Category: NEWS
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Everything Streaming on Peacock in August 2024
[ad_1] The games have begun! From now until the closing ceremonies on August 11, Peacock is the premiere place to catch every moment of competitive action streaming from the 2024 Paris Olympics. And though the month is front loaded with ‘round-the-clock Olympics coverage — all conveniently accessible from the bird app’s one-stop landing spot — the…
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M3GAN 2.0: Everything We Know About the Sequel to M3GAN
[ad_1] Next summer — June 27, 2025 to be exact — Universal Pictures and Blumhouse will return audiences to the technological nightmare that is the M3GAN mythos in a sequel aptly-titled M3GAN 2.0. A follow-up to the Chucky meets Terminator horror flick was a no-brainer once the original racked up plenty of critical acclaim and $180 million…
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Olympian Noah Lyles Is the Fastest Geek in the World
[ad_1] The “nerd versus jock” binary is a classic trope, but it’s not true anymore (if it ever was true in the first place). Lots of people who like video games and comic books also watch or play sports. Likewise, there are sports fans who also are into some real geeky stuff. This includes some…
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New Evidence in the Hunt for Alien Life on Mars and Venus
[ad_1] In Season 1 of SYFY‘s The Ark (streaming now on Peacock), a crew of interstellar explorers find themselves stranded between stars in a hobbled spacecraft. They come together to survive the immediate aftermath and, hopefully, make it to their destination at Proxima centauri b. In Season 2 (new episodes drop every Wednesday), things take a temporary turn…
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Knowing: Why Nicolas Cage Movie Didn’t Glamorize Disaster
[ad_1] In 2009’s Knowing (now streaming on Peacock), commercial airliners drop out of the sky, New York subways leap off the tracks, and, for the grand finale, a huge solar flare turns the Earth into a charred husk of its former self. But these CGI-heavy disaster sequences are not the shock-and-awe of the doomsday genre one…
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Men in Black’s Original Ending Featured Philosophical Debate
[ad_1] Beyond the priceless chemistry between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the original Men in Black trilogy (now streaming on Peacock) remains iconic because of its shockingly thoughtful approach to the realm of science fiction — both in terms of world-building and its larger ruminations on humanity’s place within the wider universe. For instance,…
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Explaining the Jaws Sequels | SYFY WIRE
[ad_1] Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (now streaming on Peacock) was, and is, a cinematic landmark, a moment that ushered in blockbuster filmmaking like no production before it. Looking back, it’s easy to see why. Even apart from the premise, the poster, and the sheer mass appeal of it, it’s a movie that’s just… well, almost perfect. It’s lightning…
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Inside Epic Universe’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic
[ad_1] Pick up your wands, Harry Potter fans because the fifth and final world of Universal Orlando Resort’s upcoming Epic Universe theme park — The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic — is finally revealing what’s within. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic is the third Harry Potter-themed land to be…
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Why Are the Animals All So Weird in Madagascar?
[ad_1] DreamWorks Animation’s 2005 family film Madagascar (streaming now on Peacock) begins in the big city, at the Central Park Zoo. There, a lion named Alex rules his artificial enclosure as the “King of New York,” alongside a small menagerie of friends and acquaintances. While being relocated from the zoo to a nature preserve, Alex, Melman (a…
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Trying to Make Sense of Men in Black 3’s Time Travel Rules
[ad_1] There’s one essential rule of time travel: It must be internally consistent. As far as we know, time travel isn’t real, meaning any movie, TV show, book, comic, or other world-building endeavor that features time travel is a piece of fiction, and making time travel work within that fiction is the goal. Maybe it’s multiversal…