Yes, the sad fact remains: Men still make the vast bulk of American feature films. And while more and more women are indeed finding their voices in the cinematic firmament all the time, we still frequently have to pick carefully through a small sliver of major releases to find the female directors. This is all common knowledge, sadly, and a lament...
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Ahoy, Doctor Who fans! Did you watch the special ‘Last Christmas?’ Of course you did. How are you feeling about where this Christmas special ranks in the list? Do you need more Nick Frost as Santa? Are you tired of losing really awesome characters that you fell in love with in an hour? (I’m talking to you, Shona!) I talked all...
In the all new episode of Star Wars Rebels, Yoda returns to help out Kanan and his apprentice Ezra. After the close calls they’ve been having with the Inquisitor, both decide it’s time to take their training more seriously. They head to an ancient Jedi temple on Lothal to start a series of tests when they are met with the help of...
When I sat down at the NYCC 2014 Daredevil panel to see the first footage from Marvel’s upcoming Netflix exclusive series, I was shocked at what unfolded on the screen. Gone was the brightly-lit, zippy, humor-laden spectacle of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies I’d come to know and love, replaced by a dark, brutal, visceral, and...
In the Marvel comics source material, Yellowjacket was one of the (many) heroic identities of founding Avenger Hank Pym, but in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie, Yellowjacket will be a black-and-yellow clad force of evil; the primary antagonist for Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang version of the Ant-Man character. Today a new marketing banner for the...
On the latest episode of Nerd Alert, I got to chat with former Mythbuster Grant Imahara and host Kim Horcher about something pretty cool: a drone that is made of a fungus that melts. Self-destructing drones! Am I the only one who sees all sorts of nefarious applications for this? Check it out below!
“What a piece of junk!“, “You came in that? You’re braver than I thought!“, “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.” Few spaceships have inspired such glowing praise as Han Solo’s beloved (and beat-up) YT-1300 Corellian freighter, The Millennium Falcon – and...
2014 is quickly drawing to a close, and that usually means us creating a highlight reel in our heads on all the great things that have happened over the past year. One major hot topic in 2013 was the rise of female heroes in movies, TV, and video games. This year, however, seemed to have flipped the script with cat-calling, the men who...
Well, this is pretty awesome! The trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron done entirely in LEGOs. This comes to us from YouTube user JimA73 and it’s a pretty spot on, shot by shot recreation. It’s even better than the sweded one we posted a while back. Feel free to debate about that. I’m kind of loving the new trend in recreating...
Clara Oswald is here to stay — at least for one more season. At the end of the Doctor Who Christmas special, it was revealed that Jenna Coleman will return for Season 9. (Check out our recap and review of “Last Christmas” by Shaun Rosado.) Coleman told BBC News, “There is so much more to do. I think they’ve [The Doctor and...