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Waterworld Is Both More Impressive and Problematic Than You Remember

Say the phrase “Waterworld” and chances are you’ll think about one of two things: 1) it being a box office disaster; or 2) how Kevin Costner’s hero drank his own pee. The most expensive film ever made upon its release in 1995, it famously cost almost $180 million but grossed only $80 million domestically, making…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 2

Bad Guy Kevin Costner Gets a Good-Guy Brain Implant in Action Thriller Criminal

When traditional law enforcement tactics fail, why not turn to mad science? In Criminal, a vicious sociopath (played by Kevin Costner) undergoes a procedure that implants a recently deceased CIA agents’s skills and at least one very important memory into his brain. Sure, that sounds totally reasonable. Nah. It actually sounds totally ridiculous (and more…

Trailers Cheryl Eddy Feb 11

Man of Steel: Worth It Just For The Super-Powered Combat

There’s really only one reason to see the new Superman movie: to watch people with superhuman powers pounding the crap out of each other, flying into each other and burninating each other with heat vision. Luckily, The Man of Steel more than delivers on the super-punching front, even as it muddles through in other ways.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 14

Astronomers discover a brand-new class of exoplanet — the boiling Waterworld

NASA’s Kepler mission has been spoiling us with planetary discoveries left and right as of late. Now, researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an entirely new class of planet — they call it a “waterworld,” and it might be covered in broiling-hot ice. https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-galaxys-26-newest-planets-5879976 Illustration via ESA – AOES Medialab In our own…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 21

The aquatic apocalypse of Waterworld was my sexual awakening

Human sexuality is a weird thing, so it makes sense that I learned the laws of attraction from a disgusting, herring-scented merman. And no, I’m not talking about Skeletor’s sidekick. First things first, the title of this piece is a bit of a prevarication. My first official sexual awakening occurred while watching another maritime themed…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 16

The Gulf Spill, One Year Later

Fixing This | One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history Why Capping a Blown Oil Well at the Bottom of the Ocean is so Insanely Difficult https://gizmodo.com/why-capping-a-blown-oil-well-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-5785036 Last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped an estimated 2.6 million gallons of oil A…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 20

Kevin Costner’s supernatural experience is just as cheeseriffic as you’d expect

Kevin Costner has an encounter with the other side, and there are flashy lights and montages of children shouting, and a white light, and then his dead wife reaches out. Is Dragonfly the worst supernatural film of the early 2000s? Spoilers ahead, if anybody cares. So add Dragonfly to the long list of movies that…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 17

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Laugh you may have when you heard that Kevin Costner was stepping into BP’s oil spill disaster with a potential solution, but BP has now snapped up 32 of the centrifuge machines to help separate the oil from the water. The technology was created by Costner’s brother, with the actor pumping in $20m over 15…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 17

Waterworld star Kevin Costner will clean up the BP oil spill

Kevin Costner once boasted that he could have cleaned up the Exxon Valdez spill in a week. Now he’ll get a chance to show what he can do — BP is buying his oil/water separation machines. [Inhabitat and WWL]

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 11

This Machine May Save Us From the Gulf’s Oil Disaster

Kevin Costner says he has the solution that will save the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s ruinous oil catastrophe. He’s not kidding. Watch him talk about this machine that, according to him, extracts 97% of oil from the water. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fix-the-bp-halliburton-louisiana-oil-disaster-ki-5531910 Costner has been funding this project for 15 years, which was spearheaded by his brother.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 18

10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

Click to view It’s happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn’t expect. Our eyebrows…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jun 29

Must See: The Postman

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. Title: The Postman Date: 1997 Vitals: A simplistic tale of a guy who fights evil fascists in a post-Apocalyptic United States by re-establishing the postal service. Famous…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 1

Must See: Waterworld

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. Title: Waterworld Date: 1995 Vitals: An eco-disaster has caused water levels to rise and turn Earth into a . . . waterworld! As food and oil run…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 1

Waterworld Is Both More Impressive and Problematic Than You Remember

Bad Guy Kevin Costner Gets a Good-Guy Brain Implant in Action Thriller Criminal

Man of Steel: Worth It Just For The Super-Powered Combat

Astronomers discover a brand-new class of exoplanet — the boiling Waterworld

The aquatic apocalypse of Waterworld was my sexual awakening

The Gulf Spill, One Year Later

Kevin Costner’s supernatural experience is just as cheeseriffic as you’d expect

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Waterworld star Kevin Costner will clean up the BP oil spill

This Machine May Save Us From the Gulf’s Oil Disaster

10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

Must See: The Postman

Must See: Waterworld

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