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Like Axel Foley, Top Gun’s Maverick is clearly talented, has great instincts, and is a loyal friend. But at least Axel Foley is motivated by some sense of justice, in the form of arresting the bad guys. Maverick’s motivations are murky as fuck. The stuff with his dad and Viper in Vietnam doesn’t really make…
Much has been made of the incredible practical stunts used in Mad Max: Fury Road, but the final product that hit movie screens is the result of combing those stunning special effects with some deft visual effects. Now, thanks to Fxguide, we can see just where the reality ends and the CGI begins. The site has obtained…
Mad Max: Fury Road has earned considerable acclaim since its release, and over on his blog, commentator and editor Vashi Nedomansky highlights how George Miller and his team composed the film to make the most visual sense. Miller shot over 480 hours of footage over the course of the production, which the film’s editor, Margaret…
On the heels of The Wicked + The Divine comic by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson landing three Eisner Award nominations, including best new series, the breakout books are headed to TV. Universal Television has optioned the rights to the property for Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Milkfed Criminal Masterminds; they will produce…
We’ve learned so much about the Duggars in the past couple weeks! Of course, we now know, in grisly detail, about how Josh Duggar molested five girls, four of whom were also his co-stars on TLC’s 19 Kids And Counting, i.e., his sisters. We’ve also been learning more and more about the creepy homeschooling cult the…
In the ongoing quest to figure out if Louis CK is a disgusting pervert who sexually abuses women, some interesting new information has come to light. To catch you up, two weeks ago there was a post on Gawker that talked about an alleged email exchange and phone conversation between Louis CK and and an…
As we all wait for July 26, 2015, which will finally see the premiere of the second season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty (and I’m assuming everyone else is waiting as excitedly as I am), I think we ought to look back at the eleven episodes that comprised the first season. I’ve now watched the season…
Start Article Post Content Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report.Indeed, Netflix boosted its share of downstream bandwidth usage…
SPOILER WARNING: The following article discusses events from “Convergence” #8, written by Jeff King and Scott Lobdell and featuring numerous artists, on sale now. While many fans expected the end result of DC Comics‘ just-concluded “Convergence” event to be a streamlined, non-multiversal DC Universe, the events of Issue #8, which arrived in stores today, have…
A-Force, Spider-Gwen, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Thor: There’s never been a better time for female superheroes and fans. Longer than a New York City block and bigger around than a California redwood, the shark bursts skyward from a turquoise whirlpool, jaws gnashing, purple energy beams flying from its mouth. “It’s a Megalodon!” shouts Captain Marvel,…