30 years ago, Doctor Who put a brief pause on its years of hiatus in style with the release of the TV movie, an attempt to revive the franchise for the then-modern age and American audiences. Although its legacy would endure in more ways off screen than on, the film itself has been a bit...

Even if you haven’t yet watched the most recent episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms“In the Name of the Mother,” it’s not a spoiler to say the Trial of Seven was excruciating. Dunk (Peter Claffey) and the other characters get put through hell fighting each other on the battlefield, and the viewer is...

Donating blood is a lifesaving gift, but it’s not always the easiest one to give. I should know—I’ve been doing it for over 15 years. The national blood supply is currently in dire straits. Last month, the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, America’s Blood Centers, and the American Red Cross jointly and...

Since day one, shot one, moment one, Star Wars has been about fascism. It’s not some hidden message. A group of Rebels fights an evil Empire that has taken over the galaxy, using masked Stormtroopers and by committing genocide. It’s right there in the text. Over the past few years, that story was given even...

SpaceX has pursued its founder’s dream of reaching Mars for decades, but now that Elon Musk has shifted the company’s focus to the Moon, another aerospace firm appears prepared to take the lead in the race to the Red Planet. Rocket Lab—a California-based aerospace firm—isn’t directly competing with SpaceX yet, but it has come a...

President Donald Trump held a press conference on Friday to discuss his administration’s surprise defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs. To sum it up, Trump is angry at the Supreme Court justices he installed during his first term, who nonetheless voted against him. And he’s going to impose his tariffs anyway, just using...

While Warner Bros. finds itself increasingly torn between two potential new owners in Netflix and Paramount, one of Hollywood’s most powerful proponents of preserving the big-screen experience has spoken up (again). Director James Cameron‘s long list of box-office hits includes the smash-hit Avatar series, and he’s already made it clear that he’s here to keep...

Post-presidency, Obama has remained relatively tapped out of current events and politics. Outside of a few rare, emergency exceptions where he felt it necessary to get back into the weeds—like the threat of NBA players striking or Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic primary—he’s mostly laid low and let our current elected officials cook. His plate’s...

Much like his arch-nemesis, Spider-Man, Venom is about to be taken to a whole other dimension on the big screen. Sony Pictures has decided that the next Venom movie will be animated and that Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the team behind last year’s surprise hit Final Destination: Bloodlineswill direct. The Hollywood Reporter broke...

There are no two ways about it: gatekeeping and those who uphold it are the fun police, standing in the way of people getting put onto something worth celebrating. But in manga circles, gatekeeping series like Claymore by never talking about them is less about keeping the freaks out from ruining the series and more...