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The Walking Dead’s Josh McDermitt Joins Arrow’s Stephen Amell In Suits Spinoff
[ad_1] The highly anticipated spinoff, Suits: L.A. cast another actor to help give the world of the USA Network original legal drama another run on television, this time on NBC. Actor Josh McDermitt has been cast as Stuart Lane in Suits: L.A. McDermitt, perhaps best known for his longtime role as Dr. Eugene Porter on The…
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Retired NASA Telescope Detects Water on Asteroid’s Surface
[ad_1] If Earth is typical of the rest of the universe, then life isn’t all that picky about its living conditions once it gets a foothold. We find life covering every inch of our planet. It’s in the obvious places like lush forests and tropical seas, but it’s in less obvious places too. We find…
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Why It’s Actually Harder to Dodge a Ball Than a Wrench
[ad_1] The 2004 sports comedy Dodgeball (streaming now on Peacock) starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Justin Long, and Resident Alien‘s Alan Tudyk, introduced the world not only to the sport of competitive dodgeball but also to the misguided wisdom of Patches O’Houlihan (Rip Torn). Patches taught us indispensable wisdom like the five Ds of…
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The Wild Sequel to Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare That We Almost Got
[ad_1] Horror sequels come in all kinds of ways, from the return of a vicious killer to the story of a whole new set of characters dealing with the same old evil to, of course, the continuing adventures of a core group of horror heroes. The trick, of course, is to keep the story going…
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Why Oppenheimer Doesn’t Include the Deadly “Demon Core” Accidents
[ad_1] Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer (now streaming exclusively on Peacock), about the man behind the creation of the atomic bomb, is a gripping, tense, and historically accurate blockbuster. Granted, not every aspect of the Manhattan Project was included. Based primarily on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (the Pulitzer-winning biography written by Kai…
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D&D Prepared Joe Manganiello to Host Deal or No Deal Island
[ad_1] Joe Manganiello is known for starring roles in True Blood and the Magic Mike movies. But, among a certain geeky contingency, he’s also renowned for being a huge, outspoken fan of Dungeons & Dragons. And it turns out his experience as a Dungeon Master was very, very helpful when it came to hosting the…
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Odysseus Successfully Lands Near the Moon’s South Pole
[ad_1] In December of 1972, Eugene “Gene” Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the last two human beings to walk on the Moon. Apollo 17 was the longest lunar mission, clocking in at just over 12 and a half days, and it served as an end cap on humanity’s crewed operations on the Moon. You can…
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Why Inception’s Special Effects Still Hold Up
[ad_1] Writer/director/producer Christopher Nolan raised many eyebrows in 2022 when he teased a cinematic recreation of the Manhattan Project’s Trinity detonation without a single frame of CG-generated imagery in Oppenheimer, his then-upcoming biopic of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (the film is now streaming exclusively on Peacock). And before you ask, the answer is a big…
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Why The Dark Knight Merch Team Battled Over Joker’s Purple
[ad_1] For well over 80 years, Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime has been inextricably linked with the color purple. When you think of the iconic Batman villain, you immediately picture his flamboyant sense of fashion meant to reflect an inner sense of sociopathic showmanship. He’s an ostentatious circus clown with no moral compass, a cackling proxy…
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How Scientists Are Mapping and Cleaning Up Space Debris
[ad_1] The Ark portrays humanity 100 years in the future, as we embark on an interstellar journey to save our species. The crew were meant to spend the entire trip in stasis but were awoken mid-journey when their ship was damaged, and a significant portion of the crew (including most of the mission’s leadership) were…