This article contains spoilers for Sweet Tooth season 1. In the world of Sweet Tooth, a deadly virus swept through the population 10 years ago, killing the majority of people who become infected. The arrival of this virus—The Sick—coincided with the emergence of hybrids, children who are born part human and part animal. No one
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In a time of ancient gods, warlords, and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. But they got a Potsie. Hello sunshine, goodbye rain. Xena: The Warrior Princess, in its second season, was already at the forefront of progressive heroics, and its star Lucy Lawless embodied the power of the feminine mystique.
It may not be the first console you think of when you hear the term “Nintendo Hard,” but the N64 is the quiet home of some of the hardest games in the impressive history of Nintendo consoles. While hardly the “last great console” so far as hard games go, the N64 is one of the
For a curious young boy, The War of the Worlds is just the beginning. “Embers & Dust” by Patrick Biesemans Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About Embers & Dust: On the evening of October 30th, 1938 Orson Welles’ voice traveled far across the radio waves, bringing word of an invading
American Horror Story: Cult discuss “Drink the Kool-Aid.” AFTERBUZZ TV — American Horror Story: 6 edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of FX’s American Horror Story. In this episode, hosts Alana Jordan, Sanders Kennedy, and Ashley Allen discuss episode 9. RSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/american-horror-story-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT American Horror Story: Cult is the
Mario has had roughly as many jobs as Homer Simpson over the years, but in the hearts and minds of millions, he’ll always be a plumber. As the recently released “Extended Cut” of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie reminded us, Mario has even previously relied on his plumbing abilities to topple empires and save
Legendary horror filmmaker George A. Romero passed away in 2017, but it seems like he’s in the news now more than in the last few years before his untimely death. First it was announced earlier in 2021 that a “lost” Romero film called The Amusement Park had been rediscovered and restored, and would premiere this
As with the previous Conjuring movies, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is based around a case investigated by real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. While the extended Conjuring universe, which includes the Annabelle movies, The Nun and The Curse of La Llorona, is pure fiction, the main Conjuring films stick with
Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying heat and electricity. While gold is a good conductor under any conditions, some materials have the property of behaving like metal conductors only if temperatures are high enough; at low temperatures, they act like insulators and do not do a good
IMAGE: David Julian McClements is a Distinguished Professor of Food Science at UMass Amherst. view more Credit: UMass Amherst As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists are focusing on ways to create healthier, better-tasting and more sustainable plant-based protein products that mimic meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs. It’s no simple task, says
An experimental pessimistic short film about humanity. An extraterrestrial and poetic reflection on the sources of the collapse of humanity. “Strange Alloy” by Loïc Bramoullé Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm Full Credits: Directed by Loïc bramoullé (https://www.artstation.com/artist/liok) Original music by Thomas Barrandon (https://soundcloud.com/thomasbarrandon) Mix & sound design by Resonant Step (http://www.resonantstep.com)
Hosts discuss The Walking Dead for the episode “Honor.” AFTERBUZZ TV — The Walking Dead edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead. In this episode hosts Timothy Michael, Derrial Christon, Cherry Davis, and Ben Bateman discuss the Walking Dead Season 8 episode 9. RSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/the-walking-dead-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT THE WALKING DEAD:
Shazam! is one of the very best DCEU movies, a perfect distillation of the heart and wonder of the classic character blended with modern sensibilities, aided by director David F. Sandberg’s eye for “just scary enough” ’80s-style family horror. The fact that we’re getting a sequel in almost exactly two years is cause for celebration,
A close-knit crew of wildly different people ride around on a spaceship having adventures. If you’re a sci-fi fan, there are very good odds that this synopsis describes one of your hooks into the genre. That crew might be a dysfunctional band of space criminals and revolutionaries, or a clean cut team of scientists, diplomats and
Back in 2018, news broke that Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson was to stay aboard for Marvel Studios’ planned sequel to its 2016 blockbuster, with Benedict Cumberbatch also reprising his role as the Sorcerer Supreme. Entitled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the project was touted as the MCU’s first horror movie, which seemed
AFTERBUZZ TV — American Horror Story: 6 edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of FX’s American Horror Story. In this episode, hosts Alana Jordan, Kelly McInerney, Sanders Kennedy, and Ashley Allen discuss episode 5. RSS Feed: http://www.afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/american-horror-story-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT American Horror Story: Cult is the seventh season of the FX horror
Jack Quaid has been slowly invading fandoms. His latest feat? Voicing Superman in HBO Max’s upcoming animated series My Adventures With Superman. “Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending
This piece is sponsored by Author Jamie Mollart laughs while admitting this, but the idea for Kings of a Dead World, his new dystopian novel about a world put to sleep to conserve resources, came to him in a dream. And why shouldn’t it have? “Sleep on it” is the common advice for a human
Nelson Riddle is a patron saint of comic book entertainment. He wrote the theme to Batman, the original 1960s camp classic TV series which paved the way for all things geek. That theme caught the excitement children of all ages felt from the moment of the twirling introductory horns through the POWs and ZOKs of
Viruses can spread not only via droplets or aerosols like the new coronavirus, but in water, too. In fact, some potentially dangerous pathogens of gastrointestinal diseases are water-borne viruses. To date, such viruses have been removed from water using nanofiltration or reverse osmosis, but at high cost and severe impact on the environment. For example,
ITHACA, N.Y. – Water regulation in leaves is vital to a plant’s health, affecting its growth and yield, disease susceptibility and drought resistance. A breakthrough technology developed by Cornell University researchers uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed. The
A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Rice University in the US, has uncovered the key to the outstanding toughness of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). h-BN can withstand ten times the amount of force that graphene can, which is known as one of the toughest materials on Earth. A two-dimensional
All of time, all of space, at your fingertips. That’s the promise of the TARDIS. And despite a strong predilection for London, Earth, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the Doctor has certainly gotten about a bit. But the thing about the universe is, there’s a lot of it, and there are still
If the pandemic was good for something, it was giving folks time to catch up on or get reacquainted with the best television series from the modern era. Are you someone who promised you’d watch The Wire if you only had the time? Well, time found you. Were you dying to revisit Breaking Bad now
This article contains Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers. It’s been well over two years since the events of Avengers: Endgame, and you’d be forgiven for forgetting exactly what went down during the climax of the Infinity Saga and some of the entries that led to it. There were plenty of Easter eggs and nods to other
MIT researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt. Yoel Fink, who is a professor of material sciences and electrical engineering, a Research Laboratory of Electronics principal investigator, and the senior author on the study, says digital fibers expand the
Tor Books & Den of Geek Present: TorCon 2021 In partnership with Tor Books, we are thrilled to announce the return of TorCon, a virtual convention launched in 2020 to bring the entertainment and excitement of live book conventions into the virtual space. From Thursday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, Tor Books, Forge Books,
While the recent confirmation that God of War: Ragnarok won’t be released until at least 2022 shouldn’t surprise anybody, the news that the PlayStation Studios team may release the game for both PS4 and PS5 has come as quite a shock to those who expected the much-anticipated sequel to be one of Sony’s biggest next-gen
This Army of the Dead article contains spoilers. Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead packed a punch on Netflix the weekend of its release. By the following Monday, the Justice League director’s zombie heist epic was well on its way to becoming one of the streaming service’s top 10 most watched movies of all time.
IMAGE: Graduate student Patrick Lee (pictured) is working with Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar to develop new methods for working with light?responsive hydrogels, which have applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. view more Credit: Texas A&M Engineering Hydrogels are commonly used inside the body to help in tissue regeneration and drug delivery. However, once inside, they can