A piece of NASA’s past makes a surprising return in Decommissioned, which packs genuine sci-fi horror suspense into just six minutes. From the windows of the ISS, an astronaut notices a strange—and horrifyingly familiar—bit of space debris floating in his direction. It can’t be what he thinks it is…can it?
Source: io9 – An Astronaut Has an Unwelcome and Possibly Undead Visitor in the Eerie Sci-Fi Short Decommissioned
Today is a very important day in this history of our world: David Lynch, surrealist icon, turns 75. There are few filmmakers with a career as deep and varied as Lynch’s body of work, from Eraserhead to Twin Peaks, all the way up to the return of his incredibly chill weather reports last year. But what’s your favorite…
Source: io9 – Open Channel: Celebrate David Lynch’s Birthday With Some of His Best Works
We’re actually in a good mood today for reasons, but to say it’s been generally bleak during the pandemic would be an understatement. With no outlet for his comedy stylings during covid-19, a Los Angeles man grabbed his board and a Mandalorian costume, and set about lifting moods in an entirely different way.
Source: io9 – The Mandalorian (and Baby Yoda) Spotted Ripping in Los Angeles
For a movie about a woman fighting a giant creature on an airplane during World War II, Shadow in the Cloud is surprisingly complex. It’s basically two movies; one is a claustrophobic, paranoid thriller with a character in a single location under intense distress, the second a swashbuckling adventure film that gives…
Source: io9 – Shadow in the Cloud Is…Something
After last week’s Expanse gave extra space to one of this season’s most devastating farewells, episode eight finds time to see what all the other characters are up to on Earth, Luna, and various points around the Belt. As you might guess, nobody in “Hard Vacuum” is having an easy time of it.
Source: io9 – The Expanse Just Pushed Everyone to the Limit and Things Are About to Explode
The best meals satisfy more than hunger. I should know; I’ve done my fair share of quarantine comfort cooking, because I love every aspect of the process. Particularly feeding other people, especially since I moved back in with my parents a month and a half into lockdown. One of the dishes I’ve been most proud of is a…
Source: io9 – How a webcomic about a restaurant became my pandemic parable
Apparently, it’s National Popcorn Day—in honor of that food we used to eat when we went to this place called a “movie theater”—but there’s no reason you can’t microwave up a bag at home and celebrate the coming of Disney+’s mini-shorts series Pixar Popcorn, which just dropped its first trailer today.
Source: io9 – Pixar Popcorn Serves Up Bite-Sized Adventures With Fan-Favorite Characters
Considering he’s in it, it’s probably only fair that Tom Holland gets to ride the new Spider-Man ride at Disney California Adventure way, way before the rest of us actually will at this point.
Source: io9 – Watch Tom Holland Thwip Around Disneyland’s New Spider-Man Ride
Don’t worry, though—Johnny Depp is nowhere near this one.
Source: io9 – That Willy Wonka Prequel You Didn’t Ask for Is Still Happening
Finally, 2021 is here, and with it, so much television to look forward to. In fact, there’s so much, we’re breaking down our big new year preview of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and superhero shows into three massive parts! Ready for part one?
Source: io9 – Your Guide to 2021’s Biggest TV, Part 1
Barbara Gordon is on the case for the third season of DC Universe’s (née HBO Max’s) Titans series, and the show has found itself a Batgirl in Savannah Welch.
Source: io9 – Titans Has Found Its Batgirl
IDW’s licensed comics love themselves a good crossover, especially the Transformers, who’ve teamed up with everyone from the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Ghostbusters, and, yes even the beloved magical horsies of Equestria. This time, they’re teaming up with Pinkie Pie and the gang again—on their home turf.
Source: io9 – My Little Ponies Will Join the Transformers on Cybertron for a New Comic Adventure
Batman was right: some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb, especially if said bomb also happens to be an extremely lifelike android built with the body of a child.
Source: io9 – Netflix’s Korean Sci-Fi Film Space Sweepers Amps Up the Stakes and the Action in a New Trailer
The Muppets are one of those tricksy chunks of IP that fans almost categorically love the more the creations skew towards the original series’ comedic stylings and sensibilities. After a pair of so-so modern Muppet features, a sendup of The Office, and the short-lived Muppets Now, Disney’s finally come to its senses…
Source: io9 – The Original Muppet Show Is Coming Disney+ in All Its Glory
The year is 1986, the tech is appropriately old-school, and alt-history America empowers a gang of powerful, right-wing zealots to hunt down every creature of the night who dares to challenge the country’s homogeneous ideal. That’s the set-up for Luther Bhogal-Jones’ retro horror short Goodnight, Halloween.
Source: io9 – Creatures of the Night Fight to Survive in John Carpenter Homage Goodnight, Halloween
Though she hails from a famous show biz family, and she’s now starring in her own Marvel TV series after appearing in multiple Avengers blockbusters, Elizabeth Olsen started out making indie films, like 2011 cult tale Martha Marcy May Marlene. So what inspired her shift from art-house to multiplex?
Source: io9 – Elizabeth Olsen’s Love of Star Wars Inspired Her Shift From Indies to Blockbusters
Hot off the news that Godzilla vs. Kong would be arriving two months earlier than expected, we now have a first look at the monsters going mano-a-mano. “Change is nature,” the teaser informs us, but we’re certain to never change our stance on the fact that Godzilla and King Kong fighting each other is cool as hell.
Source: io9 – Godzilla vs. Kong Gives Us a First-Look Tease of the Brawl We’ve Been Waiting For
It’s hard to make the cyberpunk genre feel fresh nowadays. Its tried-and-true tenets of a dystopian future overrun by corporations and technology have, after all, been true for a while. Of course, cybernetic implants aren’t de rigeur in the real world so we can’t have secret chainsaws in our hands, but we already have…
Source: io9 – Johnny Mnemonic’s Cyber-Dolphin Is Still the Apex of Cyberpunk
Anything is possible in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That statement is still true even if the “cinematic” universe isn’t just “cinematic” anymore. With this week’s release of WandaVision, the MCU is now streaming too. And streaming Marvel, so far, is way weirder than movie Marvel. WandaVision takes a fantastic, …
Source: io9 – 10 Marvel Duos We’d Love to See Get the WandaVision Treatment
