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The definitive guide to 'Serial' conspiracy theories
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Serial episodes 1 through 6. Admit it: The podcast Serial has taken over every aspect of your waking life. You hum the interstitial music when you’re on the...
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Here's the trailer for 'Chappie,' a sci-fi thriller from 'District 9's' director
South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp has a proven track record of turning social ills into heart-pumping sci-fi, first in District 9 and again with Elysium. Next March, it’ll be Chappie, a...
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'MST3K' is taking over Turkey Day
Get out the TV trays and prepare to have your bird and fixings in front of your big screen. Joel Hodgson and the crew from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 will be airing their second annual Turkey Day...
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Marvel teases 'Agent Carter' with a new scene featuring Howard Stark
With Agent Carter, Marvel Studios has successfully made a bunch of superhero fans fiendishly excited about a post-war spy drama. With the new Marvel series’ January debut less than two months away,...
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Brain Scoop's Emily Graslie battles STEM sexism on YouTube
On any given day, Emily Graslie walks into her botany lab turned office, and within minutes of turning on her coffee machine, she's swept away into the depths of the Field Museum in Chicago to skin a...
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'The Pancake Breakfast Critic' is pretty much our dream job
Character comedy is always going to split tastes. But if you can’t find anything to smile about in Joe Pera’s gently engaging webseries The Pancake Breakfast Critic, you’ve got a heart of ice. Pera’s...
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Jon Hamm loves cats even more than you love Jon Hamm
Hang on to your nine lives, because you’re going to need them: Jon Hamm recently appeared on Comedy Central staple — and comedy nerd favorite – @midnight. He did not disappoint. How could he? Jon Hamm...
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Discovery Channel will show man being 'eaten alive' by an anaconda
The Internet is justifiably bewildered over Discovery Channel’s promotion of a special called “Eaten Alive,” in which an avowed lover of snakes will allow himself to be swallowed by an anaconda....
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'Orange Is the New Black' star confronts homophobic man ranting on subway
When a preacher started spouting out hate speech on a New York City subway train, Orange Is the New Black star Lea DeLaria didn't sit idly by and watch. She preached back.DeLaria, an actress and...
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Sir Ian McKellen gives Oxford students 'LOTR'-style lesson in work ethics
When he’s not gallivanting around town, posing for selfies, and being generally adorable with bff Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen is busy making inroads in the field of education, but not in the way...
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YouTube a cappella masters skewer their boy band competition
Jon Cozart is taking a break from Disney and going straight for the teenage jugular with a new parody music video skewering boy bands.The master of exploring the dark side of what happens after...
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'Interstellar' hosts a star-studded Google Hangout
Interstellar, the new Matthew McConaughey film from Christopher Nolan, has not shied away from engaging the Internet and technology for its release. There's already an app that explores the real...
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This tropical cover of 'Shake It Off' is the best one yet
No matter how hard the Internet has tried to “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift’s latest pop anthem and the horrid puns it has elicited won’t seem to go away (see: above). The song has spawned everything...
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Pickup artist yells 'Pikachu' as he assaults women in Tokyo
Professional creep Julien Blanc is getting the cold shoulder for his dating seminars in Australia. His ice-out is thanks to an Internet movement to stop him from preaching his pickup artist techniques...
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Michelle Obama, 'Madagascar' penguins partner for veterans PSA
A day after her husband endured a politically grating night of net losses, First Lady Michelle Obama and nonprofit Got Your 6 released a light-hearted propaganda video. It features the penguins from...
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Rap group Migos releases luxurious, free, 18-song mixtape
The new Migos mixtape dropped Wednesday evening—download it for instant pleasure. LMAOOOOOO “@desusnice: I'm getting chills looking at how far we have come RT @OGJOHNNY5:...
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Netflix will adapt 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' with Lemony Snicket's help
Following its success with Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards, Netflix is branching out into the young adult market with A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket’s gothic children’s...
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Everything we know about season 5 of 'Game of Thrones'
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for season 5 of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. The hiatus is long and full of terrors. It’s been a rough four months since Game of Thrones...
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Comedian's racist, sexist Twitter rant gets him booted from '@Midnight'
Warning: This article contains language that is sexually explicit and may be NSFW. Comedian Artie Lange’s scheduled appearance on the late-night Internet game show @Midnight was cancelled after he went...
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'Into the Woods' finally releases a trailer with singing
Our fears, which were many, are at last fading over the upcoming film adaptation of the great Sondheim musical Into the Woods. The latest trailer, which finally gives us some actual singing, shows a...
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