It’s not often that a new body appears in the night sky—aside from meteors and the occasionally comet, things tend to look pretty much the same. Now, astronomers predict that a pair of stars so close they’re basically touching will collide and create a so-called red nova, resulting in a bright explosion visible to the…
Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s Nextwave is one of the zaniest, funniest comics Marvel has ever published—wild enough that its “canonicity” within the Marvel universe has been kept at arms length at various points since it ended. But now we know that it actually exists within the re-jiggered “All-New” timeline,…
This week, Lost Girl, Sleepy Hollow and The Muppets all return! Mulder & Scully track a man-lizard. Plus Tar Pit, the Calculator and Bizarro terrorize the DC Comics heroes! All this, plus iZombie and bioluminescent fish, on This Week’s TV!
Everybody knows that Omni was the coolest magazine of the 1980s, mashing up science, science fiction, and a healthy dash of pseudo-science. But what many fans of the magazine might not know is that it nearly had a different name. It was supposed to be called Nova.
Whoa. We’ve been getting dribs and drabs of reveals for Marvel’s upcoming universal reboot over the past week, but it looks like the jackpot has just hit: Comics retailers across the world have received previews for 45(!) of Marvel’s new series, and it sounds like it’s a whole lot of crazy.
With new casting announcements being made with the X-Men franchise, rumors of at least two new Marvel TV shows, and seemingly more by the day, some people are beginning to ask what’s going to be left to adapt? It’s a valid question, and it’s worth noting there is a lot of fertile ground left to mine!
We have a couples beginnings this week with the premiere of the TV adaptation of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (which we're pretty optimistic about!) and the return of Helix — can its new island setting win us over? Plus, The Librarians closes its first season while Constantine and Grimm are back from vacation.
James Gunn confirmed over the weekend that alas, Nova wouldn't be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe début in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. A disappointment for fans of the Marvel Cosmic surely, but honestly - we shouldn't be that broken up that Nova isn't coming to the big screen yet.
I don't care much for cars. But even though I'm ambivalent about automobiles, I'm incredibly passionate about the radio show Car Talk. Sadly, one half of the Car Talk brothers, Tom Magliozzi, died today at 77, which sent me searching for this documentary they made in 2008—the first time I saw "Click and Clack" in…
An international team of astronomers have finally caught a glimpse of an expanding thermonuclear fireball from an exploding white dwarf. It's the first time this kind of data has ever been captured, allowing the researchers to study how the fireball evolves and rapidly expands into space.
It may not possess the sense of overwhelming grandeur that CERN can muster, but Fermilab's new 500-mile long neutrino experiment is just as ambitious. Leveraging the most powerful accelerator-based neutrino experiment ever built in the United States, researchers hope to unravel subatomic secrets and, through them,…
Guardians Of The Galaxy was stuffed to the gills with aliens, side characters and creatures. But there was one character that we didn't see on screen, Nova—a character so hotly anticipated folks were certain Nathan Fillion was secretly cast as this strong-jawed space cop. He wasn't, but here's what Nova could have…
Yes, this time we tackle the totally new question of which Star Wars movies are better. I heard there might have been a little bit of a discussion about this subject pre-apocalypse, but it's not been explored here in the post-apocalypse. In fact, I haven't given it the tiniest bit of thought before. This is…
Between Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, wild and frenetic space opera is making a comeback. But the genre contains plenty more amazing, largely untapped material. Here are 16 other space heroes who could rock their own movies.
Thanks to the Olympics, things are quiet in the land of TV this week, but there are a handful of new episodes to watch between speed skating heats. Jeri Ryan joins Helix; we find out who's still alive on The Walking Dead; Almost Human zooms in on one of its female characters; and the Mythbusters attempt to literally…
The Walking Dead returns after December's brutal fall finale. What's ahead for our survivors? Plus, the Person of Interest team is back together for a dangerous heist. Meanwhile, Alex Kingston's Dinah Lance returns to Arrow and Stan Lee pops up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. And check out clips from this week's Almost Human…
This week, we bid farewell to American Horror Story: Coven; will this tale of New Orleans witches end on a high note, or will the magic fizzle out? Community goes on without Donald Glover, but Nathan Fillion is here to fill the hole in our hearts. Plus, catch clips and details from this week's episodes of Helix, …
The Powerpuff Girls returns tonight for a single episode, but will you still love the ladies when they're 3D? Also, we bid a sad (but temporary) farewell to Sleepy Hollow—and you can catch a few peeks at tonight's season finale. See what else ahead this week for Being Human, Supernatural, Arrow, Helix, the Dracula…
After a few quieter weeks in TV land, we have two scifi premieres airing this week. Check out the goods on Helix, the Arctic outbreak thriller that promises to be one of this year's most exciting shows. And take a peek at Josh Holloway's return to television as a government agent who can communicate with computers in …
There's only one show that rules our screens this week, and it's the longest-running science fiction series ever. The entire week is crammed with celebrations of Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, including a dramatization of the early years, and a meeting of titans. Check out clips and details from all this week's TV!
