Bill Hanstock

We’ve all heard how bad the drug-cartel situation is in Mexico, but Cartel Land director Matthew Heineman actually spent nine months down there with cameras, getting the kind of access that makes you amazed he’s still alive. The documentary, in theaters now, opens on a meth lab in a Mexican ... More »

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When you're haunted by a regrettable Pikachu tattoo, you don't need a Pokémon Master -- you need a talented tattoo artist.

Back cover pin-up from Marvel Treasury Special Featuring Captain America's Bicentennial Battles one-shot (September 1976), script and pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Frank Giacoia (?), letters by Gaspar Saladino
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Longtime Sesame Street cast member Sonia Manzano will retire from the show after 44 years, the actress announced while speaking to the American Library Association this week. Manzano has played Maria, a friendly neighborhood vest enthusiast, since 1971; she also wrote for the show from 1981 to 2002, winning 15 Daytime ... More »

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Sure, people go see Channing Tatum in movies because he is funny and a solid actor, but that's never the first reason. No, Priority No. 1 is that at some point, for some reason, he'll take his shirt off. Which is why, with Magic Mike XXL, a movie all about the ... More »

In the hopes of introducing Fight Club to a younger generation of readers and viewers, the crew at Mashable teamed up with the always-sinewy Chuck Palahniuk to make Fight Club Horsing Around Club 4 Kids. In the video here, the author gives a reading of the punchy children's book and ... More »

Denny's has partnered with 20th Century Fox for a "Fantastic Four" promotion that includes new dishes inspired by the Marvel characters.

Good news for people who love America, and gods: Starz today announced it had green-lit that adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods it's been developing since last summer. (It had languished in development purgatory for years at HBO.) As rumored, Hannibal's Bryan Fuller and Heroes' Michael Green will serve as ... More »

The convention-exclusive box set features five figures, including a 3.75-inch Hank Pym with a lab coat and removable helmet, and a 12-inch Giant Man.

Back in April, Avengers director Joss Whedon spoke out against a clip from Jurassic World, referring to it as "'70s era sexist." In a new interview with Bad Taste, the film's director, Colin Trevorrow, is responding to Whedon's complaints. "I wasn’t bothered by what he said about the movie and, ... More »

Jurassic World’s central conceit — a theme park full of dinos — sure seems like the kind of thing that, in real life, would sell a lot of tickets. But given the likelihood of those same dinosaurs running loose and eating park-goers — well, that’s a bit of an insurance ... More »

Wanna see that 10-minute pilot pitch for the new Muppet TV series?  Don’t worry, you won’t have to go far.  The show is coming to you.

If you live in one of a few select cities, the Muppet Mobile Theater (a giant trailer, seen above, with over 90 seats) will be around throughout the summer to screen the pilot and give away some swag like t-shirts, pins, and hats!

Here’s the schedule.  We hope your hometown is on the list!

CMA Fest – Nashville, TN
Thursday, June 11-Sunday, June 14 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
Corner of Broadway and 2^nd Street

NAVY Pier – Chicago, IL
Tuesday, June 16 – Wednesday, June 17 (11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
Polk Bros. Park
600 East Grand Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60611

Riverdays – Detroit, MI
Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21 (12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
600 Renaissance Center
Detroit, MI, 48243

Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI
Thursday, June 25 – Sunday, June 28 (1:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
20 North Harbor Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202

San Diego County Fair – Del Mar, CA
Thursday, July 2 – Sunday, July 5 (12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
2260 Jimmy Durante Boulevard
Del Mar, CA 92014

California State Fair – Sacramento, CA (12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
Friday, July 10-Saturday, July 11
1600 Exposition Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95815

Many thanks to Melissa Scopelitis for sharing the info with us!  Click here to do what we did in our first movie and drive to the ToughPigs forum!

by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com

One of the many reasons to love The Mindy Project is the endless parade of colorful fashions and daffy prints Dr. Mindy Lahiri wears onscreen. The Cut caught up with Mindy Kaling and the show’s wardrobe designer (and Kaling’s sometime personal stylist), Salvador Perez, at Friday's For Your Consideration Emmy ... More »

After terrorizing cookies for so long, Sesame Street imagines what would happen if the tables turned on Cookie Monster in this parody ahead of the upcoming Jurassic World. What should the Monster and his two precocious grandchildren do if a gigantic prehistoric T. rex cookie attacked them? Why, you just ... More »

From the minds that brought us the hilariously amazing Apocalypse Pompeii, and the just-released time-travel saga Flight World War II comes the successor to 2-Headed Shark Attack: 3-Headed Shark Attack. This is real, and yes, it already looks amazing. I mean, check out the poster released back in April:

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Here’s Asylum’s official synopsis:

The world’s greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers fight the deadly predator using anything they can find.

Making its debut on Syfy during Sharknado Week (July 18-25), Karrueche Tran and Danny Trejo take on the starring roles opposite a three-headed mutant shark who — much like the occupants of an IMDb comment section — needs garbage surroundings to survive. 3-Headed Shark Attack also stars pro wrestler Rob Van Dam as a scrappy beach bum named Stanley.

Man, if RVD doesn’t Van Daminate a three-headed shark, then what are we even doing here?

Katherine Chappell, a 29-year-old visual-effects editor who worked on Game of Thrones, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Divergent, died Monday after being bitten by a lion on safari in South Africa. The female lion attacked Chappell's vehicle through her open window, according to Lion Park employee Scott Simpson, who ... More »

When you confront your boyfriend about sleeping with your mother in a room full of people be sure to wear your very best Forever 21 kimono. Bonus: Abby’s face.

Bryan Fuller, the developer, writer, and executive producer of NBC’s Hannibal, spoke with Entertainment Weekly about why his show steers clear of sexual violence. For a series that deals in cannibalism and depicts murder as a fine art, Hannibal has noticeably avoided rape as a plot point. Fuller says this ... More »

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“I would walk Hollywood Boulevard with this Rolleiflex camera,” remembers Dennis Feldman. “I would say to someone, ‘Would you mind if I take your picture?’ They would usually ask me ... ‘How do you want me to be?’” His new book Hollywood Boulevard came out of that. It’s a time ... More »

What does Bill Backer, the guy behind that iconic Coca-Cola ad think of the series finale of Mad Men? "I don't care. I didn't see it," Backer told CNN Money. Backer says he stopped watching the show after the first two seasons, because it was getting to be more of ... More »

Mad Men promos! You love 'em, and so do we! Were they ever helpful? Nope! For eight years, Matt Weiner and his team made an art form out of the completely useless "next week on ..." post-episode preview. It's been an endless parade of characters saying "Who?" or "I can ... More »

In a long interview with Esquire, Mad Men's Bryan Batt finally answers the question fans have been asking since 2009: Why didn't we ever see Salvatore Romano again after his unfortunate firing in season three? (If you've forgotten, the closeted art director was let go after refusing to be pimped out ... More »

Explaining scientific concepts to people is tricky. On the one hand, people do clearly have a great deal of curiosity when it comes to astronomy and the human body and a million other subjects. On the other hand, these subjects are complicated — sometimes really complicated — and newcomers to them who want ... More »

If you want to know how Mad Men will end, watch the pilot again. The end of this story was written in its opening chapter.I’m not saying that as a prelude to trying to predict specific events in the finale. If the last seven seasons have proven anything, it’s that ... More »

Children of the atom! Students of Charles Xavier! Mutants! Feared and hated by the world they have sworn to protect! These are the strangest heroes of them all: The X-Men! Or, if you're Spanish, Patrulla-X! (That's the X-Men with paella on the side, and your choice of flan!)

Of course, the early overseas editions of Marvel comics occasionally suffered from...shall we say...some odd interpretations on their covers. As exhibit A, I give you: Los 4 Fantásticos!

But even when comic companies publish licensed Marvel Comics and use the original cover art, things sometimes get a little...colorful. May I present a Technicolor look at Marvel's Merry Mutants as seen in Spain: Los Weirdly-Colored Hijos del Átomo!

For instance, here the X-Men face off against the menace of...The Blue Magneto!





And the daisy-colored peril of Yellow Juggernaut!







Not to mention Red Polaris!





Can the X-Men survive The Christmas Sentinels? They'd better watch out!





And this is either The Red Beast or Wolverine with a Suntan! SPF, Logan! SPF!





But none of this can prepare you for the Sensational Character Find of 1980, Caucasian Blonde Storm! She's the mutant superhero even Nigel Farage can love!





Yes, Caucasian Blonde Storm! And her team-mate, Caucasian Blonde Nightcrawler!





And their team-mate, Emerald Colossus!





And they're all fighting against Blonde Jean Grey! Okay, okay, I'll admit this one's kinda pushing the joke. But she's Jean Blonde!





Yes, yes, yes, we laff and laff at Patrulla-X's weirdly colored X-Men. Still, it's not quite as bad a stretch as what Australia's Newton Comics did to the X-Men. Not only is Magneto color-coded by a six year old, but the original yellow-and-blue X-Men costumes have been recolored to try to look like their post-X-Men #39 new costumes! And not only what the Sam Scratch is up with the Beast's skin color, but is that monkey bar really hanging from the Avengers logo?!?





Here's an only slightly better attempt to match the original X-Men with their redesigned costumes. Makes you long for that free inside super color poster, doesn't it?





Yes, Newton Comics: home of Black Light Captain America!





And Yellow Daredevil!





Whoops. Well, here's Yellow Daredevil!





There's a lesson in all of this, and that lesson is: foreign comics sometimes get the coloring wrong, and we should laugh at them for that! Though, to be fair, Patrulla-X did eventually come out in a correctly colored version. Except they set the whole scene on a dirt road somewhere outside Hooterville.





Still, they even colored Samuel L. Jackson as a white man.

Panel from Aquaman (1962 series) #10 (July-August 1963), script by Jack Miller (?), pencils and inks by Nick Cardy