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The first trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video original series The Man in the High Castle recently premiered at San Diego Comic-Con, and it shows life in an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War II. The series is based on Philip K. Dick‘s 1962 novel of the same name, and was greenlit in February 2015 after the pilot […]

Vulture created a funky television remix that combines scenes from the second season of True Detective with footage and the theme song from the 1970s cop show Starsky and Hutch.

Supercut Videos has assembled a supercut of the cliché phrase “now that’s what I’m talking about” in movies. The full list of films can be found in the video description.

Comicave Studios has created an enormous animatronic Avengers: Age of Ultron-themed Iron Man Hulkbuster figure. The highly detailed exo-suit stands four-feet tall, has a set of working lights, and sports a head and chest that actually opens up to reveal Iron Man (Tony Stark) geared up in his Mark 43 (XLIII) armor. io9 captured some […]

“Deep Cheese Dreams” is a video by Neue Modern created by feeding video clips from pizza commercials through Google’s Deep Dream artificial neural network. As the computer tries to understand what it sees, it warps the images of pizza and its various accouterments into bizarre depictions of dogs and other animals. submitted via Laughing Squid […]

Satoru Iwata, the president and CEO of Nintendo, has passed away at age 55 from bile duct tumor. Iwata, the fourth president of Nintendo, helped launch the Nintendo DS and Wii. On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a […]

After a 25 year hiatus, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed announced today the return of Opus, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas and the rest of the misfit residents of the Bloom County comic strip through a photo on Facebook and a simple statement. A return after 25 years. Feels like going home. When a fan […]

LAPD are looking for a person who was driving a car in reverse down busy streets in Los Angeles. Local realtor Kevin Zanazanian was following the Audi and shot footage of the driver on his mobile phone. via CBS Los Angeles, CNN, The World’s Best Ever

Their super powers are useless as the Avengers Assemble!…Ikea furniture on Conan.

An uncanny video of a magpie that sounds a lot like a little girl who is laughing. via reddit

Richard Wiseman of Quirkology is back with episode 14 of “10 Amazing Bets You Will Always Win”.

Conan O’Brien hacked into the home security cameras at the home of George R.R. Martin and recorded him all week as he diligently worked on his new book The Winds Of Winter, the sixth novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series (the books Game of Thrones are based on).

During the Warner Bros. panel today in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2015 director Zack Snyder debuted the new trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The film hits theaters on March 25, 2016.

Conan sidekick Andy Richter reports on the weather forecast for San Diego Comic-Con 2015, including updates on Middle-Earth, Narnia, Dune and Westeros.

Vertical Entertainment has released the first official trailer for AIR, a new full-length feature film, which was created by Robert Kirkman and stars Norman Reedus, both of The Walking Dead and actor Djimon_Hounsou of Guardians of the Galaxy. The film takes place in a future where humans have completely run out of breathable air and […]

Scott Malott shows what happens when you light the but of a “Bad Dog” firework. via reddit

Familiar actors audition for such Game of Thrones roles as Brienne of Tarth, Davos Seaworth, Margaery Tyrell, Daario Naharis, Oberyn Martell, Tormund Giantsbane and of course Ygritte of “You know nothing, John Snow” fame in this amusing compilation from the official Game of Thrones YouTube channel.

A very clever seagull tap dances upon request whenever he wants a treat. The gull learned this routine from a man named MrTomostan, who taught the bird during his lunch hour in New Quay, Wales. via reddit

The bizarre Meat Sorcerer demonstrates his amazing ability to summon sausages from thin air to eat. via reddit

The official trailer for the AMC companion 6-episode series Fear the Walking Dead, which premiered at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, features the citizens of Los Angeles hunkering down as they learn

io9 created a great video featuring highlights from the Star Wars panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015. What did Han Solo told actor Oscar Isaac about how to pilot in space? How many people does it take to operate a fantastic Star Wars alien character? How does it feel to play a badass giant female […]

STARZ has released the official trailer for Ash vs Evil Dead, their new original series that is a horror sitcom sequel to the Evil Dead films. The series, which stars Bruce Campbell returning as Ashley J. “Ash” Williams, is scheduled to premiere on Halloween 2015.

Filmmaker Alex Vivian created this helpful 1960s style tutorial for men on how to ride bitch on a another man’s motorcycle. via The Curious Brain

This week at Comic-Con San Diego fans in Hall H were treated to a special behind-the-scenes look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fans at San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H were treated to a special look behind the scenes of Star Wars:The Force Awakens by director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and […]

Wired captured this disturbing footage of Dupree Jones cosplaying at Darth Vader going on a force choke rampage on the rebel scum at Comic-Con 2015 in San Diego.

Andy Casagrande attached a GoPro camera to a Hammerhead shark’s dorsal fin which successfully recorded some remarkable 4K footage as it swam along the ocean floor.

Conan O’Brien pledged $100 for every swear word that Jennifer Lawrence could say in 30 seconds to help raise money for charity. Ms. Lawrence’s profane efforts ended up raising $10,000 for the charity.

The How It Should Have Ended series takes a look at how Jurassic World should of ended.

DaveHax shows how to make an Oreo ice cream sandwich using chocolate chip cookies and a pint of ice cream.

Magician Steven Brundage successfully fools Penn & Teller with his Rubik’s Cube trick on episode one of the second season of Penn & Teller: Fool Us. via Penn & Teller

Bryan Cranston delivered a mike dropping response to a fan who asked what it was like working in Albuquerque, NM (where Breaking Bad was filmed). via Someecards

Arborist Brian Cox of Tree Locations has built a magnificent church that has been completely constructed with living trees in a beautiful green area of Ohaupo, New Zealand. The accompanying grounds also feature a great deal of Cox’s stunning handiwork. After travelling the world and being a keen observer of Churches, Barry Cox decided to […]

A chubby little pig named Otis exerts a great deal of effort in order to squeeze himself through the tiny doggie door and into the house after rooting through his human‘s garbage can. via reddit

Fuzzberta is an adorable guinea pig who has a great eye for fashion and a true love for dressing up. Among her favorite costumes are Harry Potter, Princess Leia and Pikachu, but the cosplaying rodent doesn’t mind simply playing a nurse or even a bandit should the occasion call for such a costume. images via […]

PBS Game/Show host Jamin Warren explores cultural representation and appropriation in video games in a recent episode. While Warren notes that a few games, like Never Alone, do a good job at representing a culture other than their creators’, he also points out that video games still have a long way to go. Cultural Appropriation […]

“Grand Zero” is a short horror comedy about a company that is not Amway. The film was written and directed by Kevin Oeser, and is set in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the city becomes overrun by Dream Star, a fictional company that is not Amway. Brian Huskey plays a husband and father trying to resist the corporation and […]

New Scientist decided to explore the popular myth that dogs can detect cancer by putting a couple of sweet dogs to the test, having them sniff out small amounts of urine from both healthy individuals and from those who have cancer. What they found is that the dogs were accurate in pinpointing the cancerous cells […]

Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE offer a look at the science of the body over 24 hours in a recent video. As it turns out, the time of day can have a drastic effect on your body based on a number of external and internal factors. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

The trailer for the sixth season of The Walking Dead recently premiered at San Diego Comic-Con. The trailer gives a look at the upcoming season, and focuses primarily on the character of Rick Grimes as he appears to be trying to settle into a new place, and dealing with the possible ramifications of him being there. The sixth […]

Per our post in 2012, artist and former film director Phillip Haas has created a traveling set of fiberglass sculptures that represent each season of the year. The pieces are heavily inspired by the “The Four Seasons“, the famous food portraits by the classical Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The sculptures first premiered in London and […]

Chicago-based self-taught makeup artist and body painter Alexys Fleming has released two impressive makeup tutorial videos on how to transform yourself into the DC Comics villains Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. More amazing tutorials are available to view on her YouTube channel. images via Madeulook Lex via Geeks Are Sexy

Blue Fields is a series of beautiful aerial photographs depicting Australian salt fields taken by photographer Simon Butterworth using a DJI Phantom 2 drone. From above, the photographs resemble paintings thanks to the swirling blue colors of the salt fields. photos via Simon Butterworth via Photojojo

Design group Kurzgesagt explains colony collapse disorder and the threat dying bees pose to humanity in a recent video. There are multiple causes as to why so many bees are dying, and they range from pesticides to human greed.

British designer Duncan Shotton has created a collection of cute and playful Sticky Page Markers that you can use to mark pages in a book and create miniature scenes and landscapes. The marked pages can come together to look like a group of aliens lurking on a desolate planet in space, Godzilla trampling throughout Tokyo, […]

“The Loyal Royals” is a short video in which Vanity Fair offers a quick history of how Welsh Corgis came to be the favored breed of Queen Elizabeth II with a simple reenactment of the Queen interacting with her beloved dogs. In living memory, no world leader has been as widely identified with a particular […]

In his new film Roger Waters The Wall, the Pink Floyd frontman shares how his war-torn childhood profoundly affected the music he we went on to make, particularly the immensely popular album The Wall. Roger Waters, co-founder and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in Roger Waters The Wall, a […]

In a recent video from their 100 Wonders series, Atlas Obscura provides an explanation for the mysterious deaths of hundreds of human skeletons found in Roopkund, a glacial lake in India nicknamed “Skeleton Lake” because of all the skeletons. The skeletons were first found in 1942, and for decades the cause of death was a mystery. […]

Low Budget Prop Shop is a new web series, created for Break Media‘s AWE me channel, by host and producer Dustin McLean of CineFix‘s Homemade Movies series. In episode one, McLean shows how to build a Terminator T-800 endoskeleton arm for $30 using wood, plastic, random household items, and silver spray paint.

“I’m your landlady, not a plot device” In the newest trailer for the forthcoming Sherlock special, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), bedecked in a traditional two-sided cap and cape, and a mustachioed Doctor Watson (Martin Freeman) return home to 221B Baker Street where an inconvenienced Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs) offers a lukewarm welcome upon their arrival. […]

The folks at Living Big In A Tiny House recently took a look at a truck that folds out into a castle complete with bathroom and shower turrets. The truck, created and occupied by a New Zealand family, is apparently road legal when compact. The castle-truck is completely off-the grid. It is solar powered, heats […]