The 'Deadpool' trailer is an expletive-laden delight
We thought our hopes couldn't possibly be any higher for the Deadpool movie than they were on Monday, when Ryan Reynolds and his alter ego Wade Wilson released a teaser trailer teasing tonight's...
View Article'Dragon Ball Z' gets an epic fan remake starring two sheep
If you're a Dragon Ball Z fan, you might have noticed there's been no shortage of remixes, mashups, and parodies of the popular anime series. But the latest takes the prize for the one we never saw...
View ArticleWe cast the beasts in the apparently all-white 'Fantastic Beasts' film
With the surprising news that Colin Farrell is joining the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it's clear that J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. are taking an edgy approach to casting. After...
View Article25-year-old turns advanced cancer diagnosis into blog hilarity
Young and overworked but otherwise in perfect health, John Underwood had every reason to think his girlfriend was just being dramatic when she insisted he might have cancer—until he nearly collapsed on...
View ArticleAlex de Campi tells us why horror fans make the best comics readers
Archie vs Predator may not seem like the kind of title that can be a game-changer—or even like the kind of title that should exist at all—but when I ask writer Alex de Campi about it over lunch at...
View ArticleNew 'Attack on Titan' movie trailer is the most detailed and disturbing one yet
Like titans? You're in luck, because apparently the two upcoming Attack on Titan movies have them in droves.Despite being panned by critics, the first of the new live-action movies loosely based on...
View ArticleHow peace-loving Wonder Woman became a goddess of war
Comics legend Grant Morrison recently turned heads by speculating that Warner Bros. upcoming film take on Wonder Woman will be nothing like the character fans have loved for seven decades. But is he...
View ArticleWhy the Internet can't stop remixing Disney princesses
It's no secret that modern Disney fans are a creative bunch. When they're not rooting for the villains, they're reinventing, modernizing, and issuing critical commentary on popular Disney princesses....
View ArticleNetflix renews its diverse sci-fi experiment 'Sense8' for second season
The Wachowskis' stridently diverse sci-fi opus Sense8 beat the odds Saturday as Netflix tweeted the show's second-season renewal to a small, jubilant fandom.Numerous signs have pointed toward the...
View ArticleFerguson march for Michael Brown briefly halted following gunshots
Shots rang out during a community march to a church in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death Sunday.The gunshots reportedly came from an area behind the church, where police...
View ArticleWhy is this popular Kickstarter's product available for cheap on Chinese...
A successful Kickstarter campaign is being criticized as a scam. That's because its designs appear to borrow from a third-party manufacturer found on Chinese retail website Alibaba.Bomber Barrel...
View ArticleDisney's 'Alice in Wonderland' tweet insults Japan on Nagasaki bombing...
Disney couldn't have picked a worse day to accidentally wish all of Japan an "un-special" day.The social-media team behind the company's Japanese Twitter account decided to send Alice in Wonderland...
View ArticleAddictively catchy Korean pop music invades New York City for KCon
The young woman serving as emcee for KCon New York spoke flawless English, but far more important was her fluency in another language altogether. As she greeted a giddy audience of 15,000 fans of the...
View ArticleDefendants will be tried as adults in 'Slender Man' stabbing case
In May of last year, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier celebrated Geyser's 12th birthday by stabbing a friend 19 times in an attempt to summon the urban legend Slender Man.Now a Wisconsin judge has upheld...
View ArticleTerrifying tarantula is actually a remarkable 3D illusion
We all know artists can render magical drawings, but did you know they can also bring inanimate objects to life?That's what artist Stefan Pabst did with the cute little spider he created from scratch...
View ArticleRoger Corman's 1994 Fantastic Four movie is as bad as you hoped it would be
In 1994, Fox called upon Roger Corman, legendary director of decades of forgettable B movies, to produce a Fantastic Four movie. The finished product was never released—but lucky for all of us, it's...
View ArticleHow this Harry Potter fan's trans coming-out video inspired Eddie Redmayne
When Jackson Bird, spokesman for the Harry Potter Alliance, made his moving coming-out video about being transgender, he was speaking to a supportive community of friends and progressive fan activists...
View ArticleSee the softer side of 'Star Wars' with these charming fanart photos
Meet Kyle. Meet Kyle's online fanart gallery. Meet Kyle's online fanart gallery full of Star Wars characters discovering the zen side of the Force amid a barrage of soothing landscapes straight from a...
View ArticleIs DC Comics' new Starfire series getting the character all wrong?
The DC Comics character Starfire has long been a controversial figure.The latest version of the character in DC's New 52 reboot turned her into one of the most blatantly objectified female superheroes...
View ArticleMarvel's new 'Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur' is everything you love
If there were a Venn Diagram of things geeks like, it would probably have spaces for stuff like "comics," "awesome girls," "nerdy space things," "cool representation," and, obviously, "dinosaurs."In...
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