This week, the Hollywood Reporter released a new interview with actress Shelley Duvall. To say “a rare interview” is a massive understatement. Duvall largely disappeared from the public eye in the ‘90s and stayed that way until Phil McGraw and his team of charlatans and opportunists subjected her to one of the most…
Source: io9 – It’s Well Past Time to Rethink ‘Auteur Theory’ and the Way Actresses Are Treated
Next week, Iron Circus Comics will release The Crossroads at Midnight, a new collection of spooky tales from writer and illustrator Abby Howard (Last Halloween). io9 has a generous sneak peek today that’ll immerse you in the author’s striking drawings and suspenseful storytelling.
Source: io9 – There’s Danger on the Farm in This Eerie Excerpt From Horror Comic The Crossroads at Midnight
As WandaVision’s been carefully dropping nostalgic breadcrumbs along the winding narrative path leading to grandmother’s house where the truth lives, the show’s been playing not-so-subtle tricks of the mind meant to make you wonder who the villain of it all truly is. All signs up to this point have pointed to Wanda…
Source: io9 – WandaVision Knows What It’s Doing, But Scarlet Witch Doesn’t
Lest you forget that Carol Danvers is up there in the MCU doing space stuff, her sequel movie is beginning to expand its cast with a big-ticket get: a mysterious new villain.
Source: io9 – Captain Marvel 2 Finds Its Big Villain in Zawe Ashton
The latest weird documentary from Room 237 director Rodney Ascher, A Glitch in the Matrix, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and is now in theaters and on-demand. It offers a deep dive into simulation theory, asking how we got to the point of believing that the world could very well be an artificial reality…
Source: io9 – A Glitch in the Matrix Gives Us a Glimpse at Simulation Theory History in This Devilish Clip
Yesterday, it was reported that Adam Wingard (he of Godzilla vs. Kong, but also my personal favorite, You’re Next) would be helming a remake of the Nicolas Cage-John Travolta action nonsense classic, John Woo’s Face/Off. Well, like Nicolas Cage’s face on top of John Travolta’s face, all is not as it appears.
Source: io9 – Adam Wingard’s Not Making a Face/Off Remake—It’s a Sequel
Thick thighs save lives, but in this case, they’re probably likely to do considerable property damage. Overnight, Netflix and Toho revealed our first official look at Eiji Yamamori and Yuji Kaneko’s redesign of the King of all Kaiju, set to take center stage in the upcoming Bones/Orange animated series. And whew lord,…
Source: io9 – Gody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody(zilla)
Clue, on your television, in animation. That’s the solution to what’s next for the beloved whodunit board game.
Source: io9 – The Whodunit Game Clue Is Becoming an Animated Series
In DC Comics’ Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman, the Themysciran princess is one of the last heroes left standing in a universe ravaged by ceaseless evils. In time, those evils apparently became so great that even beings like Darkseid begin to fear them.
Source: io9 – Nubia Rises in This Exclusive Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #2 Preview
As a Godzilla fan, I’ve been quite excited by the upcoming giant ape-vs.-nuclear lizard rematch. But I would happily throw away the incredibly expensive Hollywood blockbuster in the garbage if it meant I got to see the glorious Jet Jaguar, star of the 1973 Godzilla vs. Megalon, in action. Thanks to Netflix’s anime…
Source: io9 – The Only Godzilla Thing I Care About Is the Return of Jet Jaguar
The tale of the magically created sellsword and would-be assassin Alias and her boon companion, the saurial paladin Dragonbait, continues in the second volume of the Finder’s Stone trilogy—which, wait a minute…uh…doesn’t actually feature Alias or Dragonbait? At all. But I’ll tell you what The Wyvern’s Spur does…
Source: io9 – Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Wyvern’s Spur
Of all the changes that differentiated HBO’s adaptation of Lovecraft Country from the horror novel it was based on, few were quite as disconcerting and genuinely messed up as Topsy and Bopsy, a pair of demonic twins summoned by racist cops to stalk and torment young Diana Freeman across Chicago. It just so happens…
Source: io9 – Lovecraft Country’s Most Terrifying Monsters Come to Life in This Exclusive Clip
The Thronesverse just expanded, thanks to HBO’s latest casting announcement. House of the Dragon, a Targaryen family-based Game of Thrones prequel, has added four new stars to its already impressive roster.
Source: io9 – HBO’s Game of Thrones Prequel Adds Devs’ Sonoya Mizuno and More
Doctor Who’s River Song is returning in a sci-fi noir novel that casts her as an international and interdimensional woman of mystery. Even better: our patron saint of spoilers’ new novel, The Ruby’s Curse, will be penned by Alex Kingston herself.
Source: io9 – Hello Again, Sweetie—Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston Has Penned a River Song Novel
Though Serial Box’s Black Panther: Sins of the King audiobook is set firmly outside the continuities of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and its comic books, the new narrative drama is coursing with the same epic, politically charged energy that first made T’Challa and the nation of Wakanda some of the most iconic myths to…
Source: io9 – Black Panther: Sins of the King Blurs the Line Between Life and Death
From its earliest episodes, we already knew weren’t all that jazzed on CBS All Access’ new take on Stephen King’s The Stand. But the fact that King himself penned a new prologue as part of the final episode, “The Circle Closes,” made us curious enough to stick with it. Was it worth it? Well…
Source: io9 – The Stand Ended With a Wheeze, Despite the Hand of Stephen King
As technology continues to advance, physical proximity to our jobs and loved ones becomes more of a perk than a necessity. Still, keeping a relationship going strong isn’t easy over Zoom. A 2010 German study found that the average length of a long-distance relationship was 2.9 years, while “proximal” relationships…
Source: io9 – Long-distance love stories: 12 TV shows and movies where romance transcends space and time
And it will be a lot.
Source: io9 – Star Trek’s New Browser Game Will Let You Fail the Kobayashi Maru as Many Times as You Want
