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The 1989 Outrage Over Batman Casting
Ah, I remember it well. When Tim Burton announced that Michael Keaton would play a darker, more serious Batman in his upcoming movie, everyone was gobsmacked. Michael Keaton? Mr. Mom? He was a comedian! He played a crazed lunatic in Beetlejuice! Batman fans were suddenly afraid that their favorite comic book superhero would be changed into an object of ridicule. Strangely, many were more upset… → Read More
The Lightbulb Man of Star Wars
The Star Wars universe is well known for ridiculous alien design. The idea was that different sentient creatures in a galaxy far, far away would not all look like humans... but that idea clashed with what was possible with the special effects technology of the day. In the original 1977 Star Wars, we were astonished by the aliens at the cantina. Each movie afterward introduced more weird alien… → Read More
Going for the LEGO Millennium Falcon World Record
There are Guinness World Records for everything under the sun, including individual LEGO sets. Paul Ufema set a Guinness World Record in speed for putting together the LEGO Colosseum set in February. That's more than 9,000 pieces, and he did it in less than 14 hours! Well, once you've had the thrill of setting a world record, you want to feel that thrill again, so Ufema plunged ahead, this time… → Read More
The Best Horror Movies of All Time
How can one rank all the horror movies of the last 100 years of cinema? It's easier when you can crunch the numbers with a computer. And that's exactly what Rotten Tomatoes did. The site is all about collecting critics reviews and moviegoers opinions, which all come with a certain number of stars. Rotten Tomatoes took horror films that had received at least 20 reviews each and ranked the top 200… → Read More
Kurt Vonnegut's Strange Connection to the Cape Cod Cannibal
Author Kurt Vonnegut lived on Cape Cod in the 1960s, and so was following the news of the Cape Cod Cannibal with interest, and even writing about the crimes. Four young women had gone missing in 1968 and '69, and while searching for two of them, police found a third. Ultimately four mutilated bodies of young women were uncovered the same area. Polic... → Read More
Futurama Moments that Aged a Bit Too Well
The animated TV series Futurama only aired until 2013, but so many things that happened in it could be set in 2021. It only makes sense, because the show was set in the future and made jokes about how the world changed since the early 2000s. Yet many of those jokes were so precient that you might even believe it really was from the future. However, Futurama writers were just following bubbling… → Read More
The Long-Forgotten History of the British Moon Spacesuit
The UK government's space program began in 1952, and has always emphasized unmanned flight, mainly to launch satellites. But decades earlier, there was a private entity called the British Interplanetary Society that advocated for manned space travel. In the 1940s, they even produced a space suit for intrepid travelers to wear while collecting moon rocks! It looks bonkers, considering what came… → Read More
Star Wars Reimagined: Return of the Jedi
Auralnauts has completed their project to bring us the Star Wars original trilogy retrofitted with all the stuff we've learned in the 40 years since then. There are old deceptions revealed, new Force powers, and for some reason, dinosaurs. The third and final installment of the Reimagined series, where we take narrative developments from newer Star Wars media and forcefully jam it back into the… → Read More
The Dadalorian
Sure, he's adorable, but having a Force-sensitive child can throw a wrench into everyday parental activities. TJ Howard, who is a physics teacher and a woodworker, also manages to draw wonderful scenes featuring the characters in The Mandalorian. For example, if Mando and Grogu were a middle class family on earth, it would be a struggle to make the child do anything he doesn't want to, like… → Read More
Star Wars Characters as Classical Japanese Art
Digital artist scadarts (also known as mandal0re) uses Photoshop to put Star Wars characters into classic artworks. His latest series uses the classical Japanese style to portray Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, and Leia Organa. Click to the right in the image above to see each work on its own. But that's just his latest series. Continue reading to see more. One of his earlier projects placed… → Read More
Cary Grant pilots the Millennium Falcon in Darth by Darthwest 2
It's been more than four years since Fabrice Mathieu brought us the surreal short Darth by Darthwest, in which Cary Grant was chased down by a TIE fighter in a mashup of North by Northwest and Star Wars. Now we have episode 2! Roger Thornhill (Grant) is taken aboard the Millennium Falcon for a ride. He bonds with C-3PO and Chewbacca, gets chased by pilots of the Empire, and is finally safety… → Read More
How We Know What’s Deep Inside the Earth
In elementary school, we learned that the earth is made up of layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. If you asked the teacher how we know all that, she'd get frustrated and tell you we know because it's in the textbook. At least that was my experience. But what we learned back then is just a small fraction of what scientists know about the earth beneath us.There are four main layers to the… → Read More
Green Child O’ Mine
With the second season in full swing, everyone's going nuts for The Mandalorian! The Merkins are into the swing of things with a Mandalorian version of the Guns ’n’ Roses song “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” It just makes so much sense. -via Geeks Are Sexy... → Read More
Existential Troopers
It's long been a given among Star Wars fans that stormtroopers have terrible aim. This is, of course, necessary to keep the main protagonists alive, but over all these decades it's become altogether ridiculous. Obi-Wan said, "Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise," but he said a lot of things that weren't so. Even The Mandalorian got into the spirit with a scene that brings the trope into… → Read More
Day of the Dead Barbie
Mattel is releasing a new themed Barbie doll in honor of Mexico's Día de Muertos, or Day the Dead. Or sort-of new. They released a limited edition Day of the Dead Barbie last year, and it went over so well that it's now going to be an annual release, different each year, so collectors can begin saving them in the box.As Romper reports, the 2020 doll flaunts a pale pink lace hoop skirt underlaid… → Read More
A Planet That Revolves Around Three Stars
When we first saw the binary stars of Tatooine, it was hard to wrap our heads around how that worked. Since then, astronomers have found plenty of binary star systems, in which two stars revolve around a common center of gravity. The system called GW Orionis (in the Orion constellation) is a young system with three stars, two that form the normal binary and another revolving around the two a few… → Read More
The Batwoman
The Batwoman (La mujer murcielago) is a 1968 Mexican superhero wrestling film that harnesses a gender-swapped DC character we all know. Batwoman wears full tights while wrestling, but fights crime in a bikini. If this idea intrigues you, get this- she is fighting mad scientists who are kidnapping wrestlers in order to create a sea monster. It's all explained in another video on the next page.… → Read More
The Bat-Man
If Tim Burton's Batman were made in 1945, it would be The Bat-Man. YouTuber Journey's End edited together the movie from 1989 with vintage footage and gave it the necessary filters to look somewhat like the 1943 Batman serial, now starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Jack Palance. I'd go see it! -via reddit... → Read More
Here’s How Low-Budget Horror Film The Wretched Is Breaking Box Office Records
It's possible, or even probable, that you haven't heard of the movie The Wretched. You might be surprised to know that it is the number one film in the US, and has been for five weekends straight! The teen horror film was made on a minuscule budget by independent studio IFC, which is taking advantage of the fact that most theaters have been closed and blockbuster summer films from the big… → Read More
Jet Suit Hoverboarding
It's 2020, and we were supposed to have flying cars, or at least flying hover boards by now. Crazy inventor Colin Furze (previously) took matters into his own hands to make a Back to the Future 2 experience happen. He took one of the hover boards made to commemorate the film and made it really hover by using a jetpack and two small jetpacks on his arms! He shows us how he did it, but if you… → Read More