| TV, 20th Century Fox, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, NBC By Chelsea Steiner on Sat,11:39 Brooklyn Nine-Nine rides again with NBC swooping in to pick up the series for a 13-episode sixth season. The decision comes after the fan favorite series was canceled at Fox after five seasons on Thursday. Since then, Brooklyn's producing company Universal Television has tried to find a new home for the series, with Hulu, Netflix and TBS in contention. Read More > Big on the Internet, Donald Glover, Eurovision, things we saw today By Kaila Hale-Stern on Fri,6:48 According to my one American friend who is invested in Eurovision, the final is tomorrow and as usual, things have been kitsch and campy in the popular international song competition that confuses us stateside. Read More > Movies, Margot Robbie, review, reviews, Simon Pegg, Terminal By Teresa Jusino on Fri,6:06 It's exciting when a film has a strong and unique vision, both visually and with regard to story. Terminal, written and directed by first-time feature director, Vaughn Stein, and starring Margot Robbie, is one such film. However, when a film is so idiosyncratic, stylized, and unique, the filmmaker is taking a chance that the audience will be into exactly those things, which isn't always the case. Read More > Big on the Internet, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Kaitlin Olson, The Mick By Vivian Kane on Fri,5:57 So while we're all hoping someone *coughHulucough* will save Fox's cut comedies, don't sleep on The Mick. It deserved better than we gave it. Read More > TV, Kevin Bacon, Syfy, Tremors By Chelsea Steiner on Fri,5:18 Fans of the 90's horror comedy film Tremors were thrilled when Syfy and Blumhouse announced a planned television series reboot of the cult franchise, with original star Kevin Bacon set to reprise his role as hapless Graboid hunter Valentine McKee. Unfortunately, our hopes were devoured out from under us when Syfy decided not to move forward with the series. Now, Kevin Bacon has released a trailer for the canceled series, giving us a sneak peek at what could have been. Read More > News, Junot Diaz, misogyny, Pulitzer Prize, sexual misconduct By Teresa Jusino on Fri,5:00 After several women spoke out, alleging that Junot Díaz has engaged in sexual misconduct and vicious misogyny, the Pulitzer Prize Board and MIT, both institutions with which Díaz has a relationship, have decided to look into the matter. It's nice to know that more and more institutions are starting to take allegations like this seriously. Read More > News, women in politics By Vivian Kane on Fri,4:42 This isn't women asking for special treatment; it's the acknowledgment that the existing rules and standard practices were designed for a male body. Read More > Big on the Internet, Fictional Worlds, questions, Star Trek (franchise) By Kaila Hale-Stern on Fri,4:20 Our favorite TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books take us to some pretty fantastical places. Where would you be moving in if you could? Read More > News, biphobia, bisexuality, GLAAD, Halsey, music By Princess Weekes on Fri,4:12 "I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself — to my friends, to my family, to myself — trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase; it’s not part of some confusion that’s going to change or could be manipulated." Read More > Movies, Black Panther, costumes, women in film By Teresa Jusino on Fri,3:19 To celebrate the home video launch of one of our favorite offerings in the MCU, TMS spoke with Black Panther's acclaimed costume designer Ruth E. Carter to uncover her inspirations behind some of the film's most iconic outfits. Read More > Science, climate change, NASA, Trump By Chelsea Steiner on Fri,2:24 The Trump administration's assault on the environment continues by cutting funding for NASA’s research program that globally tracks greenhouse gases. The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10 million-a-year project, tracks the world's flow of carbon dioxide by using satellite and aircraft instruments to measure carbon dioxide and methane levels. Read More > Big on the Internet, The Mary Sue By The Mary Sue Staff on Fri,2:22 Here at The Mary Sue, one of our favorite subscriber benefits is the live chat, when our editorial staff gets together over video chat and talks about anything and everything that's on their minds, live, directly with subscribers, who can jump into the conversation in the stream's chat box to ask us questions or tell us what they'd like us to talk about. Read More > Movies, Cannes Film Festival, Carey Mulligan, women in film By Vivian Kane on Fri,1:19 The event sounds like it was just Carey Mulligan and a roomful of men asking weird questions about nothing. Read More > Books, Amatory Fiction, Eliza Haywood, The Fallen Damsel, women in literature By Princess Weekes on Fri,1:13 In the period between 1660-1730 female writers were killing it. It was the age of amatory fiction. Read More > Movies, Anna Biller, Final Girl, horror films By Princess Weekes on Fri,12:14 A few days ago director and writer Anna Biller published some tweets arguing that the "final girl" trope in horror movies isn’t an inherently feminist concept. Read More > Technology, boston dynamics, robot apocalypse, Skynet By Chelsea Steiner on Fri,12:03 Boston Dynamics released a video today showing off the latest version of their bipedal robot Atlas. Atlas jogs through a serene countryside and leaps over a log, and I don't want to be overly dramatic but we're all gonna fucking die. Read More > |
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