is and Jodie Foster revealing a rather important detail about her character. That…

Movies Rob Bricken Jul 12

Elysium gives Matt Damon cyborg enhancements in Earth’s filthy slums

Yesterday we got our first taste of new footage from Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium. These freshly filmed scenes haven’t even been edited and polished — but already they show off an action-packed tale of a desperate man trapped in a dismal, impoverished slum whose only salvation is a space station that knows no…

Movies Lauren Davis Jul 14

Jodie Foster Helps Reactivate the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life

Things got pretty hairy for alien civilizations hunters after the US government shut down SETI last April. But thanks to the donations of many people, the search is back on. One of those donors is the lovely Jodie Foster. https://gizmodo.com/government-powers-down-seti-5795843 Foster starred as Dr. Ellie Arroway in Robert Zemeckis’s Contact, a 1997 film based on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 12

First Photos of Matt Damon as a Cyborg on the Edge in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is filming his next movie, set 100 years in the future on another planet. And it looks like Matt Damon is going to be a machine-man in trouble, judging from these new set pics. Do you think that’s an exoskeleton that Damon’s wearing? A harness? Or something more integrated into…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 9

Nicole Kidman Killed Wonder Woman, Says Warner Bros.

Wonder Woman could be on hold forever — thanks to Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank. Actually, blame the sexist stumblebums at Warner Bros. The last three Warner movies with female leads bombed: Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion, Swank’s The Reaping, and Foster’s The Brave One. So Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov says he won’t…

Movies Charliejane Oct 8

Must See: Contact

Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Written by Jason Shankel. Title: Contact Date: 1997 Vitals: Jodie Foster, surrounded by the likes of Matthew MacConaughey, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt and James Woods, searches for…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 1

All the Nerdy Things You Like Didn’t Win the Golden Globes Last Night

Tales From the Loop’s Showrunner on How Sci-Fi Can Bring Us Comfort in Uncertain Times

Hotel Artemis Almost Lives Up to Its Excellent Characters and Setting

Hotel Artemis Gets a Retro-tastic Trailer for Its Beautiful, Bloated Cast

The New NSFW Trailer for Hotel Artemis Introduces the Expletive-Laden Side of Its Criminal Underworld

Parenting is Hard In New Black Mirror Season Four Trailer

Contact Is More Than a Movie About Science vs. Religion

Celebrate the End of Prohibition with This Odd Movie

Rumor: Robert Downey Jr. wants to get Mel Gibson into The Avengers

Matt Damon and Jodie Foster take you inside the worlds of Elysium

Elysium gives Matt Damon cyborg enhancements in Earth’s filthy slums

Jodie Foster Helps Reactivate the Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life

First Photos of Matt Damon as a Cyborg on the Edge in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Nicole Kidman Killed Wonder Woman, Says Warner Bros.

Must See: Contact

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