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Charlie Brooker Announces Authors for Black Mirror: Volume I

Thu Sep 21, 2017 12:32pm Post a comment 2 Favorites [+]

Black Mirror creator/mastermind Charlie Brooker, fresh off winning two Emmys for last season’s beloved episode “San Junipero,” has announced the first group of authors who get to play in his twisted world for Black Mirror: Volume I. Or, as he calls it, Black Mirror: Paper Edition.

According to the announcement on Penguin Random House UK’s website, the first of three volumes (edited by Brooker) will feature three novella-length stories (with plots soon to be announced) by Cory Doctorow, Claire North, and Sylvain Neuvel.

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The Punisher Trailer is Here To Exact Vengeance Upon Us All

Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:05am 14 comments 1 Favorite [+]

Marvel and Netflix have given us a new look at Jon Bernthal as The Punisher! And it is dark, violent, and is basically the most PUNISHER thing that ever PUNISHED. Be warned that there is a straight-up murder shown in the first few seconds of the trailer…but, well, it’s called The Punisher for a reason. Plus, as always, the Netflix/Marvel music cues are more perfect than perfect.

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Brandon Sanderson Remembers Robert Jordan with a Vital Writing Lesson

Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:27pm 8 comments 5 Favorites [+]

On September 16, Brandon Sanderson commemorated the tenth anniversary of Robert Jordan’s passing with a heartfelt blog post on his website. Sanderson expressed the difficulty of marking a day of loss, especially that of “a mentor I’d never met.”

Describing the Wheel of Time author as “an almost mythical figure,” Sanderson nonetheless was able to distill Jordan’s legacy into a simple but deep anecdote: “Robert Jordan taught me how to describe a cup of water.”

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Jon Hamm is Joining the Star Wars Universe… As the Voice of Boba Fett

Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:32am 6 comments Favorite This

While we wait to find out if there will ever be a standalone Boba Fett movie, the beloved bounty hunter will return to the Star Wars universe in audiobook form, played by Jon “Hamm Solo” Hamm. The Marjorie Prime star is one of ten narrators for Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, the new anthology containing 40 stories of background characters for the 40th anniversary of A New Hope.

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Synchronize Your Watches and Enjoy the New Trailer for The Shape of Water

Thu Sep 14, 2017 5:04pm 8 comments 5 Favorites [+]

Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s charming-looking sea monster love story The Shape of Water. Despite being the red-band trailer, it’s not so much NSFW as just friskier than the ethereal first trailer—with a few f-bombs (one unexpected) and amping up the tension as lovelorn Eliza (Sally Hawkins) hatches a plan to free The Asset (Doug Jones) and Michael Shannon’s Colonel Strickland resorts to any means necessary to stop them.

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The Disaster Artist Trailer is Full of Inside Jokes for Diehard The Room Fans

Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:26pm Post a comment Favorite This

You’ve seen James Franco as Tommy Wiseau intoning “oh hi, Mark” on a rooftop—now get a load of the entire cast of The Disaster Artist in the first full trailer! The film, based on Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of cult classic The Room, follows the improbable friendship between him and Wiseau, and the latter’s impossible dream to make the next great American drama… whose hero might be a vampire.

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Ranking the Robin Hood Adaptations — Which Tales Fly Truest?

Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:00pm 92 comments 11 Favorites [+]

Like King Arthur, Robin Hood is one of those legendary figures who has inspired countless songs and poems and classic animated films starring anthropomorphic animal versions of him and his equally iconic friends and enemies: Maid Marian, Prince John, Will Scarlett and the rest of the Merry Men. With the archetype of the green felt-hatted archer who robs from the rich and gives to the poor so entrenched in pop culture—and having gone through reimaginings ranging from high school to grimdark—we realized our mission: to rank ten of the great (and not-so-great) Robin Hood movies.

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In Which We Test the Basic Witches Modern Spellbook

Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:30pm 2 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman have collaborated on the perfect book for our times: Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven. It sounds silly, right? But it’s a great guide to useful everyday spellcraft like “How to Clothe Yourself in Literal Darkness,” “A Spell to Ditch Friend Envy,” and “A Spell for Embracing Failure.” And just when you think it’s a fluffy novelty book, you try one of the spells and discover that they’re actually helpful? And that you feel better after working them? It’s pretty cool.

This post brought to you by the newly established Tor.coven.

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9 Things That the Supreme Leader Snoke Action Figure Looks Like

Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:10pm 5 comments 3 Favorites [+]

Begun, the Star Wars: The Last Jedi marketing push has. The internet has been swarmed with images of new toys, from Han Solo in carbonite vs. Jabba the Hutt Hot Wheels cars (seriously) to BB-8’s new evil nemesis BB-9. Interestingly, a number of Supreme Leader Snoke figures have also been revealed, from a cartoony POP figurine to a much more realistic action figure. Except that the latter doesn’t look so much like the shadowy villain of The Force Awakens and more like a bunch of other things…

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LeVar Burton Reads Short Fiction to You in New Podcast

Wed Aug 30, 2017 2:20pm 2 comments 4 Favorites [+]
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Take a hear, it’s in your ear, it’s LeVar Burton Reads: the new podcast in which the former Reading Rainbow host reads a new hand-picked piece of fiction each week. But to say that he “reads” is simplifying things; Burton draws on the storytelling skills that established him as such a beloved childhood figure to perform these tales, complete with multiple voices and impressive sound design for a more immersive sensory experience.

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Michael Bolton Sings the Game of Thrones Theme as an Epic ’80s Power Ballad

Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:42pm 3 comments 5 Favorites [+]

Bless the Screen Junkies for giving us laughter: After being nominated for an Emmy the second year in a row, they’ve released a special “For Your Consideration” Honest Trailers tackling TV themes. And who best to help them cover famous theme songs than movie buff Michael Bolton? Because House Bolton does what it wants.

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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Gifts Us with a New Trailer and Premiere Date!

Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:53am 1 comment Favorite This

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency will return to BBCA on October 14th! And apparently it’s a ghost story now? It looks like Dirk, Todd, and Farah are on a new case, that Bart still loooooves killin’, and that wackiness will once again ensue.

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N. K. Jemisin’s New Contemporary Fantasy Trilogy Will “Mess with the Lovecraft Legacy”

Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:46pm 12 comments 5 Favorites [+]

In January, Orbit Books announced that it had acquired three new novels from N. K. Jemisin, including a contemporary fantasy “dealing with themes of race and power in New York City.” In a recent interview with Playboy, Jemisin—who just won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Obelisk Gate—shared more about how the novel will grapple with “basically Cthulhu” and the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft.

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