Rogue One is billed as a standalone Star Wars movie, but it’s far more entrenched in the story of the saga than many of us had thought. That’s not just in terms of its setting, though—it’s because it’s jam-packed with…
The Lord of the Rings: The Extended Motion Picture Trilogy, $40 There are quite a few permutations of the Lord of the Rings films out there on Blu-ray, but the extended editions are the ones you want, and the extended…
One of the increasingly enjoyable parts of TBS’ People of Earth, a show about an alien abductee support group that isn’t actually wrong about what happened to them, is the development of the aliens as characters. Think…regular office workers who…
In movies, there’s usually a moment where everything clicks. Where the image, emotion, and sound meet in perfect harmony and no matter what happens before or after, you realize you are in love with this moment. The cinema of 2016…
DC has started teasing a big story that will play out in the pages of Action Comics and Superman next year—a four-part event promising “drastic change” in the life of the Man of Steel (as if he’s not had enough…
Dwarf minke whales have been identified as a possible source of the strange sounds. (Image: Oregon State University) During exploratory missions to the Mariana Trench in 2014 and 2015, scientists recorded mysterious sounds they dubbed the “Western Pacific Biotwang.” New…
What do you get when you mix snow, the ocean and a group of adrenaline junkies with a knack for documenting everything they do? An epic day of snowboarding and surfing that’s worth some major bragging rights. “Today is the…
Email, it’s the granddaddy of messaging apps. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t need a little nudge into the teens… the tens… whatever we’re calling this decade. AOL’s Alto is exactly that, a modern email client that extracts all the useful…
Virtual reality coming to Nintendo’s new console? Here’s a hint. The new Nintendo Switch video game console is coming in March.Image: NINTENDO/SIPA/AP Images By Sasha Lekach2016-12-16 01:27:06 UTC When the new Nintendo Switch comes out in March we’ll finally know…
The first ever Star Wars movie without an episode number is finally out, and it’s all about that first Death Star. You know, before Death Stars became boring. To commemorate the new movie, have a playlist of Darth Vader’s favorite…