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This is a terrible recap of The Expanse, except that it’s full of cats in cute costumes

by Andrew Liptak

There’s an adage on the internet: everything is better with cats. Someone at the Syfy Channel clearly took that to heart when it came time to put together a recap (“recat”) for The Expanse. This is internet marketing at its best. There’s Bobbie...

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Twitter’s sensual butcher #SaltBae is already in the copycat phase of his meme life

by Lizzie Plaugic

A new day, a new viral meat meme. #SaltBae is the internet-bestowed nickname of Nusret Gökçe, a butcher, restaurant owner, and conventionally attractive man, who this weekend managed to hold the internet’s attention for a brief while by pounding,...

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Watch Nick Offerman react to the nonsense gadgets of CES 2017

by Nick Statt

CES is as much about the future as it about the junk that gets left behind. Here in the cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center and the suites of the city's most opulent hotels and casinos, we see a lot of gadgets that spring up out of...

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2016 as a horror movie parody is a dumb idea, but there is one good joke in there

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

A horror movie parody of 2016 is not funny to me, broadly speaking, because lots of people really did die, and as many have already pointed out, calling 2016 “the worst year ever” is a feeble accusation when almost everything that went wrong was...

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Noah Hits 240 Green Lights is a beautiful short film so I don’t really care if it’s fake

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

On December 6th, Uber driver Noah Forman claims he drove from Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to Washington Square Park in downtown Manhattan, then back up to 59th street, across to Second Avenue, and back downtown to the Bowery at Prince Street...

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Carrie Fisher’s roast of George Lucas embodies the very best of her

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Today, the world lost a brilliant actress, sharp wit, talented writer, champion for mental health, and cultural icon. Carrie Fisher was a legend, and if you need a reminder of why, look no further than her roasting Star Wars creator George Lucas. ...

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The messed-up Mummy trailer is mutating faster than Universal Pictures can keep up

by Sean O'Kane

We live in an age of reboots and cinematic universes. And yet I had no idea that Hollywood was rebooting The Mummy until this morning, when the IMAX YouTube channel uploaded a Mummy trailer in which the sound was hilariously butchered. It was a...

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Turkish Star Wars famously stole footage from A New Hope, now it’s being restored

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Great Big Story produced a fascinating dive into “Turkish Star Wars,” a 1982 film about two men who crash their spaceships on a desolate planet. The nickname is derived not from its Star Wars-like plot, clearly, but its flagrant use of ripped...

A filmmaker installed security software on a decoy phone to spy on smartphone thieves

by Zoya Teirstein

Steal my phone, find my phone

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This animated short is the perfect mix of Indiana Jones and Akira

by Andrew Liptak

If you ever wanted to see a mash-up of animated cyberpunk action and the archeological thrills of Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, short film X-Story has it all. There’s cybernetic arms, fantastic lost cities, exciting plot twists, and above all, some...

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No spoilers: what you need to know before watching Rogue One

by Chris Plante

Rogue One is an unusual film to come from a massive film studio in 2016. While the rest of Hollywood is aping the Marvel method — creating movies that exist, in part, to establish spinoffs and sequels in never-ending fictional universes — Rogue...

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Watch the trailer for a 1993 Studio Ghibli movie coming to the states for the first time

by Lizzie Plaugic

Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves was first released in 1993, but it’s coming to theaters in the US for the first time this month. As The Creator’s Project points out, the movie was originally made for TV, but has been restored in 4K for its theatrical...

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Spend the holidays with the noisy ghosts in a Marvel superhero’s empty apartment

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Many people will be spending the holidays alone this year. Whether that’s because of logistics, finances, the cruelties of fate, or the ascension of an incompetent racist nightmare tearing your family into factions, your best friends, Marvel and...

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If you love La La Land, give Damien Chazelle’s 2009 East Coast musical a chance

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench stars Boston, New York, and a whole lot of jazz

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This Mortal Kombat movie from Ghana looks spectacularly fun

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Movies based on video games have a notoriously spotty history. They’re often riddled with pacing problems, groan-inducing pseudo-stories, questionable special effects, and scenery-chewing performances. But, sometimes, if you make yourself...

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All of Westworld’s questions mashed into one thorough video

by Andrew Liptak

Why is Westworld so complicated? Is it really that dense? Is it too complicated, contorted, and confusing? Did we really need Burger Fiction to put together a super cut of the show that shows every question that was asked? Do you really need to...

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Watch a tiny teaser for Fast 8, now officially titled The Fate of the Furious

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

The eighth installment in the popular franchise The Fast and the Furious is officially called The Fate of the Furious. The title raises heavy questions about choice. Was Brian O’Conner assigned by a divine force to investigate this particular Los...

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These are the water-powered Star Wars speeder bikes you were looking for

by Kwame Opam

Look, I know we’re approaching peak Star Wars, what with Rogue One coming out in just a week. But this video, first picked up by Sploid, is just too awesome to even fathom. YouTuber devinsupertramp (who we’ve highlighted before) managed to turn a...

John Deere’s first fully electric tractor sounds like a jet engine

by Sean O'Kane

American tractor manufacturer John Deere has pulled the wraps off of its first fully electric tractor in a new video published this week. The tractor project is called Sustainable Energy Supply for Agricultural Machinery, or SESAM, and John Deere...

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This countdown of 2016's best films will catch you up on the good stuff you missed

by Megan Farokhmanesh

It’s December, the most wonderful time of year for supercuts, mash-ups, and the crippling realization that time is trickling through our fingers like whatever metaphor you best prefer! (Water.) But no end-of-the-year examination is complete...

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The first trailer for The Circle takes Silicon Valley culture to a pointed extreme

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Dave Eggers’ best-selling 2013 novel The Circle is coming to the big screen, and it looks like the slick near-future dystopia will make a smooth transition. The first trailer shows Mae (Emma Watson) interviewing for a job at the Circle, a...

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The Mummy’s first trailer is Mission: Impossible with a supernatural twist

by Bryan Bishop

Marvel may have kicked off the current expanded cinematic universe craze, but the concept arguably started back with the classic Universal Pictures horror films — and the studio is hoping that the first trailer for The Mummy will be the beginning...

DJ Earworm’s yearly mash-up of pop’s biggest hits is here

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

“The whole year put you in the worst mood,” The Weeknd croons to kick off DJ Earworm’s annual hit extravaganza, “The United States of Pop.” True, Abel, and thank you for noticing. The mash-up features 25 of the year’s biggest hits, including Rae...

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Forget Doctor Strange, Sleight is the Iron Man remix we really need

by Kwame Opam

At a time when the major studios have glutted the market with superhero movies, it’s hard to find smaller projects that can compete with the hype. Sleight manages to rise above the crowd. The trailer makes it look like a promising antidote to the...

Wow, Dishonored 2 sure does have a lot of ways to kill this one guy

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Dishonored 2’s “grand inventor” Kirin Jindosh is a blowhard at best, a bringer of death at worst. The Clockwork Soldiers inventor is a nuisance for leads Emily and Corvo either way. In the game’s “The Clockwork Mansion” mission, regardless of...

Wes Anderson directed a Christmas commercial for H&M and it is great

by Bryan Bishop

You probably know filmmaker Wes Anderson from his meticulous, quirky, and outrageously charming movies like Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. What you may not know is that he’s also brought his unmistakeable style to the w...

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The use of lighting in Akira contributes to its genius

by Andrew Liptak

Akira is one of the best-known and influential anime films ever put to the big screen, and because of the attention to detail from its filmmakers, it’s been analyzed countless times by critics. In a new video essay, Evan Puschak (aka NerdWriter),...

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Watch The Weeknd dance in his hitman’s blood in the new short film, MANIA

by Micah Singleton

Featuring a Black Panther and McLaren P1

This Majora’s Mask fan film is better than most Hollywood video game adaptations

by Megan Farokhmanesh

As far as adaptations go, The Legend of Zelda peaked with a questionable cartoon. We’re still holding out hope for a live-action show on Netflix at some point. But absolutely nothing has made us fall harder in love with a reimagining of the iconic...

Apple wants you to give the monster a chance

by Thomas Ricker

This year’s holiday ad from Apple has everything: a monster from on high, terrified citizens, and a song about Dixie that harkens back to the simpler days of yore. Watch as the mostly white populace embraces the repulsive creature as one of their...

Pokémon’s emphasis on collaboration turned it into a global community

by Andrew Liptak

When Pokémon Go hit smartphones this summer, it was an unprecedented hit. It broke records in app stores, caused floods of people to converge in public parks, and might even become a movie. The game was an impressive demonstration of the...

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Arrival’s director also made Enemy, a movie that argues history will repeat itself

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve premiered his first two English-language films in 2013. One was the blockbuster psychological thriller Prisoners. The lesser-known, Enemy, is a moody, enthralling nightmare of a movie that seems to be...

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