Batman v Superman might have gone the darker, Martha-laden route for its scrap between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight, but Justice League Action goes for a much more fun one: DC Comics by the way of Street…
It’s long been a fact of life that the Force-wielders in the science-fiction saga created by George Lucas pull more attention than other characters in the fiction. The flashy powers and mythic architecture surrounding Jedi and Sith scratch the itches…
Image: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Remotely operated vehicle surveys off the coast of California and Hawaii have produced several observations of a large deep sea ghost shark known as a “pointy-nosed blue chimaera.” The resulting video footage is…
I have no idea what version of Archie this show is supposed to be based on, but I’m kind of in love with how balls-to-the wall bananas they’ve gone with it. It’s meant to be all Twin Peaks-y and atmospheric,…
All movies go through a lot of changes before they hit the screen. There are rewrites, recastings, edits, studio notes—but one of the biggest changes that the upcoming scifi film Passengers went through is when the most famous and recognizable…
Pandemic Legacy Blue, $39 | Also available in red. Pandemic Legacy is a co-op board game that raises the stakes by adding permanent (actually permanent) changes to the board as you play, and it’s amazing. It also happens to be…
The ALPHA Experiment Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN Scientists learned something crazy about antimatter this morning: it turns out, as far as we can tell, it looks like an exact mirror image of regular matter. But okay, what does that even mean?…
It has been a frankly amazing year for comics—filled with big events, controversial moments, and an incredible variety of comics, with diversity in genre, characters, and stories giving us shelf upon shelf of amazing books to dig into week after…
A Christmas Story? Christmas Vacation? Scrooged? All memorable holiday films, but none of them can hold a candle, or a Zippo lighter, to the greatest Christmas movie of all time: Die Hard. Which means that by default, this handmade ornament…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: Getty) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is supporting a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in United States elections, according to a Washington Post report quoting anonymous US officials. Some Republican lawmakers had hinted that the…