Based on that headline alone, you know we’re in for a wild ride with Jojo Rabbit, the highly-anticipated new film from the wacky and wonderful mind of Taika Waititi. Following this morning’s news of Jojo Rabbit’s upcoming premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Waititi has revealed the first trailer…
TRENTON, NJ—Shaking his head in dismay as he realized how quickly the slide into authoritarianism might occur, astonished man Dennis Burton told reporters Friday that he finally understood how Nazi Germany could happen after playing Wolfenstein 3D. “I always told myself that this was the sort of thing that could never…
Say and feel however you want about the Office, but do yourself a favor and take 2 minutes to listen to this bit of excellence.
Stranger Thingshas us feeling moody and nostalgic this summer, so thank goodness for reddit user Noaxreal, who, in “turning the office theme into an ’80s soundtrack” he’s recalibrated the sitcom standard into something that could fit right into the Stranger Things soundtrack.
We’ll say this about the trailer for Jay And Silent Bob Reboot: Kevin Smith doesn’t seem to have lost his touch for making this exact kind of movie. If you ignore the fact that everyone looks a little older, this could easily be mistaken for a movie that Smith would’ve made in the early 2000s heyday of the “View…
Because everything old is new again, 1990s domestic sitcom Mad About You will be returning to revisit Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as longtime TV couple the Buchmans, now empty nesters. Still in their slanty Manhattan apartment? Maybe with a new dog? Will Janeane Garafalo return as their similarly aged daughter Mabel,…
It’s beginning—against all odds—to seem increasingly possible that Quentin Tarantino might actually soon be making an in-canon, certified, R-ratedStar Trek movie, complete with, like, phasers and shit. And while certain folks more intimately connected with the franchise (namely Simon Pegg, who both stars in, and…
We’re all probably familiar with Stephen King’s legendary horror stories. From The Shining to It, the stories are such a renowned global phenomenon, it’s small wonder that they’ve been adapted on screen time and time again. One of the more iconic pieces is the 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary that was turned into a horror thriller and hit the screens in 1989. By this century, both the novel and the film are widely recognized as classics, and with the current “age of revival” where every well known story is reshot or remade, it’s no shocker that Pet Sematary hit the silver screens once more.
Pet Sematary was released on April 5, 2019 and received mixed to average reviews. However, one thing was sure, people walked out of the theaters affected. And while some were quick to compare the 2019 remake with the original, others found a completely different venue to focus on. The feline star of the movie.
After watching the new remake of Pet Sematary, some people were amazed by the feline star, Church
Turns out, the cat Winston “Church” Churchill was actually played by multiple cats. They were all trained to do a specific thing and excelled at it, like hissing on command, or staring, or running very fast. Three of the kitties actually have Instagram pages and are hiking up followers to boost their careers as aspiring cat actors. JD, Tonic, and Leo were the three biggest stars and made the reanimated feline truly memorable (Tonic made his mark by playing the cutesy cuddly pet at the beginning of the movie, while Leo is the striking uncanny kitty in the poster).
The director later revealed in the interviews that all of the cats that portrayed Church were actually adopted from shelters. When the production team decided on Maine Coon cats for the show, they started looking through various shelters and rescue organizations and ended up with over 5 cats. After all of the felines were collected, trainers worked for 2 months to teach them specific tasks, which proved to be a successful mission as all the kitties shone in their specific roles.
The production team also revealed that some of the kitties (like the stunning Leo) had to spend some time in the makeup chair. Why? Well, to look disheveled and.. um.. undead, the cats’ fur had to be covered in chalk and edible gunk, so it would be safe to ingest in case some licking happened.
After the filming wrapped, the team found all the participating cats a new home. Unfortunately, after the movie premiered, Leo’s handler Kirk Jarett shared some heartbreaking news. Leo passed away from feline arterial thromboembolism, also known as saddle thrombus, a condition that’s not rare among Maine Coons. Jarett’s message on Instagram said, “It is with deep sadness that we tell you that Leo has passed away. He will be forever missed by his human and fur family. May his star always shine bright!”
This is hilarious to me. Note: I never saw Blackfish.
Few documentaries have been as successful as Blackfish at generating outrage and inciting real change, but despite its impact and critical acclaim, it appears as if its creators no longer stand by their work: The filmmakers behind Blackfish are releasing a new documentary about how, on second thought, SeaWorld doesn’t…
Saber Interactive has dropped its latest update for frenetic multiplayer shooter World War Z. The new "Six Skulls" update brings with it a new difficulty setting for the most hardened zombie killers, along with a few other bits of neat content.
Available now on all platforms, the new "Extreme" difficulty setting requires expert teamwork, pin-point accuracy, and tight management of ammunition and resources. Described in the video below as "no joke", this new challenge will put you and your squads ability and efficiency to the limit, with unique rewards lined up for those skilled enough to make it through the rotting masses.
Whether you want them or not, every game console ever released before the mid 90s seems destined to be reborn in cute, miniature form, and the TurboGrafx-16 is the next one on the horizon.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've gotten sun-drunk a few too many times this summer. I'm loving the warm weather, but staying inside to play some video games sounds like an increasingly good idea. Overwatch just got Summer Games 2019 off the ground and the new weekly challenges are calling my name. The three-week event began today and it's going to run through Monday, August 5.
I'm particularly into Genji's Kendo-inspired gear, Hanzo's fresh koi tattoo, and Reaper's delightfully obnoxious American outfit. Some of the skins – like the flag getup – are strictly challenge unlocks.
Week 1
Win three games: Shark Attack spray
Win six games: Punchimari icon
Win nine games: American Reaper skin
Week 2
Win three games: Snorkeling spray
Win six games: Tennismari icon
Win nine games: Zhongguo Mei skin
Week 3
Win three games: Sand Castle spray
Win six games: Footballmari icon
Win nine games: Bundesadler Reinhardt skin
These challenges aren't restricted to Quick Play or Competitive – Arcade mode works too!
Aside from the skins, there's also Lúcioball if you're into that sort of thing.
The U.S. Coast Guard today announced that the Coast Guard Cutter Munro would offload thirty-nine thousand pounds of cocaine in San Diego with Vice President Pence presiding. The copious amounts of powdered narcotic had been taken in 14 separate seizures, including a particularly large haul in mid-June from the…
This is a real thing, and it can now be yours for $10 at Battle.net. [credit:
Blizzard Entertainment / Carbot Animations ]
Do not be deceived by the above gallery. This is not a prank or a proof of concept. StarCraft: Cartooned is now live at Blizzard's online store as an official $10 add-on to 2017's StarCraft Remastered. It redraws every single piece of art in the classic RTS game to look and animate like a children's cartoon, without otherwise changing the core gameplay.
Specifically, StarCraft: Cartooned looks like a Carbot Animations cartoon—because the YouTube channel in question, operated by Canadian artist and animator Jonathan Burton, was tapped to create Blizzard's first full cosmetic overhaul mod for a retail game.
The Cartooned DLC does not add any new gameplay or mechanical content to the StarCraft Remastered package. Instead, it transforms every single graphical element in the game, from menus to sprites to between-mission briefings, to look like the Carbot Animations animated series "StarCrafts," now in its seventh season on YouTube. (Carbot's YouTube channel also includes unofficial animated series based on Blizzard game series Diablo and WarCraft.)
So HBO Max is "your source more than 10,000 hours of content from the likes of Warner Bros., New Line, DC Entertainment, CNN, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, and Looney Tunes."
HBO plus DC plus cartoons. Sounds good to me.
Friends forever? Hardly. The earth shuddered last year, the news that Friends would eventually leave its streaming home of Netflix for WarnerMedia’s own service serving to shatter our collective, nubbin-loving innocence. As such, our routine, slack-jawed rewatches of the 10-season series have since been haunted by the…
Good news for the next generation of superstar Scientologist actors: A reboot of Look Who’s Talking (which starred Kirstie Alley and John Travolta) is in the works, with The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick set to write and direct. This comes from Deadline, which says Garelick is planning to “allow for a diverse…
Nostalgia tends to focus on the best parts of our memories, glossing over things we’ve worked hard to forget. It turns out there are lots of good reasons we left audio cassettes behind, but if you’re determined to keep the dead format alive, you can now enjoy your music in less than CD quality through a pair of…
A few years back now, Marvel made a fairly major (at the time) revelation about one of its most prominent mutant characters, revealing in an issue of Brian Michael Bendis’ All New X-Men that Bobby Drake, a.k.a.. founding X-Men member Iceman, was gay. (Well, technically, a time-traveling younger version of the…
Just last month, we were calling The Walking Dead #192 “the end of an era,” thanks to a stunning issue (spoilers at that link). But if you thought creator Robert Kirkman and artist Charlie Adlard couldn’t top that twist, here’s another shocker: The Walking Dead comic is ending tomorrow with issue #193.
Standing at the top row of the MOCR looking forward. The consoles are all lit via internal LEDs powered by a Crestron commercial lighting system, and the positions are all dressed to appear as if the controllers had all gotten up mid-shift and walked out and left all their stuff behind. [credit:
Lee Hutchinson ]
HOUSTON—Following the completion of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar restoration, NASA's historic Apollo Mission Operations Control Room 2 ("MOCR 2") is set to reopen to the public next week. The $5 million in funding for the restoration was partially provided by Space Center Houston, but the majority of the money was donated by the city of Webster, the Houston suburb where the Johnson Space Center is located. Another half-million in funding came from the general public via a Kickstarter campaign (disclosure: your humble author was a backer).
For the past two years, historians and engineers from the Kansas Cosmosphere's Spaceworks team have been lovingly restoring and detailing the 1,200-pound (544kg) historic sage green Ford-Philco consoles that populated the control room—repairing damage from decades of casual neglect and also adding in the correct control panels so that each console now correctly mirrors how it would have been configured for an Apollo flight.
Ars was invited to view the restored MOCR 2 last week as the final finishing restoration touches were still being applied. We conducted some interviews and shot some photos while technicians and construction workers bustled around us, hammering and screwing the last bits and bobs into place. The room's lighting system was in the process of being worked on, and the room flickered several times between fully illuminated daytime lighting and dim twilight—providing an even more accurate glimpse of what it might have looked like during an actual mission.
On Wednesday, a Vice article alerted the world to the creation of DeepNude, a computer program that uses neural networks to transform an image of a clothed woman into a realistic rendering of what she might look like naked.
The software attracted widespread condemnation. This is an “invasion of sexual privacy,” legal scholar Danielle Citron told Vice.
The software's anonymous creator explained how it worked to Vice's Samantha Cole:
Who the fuck is actually paying $4.99 a month to watch some asshole play video games?
On Twitch, fans can subscribe to their favorite streamers, typically for $4.99 per month. Usually, that comes with minor perks like subscriber-only emotes, subscriber badges, and access to subscriber-only chat, if streamers decide to enable it. But now, streamers are getting a big addition to their arsenals:…
I remember watching E3 footage of this last year. Really want to check it out.
If you put me in a room with ten executives and asked me to pitch Outer Wilds, here is what I would say: “It’s got the exploration of a Metroid game and the structure of Majora’s Mask crossed with the interstellar wonder of No Man’s Sky and the narrative framework of Return of the Obra Dinn.”
Only shared because apparently there is a person named Awkwafina? Seriously?
Ryan Murphy is kicking off his shiny new Netflix deal with a bit of a bang: Per Deadline, Murphy has consulted his impressively stuffed Rolodex of big-name friends to help him bring his film adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musical, The Prom, to life.
Back in 1990, subsistence hunters in Greenland gave a skull to scientists. Its origin, they explained, was a strange creature, evenly grey, with flippers like a beluga but a tail like a narwhal. The specimen was larger than either a beluga or a narwhal’s skull, but seemed to contain the proportions of both.
Late last month, we reported on a long-simmering feud between extraterrestrial rock stars GWAR and Ethan Embry, who sought revenge for the band’s World Maggot eating his character Mark during a psychedelic daydream scene in 1995's Empire Records. The date of their threatened confrontation at this year’s Riot Fest…
Haven’t heard of Ready or Not? Neither had we, but this first trailer for the horror comedy from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillette (formerly of filmmaking collective Radio Silence, which made Devil’s Due and Southbound) suddenly has us intrigued. It’s about a bride who realizes on her wedding night…
Every day, the Earth rotates. The Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, and then some time later, it sets. We’ve built our lives and societies around this periodicity, with days that are divided into hours, minutes, and seconds, all kept track of by clocks. But in some places on Earth, the Sun rises only once…
This is weird enough by itself. But then I read this comment...
...this appears to be the first movie directly inspired by a line from a Mystery Science Theater episode, specifically Pod People (1991): “Oh, so people are being methodically killed off by the Banana Splits.”
This Chuck E. Cheese party is going downhill fast. The first trailer is out for The Banana Splits Movie, which takes a classic Hanna-Barbera kids variety show and turns it into, well, Five Nights at Freddy’s. Like, it’s not even trying to hide it.
