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Beautiful Map To Middle-Earth Discoverd On Starbucks Cup

Someone sketched out the map of Middle-Earth onto a Starbucks cup and it’s just a nice thing. Look at this adorable little map thing someone with great talent drew. Isn’t that nice? Allegedly, a Starbucks barista found this cup and then somehow the images got posted over on Reddit via Redditor Carpe_Natem (who is also…

Mr. Peabody & Sherman Failed Because It Was “Too Clever”

DreamWorks Animation is in trouble. It’s laying off 500 people, closing an office, and most of its leadership is leaving. Being blamed for this disaster is a string of big-budget misses, including blaming 2014’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman for being “too clever” for audiences. Deadline reports that DreamWorks Animation will start releasing two films a…

Why The Age Of The Kids Adventure Movie Is Over

Not so long ago, movies like The Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T., and many more sent pint-sized explorers out into the wilds of their own neighborhoods to have adventures. But, despite being imitated, they just haven’t caught fire the way the once did. Why not? The real reason may actually be off-screen. In response to…

Which Character Do You Just Wish You Could Give Some Helpful Advice To?

We love to watch people make terrible mistakes — there’s a reason why the characters who make the most awful decisions are usually the most popular. But sometimes, you just find yourself yelling at the screen (or page), “NO!” Which character in science fiction or fantasy do you wish you could give some helpful advice…

Every Single Star Trek Lens Flare, Ever

How many lens flares are there in the whole of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movies? A lot. And some crazy rounded them all up into two videos just to inform us all of the light bright insanity that is a lens flare. Way back in 2009, right after the first press screening for the first…

The Blob Is Getting Another Remake!

The Blob is back (again). Get ready to fear this slowly moving, gelatinous villain! We cannot wait. Last we heard, Rob Zombie was looking to make a remake of this 1958 scifi/horror classic back in 2009, but that’s apparently dead because now Deadline is reporting that director Simon West (The Mechanic, Expendables 2, Con Air,…

Your Movie Is Not The Goonies. Stop Saying It Is.

We are living in an age where everyone wants to be The Goonies. Why? Because Goonies is the best goddamn movie ever made (probably). Even if it isn’t the best movie ever made, Hollywood certainly loves referencing it, along with all the other nostalgic Amblin movies of their youth. And it’s probably time to stop.…

Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, the visual effects supervisor and second unit director on Snow White and the Huntsman, will direct the prequel, The Huntsman. Nicolas-Troyan replaces Frank Darabont, who left the project earlier this week. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Simon Pegg Will Co-Write the Next Star Trek Movie

The clip above is from Spaced. Seeing Pegg say that odd-numbered Star Trek movies suck is an immutable law of the universe is just a smidge ironic given the news that he’ll be one of the writers on the third reboot movie. Pegg’ll cowrite the script with Doug Jung, creator of TNT’s Dark Blue and…

Why Is Everyone Being Such A Dick To This Robot?

Story of R32 is a great little film if you want to feel like a bag of hell for the rest of the day. Spoiler warning, everyone is an insufferable prick to this robot and it makes me angry. Created and directed by Vladimir Vlasenko, who apparently hates robots.

Weirdest Shared Movie Universe Yet Includes Brain-Eaters, She-Creature

Legendary B-movie production house American International Pictures is back from the dead — sort of — thanks to Cinedigm, which is “launching a reinvention of [AIP] exploitation titles in a 10-picture project within a single movie universe.” Expect viking women, brain-eaters, and teenage cavemen. Above quote from Variety, which is reporting the news. Under the…

Watch Brad Bird Play With Mondo’s Iron Giant Figure And Try Not To Cry

We’ve got an exclusive video of The Iron Giant director Brad Bird playing with Mondo’s Iron Giant Delux Figure. And the music combined with the Giant’s face is just… eep… we… mustn’t cry… Oh dear, here we go. The Iron Giant Deluxe Figure is absolutely insane and it will finally be available for pre-order tomorrow…

From Lazarus Long To Capt. Jack Harkness: Bisexuality In Science Fiction

Why were there so many bisexual heroes in the 1970s (including Robert A. Heinlein’s Lazarus Long), and was bisexuality viewed as “futuristic”? More to the point, why did bi heroes mostly vanish throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and what brought them back? Erotic science fiction author and Circlet Press publisher Cecilia Tan explains. https://gizmodo.com/this-erotica-book-might-actually-be-the-years-most-dang-5969540 Tan…

Watch a Dad’s Special Effects Turn Playtime Into Crazy Action Scenes

The world’s best Dad-who-is-also-pretty-good-with-Adobe-AfterEffects is back with a brand new batch of cutscenes to turn his lucky kid into the most adorable action hero this side of baby Groot. Between blasting UFOs out of the window of a car to starring in a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robot’s scene that is at least 50 times…

Your next urban fantasy TV or movie obsession? The other day, we reviewedDaniel Jose Older’s fun, inventive Half-Resurrection Blues. Now, the book’s been optioned for TV or movies by Tony Award-winning actor Anika Noni Rose (who also costars in The Good Wife).

“TL;DR Jurassic Park” Is Three Minutes of Pure Geeky Plot Dissection

Max Knoblauch and Bob Al-Greene devote about three minutes — that’s one per film — to summarizing/questioning the plots of the three Jurassic Park movies. Also, they spend some time proving their dinosaur knowledge. And they are correct that the baby T-Rex is the most memorable part of The Lost World. [via Tastefully Offensive]

Star Wars Could Be Genius, Might Cast Tatiana Maslany Or Rooney Mara

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is testing for the female lead in the Gareth Edwards Star Wars spinoff. Come on, Lucasfilm, this one’s easy. Joining her is Rooney Mara and a few others. It’s kind of unclear in the original report if they’re all testing for the same role,…

NBC Might Make A Live TV Presentation of The Wiz, We Have Thoughts

After Peter Pan Live! and The Sound of Music Live, NBC is moving onward and upward, picking up the rights to The Wiz. This is a much more complicated musical than Peter Pan, so NBC, if you’re going to do it, do it right. Cast Janelle Monáe. We totally agree with Slate’s earlier suggestion that…

The LEGO Movie Almost Didn’t Get To Include Star Wars

One of the funniest bits in The LEGO Movie is when the Millennium Falcon shows up to come and get Batman. But that Star Wars cameo almost didn’t happen — the makers of the film had to rush to finalize their deal with Lucasfilm before Disney bought the company. Producer Dan Lin explains to The…

The Best Ways To Honor The 50th Anniversary Of Star Trek

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of space opera’s grandest and most ambitious media series. But will Star Trek have a 50th birthday in keeping with its proud heritage? Here are a bunch of ways that we hope Star Trek’s birthday gets celebrated. Top image by Sam Woolley Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary was a pretty…