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It's a terrible time to buy a graphics card [PC Gamer] "Not too long ago we warned of a potential impending surge in graphics card prices. Unfortunately for those looking to upgrade graphics cards or buy a new GPU, that prediction has come true, and then some. Right now is the worst time in the history of graphics cards to buy or upgrade this all-important gaming component. I've run through the list of current generation GPUs, and I've even looked at previous generation GPUs. The price changes in the past two weeks are staggering."

• Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now Is a Bad Idea, Part 2: Insane Graphics Card Prices [Techspot]

"Just as we thought graphics card pricing was starting to settle down late last year, it has skyrocketed higher than ever as a result of increasing demand from cryptocurrency miners and Chinese gamers, in addition to equally inflated memory prices. Altogether, this scenario has provided the perfect storm of reasons for holding off on your next GPU upgrade. The surging profitability of cryptocurrencies is likely the biggest contributing factor to the sudden hike in GPU pricing. The price of Ethereum has skyrocketed from ~$450 to well over $1,000 in the last month. At the time of writing, the value had hit just over $1,200, or a 170% increase in about a month and a half, so it's no wonder miners are snapping up every last GPU they can get. Ethereum is just one example, but there are other "up and coming" cryptocurrencies that have miners excited. So, while we hoped for cryptocurrency mining to start cooling off in 2018, so far the opposite has occurred."

• Graphics card prices are ludicrous. [PC World]

"Graphics card prices are downright ludicrous, as the cryptocurrency craze skyrockets in lock-step with Bitcoin's rising price. That's nothing new. Miners have been inflating graphics card prices since the middle of the year. But the damage was limited to the middle of the market for most of 2017. Currently, virtually every gaming-class graphics card is affected. The theoretically $200 3GB GeForce GTX 1060 currently goes for $380 to $550—when you can find it in stock, that is. The Radeon RX 570, RX 580, and 6GB GTX 1060—graphics cards with suggested retail prices of $200 to $250—are selling for $500 to $800 on Newegg. And if you thought the GTX 1080 Ti's $700 price tag was steep, prepare to clutch your chest: Nvidia's gaming flagship can't be found for less than $1,300 on Newegg today. It's bleak. Real bleak. And the prices for used graphics cards are just as depressing."

• Here's why you can't buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy [Ars Technica]

"On Wednesday, I visited my local Best Buy to see the graphics card shortage for myself. A locked cabinet in the gaming section was supposed to hold a wide range of graphics card. But the more expensive ones—cards like the AMD Radeon RX 580 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 that were best suited for cryptocurrency mining—were sold out. All that was available were a handful of low-end graphics cards not suitable for Ethereum mining. I asked a sales representative to check to see if I could get an RX 580 at another Best Buy store. No luck. "It's not available in any store," she told me. "It's not online." I had an experience that's being played out all over the country and around the world. Sullivan McIntyre, a Redditor from San Francisco, sent us this photograph of the graphics card section at Central Computers. Not only are there hardly any graphics cards available for purchase, but the company has notified customers that it is suspending its return policy for graphics cards. The reason: graphics card prices have been fluctuating wildly."

• To Combat Shortage, Nvidia Asks Retailers to Limit Graphics Card Orders [PC Mag]

While there isn't much major manufacturers AMD and Nvidia can do about the overwhelming demand for GPUs, Nvidia is at least trying to let retailers know that they should be holding their stock for the company's core audience: gamers, not miners.

"For NVIDIA, gamers come first. All activities related to our GeForce product line are targeted at our main audience. To ensure that GeForce gamers continue to have good GeForce graphics card availability in the current situation, we recommend that our trading partners make the appropriate arrangements to meet gamers' needs as usual,"

Nvidia is suggesting that retailers limit graphics card orders to just two per person, but that's just an idea—one Nvidia can't actually enforce beyond restricting sales on its website, which it's currently doing. That said, it wouldn't be difficult to place multiple orders on behalf of you and your friends to skirt Nvidia's two-per-person limit. While Nvidia's move will at least force an amateur cryptocurrency miners to get creative instead of just buying 16 graphics cards at once, the larger supply and demand issues cryptocurrency miners and gamers face might only be settled by time.

Andi Matichak, who stars in the new Halloween, shared this fun behind-the-scenes photo from the now-filming sequel to John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 slasher. “Fast Times at Haddonfield High,” she jokes. Classic. Thanks to Mike M. for the heads up.

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Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode in this year’s Halloween, which will take place after the original classic and disregard *all* of the sequels. Judy Greer has been cast to play Karen Strode, Laurie’s daughter, while Andi Matichak recently landed the coveted role of the film’s young lead (daughter to Greer and granddaughter to Curtis).

The cast also includes Virginia “Ginny” Gardner (Project Almanac, Marvel’s “Runaways”), Miles Robbins (Mozart in the Jungle, My Friend Dahmer), Dylan Arnold (Mudbound, Laggies, When We Rise), and Drew Scheid (“Stranger Things”, The War with Grandpa). They will be playing the friends of Matichak’s Allyson.

Nick Castle will return to the role of Michael Myers, while stunt performer and actor James Jude Courtney has also been cast to play Myers!

Will Patton has been cast to play a cop. Rob Niter will play a member of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department. Rhian Rees is playing a character named Dana.

In Halloween, co-written by Danny McBride, “Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.”

Michael returns home on October 19, 2018.

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There is a guy who dresses like a vampire and hangs out at the Walgreen's on 436 and Maitland Ave. He is there every night, from just before midnight till around 4:30am.

After 70 hours testing five projectors, we’ve concluded that the BenQ TH670 is the best cheap projector. It offers the best contrast ratio and the best color quality of everything we tested, as well as 1080p resolution, low input lag for video games, integrated speakers, plenty of lumens for any size screen, a backlit remote, and up to 10,000 hours of life from a single bulb. It also provides the best selection of image adjustments, with settings that are easy to understand, so it gives you more control over the displayed image than its competitors do.

(Denver, CO) – Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is excited to announce its newest can release “Sour Rosé”, a 4.5% ABV wild ale fermented in oak barrels on second-use raspberries and blueberries. Sour Rosé will be available in the state of Colorado starting at the beginning of February.

Primary fermented with our mixed culture of wild yeast and bacteria, Sour Rosé undergoes fermentation in large oak foeders on second-use raspberries and blueberries. Showcasing bright effervescent characteristics, Sour Rosé is the perfect sour beer for all seasons and occasions. Unfiltered and naturally wild, each can is packaged with a small amount of yeast to maintain maximum freshness for wherever life’s adventures take you.

“Releasing a traditional sour beer in a can that primary ferments in oak upwards of 4 months before being packaged, marks a new chapter for the brewery as a leader in the creation of wild and sour beers. As the first brewery to release a 100% oak-aged sour beer in cans, we are continuing to grow upon our commitment of educating consumers about Brettanomyces by putting these beers into consumer-friendly packaging at a reasonable price point,” states Chad Yakobson, Crooked Stave Owner and Brewmaster.

Sour Rosé six-packs can be purchased in the Crooked Stave tasting room on Brighton Blvd starting Friday, February 2nd, 2018 and throughout the state of Colorado starting Monday, February 5th, 2018.

About Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project

Founded in Denver, CO in late 2010 as an artisan beer project, Crooked Stave is the culmination of brewmaster and “Brettanomyces Guru” Chad Yakobson’s open source Master’s research, The Brettanomyces Project. Crooked Stave’s progressive approach to brewing blends science and art through creativity and passion. The resulting creations, most of which use Brettanomyces yeasts and mature in oak, are beers of extraordinary complexity.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is shaking things up. But why improve a formula that's already helped it nab 25 million PC players and over three million Xbox One players? Well, the problem lies with its pre-match meet-ups, which spawn players in the same area causing strain on its servers. Bluehole's solution is to plop groups of players in different starting locations on both its maps, according to a Steam community post. Anything that solves the game's rocky performance issues should be welcomed by fans.

Source: Steam

Charlie Kaufman, the brilliant mind behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is headed into the horror arena with I’m Thinking of Ending Things, an adaptation of Ian Reid’s same-named novel that he’ll next be writing and directing for Netflix.

Via THR, “The novel takes place on a road trip, where Jake is taking his girlfriend to meet his parents on their secluded farm, all the while Jake’s girlfriend is thinking of ending things. When Jake makes an unexpected detour, leaving her stranded, a twisted mix of palpable tension, psychological frailty, and sheer terror ensues.”

Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu will produce alongside Kaufman.

Kaufman last sat in the director’s chair for 2015’s Anomalisa.

The Longhorns may have two receiver spots remaining in the 2018 class.

The final official visit weekend will feature at least one recruit in Austin, as the Texas Longhorns will host Texas A&M Aggies wide receiver commit Jalen Preston on February 2, according to Horns247.

The 6’2, 212-pounder committed to the Aggies last July after he was offered by the Longhorns back in 2015. The new coaching staff pursued Preston enough to make his top six prior to his decision, but never pressed hard after Brennan Eagles and Al’vonte Woodard emerged as the top targets.

Now, however, it appears the staff may have room for two more wide receivers in the 2018 class.

Texas A&M and new head coach Jimbo Fisher will likely try to keep Preston from visiting Texas when he travels to College Station for his official visit this weekend. So it’s possible that Preston ends up changing his plans if the Aggies get their way.

A consensus four-star prospect and 2018 Under Armour All-American, Preston is the No. 90 player nationally, the No. 18 wide receiver, and the No. 10 player in Texas, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

It’s fun following the Hollywood trends, which started with remakes, then reboots, and continued with faux sequels/prequels that remained in the same universe and timeline as the original films. Now, the new craze is alternate timelines. Neill Blomkamp was ahead of the curve with his now-defunct Alien 5, which was to take place following the events of James Cameron’s Aliens. In fact, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s now-filming Halloween ignores all of its predecessors and is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.

Now, original RoboCop writer Edward Neumeier is developing his own alternate timeline for his 1987 film that took place in a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit where a terminally wounded cop (played by Peter Weller) returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

“They have me working on a new one at MGM right now so maybe we’ll get another one out of it,”  revealed in an interview at the Barbados Independent Film Festival.

“Well, here’s what I’ll say,” he continued when pressed for more information. “We’re not supposed to say too much. There’s been a bunch of other RoboCop movies and there was recently a remake and I would say this would be kind of going back to the old RoboCop we all love and starting there and going forward. So it’s a continuation really of the first movie. In my mind. So it’s a little bit more of the old school thing.”

The problem with José Padilha’s 2014 RoboCop remake was that it was too stylized and futuristic. It was too clean. RoboCop is more Hardware or V/H/S than it’s Blade Runner, and the reason it resonates is that of the choppy, messy, and clunky mechanics of the future. It’ll be interesting to see if MGM allows Neumeier to get back to roots of what made the original films so special.

In a video posted on its YouTube page, iconic metal band Slayer has teased that it’s going on a “final world tour” before “the end of days”—implying, in less apocalyptic terms, that the band is calling it quits. The final tour dates haven’t been announced yet, but the video promises that they’ll come soon and …

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Hulu and YouTube both launched live TV streaming services last year, and now CNBC has a first look at subscriber numbers for both sites. Hulu is at 450,000 paid subscribers, which doesn't include people using the service under free promotions, and Yo...

You’ll never find horror-inspired clothing as unique as this.

While companies like Fright Rags and Cavity Colors continue kicking ass with in-your-face designs inspired by your favorite horror films, the clothing company JCRT is taking a much more obtuse approach to their horror-inspired wears. The company specializes in flannel shirts, and their “Movies” line offers some truly unique flannel prints.

Specifically, each shirt in the line is based on the color scheme of a movie poster!

On the horror front, JCRT is currently selling flannel shirts inspired by the iconic posters for The Lost Boys, Alien, Suspiria and The Thing, and they’ve recently given the same treatment to A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist.

The shirts typically sell for $125 each, but at the time of writing this post, the company’s winter sale has cut them down to $75. Browse the collection on JCRT’s website.

We tip our hats to Zach Shildwachter for the heads up on these!

Not only is Amazon currently discounting three month Xbox Live Gold cards to $15 from their usual $25, they’re also offering a BOGO promotion, meaning you’ll get six months for just $15, one of the best deals we’ve ever seen.

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It was announced last November that Amazon greenlighted superhero drama “The Boys” to series with an eight-episode order. The first official casting was just announced, making this official!

In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, “The Boys” revolves around a group of vigilantes known informally as “the boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

Based on the comic book by “Preacher’s” Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, it was created by “Supernatural” creator and “Timeless” co-creator Eric Kripke and will be directed by the “Preacher” duo of Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen!

Antony Starr (American Gothic), Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse), and Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) have joined Erin Moriarty (pictured below in Blood Father) as leads in Amazon’s straight-to-series drama, Deadline reported.

Like with “Preacher”, which had gone though numerous TV and feature incarnations over 16 years until it was finally made by AMC, “The Boys” also has had a long development history. Over the past nine years, it had been in the works as a movie at Columbia Pictures and Paramount. The TV series adaptation from Kripke, Goldberg, Rogen, Original Film and Sony TV originally was set up for development at Cinemax last year. The Boys comic, which like Preacher pushes the envelope on violent content, ran for 72 issues from 2008-12, published initially by Wildstorm (#1-6) and then by Dynamite Entertainment.

The project hails from Sony Pictures TV Studios, which will co-produce with Amazon, and Neal H. Moritz’s studio-based Original Films.

In 1989, just three short years after Tobe Hooper drove the serrated end of a Stihl through Bubba Sawyer’s belly during the climax of the darkly comedic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 – ostensibly ending both the franchise and Hooper’s career – New Line Cinema swooped in, bought the rights to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and set out to make the lumbering Leatherface their newest mascot. The ’80s had been good to New Line, thanks mainly in part to their resident maniac Freddy Krueger; he’d built their house – now Leatherface was going to build their toolshed.

To help hone their vision, New Line hired author David J. Schow – known for his “splatterpunk” work, a term he coined himself – to pen the script. Schow, no stranger to blood and guts, delivered on the viscera – but he also brought back the unhinged, dangerous vibe from the original film. His script was filled with the colorful characters, dire situations, and bone-shattering violence Tobe Hooper had established with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

After approaching a few potential suitors to direct the film (including Tom Savini and Peter Jackson, both of whom turned it down), New Line settled on 26-year-old Jeff Burr, a relatively new face who’d just directed the moderately-received Stepfather II. His respect for the franchise was obvious from the start as his initial suggestions to New Line made clear: he’d direct the film, but he wanted to shoot in Texas on 16 mm, just like the original, and he wanted Gunnar Hansen back as Leatherface. New Line’s response was to fire Burr, just a week into production. New Line didn’t want creative; they wanted familiar. With Leatherface, they wanted a guaranteed franchise star. Alas, with no one willing to take on the duties of what was shaping up to be a tumultuous shoot, New Line had no choice but to rehire Burr.

From the beginning, the production was fraught with setbacks – something that would haunt the shoot until the very end. Crew members dropped out, wildfires destroyed locations they had planned to use, and after the movie wrapped the MPAA slapped it with an X rating – a death knell for horror films at the time (TCM III was the last film to be given an X-rating). Even after trimming almost 5 minutes of footage, test audiences encouraged the studio to completely reshoot the ending – something Burr himself didn’t even discover until he watched the final version in a theater.

Because of the heavy editing and reshoots, the film – which was slated for a November release – was bumped to January, known as a “dump month”. One of the worst times of year for a film to open, it’s where films usually go to die. Upon release, critics tore the film to shreds. Many of the newspaper reviews were so disdainful, the critics didn’t even bother to get the plotline or character names correct in the write-up.

In the end, despite all the strikes against it, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III managed to scrounge up a $3M profit. Still, it wasn’t enough to convince the fickle New Line (namely CEO Bob Shaye) to continue making more Leatherface sequels. They wouldn’t be involved in another Massacre film until almost 15 years later, when they released the remake.

They didn’t want creative; they wanted familiar.

Regardless of its initial reception, it’s now almost 30 years later, and fans of the film are still remembering it fondly and clamoring for more. Warts and all, TCM III struck a chord with the burgeoning gorehounds at the time as well as the older fans of the original. Despite its micro budget, TCM III does an incredible job with its production and design. The production was lucky to snag the KNB EFX Group (Nicotero and Berger, back when they were partners with Kurtzman) on what was one of their first projects as a group. They provided every severed arm, filleted face, and chainsawed head, much to the chagrin of the MPAA – but to the delight of fans.

And then there’s the lighting: the night lighting used throughout the film is gorgeous and used to great effect, creating not only ambiance but also setting a dreadful mood. It’s some of the best night-lighting in a horror film this side of Halloween. While our hulking killer stalks his human prey through the moonlit Texas woods, their frightened expressions are cast in a ghostly navy blue hue, as if they’re already dead and don’t even know it. And when the malicious Tink shows up in his tow truck to do some post-accident clean-up, the scene is lit solely by car headlights and flickering red flares, making Tink look like the Devil himself. At times, the lighting choices almost feel Michael Mann-esque: earlier in the film, as our victims speed off from the dusty and desolate Last Chance Gas Station aimlessly into the night, the camera cranes above the blackened landscape, the only light visible being the sickly neon green glow from a dingy fluorescent light above one of the pumps and a dying purple sunset in the distance. Altogether, its color palette makes it feel like a hillbilly giallo film.

The most important part of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is that it made Leatherface scary again. When the world was introduced to Leatherface in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, he was a destructive toddler; a whirlwind of petulance, frustration, and unpredictability exacerbated by his abusive, domineering brothers. He resolved every problem by destroying it, which is innately scary. In the sequel, however, he became sort of a bumbling, horny tween, dopey and love-struck with the unobtainable and leggy Stretch. He’d become a puppy. But by TCM III, he’d entered his teenage phase, instilling again in him the short-temperedness he hadn’t experienced since the first film. He’d become self-aware, self-conscious, and aloof. He was no longer taking orders from his brothers; he was sticking their hands in the oven to retrieve his heavy metal cassette tape. He was a force once again. He was terrifying.

Burr’s TCM III is at once a love letter to the original film and an attempt to reclaim what made the original such an indelible part of horror history. And it’s evident in the final product – or, what’s left of it. It’s all water under the bridge now, but it’s hard not to try to imagine what Burr could’ve done with the franchise had New Line let him make his vision.

“So,” asks the disarming Tex, as he drives a spike through the hand of our heroine, pinning her to the chair in which she’s strapped, “how you like Texas?”

We like it just fine.

Florida Atlantic football coach Lane Kiffin has hired 24-year-old Charlie Weis Jr. as his offensive coordinator.

After testing 15 switches and dimmers, programming schedules, and setting up apps, we’re sure that the Lutron Caséta Wireless In-Wall Dimmer is the best wireless DIY in-wall dimmer switch. It’s compatible with any lighting load, it installs easily, and its app is easy to use. It also works with most smart-home systems, including Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, SmartThings, Nest, and IFTTT.

Now available free on Amazon Prime… newly restored in HD!

This past Saturday night, my girlfriend and I were several beers deep when we decided to watch a movie around 2am. We pulled up the Amazon app on Playstation 4, hopeful to find something fun to watch on Prime. What I never expected was that we’d end up watching a movie about, well, “an aborted fetus dumped in a sewer full of toxic sludge.”

That’s the plot description Amazon provides for The Suckling, a 1990 horror film that I had never even heard of prior to this past Saturday night. A little research informed me that the film’s alternate title is the even more attention-grabbing Sewage Baby, and it was the sole directorial effort of Francis Teri – whose desire to make his own Z-grade horror movie, I can only assume, came from playing a police officer in 1988’s Flesh-Eating Mothers. True story.

The Suckling, a pro-life horror film if there ever was one, begins with the proclamation that it’s based on true events that took place in the early ’70s, but I suspect Teri wasn’t being completely honest about that. In any event, the opening crawl – no doubt inspired by the John Larroquette-narrated opening of Texas Chain Saw Massacre – tells of “the most bizarre and macabre event in all of Brooklyn’s modern history,” wherein twelve people were killed inside of a crude prostitution house that doubled as a back-alley abortion clinic.

The film centers on a young man and woman who are looking for the latter service. After their baby is aborted and flushed down the toilet, toxic waste barrels in the backyard begin to seep into the sewer. Naturally, this supernaturally re-animates the fetus, which soon grows into a towering, vengeful monster.

The cast of ill-fated characters, including the aforementioned young couple, house pimp/abortionist Big Mama and a rich businessman whose day of pleasure turns into a night of pain, find themselves trapped inside the house, which the monster has – through means that are never explained and barely matter – fully encased inside of, like, I think it’s supposed to be a womb?

Now you may be thinking this is all pretty smart social commentary – an abortion literally creating a monster that literally traps its victims inside of a womb-like environment and aborts *them* one-by-one- but I promise we’re still talking about a really bad monster movie here. I also promise that thinking too hard about The Suckling may actually be hazardous to your health.

If you’re looking for a really bad, under-seen monster movie that delivers all the schlock you could possibly ask for from a “best worst movie,” you need look no further than The Suckling, home to all the terrible acting and weird storytelling choices that make bad movies so much fun to watch. This movie has it all, and it’s highlighted by surprisingly good creature effects that outshine absolutely everything else on display in it.

Dean Mercil, who subsequently worked on Critters 3, Critters 4 and Face/Off, is credited as the special effects technician on The Suckling, and the titular “sewage baby” is actually pretty impressive at times. It’s clearly, for the most part, a man in a monster suit, and the creature can best be described as “bootleg Pumpkinhead.” In a better movie, one could argue that “The Suckling” could’ve gone on to become a franchise icon of sorts. In The Suckling, well, he’s a cool monster swimming in a sea of glorious garbage.

At a time when the home video market was booming, one can assume that Francis Teri knew that all he really needed was a good title, a good tagline and an attention-grabbing cover, and The Suckling no doubt checks off all three of those boxes. And though the video stores of my own youth are far gone, now twenty eight years later, my decision to watch The Suckling this past weekend reminds that there’s still one universal truth about the horror genre: sometimes, a title, a tagline and a poster are more than enough.

The Suckling is bad movie gold. And it’s just waiting for you to fall in love with it.

Microsoft's Xbox Elite controller is pricey, but arguably the go-to choice for Xbox One owners who want a gamepad that fits their exact needs. And apparently, there's enough demand to merit a sequel. Multiple leaks appear to have uncovered a new Elite controller that builds on lessons learned from the first model. If the tips are accurate, it would include Bluetooth (to painlessly connect to your PC), a USB-C wired connection, an Apple MagSafe-style charging connector on the back and a built-in battery instead of disposables. And naturally, there are more tweaks for players who want their controls just so.

Via: Reddit (1), (2), The Verge

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Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer for Irish rock band The Cranberries, has died. The news has been confirmed by the BBC and by Irish news service RTE, which reports that O’Riordan died suddenly in London of as-yet-unknown causes. In a statement, her publicist says, “The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was…

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There are plenty of ways virtual reality headsets could get better. They could offer higher-resolution screens (like the new Vive Pro), a wider field of view and improved built-in tracking sensors. But another feature might be even more essential: ey...

This place wants them dead.

AMC just released the full trailer for Ridley Scott’s “The Terror”, which will premiere on March 26, 2018.

Starring Jared Harris (“The Crown”) and Tobias Menzies (“Outlander”), “The Terror” is set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival. It’s based on a true story, which means that, yes, a crew once went on a search for the Northwest Passage.

The rest of the cast includes Ciarán Hinds (Justice League) as Sir John Franklin; Paul Ready (Cuffs) as Dr. Henry Goodsir; Adam Nagaitis (Suffragette) as Cornelius Hickey Nive Nielsen (The New World) as Lady Silence; Ian Hart (Neverland) as Thomas Blanky; and Trystan Gravelle (Mr. Selfridge) as Henry Collins.

The 10-episodes series, which is based on Dan Simmons’ novel, is also executive produced by David W. Zuker (The Good Wife), Alexandra Milchan (The Wolf of Wall Street), Scott Lambert (Jane Got a Gun), and Guymon Casady (Game of Thrones). It’s produced by Scott Free, Emjag Productions and Entertainment 360 in association with AMC Studios.

I knew that they initially tried to make Patrick Stewart wear a wig for Captain Picard but I’d never seen the test photo and now my day is complete. pic.twitter.com/VadkGygtrI

— Paul Haine (@paul_haine) January 12, 2018

The most unsettling part of eating lobster has always been the thorny subject of how to humanely kill the creature. The matter—whether it’s okay to boil a lobster alive—was tackled headfirst by the late David Foster Wallace in his 2004 classic of food journalism, “Consider the Lobster,” published in Gourmet. If that…

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Over 30 years after the original Critters arrived in theaters, the four-film franchise, which has been lying dormant since 1992, is now getting… its own TV series?!

In an exciting bit of news that comes totally out of left field, Variety reports today that Verizon’s go90 has ordered “Critters: A New Binge” from Blue Ribbon Content, the Warner Bros. Television Group’s digital studio. The series is produced by Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content for Verizon.

The plot for the series is as follows…

“The critters return to Earth in search of one of their kin, who was left behind years ago during an earlier mission. They land in Burbank, Calif., where they wreak havoc on a group of high schoolers and their families.”

The creative team behind Zombeavers, Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, will write and executive produce, with Rubin also directing.

Rupert Harvey and Barry Opper, from the original film franchise, produce.

Millie Bobby Brown’s storyline in season two of Stranger Things wasn’t the best, but pretty much any enjoyment that was to be found in her extended digressions from the main plot was all because of how rad Brown herself is. Now, Deadline is reporting that she’s parlaying that radness into a sweet gig starring in and…

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Last June, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a virtual training program for first responders aimed at preparing them for an active shooter incident. Now, there's a program specifically for teachers. "With teachers, they did not self-...

Forgive the rare cross post, but the Longhorn discourse has perturbed me and I need to provide some important reinforcement of the Iron Laws of Longhornfandom.

Read it. Know it. Accept it.