Representatives of Benicio del Toro confirmed today that he has been cast in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 2, playing what’s been described as the ultimate Star Trek villain: the Enterprise theme song. According to J.J. Abrams: “When looking through villains in the long history of Star Trek, the writers and I looked at the Cardassians, [...]

Boneshaker, the steampunk alternate history novel about a zombified Seattle during the Civil War, is kind of an amazing book. Cherie Priest builds this frightening world that’s at once expansive and claustrophobic, with characters battling zombies and swooping around on airships amid the US Civil War, which has lasted considerably longer than expected, due to [...]

For me, Jim Henson’s Muppets have always represented the power of the absurd, the importance of friendship, the glories of being different, and, more personally – the fundamental importance of following your art. I know, right?! At my heart, I’m secretly this very wistful, sweet person – you’re shocked. I was beyond psyched when I started [...]

Okay so picture this. It was 2008 and Breaking Dawn came out and I was clutching pearls because the children, people. Think of them. They’d read these books and think that the ideal man was all tall and made of marble and disrespectful of boundaries and a stalker. I’m pretty sure I wrote some incendiary [...]

Angelina Jolie is in hot and heavy talks with Ridley Scott to star as Gertrude Bell in a new biopic. Gertrude Bell is perhaps one of the most influential Europeans whom participated in the westernization of the Middle East and the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the last century. The unmarried [...]

It often blows my mind that next year’s Brave will be the first Pixar film to feature a heroine. Pixar has crafted some of the most interesting and nuanced characters in films over the last decade and a half. Some of those character (Dory, Mrs. Incredible) are even female, but females have never been the [...]

I know a lot of critics are dismissing Jack & Jill, the new Adam Sandler movie in which he plays the eponymous roles. And it’s easy to look at the horrible trailer, the cookie-cutter title, the parade of familiar Sandler supporting cast members, and assume it’s going to be another Grown-Ups. I don’t think that’s [...]

I’ve tried really really hard to hate the trailer for Tarsem Singh’s take on Snow White. It stars the douchey twins from Social Network, Phil Collin’s daughter and some sort of duck pretending to be Julia Roberts. The dwarves say things like “snow-way” and “say hello to my little friend.” There’s a gag about a [...]

Once upon a time Rachel Nichols was known for the awesome women she played on tv in shows like Alias and The Insider (do what you have to to track it down its brilliant). At some point she sacrificed her acting ability and embraced life as the go to woman for ridiculously fun B-flicks like [...]

I wish I could be really informed about this Akira remake, but I’ve seen the movie exactly once back in 2001. I remember being grossed out by an animated rape and grossed out by a guy swelling up like Will Smith in Hitch and then my roommate telling me to go to fucking bed because [...]