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The earliest memory I have of Snow White’s Scary Adventures at Disneyland is being in the shadowy, utterly terrifying woods with monster trees crunching all around the ride vehicle as the old witch jump-scares you for what felt like the hundredth time. I can’t tell you how old I was when I first rode the

In an interview with GQ, Amanda Seyfried broke down her most iconic characters—including her leading role in the Diablo Cody-written Jennifer’s Body opposite Megan Fox. The film, directed by Karyn Kusama, wasn’t an instant hit but over the years since its 2009 release has built up a solid cult fandom that’s propelling talk of a

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Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. The scientists investigated a region of seafloor recently exposed by the calving of a gigantic iceberg—A-84—which is as large as Chicago. The team found a surprisingly

Less than a month after its launch, Hazelight Studios’ newest video game Split Fiction may be the next video game adapted for film. Per Variety, “multiple top studios” are currently in a bidding war for the game’s rights. Story Kitchen, which has helped with recent adaptations of Tomb Raider and the Sonic movies, is assembling a cast, writer, and

Horror remakes and reboots are just part of the Hollywood genre landscape these days; sometimes, a fresh eye applied to familiar source material can yield a triumphant win, one recent example being Evil Dead Rise. More often, though, the cash-grab intentions shine through everything else. One of the most frequently burned franchises is also one

Looking for free channels to live stream the F1 Chinese Grand Prix? You’re not the only one. Fans are going crazy as the Shanghai GP is approaching fast on the 21st of March. After Lando Norris edged out Max Verstappen at the Australian GP, everyone’s eager to see if he can repeat the result. Luckily

More key details of the sprawling expansions coming to Disney Parks were unveiled by CEO Bob Iger himself this week, including a look at the Lion King ride for Disneyland Paris. Disney is also busy over at Imagineering, as Star Wars droid action expands to the real world and the world of cinema in The

The Washington Post recently published a long feature story that, put politely, asks why exactly Elon Musk decided to make his primary enemy diversity, equity, and inclusion programs—and put less politely, asks when exactly did he get so racist? In it, Musk’s father, Errol Musk, offers up an anecdote that he probably believes is exculpatory

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has all but torpedoed the electric car maker’s brand since taking on a special role within the Trump administration, determined to cut massive amounts of spending through job cuts and downsizing popular programs or eliminating entire agencies. That has understandably caused a lot of anger across the country, and Tesla has

The Vancouver International Auto Show has banned Tesla from this year’s event over safety concerns in the wake of several attacks against dealerships across the U.S., according to several reports from Canadian news outlets. Tesla dealerships and charging stations have been shot with guns and cars have been set on fire, seemingly a response to

Hasbro’s Sigil 3D virtual tabletop tool—which recently launched in a messy, unfinished state as an early public playtest—is reportedly being shuttered after years of development and being folded into, in some capacity, existing D&D Beyond virtual tabletop system, Maps. Rascal News reports that, in an internal message sent to Wizards of the Coast employees, the studio

The Starliner saga is finally coming to an end with the return of NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on Tuesday after a prolonged nine month stay in space. The story is largely over, but that didn’t prevent President Donald Trump from taking one final stab at the former administration—a stab packed with disinformation

As Severance heads into its season finale, its devoted fans—including us obsessives here at io9—have come up with a million theories about the show’s many mysteries. But amid all the Cold Harbor speculation, the Mark/Mark S./Helly/Gemma drama, and the mystifying true purpose of those damn goats, a few things seem already settled thanks to “The

One of the biggest obstacles, figuratively, facing self-driving cars is the ability to expect the unexpected, quickly identify potential issues, and respond in a well-reasoned manner to produce a safe outcome. One of the biggest obstacles, literally, facing self-driving cars are giant Wile E. Coyote-style walls painted to look like the road ahead in an

The seventh generation of consoles headlined by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 may not be so dead after all. Despite Microsoft’s determination to end its elder console’s long lifespan by killing off the Xbox 360 game store last year, prospective modders now have a new way to access a horde of homebrew content without having to crack

David Cronenberg is best known for his films that explore how the human body can be transformed, typically in pretty gruesome fashion. His newest feature, The Shrouds, continues that with a somber examination of death, grief, and their intersection with modern-day technology—and by letting the filmmaker get a little more personal. Set in a “deceptively placid

While VPNs are often used for privacy protection, they’re actually far more than that. With some of them, like NordVPN, you can also protect your devices against malware and keep the investment relatively low. Why is this important? Well, there are plenty of reasons. Malware infection could also infringe on your privacy or even make your

It was only a few days ago the first real trailer for the Lilo & Stitch remake came out, and it looks… like these remakes do? This is apparently the one Disney’s putting its weight behind this year, which means it’s time to brag about some metrics! According to Disney, the Lilo & Stitch trailer has garnered

Formula 1 is finally back. Make sure you’re set up to watch the 2025 Australian Grand Prix in the best way possible. The Formula 1 2025 season starts on March 14th. This day marks the beginning of the Australian Grand Prix, which lasts until March 16th. The good news is that you can watch the

First things first: do we really need a new take on Starship Troopers? Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s classic 1959 novel has become a classic in its own right, satirizing ideas about fascism and the military-industrial complex with a uniquely potent cheekiness. It also gave us Neil Patrick Harris as a psychic who

March 2025 has turned into the unofficial Talk About Star Wars Underworld Month. Days after Star Wars producer Rick McCallum discussed the mythical, unproduced show, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and For All Mankind writer/producer Ronald D. Moore spoke about what it was like to be one of the show’s writers. Appearing on The Sackhoff Show

You can save on a variety of Roku Smart TVs right now, just in time to start your binge of all the Oscar winners and everything that got snubbed. In fact, for a limited time the 40″ Roku Smart TV is listed for a lower price than the 32″ display. The 32″ is $158, but

NASA is not one to let a good spacecraft go to waste. For nearly two weeks, the space agency has been trying to reestablish communications with a recently launched satellite that was originally headed toward the Moon. Lunar Trailblazer launched on February 26 on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the aim of entering

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously found at the same site, according to the

It started with the teaser trailer, which evoked the original animated Lilo & Stitch marketing campaign—showing the film’s cuddly, chaotic alien hopping from Disney classic to Disney classic—and was released in theaters ahead of Mufasa. Now we’ve got a better look at the live-action Lilo & Stitch which adorably recreates some of the animated film’s iconic

The adage goes, “your arbitrage is my opportunity,” and could be used to sum up Meta’s push into building an in-house chip for AI training tasks. Reuters reports the company recently began a small deployment of the chips after successfully building them in a test with Taiwan’s TSMC (sorry Intel). Meta is already using its

NASA has begun implementing its reduction in force (RIF) approach, closing three offices and laying off staff in compliance with executive orders by the new administration that target the federal workforce. NASA announced on Monday that it will be closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the

Tony Gilroy is a man with a vision. That vision guided him from the extensive reshoots of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story all the way to a Disney+ series about one of that film’s heroes, Cassian Andor—and finding in it a critical acclaim unlike anything the galaxy far, far away had seen in a generation.

A previously overlooked factor may have contributed to the debilitating strength of Hurricane Idalia, which cost the United States billions of dollars when it struck in August 2023. According to a team of researchers that studied the climatic conditions around the storm, the typical cocktail of weather conditions that feed a hurricane doesn’t add up

Politicians are pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to answer questions about a government contract for armored Teslas that never existed. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-NY) and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) both sent letters to Rubio last week with a detailed list of questions they want the Secretary to answer. The letters concern a Biden-era State

Skip to content Send us a Tip! Subscribe The Future Is Here Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals CES 2025 Awards Whistleblower Alleges Meta Was Ready to Censor Content for Chinese Government It’s a pretty far cry from Zuck’s claims of “free expression.” By AJ Dellinger U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching

For the first time since the Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch in 2022, I have not been using a Samsung foldable to do my bidding. Instead, I’ve felt perfectly content doing it all on the Oppo Find N5 since it arrived a few weeks ago. The book-style foldable has an 8.12-inch inner screen and a

With Moana 2 coming to 4k and Blu-ray March 18, and hitting Disney + March 12, the filmmakers behind the epic sequel sat down to confirm our favorite voyager’s new title. io9 spent a day at Walt Disney Animation Studios to get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Moana 2, taking part in a

For all the buzz surrounding Ozempic and similar GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, there are also plenty of concerns about potential serious or long-term side effects. Among the scariest of these fears is that GLP-1 drugs may cause certain types of thyroid cancer. The risk is relevant enough that the Food and Drug Administration has

Whenever we discuss streaming services, we can’t find a person who doesn’t have at least one subscription. However, as much as these services are awesome, they have one annoying aspect – they’re usually region-locked. As a result, traveling abroad often means missing out on shows and movies. This turns off many people who’d like to

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library” by Cadwell Turnbull. Enjoy! Dekar Druid and the Infinite Library By Cadwell Turnbull Dekar Druid lives in an infinite library. Besides Ebizenum, who is in

You might be forgiven, given Mon Mothma’s increased importance to modern Star Wars, for thinking that her homeworld of Chandrila was one of the galaxy far, far away’s most explored locales, up there with the likes of Coruscant, Hoth, Tatooine, Alderaan, and more for their pivotal roles across the Skywalker Saga. But even now, after years

Finally there are more looks at Disney’s live-action Snow White—courtesy of the stunning music video for “Waiting on a Wish” and its unplugged version, both sung by Rachel Zegler. And it’s a feast for Disney Princess fans as we get glimpses at elements of the story we know from Walt Disney Animation’s first animated feature

The vocals cannot be denied: Rachel Zegler is a real Disney Princess. Just listen to the first single from Snow White. The star’s musical performances as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes were just warm-ups. Disney’s live-action adaptation of its animated classic, directed

President Donald Trump wants to make Ronald Reagan’s long-ridiculed Star Wars missile defense program from the 1980s a reality. And he insists that new tech can finally make it happen. Trump gave a rambling speech to Congress Tuesday night that included the kinds of dishonest nonsense the fascist president has long been known for. However

If the thought of having a spoonful of plastic in your noggin sounds bad to you, you’re not the only one. Scientists are sounding the alarm over a recent study showing that microplastics can accumulate in the brain. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada wrote the commentary, published Tuesday in the journal Brain Medicine. In

The European Commission recently established a planned gamma-ray observatory as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, or ERIC, which will expedite the construction of the telescope and set up a framework for the distribution of its data. In other words, we’ll soon have a record-breaking observatory for studying gamma ray sources—some of the most energetic and

What’s scarier than meeting your partner’s parents? If the trailer for The Parenting is anything to go by, it’s that while in a possibly haunted house. Max released the first trailer for its upcoming horror-comedy directed by Craig Johnson, which sees millennial couple Rohan (Nik Dodani) and Josh (Brandon Flynn) host a weekend getaway with their respective

Solar panels are finding new ways to fit into unfamiliar places . With that in mind, it’s taken far too long for anybody to try sticking one directly into a laptop. For MWC 2025, Lenovo showed off a Yoga Solar PC concept. Too many laptops claim full 24 hours of battery life even though you’ll

It is the season for affordable smartphones to duke it out among one another. We had Apple, we’re expecting Google, and Samsung just threw its roster into the ring. The Galaxy A-series is set to be refreshed next month. It starts with the Galaxy A36 starting at $400, then the Galaxy A26 at $300. The

Skip to content Send us a Tip! Subscribe The Future Is Here Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals CES 2025 Awards Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them The Google co-founder says 60-hours a week is the productivity sweet spot

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The latest entry in the Gundam franchise, GQuuuuuuX, is built around one of the most fascinating premises a mainline Gundam show has had in years. To get there, we’re asked to cast our minds back over 45 years to the original 1979 anime—and in doing so, we’re also asked to consider a pretty hilarious idea. The vast

Making moments last from family trips has transformed from the glossy sheen of a photo album filled with memories to a culture of “if it wasn’t shared on social media, then it didn’t happen.” The meaningful joy of putting together visuals of our lives as keepsakes has turned into creating digital displays that can often

Kathleen Kennedy isn’t retiring… from filmmaking. She is, however, looking for potential successors to take over for her at Lucasfilm. That news, and much more, just broke out of an exclusive new interview with the Lucasfilm president. Earlier this week, news leaked that Kennedy might be retiring from Lucasfilm by the end of 2025. Speaking

Marvel Studios has had a bit of an up-and-down success story when it comes to TV since WandaVision kicked off a renewed focus on streaming series back in 2021. Well, it might be more diplomatic to frame them loosely as TV for the most part—the studio’s whole approach to miniseries that were more like sliced up movies left

I’m going to be, as we millennials say, “for real” with you all about the iPhone 16e. After a couple of days with it, I prefer it over wielding the iPhone 16 Pro, at least for testing purposes. I’m not saying there isn’t a point in dropping a stack of cash on a Pro version

It’s good to see them, isn’t it? Elphaba and Glinda will be joining the line-up at Universal Fan Fest Nights. The after-hours fandom celebration will debut the highly anticipated Wicked meet-and-greet at Universal Studios Hollywood for theme park and movie fans during the separately ticketed event. This follows up the characters’ recent short stints at

Roberto Orci, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and producers in recent memory, died Tuesday from kidney failure. He was 51 years old. Orci is best known for his work with fellow writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the pair wrote and produced a slew of massive hits such as Mission: Impossible III

The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) just launched an AI-powered forecasting model, which the center says outperforms state-of-the-art physics-based models by up to 20%. The model is dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). According to an ECMWF release, the new model operates at faster speeds than physics-based models and takes approximately 1,000

The first trailer for Andor season two dropped today, giving us a long-awaited look at Cassian’s return—and a rebellion coalescing into full, explosive effect. It’s full of tiny little glimpses of what we know are going to to be four distinct chapters setting the year-by-year stage for the Cassian we met in Rogue One, familiar faces from

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Just four West African countries are the foundation of an industry worth more than $100 billion. In the tropical nations of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, and Nigeria, rows of cacao trees sprout pods bearing dozens of seeds. Once harvested, these humble

Two months after it hit theaters, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim is making its way to Max on Friday, February 28. Per Deadline, the anime film will come to Warner Bros.’ streaming service ahead of its broadcast debut on Saturday, March 1. When it came out, Rohirrim pretty much got buried by other, bigger movies, it

After years of their movies going up against each other, Marvel and DC Comics are coming together again on the page with a new crossover. At this week’s ComicsPro retailer expo, Marvel and DC’s respective editors-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Marie Javins jointly announced the upcoming event, which they teased would be hitting sometime this year.

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“It’s almost 10 years ago that we started this journey,” Charlie Cox points out in one of two short videos Marvel just shared ahead of Daredevil: Born Again‘s arrival on Disney+. That sounds completely incorrect until you fact-check its star and realize that yes, Daredevil premiered on Netflix in April 2015. The confusing passage of

In a big turn of events Universal Studios is opening up a kid-centric theme park in Texas that will have major animated franchise appeal, with Shrek, Jurassic World, and SpongeBob just a few of brands in store for the new family-friendly destination. This news coming out right after Universal shared more details about its year-round

Well, that didn’t take long. It hasn’t even been a year since Inside Out 2 took over Frozen 2‘s spot atop the list of highest-grossing animated movies of all time—en route to becoming 2024’s highest-grossing movie worldwide, full stop, though Deadpool & Wolverine did make a run for it. The top movie of 2025 is

There’s a very specific niche of Greek mythology geeks who think about the gods and goddesses at least once a day. Yes, it’s our Roman Empire, and with the news that Christopher Nolan (Interstellar) is going to meticulously assemble the grand myth of The Odyssey for the big screen with quite the epic cast, we’re

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With less than 0.04 inches of rainfall each year, cities in Chile’s barren Atacama Desert—one of the driest places in the world—collect their water from ancient underground water sources. Now, researchers have identified another simple method that could help address water scarcity. An international team of researchers in Chile has tested the viability of a

You can’t watch the trailer for Pedro Pascal’s new movie Freaky Tales and not think of the 1990s. Mainly that’s because the film is set right on the cusp of the decade, 1987, but also the idea of a violent, weird, sprawling single California city almost-anthology brings to mind one of the best films of

During a recent Alien: Romulus screening with Collider, director Fede Alvarez talked about the potential of diving back into the franchise—specifically if he’d be up for taking on an Alien vs. Predator crossover picture. As it turns out, he has actually given such a project some thought, but is realistic enough to know that his

Grief was a key theme in Severance season one, but it was mostly confined to the outtie storyline. In season two, we’ve seen loss become a prominent presence in both segments of the show, provoking even the innies—who are not well-equipped to deal with complex emotions—to consider what death means to them. In season one

Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down notorious sex trafficking circles operated by celebrities. Back in reality, the Financial Times reports the Trump administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to let Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate travel

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NASA just wrapped engine performance tests on its X-59 research aircraft, which the space agency hopes will prove a means of mitigating supersonic aircraft’s odious sonic booms. NASA and Lockheed Martin ran the tests between October and February on the single modified F414-GE-100 engine that will power the aircraft and its subsystems. “We have successfully

If the winter season wasn’t chilling enough, Peacock is adding Nosferatu next Friday, February 21. Robert Eggers’ critically acclaimed remake will come to the streamer with two cuts: the original theatrical version in all its erotic, gothy glory; and an extended cut (with a handful of deleted and extended scenes) available on other platforms and DVD/Blu-Ray.

As Marvel Rivals has launched its first batch of post-launch heroes with the Fantastic Four, the community remains eager to know who’s waiting in the wings. Dataminers have seemingly revealed much of the future additions not long after the game’s launch, and the obsession over that list has grown to the point developers at NetEase

Our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is moving towards us at a slow and steady pace. In about 3,000 years, the triple star system will be at its closest point to Earth, but new research proposes that material from Alpha Centauri has already made its way to our solar system. And more is on the

Daredevil is back to beat up bad guys to a pulp through super long hallways, this time on Disney+. It was originally revealed that Charlie Cox would be returning as Matt Murdock (who briefly had a fling on She-Hulk) along with Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin (who appeared in Echo), alongside Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the

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Beware the hospital sink drain. A new study out this week shows that these drains can be a common source of scary, drug-resistant pathogens, even after deep cleaning. Researchers at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain led the study, published Friday in Frontiers in Microbiology. They analyzed bacteria collected from drains around a

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Pop culture goods have come a long way from basic black tees with movie titles screen-printed on them—you know the ones, you’d find them tucked away in a corner of a video store by the posters and collectibles. As millennial culture expanded the demand into mall mainstays like Hot Topic, which went on to grow

Meteorology has never been as precise as it is today—but how can scientists learn about past weather events? In addition to environmental evidence such as ice cores and sediments, historical records provide unique insights into forgotten climate events and how they shaped society, as new research attests. Researchers in Romania have analyzed historical records to

Anthony Mackie makes his standalone solo film debut with Sam Wilson taking up the mantle in Captain America: Brave New World and the consensus on this outing is in. Was Harrison Ford’s Red Hulk versus Cap everything it’s been built up to be? Are we ready for what the Serpent Society has in store? Here’s

The U.S. Military is pulling out of a 40-year-old STEM event in Baltimore as part of its campaign to abandon “DEI” programs and push back against a perceived “wokeness” among American troops. The Becoming Everything You Are Conference (BEYA), once called the Black Engineer of the Year Award Conference, has been running in Baltimore for

Robert Eggers teases the darkness of his new period werewolf movie. Apple TV+’s The Studio takes on the entertainment industry with a twist. Plus, what’s coming on Ghosts. Spoilers, away! The Death of Robin Hood Deadline reports Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe will star alongside Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer in The Death of Robin Hood

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Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario. Musk has been appointed what is called a “special government employee” in

On October 5, 2024, Iran was struck by an earthquake. Just minutes later, rumors began to spread on social media that it hadn’t been a natural event, but a secret Iranian nuclear weapons test. Now, researchers led by Johns Hopkins University have debunked these claims in a study published on February 3 in the journal

Having yet to discover any evidence of extraterrestrial life, it’s difficult to theorize about the kinds of beings that might exist beyond the reaches of our telescopes. Could there be an Earth-like planet with human-like beings and technology searching for us as ardently as we’re searching for them? Although a planet with life and technology

Your next juice cleanse might be riskier than you think. Recent research has found that as little as three days of juicing can lead to noticeable and possibly harmful changes in our native gut and mouth bacteria. Scientists at Northwestern University conducted the study, which compared the short-term effects of three different diets on the

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An archaeological excavation in Wales has unearthed magnificent Iron Age artifacts. But it wasn’t archaeologists who found them. Military personnel and veterans have uncovered 2,000-year-old Celtic artifacts beneath the airfield at Royal Air Force (RAF) Valley station in Wales. The findings, officially declared as treasure, may have been part of a famous archaeological hoard previously

Astronomers have spotted a massive radio jet in the early universe, which they say is the largest known from that era. The jet is at least 200,000 light-years long, making it twice the width of the Milky Way. It formed when the universe was less than 10% its current age of roughly 13.77 billion years.

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Many beloved film series from the 1980s and ’90s have found new life in the form of legacy sequels, reboots, revivals, and “the characters are old now, let’s roll with it” continuations. But don’t expect the same from Back to the Future, at least according to screenwriter Bob Gale. At this past weekend’s Saturn Awards

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which

The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way. Despite the galaxy’s size, capturing this image proved no small feat. The Bullseye (affectionately) lies 567 million light-years from Earth, making it a rather distant object to

Adobe, which loves to shove long-term subscriptions onto its customers, has a new add-on for Acrobat that it says will make it easier to read and understand legal contracts. Acrobat AI Assistant, as it is called, is supposed to look at a PDF contract and extract the most important details, as well as simplify them

Roughly 200-300 ducks have been found dead in Chicago and the northern suburbs around Lake Michigan in recent days, according to a new report from local news outlet NBC5. The red-breasted mergansers have died of suspected bird flu, according to local experts who spoke with NBC5, though it doesn’t appear tests have confirmed that suspicion

One of the most anticipated pop culture returns of 2025 is almost here: The Last of Us, HBO’s hit video game adaptation starring Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal. Talking about season two has been a particularly delicate matter for those involved in the series, in the interest of not spoiling the plot for viewers who

Earlier this week, Netflix pulled back the curtain on its 2025 slate, which includes the previously announced Devil May Cry adaptation. Along with a premiere date of April 3, we got a look at the show’s opening credits, and they’re a riot. What makes them so good? The song, naturally. Of all the tunes to open a

Whenever a Critical Role campaign ends, it’s always a big deal. The finales are events unto themselves, and fans tend to leave them excited for the future—which is good, because the Actual Play series is already teasing its next moves. On Thursday, February 6, the “Bells Hells” campaign will close with an eight and a half hour

The website for USAID, the U.S. government agency that distributes foreign aid, went down on Saturday, and it’s unclear when it may return. The outage comes as every federal website has been ordered to erase forbidden words, though USAID’s outage could related to reports that Donald Trump plans to put most of the agency under

Some of us here at io9 play video games, and we’re more than intrigued by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. While Sandfall Interactive’s Atlus–inspired RPG isn’t out until April, it’s already being eyed for a live-action movie. Per Variety, Sandfall is teaming with production company Story Kitchen to bring its debut game to the silver screen. The

Been feeling a little lost lately, and in need of a new, authoritative voice on self-help that walks a very thin line between semi-profound insights and unvarnished New Age bullshit? Time to pick up a copy of The You You Are, written by Dr. Ricken Hale—pretentious but good-hearted brother-in-law of Mark Scout, the main character

Android 14 running on an E Ink screen with cellular connectivity and a QWERTY keyboard? Life is no longer but a dream for the backers of the Minimal Phone, which started shipping out units to its faithful supporters nearly a year after going viral as possible vaporware. It’s good timing, considering we’re all in the

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Last week, Benedict Cumberbatch made the bold declaration that Doctor Strange won’t appear in Avengers: Doomsday—only to walk that back and admit that yes, we will be seeing the Sorcerer Supreme in that film, rather than having to wait for  Avengers: Secret Wars. His Avengers cohort Chris Evans, the former Captain America, has picked up

Universal Studios Hollywood’s Star Trek food leads the pack of uniquely bizarre (but on brand) drinks and munchies inspired by different fandom universes for Fan Fest Nights 2025. The after-hours FFN (like Halloween Horror Nights) will invite fans to experience their favorite franchises on every level: experiences, sights, in-universe merch, and tasty treats. This year’s

Ever felt the sudden urge to leap into a TARDIS and flee your current timeline or location (or both)? You can live out your Time Lord fantasies if your pockets are deep enough when a screen-matched TARDIS goes up for auction, part of a trove of Doctor Who items being sold to aid BBC-backed charity

This year’s Oscar nominations went all in on genre, and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo is up for a leading actress statue. Cinema’s Wicked Witch of the West was on Jimmy Kimmel recently and the late night host revealed Erivo was on a plane when the announcement was made. “True to form. I was defying gravity,”

Whatever Patti LuPone wants, she doesn’t always get, or at least that’s the case when it came to a second season of Agatha All Along. At this point if you haven’t seen the Marvel show, which followed up the events of WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it’s on you—but not only

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The Mass Effect series has always held a special, and often divisive spot in fans’ hearts. BioWare’s sci-fi RPG saga blew up with its first game back in 2007, and its sequel took the franchise to bigger, more mainstream heights. In the years since that game’s release, it’s cast a long shadow—not just over its own franchise

For anyone who’s wanted to see Chris Pratt in theaters again, but as a real person instead of a CG plumber or cat, you’re in luck: his next movie, Mercy, is hitting on January 23, 2026. Per Deadline, Amazon’s opted to move the sci-fi thriller out of its original August 15, 2025 spot, where it would’ve been

In a few days, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man finally hits Disney+. You might not know it, though, because the marketing for this has come fairly late in the game, and we’re only recently getting an idea of what to expect from the show. Earlier in the week, Marvel put out a pair of videos for Friendly Neighborhood. While

In just under a week, the next Star Trek project arrives in the form of Section 31, a streaming movie starring Michelle Yeoh diving into the titular black ops organization—one that, at least in all the footage we’ve seen so far, puts an emphasis on the glitz and glam of secret agent work. There’s action, there’s dazzling

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The anti-Academy Awards ‘celebrate’ the mid to meh to just plain unwatchable from 2024’s film releases. It’s the time of year when the hater-ade gets unleashed by film critics and commentators for the annual Razzies. The funsuck “awards” show takes cheap shots at feature film releases that didn’t fall into favor with wide audiences. For

Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes at a rally held at Capitol One Arena on Monday after the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. And whatever Musk’s intention with the salutes, Americans on social media are extremely uncomfortable as they debate what it could mean for the future of the country.

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. The Afrofuturist’s grave rests in Altadena, which was hit hard amid the recent fires that

Earlier this month, Sony revealed it’s planning to make live-action movies for Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers. The latter is a co-op shooter about space marines fighting aliens, and it’s not uncommon for sci-fi war movies to have big stars: your Tom Cruises, Chris Pratts, and the like. If it were up to execs at developer Arrowhead

CapCut simplifies video editing and creation, making it ideal for social media influencers on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and other platforms. Sadly, the US CapCut ban prevents all American residents from using their favorite video editor. Following the bombastic TikTok ban in the USA, CapCut stopped providing its services to this country as a result of

This year marks a significant change in the air for Superman. Along with James Gunn’s upcoming movie, DC Comics is offering a massive shakeup to the status quo, and with a big get from its distinguished competition: like Brian Michael Bendis before him, Dan Slott, a longtime writer for Marvel’s Spider-Man and Fantastic Four comics

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Let’s take a quick international trip to see the latest at Tokyo Disneyland, which gets an adorable Marvel overlay at its It’s a Small World attraction. Stateside, it’s festival season at Walt Disney World with the opening of pop culture fan favorite Festival of the Arts at Epcot;  over at Magic Kingdom, Space Mountain celebrates

Cinema lost a great today. While the news of David Lynch’s passing seems still more unreal than anything the director has made, we mourn the loss along with the rest of the filmmakers and actors who had the privilege to exist during the Lynchian era. And we’re pouring out a cup of damn fine coffee

One thousand fourteen. That’s how many days have passed since the final episode of Severance season one aired—and today, January 16, 2025, when the season two premiere drops on Apple TV+ (a few hours earlier than expected). It’s a long time by any measure, but especially in today’s fast-paced world of pop culture. Was it

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One of the boldest moves Rocksteady made when it unveiled its Suicide Squad game after years of rumors was its subtitle: this was going to be a game about you, as players, fighting and being forced to slaughter DC’s finest heroes, before Braniac could puppet them into being his own deadly occupation force. Then Suicide Squad:

Traditional conceptions of obesity might be in for a radical shift. In a new report published this week, a widely-supported group of scientists is pushing for substantial changes in how obesity is diagnosed and classified. Over 50 obesity experts from across the globe conducted the report, as part of a commission backed by The Lancet.

After social media latched onto the theory that It Ends With Us director and co-lead Justin Baldoni inspired “Nicepool” in Deadpool & Wolverine—to the point that the actor’s legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, addressed it outright—there’s now a new strike back against Ryan Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, who was featured in the film as Ladypool.

Stop-motion animation is a prospect challenging enough for any studio, even Aardman, which has been pioneering the form for decades at this point. But what happens when you decide to bring back a villain who’s famous for not being able to say a single word, can barely move any part of their face, and mostly

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After spending so long in development hell, The Flash really came and went in 2023, huh? Warner Bros. sure put a lot of effort into making sure people knew it was coming, but audiences ultimately bounced off it pretty hard amid a year of superhero movies fizzling in theaters. To director Andy Muschietti, the film’s biggest failing

A few months ago, Prime Video revealed it was getting the ball rolling on a TV adaptation for Mass Effect. For fans, the squadmates of each game are part of the franchise’s charm—so much that Jennifer Hale, who voiced the female version of Commander Shepard, thinks the show should include them. Speaking to Eurogamer, Hale said

Since it came out last December, Marvel Rivals has become the hot new hero shooter. A lot of that can be owed to its visuals, and PC players have since made skin mods that make the game’s cast into non-Marvel characters, like making Jeff the Shark into Chainsaw Man’s Pochita, or Iron Man into Dragon Ball‘s Vegeta.

This week at CES, Sony revealed it was adding even more video games to its already sizable roster of adaptations, including Guerrilla Games’ Horizon franchise. After the intended Netflix series collapsed following abuse allegations against showrunner Steve Blackman, Sony’s decided to pivot it into a full-on film. Among PlayStation’s first-party lineup, Horizon occupies a weird space. While its

Last year, Macross was supposed to land on Disney+ as part of an effort to bring the franchise outside of Japan, particularly the west. At the time, this was a big deal since the various companies in control of it and its western equivalent Robotech came to an agreement after they’d spent years not being

The allure emanating from Count Orlok in Nosferatu goes more than decaying skin deep. And this was by design by director Robert Eggers, who discussed his choices to stray away from both the Max Schreck classic Nosferatu look and modern sexy vampires. “The most appreciated contemporary vampire, Edward Cullen from Twilight, is not scary at

The European Southern Observatory is at serious risk of losing the clear skies above its Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, officials said, due to a proposed industrial complex put forward by the subsidiary of a U.S. power company. Paranal Observatory is home to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which comprises four telescopes each with

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Airbnb says it is offering free temporary housing to residents of the Los Angeles area affected by the wildfires currently raging through Southern California. The company has partnered with 211 LA, a non-profit telephone line that offers local information services in multiple languages. Right now, Airbnb says it is focused on helping residents from the

For western audiences, 1990s Gundam can largely be defined by one series: Gundam Wing, the sixth major entry in the franchise, and the one that would set the stage for the mecha series’ rise in the west through its landmark broadcast run on Cartoon Network in 2000. But just a year after Wing aired in Japan, Gundam returned with

Today is January 7 and the next full moon isn’t until January 13, but Universal has decided today’s the day to reveal the transformation scene from its new Wolf Man movie, which opens January 17. The “human becomes wolf” moment is a crucial sequence in any werewolf movie—Rick Baker’s visceral work in An American Werewolf

Firefighters are currently battling a wildfire in Los Angeles during the first of what’s expected to be two or three days of Santa Ana winds that can reach up to 100 miles per hour. The Palisades Fire is threatening homes in the northern parts of the L.A. metro area, but all of Southern California is

Earlier today, Will Smith took to Instagram to casually share some news with his nearly 70 million followers. The reel, which you can see below, recaps the superstar’s notorious career decision back in 1997 to pick Wild Wild West over The Matrix. “What would The Matrix have been like with Will Smith as Neo?”, the

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Star Wars’ return to theaters in 1999 with Phantom Menace introduced audiences to Jake Lloyd, who played the young Anakin Skywalker. While Hayden Christensen would play the character in later appearnaces, Lloyd eventually faded from the public eye. That changed when last March, he and his mother Lisa revealed he’d been in rehab for nearly a year after

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If you’ve seen Kraven the Hunter or just been online, you probably know about an odd moment that occurs midway through the film. After being informed that his goons died trying and failing to kidnap the titular hunter, Alessandro Nivola’s Aleksei Systevich lets out a scream that sounds like a dying machine of some kind. You’d

Back in 2022, Toei put out Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, a pretty good movie that featured a new art style and put Piccolo and Gohan (aka, his son) in the forefront. If you came away from the movie loving either character, particularly the former, that appears to have been the goal all along. During a recent radio

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When The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters later this year, it’ll mark the fourth time something has happened in a row. Four times over the past four decades a newly rebooted Fantastic Four movie has been made. And, if you can believe it, they’ve all happened almost exactly 10 years apart. Does that bode

Even though Andrew Garfield was in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he was forced to deny it. That’s why he knows saying he’s not in the upcoming sequel, out in 2026, really doesn’t hold much weight. “I’m gonna disappoint you,” Garfield told GQ when asked if he’d signed on for the upcoming fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man.

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You often hear people say “You’ve never seen anything like this,” but in the case of the new movie Love Me, it’s actually true. Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star as the human avatar versions of a buoy and a satellite who fall in love long after humanity has ended. Can you even picture what

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The past two weeks, we here at io9 have looked back at the movies, shows, and games of 2024, and given our own individual takeaways on certain trends that took place this year. Now it’s time to think about what’s next—and more specifically, what we’re looking forward to in 2025. Feel free to let us

Years come and go, but blogs? Blogs are forever. As 2024 comes to an end, revisit the very best of the thousands of posts io9 produced this year—from the biggest breaking news to critical analysis of the latest TV shows, films, games, and more—with the top 100 stories you all read and shared the most

He’s been campaigning for it almost as long as he’s been Aquaman, and now, Jason Momoa is getting a belated holiday gift: the actor will trade DC’s seas for its stars as he takes on the mantle of intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo. Deadline reports that Momoa will first appear as Lobo in the upcoming cosmic Supergirl

The days between Christmas and the New Year are a listless, liminal time. You can catch up with family, make your mind a sunless space with video games and TV, and eat all the food leftover from the holidays. Elon Musk, the richest man who ever lived and the father of at least 12 children

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, well above the previous AI best score of 55% and on par with the average human score. It also scored well on a very

Humans aren’t the only ones getting in on the virtual reality craze. Scientists have just debuted a new technology that allows mice to more realistically—and adorably—experience VR in the lab. Researchers at Cornell University developed the tech, which they’ve aptly named MouseGoggles. In experiments with mice, the rodents appeared to vividly respond to simulated stimuli

When the BBC aired a special, colorized edit of “The Daleks” to celebrate Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary last year, aside from the actual edit down to a shortened runtime, the serial was largely left as-is, aside from a cute trailer at the end to tease the next 60 years of adventures in time and space. With its

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Artificial intelligence models can be surprisingly stealable—provided you somehow manage to sniff out the model’s electromagnetic signature. While repeatedly emphasizing they do not, in fact, want to help people attack neural networks, researchers at North Carolina State University described such a technique in a new paper. All they needed was an electromagnetic probe, several pre-trained

After watching and rewatching James Gunn’s Superman trailer in recent weeks, I was on a Superman high. To keep it going, I decided that while building a Lego over Christmas break, I was going to rewatch all of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies. Movies I’d seen before—I’m even old enough to have seen IV in

As cinemas face a tumultuous future, and ticket prices continue to rise, movies and television at home are becoming the main option for family entertainment. But even as someone who considers themselves a cinephile—I watch movies for a living—I didn’t quite understand how dire the situation was with options at home… until I had my

Apple pie. Baseball. These are things you think of when you think of America. Another thing that could be added to the list, though, is the superhero. From 1938, when Superman graced the cover of Action Comics #1, superheroes have become a major American export. And, because he was the first, Superman will always be

As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to provide a sort of state of the union on the year’s movie monsters—a quick analysis of what’s still regarded to be scary. However, upon reflection, what was envisioned as 21st century bestiary began to look less like a Dungeons

Doctor Who fans are getting an extra special treat under the Christmas tree today with the arrival of “Joy to the World,” this year’s special holiday episode. But they’re getting an even better present wrapped within it: because beyond the broad festive wrappings of the episode, this bigger-on-the-inside adventure has a side story that could stand

Colleen O’Shaughnessey plays Sonic’s right-hand fox, the kid with the plan, the bestie we wish we had: Tails. io9 recently got the chance to catch up with the voice actress to discuss Tails’ evolution from small screen to the big screen—and we do mean big, as in current box-office champ  Sonic the Hedgehog 3. In

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As 2024 comes to a close, Dan Da Dan has become the talk of the shonen town. From the chemistry of its two leads to its banger opening and offbeat style , Science Saru’s adaptation of Yukinobu Tatsu’s supernatural romcom has captured hearts and minds of animation fans, who’ve been tuning in on a weekly

The speculation can finally end. Universal took to social media Monday to give film fans everywhere a present: the first official description of Christopher Nolan’s next movie. It’s called The Odyssey which, yes, is an adaptation of Homer’s poem. “Christopher Nolan’s next film The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot across the world using

After going on hiatus back in October, new episodes of One Piece start up again on April 6, 2025. The company broke the news during this weekend’s Jump Festa. Last we left off, the series was in the middle of the “Egghead” arc, and the flashy new preview shows things about to pop off as

Deku and friends’ story may be over, but Bones ain’t done with My Hero Academia just yet. During this weekend’s Jump Festa, the animation studio revealed a nice little surprise for fans of the superhero manga: its spinoff series, Vigilantes, is getting its own anime in April. If you haven’t read it, Vigilantes comes from Hideyuki Furuhashi

The past decade of Star Wars has been… a lot: interesting, thrilling, exhausting, disappointing. You pick a descriptor, and it could probably apply at any point after The Force Awakens revitalized the franchise, the two spinoff movies did what they could, and The Last Jedi  tried to take new swings. What one word describes The Rise of Skywalker in the

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a big mummy movie, and that was when Universal tried to relaunch its horror monsters through the Dark Universe and its single entry, The Mummy. Since then, the studio’s focused on other monsters like Dracula and men of the invisible and wolf varities. But if you’ve been

Elon Musk, America’s wealthiest oligarch, tweeted an endorsement of Germany’s AfD political party and many Germans aren’t happy with that fact. Why? It probably has something to do with AfD’s racism, xenophobia, and links to neo-Nazis. You know, just the normal things that Musk finds himself promoting here in 2024 as a top advisor to

The year in Star Wars was a shaky one, but amid all the surprising big-screen announcements, the biggest earthquakes might have emanated from Disney+ series The Acolyte. The series upended a lot of Star Wars‘ most ingrained tenets, especially about the Jedi Order, and poked the feels of fans who have toxic ways of expressing

Surely you’ve heard that your smartphone has more computing power than the computers that sent the Apollo mission to the Moon. Well, a full 55 years after the spaceflight that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, a company has managed to shrink down the Apollo computer in another way. British startup

If you’ve been creeping around Shudder looking for something to add a little fright to your seasonal viewing, you might have noticed The Haunted Season—a brand new anthology series from showrunner Kier-La Janisse, a genre expert whose many works include standout film-theory book House of Psychotic Women and recent folk-horror documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched.

If you are ever feeling lonely and just need someone to talk to, OpenAI has you covered. The company today announced that anyone can now call ChatGPT by phone at the number 1-800-CHATGPT (242-8478). Callers are limited to 15 minutes per month; anyone outside the U.S. can also text with ChatGPT via WhatsApp at the

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission reportedly experienced an hour-long loss of ground control before two private astronauts exited the Dragon crew capsule for the first commercial spacewalk in history, according to a report by Reuters. The Polaris Dawn mission launched on September 10, carrying a four-person crew, led by tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. The billionaire-funded mission

Character.ai is once again facing scrutiny over activity on its platform. Futurism has published a story detailing how AI characters inspired by real-life school shooters have proliferated on the service, allowing users to ask them about the events and even role-play mass shootings. Some of the chatbots present school shooters like Eric Harris and Dylan

Nima Momeni, the former tech consultant at the center of the Bob Lee murder case, has been found guilty of the Cash App founder’s death. On Tuesday, after deliberating for seven days, a jury acquitted Momeni of the charge of 1st-degree murder but found him guilty of 2nd-degree murder, NBC reports. He faces 16 years

From start to finish, 2024 was packed with a smörgåsbord of new movies, shows, and books to wax poetic about. But while trying new things is all well and good, there’s just no beating curling up and revisiting some good kino—meaning, those old reliable cultural touchstones that warrant annual rewatches and somehow manage to improve

Looking for the right gift for your friends, family, and loved ones? The Nintendo Switch is the perfect first gaming console for young gamers. It also makes for a great entry or re-entry point for adults who haven’t ever played video games or haven’t in awhile. Nintendo’s handheld only version—the Nintendo Switch Lite—has a special

A pair of imaginative cosmologists have great news for everyone: If a primordial black hole tunnels through your body, you probably won’t die. This unexpected reassurance is part of their larger hypothesis on where scientists might find primordial black holes (PBH): ancient, tiny, high-density, theoretical black holes. In a study published in the December issue

Adopting artificial intelligence tools to analyze data and model outcomes has a huge impact on the career prospects of young scientists, significantly increasing their chances of rising to positions of influence in their fields, according to a new study. But that boon for individual researchers appears to be coming at a broader cost to science.

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe—as far as it pertains to being a place where a series of films of questionably varied quality starring Spider-Man adjacent characters are never allowed to acknowledge that they are, indeed, adjacent to Spider-Man—is dead. Long live Sony’s Spider-Man Universe? The cinematic half-universe formerly known as SPUMC breathes its misguided last with the

It’s Friday the 13th in December, so it’s perfect timing for spooky season to rise again in this week’s round up of theme park, immersive, and geek core holiday news. Just in time for Jason Voorhees’ favorite day, there’s some happy horror holiday fun to be had this month, with Nosferatu inviting fans on a chilling

If you’ve opened TikTok, Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter) even once this year, you probably know what a Costco Guy is. If you too want to go shopping while eating a chicken bake or try the new double-chunk chocolate cookie, then you’ll need yourself a Costco membership. A Costco membership will allow you to shop at

Though most of the movies have been bad to very bad, it’s a shame Kraven the Hunter is likely to be the last non-Spider-Man film in the Sony Spider-Man Universe. After Morbius, Madame Web, and three Venom movies failed to do much, Kraven the Hunter is so jam-packed with Spider-Man references you can almost see

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Today happens to be a good day to watch Brian Henson’s The Muppet Christmas Carol as the family holiday classic celebrates its theatrical release anniversary. The 1992 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—starring Michael Caine as Scrooge, one of the only humans alongside an ensemble of Muppets (in Henson Company tradition)—remains an all-timer retelling of