Yet another Once Upon a Time star will not return for season seven. Some deep-sea villains could play a part in Aquaman. Stephen King and J.J. Abrams’ new horror collaboration has found its star. Plus, a gross new clip from Alien: Covenant, more tiny Defenders teasers, and Shannara Chronicles has a new home. Spoilers get! … Continued

When former DARPA chief Regina Dugan announced on stage last month that Facebook planned to build a brain computer interface to allow users to send their thoughts directly to the social network without a keyboard intermediary, it had all the Silicon Valley swagger of Facebook circa “move fast and break things.” With the same audacity … Continued

What’s the first thing you think about when you think of NASA’s space shuttle program? Sally Ride? Spinning in microgravity? The Challenger explosion? That episode of the Simpsons? You might not think about the US military and intelligence community launching spy satellites, but you should. NASA’s shuttles were designed specifically to carry US spy satellites … Continued

A new scifi short is all about a woman who doesn’t feel like she belongs… probably because she’s actually an alien. So, she sets on a quest to get home, though not without her trusty teddy bear. Loud Pictures recently released Home, an 11-minute scifi film by Blake Calhoun about a young woman who’s trying … Continued

Two popular genre shows with unclear futures just got some good news. A third did not. ABC just announced it’s bringing back Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a fifth season and Once Upon A Time for a seventh season. Both shows averaged about four and a half million viewers per episode this year, which isn’t … Continued

When something is well-written, it’s not uncommon to hear someone refer to it as “Shakespeare.” For example, hypothetically, someone might say, “The script for Ghostbusters was so good, it’s like Shakespeare.” But what if Ghostbusters actually was written by Shakespeare? That was the question posed by Jordan Monsell. And not only did he pose it, … Continued

Remember when zombies were scary? No? You’re not alone. Zombies have become so incredibly normal and mainstream that now they’re getting their own Disney Channel TV movie musical. It’s called Zombies—of course—and it’s a musical about a zombie town (whatever that is) integrating with a normal town and the zombie quarterback falling in love with … Continued

The New Mutants cast is coming together. Well, more specifically, the cast members first rumored over a year ago by HitFix—Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams and The Witch’s Anya Taylor-Joy—have finally reportedly signed on to play key members of the young X-Team. The Hollywood Reporter says that director Josh Boone, spent a year attempting to … Continued

We are smack dab in the middle of TV pick-up season, what with Syfy’s just-announced round of shows and Fox’s The Gifted getting its first teaser trailer, so it’s only natural that Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Netflix’s MST3K reboot would want to get in on the action. Only, most of their shows … Continued

May 21 is rapidly approaching, and while some things will certainly have changed in the spooky realm of Twin Peaks—including some new characters we’re seeing here for the first time—there are also some frozen-in-time moments, too. There’s Lucy, still holding down the desk at the sheriff’s department, and Shelley, having what looks like girls’ night … Continued

Donald Trump is president of the United States. Britain has left the European Union. Captain America is the new fascist supreme leader of Hydra. Unfortunately, this isn’t the Twilight Zone, a place where I’d much rather be right now. Today’s National Twilight Zone Day—a totally real holiday that people celebrate—where we’re all meant to reflect … Continued

The Samsung Dex is a tiny new smartphone dock that wades carefully toward a world in which smartphones serve as our primary computers. It’s about the size of a hockey puck, and when the Galaxy S8, a monitor, and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are connected, the Dex turns the phone into a surprisingly functional … Continued

Mike Pelletier’s short film Still Life looks nothing like the classical paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers you’ll find in a stuffy art gallery. Using hyper-realistic computer animation, Pelletier’s film instead features fruits, vegetables, and breads that look like they’re secretly balloons as they deflate and then fill back up with air. You’ll feel … Continued

Surprise! But not really, given the ecstatic response to Bryan Fuller’s Neil Gaiman adaptation already, but excellent news nonetheless. Praise Media, because American Gods is getting a second season. Not much else was confirmed about the return of the show, which has received a rapturous response from critics, but it’s good news that more of … Continued