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The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who‘s Time War

The Last Great Time War. Those five words have hung over Doctor Who ever since it was revived in 2005: an earth-shattering conflict that saw the Doctor’s people, the Time Lords, pitted against the Daleks. It’s been started, ended, revived, and discussed across Who media for years, and will be explored once more this year…

io9 James Whitbrook

Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks

Every June 16 we gather to celebrate Captain Picard, for it is—based on a loose extrapolation of the stardate of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s season seven episode “The Pegasus”—Captain Picard Day. A day to recall his triumphs, his heroism, his morals, and his earnest sincerity. Not this year. This year I come to drag…

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Tessa Thompson Will Use Dream Tech to Become the Ultimate Fencer in Balestra

Continue to give Tessa Thompson a sword, Hollywood. It’s the only way. Deadline reports that Thompson has boarded Nicole Dorsey’s upcoming sci-fi tinged psychological thriller alongside Hot Jafar himself, Aladdin’s Marwan Kenzari. She will also executive produce the movie. Deadline notes, “Screenplay was written by Imran Zaidi based on an original story by Aron Eli Coleite.”…

Movies James Whitbrook

Josh Gad’s Ghostbusters Reunion Features Behind-the-Scenes Magic and Cameos Galore

There’s nothing natural about ghosts, but Ghostbusters appearing on Reunited Apart just feels right. Reunited Apart is the YouTube show put together by actor Josh Gad in which he reunites the casts of classic films, over Zoom, for charity. It started with The Goonies, and went on to Back to the Future, Splash, and Lord of…

Movies Germain Lussier

Snowpiercer Suddenly Got Interesting By Getting Intensely Disgusting

Do you remember the unsettling Folgers commercial in which a brother and sister seemed to have some sort of sexual relationship with one another? Snowpiercer remembers. No, the TNT show didn’t quite get around to aping the commercial full-on, because it was too busy making clear that it had a monster of its own to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Patrick Wilson Signs On to Fight the Moon in Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall

Roland Emmerich has, in his time, made a lot of ridiculous disaster movies. He had mankind take on aliens. Godzilla. Giant spiders. The Mayan apocalypse. And now, he’s preparing to guide humanity through a trial with its greatest foe yet: the moon. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Patrick Wilson (Aquaman) will be signing on…

Movies Julie Muncy

Ex-Machina Meets Black Mirror in the First Trailer for Archive

Shows and films like Black Mirror have tried exploring whether technology can bring back the dead. In the first trailer for Vertical Entertainment’s Archive, one man uses the memories of his deceased wife to turn her into a robot. But the person he’s made is not the same as the one he remembers. Archive stars…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Doctor Who‘s Next Audio Series Is All About Arthur Darvill’s Auton Centurion

Rory’s back! But this time, he’s alone. Because he’s meant be guarding a giant prison box for thousands of years, but in Big Finish’s newDoctor Who audio series, the hapless husband of Amy Pond (and one time Roman Centurion/Secret Plastic Alien Warrior) has only gone and misplaced it. Big Finish has announced that its latest…

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Logan’s Run Is Somehow Both Fabulously Dated and Weirdly Timeless

Logan’s Run was released in June 1976. That means, according to the rules of the movie’s gleaming utopia, it expired 14 years ago—since aging past 30 is simply unheard of. And while certain aspects of the sci-fi classic are indeed outdated, other elements feel as oddly relatable as ever. The basics of the story—adapted from…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

This Mandalorian VFX Video Shows How a Mary Poppins Line of Mandos Was Created

“Let’s go fly some more, past the planet Mandalore.” How did Jon Favreau manage to get so many bounty hunters soaring for that big moment in The Mandalorian? In this latest special effects reel for season one, we get a peek at how the Mandalorian battle was waged—along with several other key scenes. Image Engine…

io9 Beth Elderkin

This Star Trek Supercut Idea Continues to Be Some Kind of Excellent

Star Trek’s infamous technobabble as its heroes boldly go about exploring all kinds of weird and wonderful alien beings, technologies, and worlds means that, for us mere contemporary humans, it’s often hard to equate just what futuristic weirdness they’re dealing with. And so, we get to one of the most useful phrases in the Starfleet…

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Get a First Look at Arkady Martine’s Sequel to Acclaimed Space Opera A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine made a huge splash with her debut, A Memory Called Empire, racking up Hugo and Nebula nominations as well as tons of critical acclaim. Early next year, she’ll release a sequel, A Desolation Called Peace, but io9 has the cover and a juicy exclusive excerpt to share exclusively today. First up, here’s a…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

A New Doctor Who Minisode Catches Up With Bill and, Well, the Earth Right Now

The latest special episode released as part of Doctor Who’s ongoing lockdown content—bringing together fans through social media watch-alongs of episodes with commentary from the show’s stars and creatives—is, allegedly, Steven Moffat’s official hanging up of his Who-writing hat. But it’s also a timely reminder of the world we, and Doctor Who’s contemporary companions, live…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Matrix‘s Stars Are Excited AF to Pick Back Up With Neo and Trinity

Everyone thought The Matrix was over. The Wachowskis completed their trilogy in 2003 and despite fans fantasizing about a follow-up, no one actually thought it would happen. Especially not the stars. “I never thought that it would happen. It was never on my radar at all,” actress Carrie-Anne Moss, who plays Trinity in the series,…

Movies Germain Lussier

Jon Favreau Says The Mandalorian Season 2 Is on Track, Despite Covid-19 Shutdowns

Nothing can stop the Mandalorian, not even a pandemic. Showrunner Jon Favreau said season two of The Mandalorian is moving right along and should be ready in time for its October debut, on Disey+ because they’re already done filming. Speaking at a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival (via The Hollywood Reporter), Favreau said…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Ridley Scott Wants to Use a New Movie to Answer an Obvious Question Raised by Alien

Ridley Scott seems like there’s somewhere in his brain that is always thinking about Alien. He’s never quite been able to leave the franchise behind, and after returning with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, it does feel like he’s camped out to stay. And while Covenant didn’t do well enough to demand an immediate followup, and…

Movies Julie Muncy

Apropos of Nothing, Check Out These Fantasy Novels by LGBT Creators

Why do I bring this up today? Oh, no reason. Definitely not because one of the world’s most (formerly) beloved fantasy authors outed herself definitively as a transphobe, sharing boilerplate trans-exclusionary talking points that are pretty easily debunked. But, like, just in case you wanted to read some fantasy during these weird times but didn’t…

Books & Comics Julie Muncy

Layton Confronts the First Class Passengers in Delightful Snowpiercer Clip

There’s something really satisfying about seeing rich people getting nervous. In a clip from an upcoming episode of Snowpiercer, provided byComic Book Resources, a group of rich people—or, well, first-classers, the folk who represent the Important People in the dystopia of Snowpiercer—get very, very nervous. It is extremely fun to watch. Daveed Diggs, delightful as…

io9 Julie Muncy

Kenneth Branagh Has No Idea If He’s Playing the Bad Guy in Tenet

Tenet is apparently pretty twisty, in more ways than just the whole time travel thing. Well, not time travel, sorry: “inversion,” which apparently lets characters communicate across time in some mysterious way but is not, strictly speaking, time travel. At any rate it allows for what is, by all accounts, a fairly complicated script, one…

Movies Julie Muncy

The Mandalorian Had Its Entire Season Pre-Visualized Before Filming Began

If someone were to say that a fully animated version of The Mandalorian exists, they wouldn’t be wrong. They wouldn’t be quite right either, but the truth behind the tale is fascinating. On “Process,” the latest episode of Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian, the show’s crew explains what went into the creation of each…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who‘s Time War

Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks

Tessa Thompson Will Use Dream Tech to Become the Ultimate Fencer in Balestra

Josh Gad’s Ghostbusters Reunion Features Behind-the-Scenes Magic and Cameos Galore

Snowpiercer Suddenly Got Interesting By Getting Intensely Disgusting

Patrick Wilson Signs On to Fight the Moon in Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall

Ex-Machina Meets Black Mirror in the First Trailer for Archive

Doctor Who‘s Next Audio Series Is All About Arthur Darvill’s Auton Centurion

Logan’s Run Is Somehow Both Fabulously Dated and Weirdly Timeless

This Mandalorian VFX Video Shows How a Mary Poppins Line of Mandos Was Created

This Star Trek Supercut Idea Continues to Be Some Kind of Excellent

Get a First Look at Arkady Martine’s Sequel to Acclaimed Space Opera A Memory Called Empire

A New Doctor Who Minisode Catches Up With Bill and, Well, the Earth Right Now

The Matrix‘s Stars Are Excited AF to Pick Back Up With Neo and Trinity

Jon Favreau Says The Mandalorian Season 2 Is on Track, Despite Covid-19 Shutdowns

Ridley Scott Wants to Use a New Movie to Answer an Obvious Question Raised by Alien

Apropos of Nothing, Check Out These Fantasy Novels by LGBT Creators

Layton Confronts the First Class Passengers in Delightful Snowpiercer Clip

Kenneth Branagh Has No Idea If He’s Playing the Bad Guy in Tenet

The Mandalorian Had Its Entire Season Pre-Visualized Before Filming Began

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

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‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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