This spacecraft will get closer to the Sun than any before it—without melting
A Detective Is Torn Between Two Worlds in the New Trailer for the BBC's The City and The City Adaptation James Whitbrook, gizmodo.com
The BBC is taking a crack at adapting one of China Miéville’s most beloved and mindbending novels, The City and The City—and our first look gives us a bit of insight into how we’ll see two wildly different societies mix... even when they’re…
How Aardman's Stop-Motion Animators Used VFX Shortcuts to Create Thousands of Sports Fans Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com
Aardman Animations is one of only a few studios keeping the art of stop-motion animation alive. But for its latest feature, Early Man, even Aardman’s talented animators took advantage of modern filmmaking tricks to help bring an entire stad…
One Strange Rock is a Cosmos for the Earth-bound that’s worth watching | Ars Technica Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com
The ten-episode show details the fragile beauty and blunt power of Earth systems.
If you work or live in a city, it’s easy to forget how powerful and delicate nature is. Even if you do get quality …
This Is the Most Terrifying Halloween Decoration You Have Ever Seen in Your Goddamn Life Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com
The TransWorld Halloween & Attractions trade show is going on in St. Louis right now, and if for some reason you thought last year’s It remake wasn’t terrifying enough, come Halloween you can put this demonic, animatronic Pennywise clown on…
Ready Player One review Ross Miller, polygon.com
Spielberg’s film is a spectacle that’s more than just nostalgia
The biggest question I had going into Ready Player One was, absent any and all pop culture references, could the film stand on its own? After all, the book would spend pages…
Unreal Engine + $150,000 GPU = Amazing, real-time raytraced Star Wars | Ars Technica Kyle Orland, arstechnica.com
See how an entire scene bounces off Captain Phasma's armor at 24 frames per second.
SAN FRANCISCO—In the computer graphics community this week, companies from Nvidia to Microsoft have been stressing …
How a Canadian Short Film Inspired George Lucas to Make ‘Star Wars’ Bryan Young, slashfilm.com
(Welcome to The Movies That Made Star Wars, a series where we explore the films that inspired George Lucas’ iconic universe. In this edition: the experimental short film 21-87.)When George Lucas was off at…
Watch the new trailer for Mr. Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? Mary Kate Carr, ew.com
It’s a beautiful day to return to Mr. Rogers’s neighborhood.
On what would have been Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday, Focus Features has released the first official trailer for Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a documentary about Rogers, an ordained…
Syfy's Adaptation of GRRM's Nightflyers Looks Like Psycho in Space James Whitbrook, gizmodo.com
We’ve been hearing about Syfy’s ambitious take on George R.R. Martin’s classic spooky tale for a while now—but we finally have an early glimpse, and it’s looking pretty damn horrifying. In a good way, we mean.
Released through USA Today, the new …