Thanks to Beat Down Boogie we have a cosplay music video for you to watch from DragonCon. It shows off a lot of impressively cool costumes that cosplayers were wearing at the event. One of the best pieces of cosplay was pointed out by Fashionably Geek, and it is a female Sith cosplay created by Miss Sinister. Hex Mortis even wrote a bio for the character for the DragonCon costume contest:

“Trained on Byss, this visceral assassin’s beauty is a prison for the power contained within her dark soul. Her existence is only whispered about in the darkest corners of cantinas across the galaxy, and to even see her dark visage is a harbinger of the carnage that is about to ensue.” 

Check out the cosplayers in action below, along with some additional photos of Sinister Sith. 

I'm really hoping that Deadpool turns the superhero film genre on its head with its wildness and craziness. I hope it opens the door to more R-rated superhero movies. I was incredibly surprised to learn that Fox was going to allow this movie to move forward with an R-rating, and if it's successful, there's a good chance that we'll see more of them get made. 

During an interview with GQ, Ryan Reynolds talks about the Deadpool solo film he's been trying to get off the ground for six years. He discusses the motivational speech he gave before they started shooting, how the film is different from Green Lantern, and why it the right time for Deadpool to get his own film.

Reynolds started off by talking about when they were on set for the first day of shooting:

“Yeah! Oh, I made sure we marked it, too. Like, we just started rolling, and I was like, ‘No, no, hold on.’ We went in the other room and we huddled up: ‘We’re making this movie! We’ve been trying to get this movie made for six f***ing years, and here we are. We’re doing it right now. Just remember this second. Just take a moment to be thankful for that.’ And then we all went out and just started shooting and dicking around and had some fun.”

The actor went on to talk about why he feels it's the right time for Deadpool, saying:

“It’s a genre. There are good horror movies and bad horror movies. There are good comedies and bad comedies. Think of it like that. Think of it less about just superheroes. I do believe that they explore similar archetypes a lot, so I think that notion can be somewhat fatiguing, maybe. I think one of the reasons that Deadpool has gained a lot of momentum isn’t just that it’s funny or isn’t just that it’s rated R. The meta aspect is very important. So I think Deadpool’s coming along at the right time, because it’s also speaking to that generation and that group of people that have seen them all, seen all these comic-book films and enjoyed them all to varying degrees of success. But I think it’s speaking to them as though the guy in that red suit is one of them, to some degree.”

That's a great explanation. Reynolds was then asked about returning to comic book films after his experience with playing Green Lantern in the lack-luster Warner Bros. film. This was his reply: 

"Deadpool was different because there wasn’t a big budget attached to it. There was not a tremendous responsibility to meet some kind of bottom line. Those kinds of superhero movies when you’re out front, there’s a vast and quite frightening budget attached to them. This one had a super-reasonable budget, and it was subversive and a little bit different, and to me a little refreshing in the comic-book world. But you always have trepidation. When you’re out front, you have trepidation.”

He then went on to joke about what he might be doing right now if Green Lantern would have been a big hit:

“I think I would be probably in prep for Green Lantern 3 right now. That sounds about right.”

I'm actually relieved that Green Lantern failed. If it were a success, we probably would have never seen a solo Deadpool film, and Deadpool is a way better character than Green Lantern! Deadpool will be released in theaters on February 12th, 2016.

A little preface here, this is absolutely going to sound like the most sarcastic thing you'll ever read. That's not my intent, but alas, it's inevitable.

Before we begin, let's talk about the other animated series that were airing around the same time Captain Planet got started. Some notable examples include Tiny Toon Adventures, TaleSpin, Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Darkwing Duck, Rugrats, and Batman: The Animated Series. There are some pretty great title there (the early '90s Batman series is widely recognized as the best comic based show ever), but all of them pale in comparison to Captain Planet & the Planeteers! 

Captain Planet ran from 1990-96, which is a pretty good run for an animated series. The show didn't have any particularly big names attached to it, not that voice acting was as respected as it is now. The production of the show was nothing spectacular for the '90s, so on paper the show looks more or less lackluster. So what is it that makes Captain Planet so great? Basically, it was way ahead of its time.

Before the early 2000s there wasn't much discussion on the environmental impact of mankind, so Captain Planet was a bit out there as far as tackling issues go. More than being ahead though, it only took on that one issue: the environment. The episodes taught about everything you can imagine, oil, energy conservation, wildlife preservation, deforestation, and even went into some other scientific topics like genetics. I'm not saying there aren't a ton of other series that did and do this same thing, but Captain Planet was unabashed about it while they went after environmental issues in a fun interesting way. The show was what it was: a look at environmental issues for kids. It did this in the '90s when MTV was becoming popular for things that weren't music related (believe it or not, they actually were about music at one point many, many moons ago), and other series were just pure entertainment. In an era where that entertainment was becoming less and less intelligent, Captain Planet stood up and said that kids needed to know about these issues, and they did it before the rest of the world became so obsessed.

Captain Planet remains relevant, too. With environmental issues being one of the common topics discussed in any political arena, it becomes increasingly clear that maybe if we'd all watched Captain Planet when we were younger we would be better informed about these issues, and maybe the world would have been a little more concerned about it.

I'm not saying that Captain Planet had the best production value, even among the other cartoons of the early 90s, but it's still enjoyable to watch now. Plus, how do you not love that theme song?! "Captain Planet, he's a hero, gonna bring pollution down to zero!"

You sang that in your head, didn't you? Of course you did! Captain Planet has had a cultural impact that has lasted for two decades now, but I think it deserves a little more recognition for what it was. In today's world of fast-paced, low intelligence entertainment, maybe we could all do with just a little more educational entertainment, maybe it could tackle some important goings-on in the world. That's why Captain Planet is the greatest TV series ever — it wasn't ashamed to talk about issues that at the time not many people thought were important. That sounds pretty great to me.

What do you guys think? Did you watch Captain Planet as a kid? Let us know in the comments below!

Disney has released an international trailer for Pixar's upcoming film The Good Dinosaur. It features a good amount of new footage, as well as scenes that give us more than one word of the dinosaurs talking in the film. Some of that dialogue is spoken by Raymond Ochoa as the main dino, Arlo, as well as by Sam Elliott as a cowboy-inspired Tyrannosaurus Rex named Butch and Jeffrey Wright as Arlo's dad. The film also stars the voices of Frances McDormand. Steve Zahn, AJ Buckley, Anna Paquin, Marcus Scribner, and Jack Bright.

The trailer also offers us more details on the story, and how Arlo ends up being separated from his parents and forced on an adventure as he tries to reunite with them. Along the way, he comes across a little boy named Spot, who ends up being his travel companion and friend on the journey. It's a great trailer for this beautiful looking animated feature. 

The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo (voice of Raymond Ochoa) makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.

The movie comes out on November 25th.

One fight we would all love to see happen would be between Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather. A lot of people believe that Rousey would kick his ass, which is the outcome I would expect. I doubt we'll ever see this fight happen in real life, but thanks to game designer Richie Branson, we can see what that fight would look like if it took place in Street Fighter IV!

Well, now we know who would win if Floyd Mayweather and Ronda Rousey fought. I got bored and decided to play around with some texture files in my PC installation of Street Fighter IV. The result is this mayweather vs. rousey mod, lol. To eliminate bias, i simulated the Mayweather v. Rousey fight with both fighters controlled by the CPU.

I've got to say that this fight isn't an inaccurate representation of what it would actually be like because Mayweather isn't running away from her. 

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If you've seen James Marsh's Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, you already know the story of Philippe Petit, the French high-wire artist who did the unthinkable in 1974 when he organized a covert operation to walk on a wire between New York City's Twin Towers. But Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis is bringing the story to a much larger audience next month with The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit.

The film will be available to watch in IMAX 3D, and Zemeckis — a filmmaker with a love for the technical side of things — looks to be taking full advantage of the format as his camera zooms up and over the World Trade Center and captures Petit's precarious and legendary attempt. There's a brand new IMAX trailer that runs nearly five minutes, and if you haven't seen Man on Wire and are interested in seeing what this movie has to offer, it's a good mixture of the heist-style planning and execution of getting the wire across the buildings as well as the nail-biting tension of the walk itself. The Walk hits theaters on September 30th.

Thought-provoking comments making news this morning thanks to the StarTalk Podcast. Scientist Neil Degrasse Tyson and NSA leaker Edward Snowden discussed the potential of alien life and the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox essentially wonders why if the universe is infinitely large why we haven't made contact with other intelligent life forms. Snowden brought up an excellent point that we may not be receiving messages not because there's nothing there, but rather because we can't decrypt them!

So basically the aliens are afraid of getting their credit cards stolen by other people on their planet? Quite possibly. The fact of the matter is we may have missed our window for audio contact as most civilizations may have gotten too advanced to be widely dispersing information we might just happen to pick up! It's a strange concept to think encryption could potentially be protecting us from invaders as well as ourselves!

Honestly the whole concept sounds like a cool idea for a TV show or something...I just don't know what exactly! Think of something and develop it for me, okay? Listen to the awesome interview below.

CBS is set to develop a series inspired by H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The story has been adapted as a feature film a few times already, and all of the versions have actually been pretty good. Those versions starred Bela Lugosi in 1932, Burt Lancaster in 1977, and Marlon Brando in 1996.

The series is being created by Phillip Iscove, who is the creator of NBC's Sleepy Hollow. The Island of Dr. Moreau was published in 1896 and centers on a man shipwrecked on an island where the title character resides. It's there on the island that he creates human/animal hybrid beings by using a controversial practice known as vivisection.

According to THR, the TV drama will center on the "fiercely intelligent and fearless Dr. Katherine Moreau as she expands the boundaries of medicine through bold and revolutionary scientific experimentation and treatments in her privately funded island hospital."

This is such a great story, and I loved Wells' novel. It's going to be interesting to see how the actually spin in into a TV series. 

There certainly are a lot of geeky dads out there who love building their kids Star Wars-inspired furniture. In the past few months alone, fathers have built speeder bike rocking chairs, Millennium Falcon beds, and corrective helmets for their kids, and now another dad has stepped up to the plate by building this landspeeder bed for his son. Nicely done — there's something to be said for doing it yourself instead of dropping $4,000 on a Star Wars bed from Pottery Barn.

Via: Nerd Approved

I was disappointed that the most recent season of Game of Thrones sidelined Brienne of Tarth a little bit. She's one of the series' best characters, and actress Gwendoline Christie wonderfully brings her to life. Hopefully she'll have more to do in the upcoming season, but in the meantime, we'll see Christie appearing in the final installment of The Hunger Games as well as in what might be the most anticipated movie of all time: Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

She plays the mysterious Captain Phasma, and though we still don't know too much about her character yet, Christie spoke with Variety about the challenge of the role:

“It was very important to J.J. that I was there acting a part,” she noted. “I found it to be a really interesting acting challenge, not just because of what I felt this character was representing — and it was just what I felt, and we talked about it a little bit, but it was never like a manifesto, ‘this is what it must be’ — and it was exciting to me to have that weight of responsibility taken away, of having to be a certain way as a woman, to have to be mindful in a way that isn’t always useful. To have that stripped away was very liberating, and it meant that as an actor I had to focus on other things. I had to focus on what my body was communicating and what exactly my voice is communicating.”

She added, “It becomes about the way in which you hold your hand, the way in which you walk, where your weight lies and what you want that to mean, and I wanted to give the character identity. I thought it was interesting to make something about the character identifiably female in a non-superficial way, and I hope that comes across.”

And though she's playing a villain in Star Wars and a more heroic character on GOT, Christie drew a connection between the two roles that she found interesting:

“I don’t think many female actors get the opportunity to play a part where they’re not having to think about the way their face looks, but I found exactly the same thing with Brienne of Tarth, and that was very liberating,” she said. “It was great as an actor to work on your skills — that it isn’t about holding your head so you look beautiful. It’s about what you’re transmitting, and to be in service of an idea greater than yourself, whether it’s the character’s overriding objective or, beyond that, hopefully something more sociopolitical. We have seen an image of [Phasma] and again, it’s an unconventional kind of woman exhibiting a kind of strength, but in a very different way to my other two characters.”

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on December 18th.

I'll be damned if I wasn't disappointed by today's headlines. After an awesome season premiere, I was shocked to see that viewership of Doctor Who had plummeted by over 2.8 million compared to the season prior. There are a couple reasons this could've happened. The first being that last year's numbers were inflated due to those geeks wishing to tune in and see a new Doctor in action. The second, and likely what I'm guessing is the real reason, is people just don't dig the new Doctor.

C'mon, it's not that big of a secret. You've had the conversations with your friends. You've seen the fan sites slowly start to decrease. Even the merch section at my local Hot Topic is slowly moving away from the Whovian hub it had become in the past two years. Change is tough, and we witnessed the series go through it's biggest change since its 2001 reboot.

Peter Capaldi is no Matt Smith. He's no David Tennant, either. Hell, I'd be making a stretch to say he's even a Christopher Eccelston. He's a completely different beast entirely, and essentially a different Doctor. Many will make reasons as to why they personally feel differently about this Doctor than others, but at the base of it all, here's the real reason in my opinion: 

He's changed the dynamic of the show, and you realized for the first time that wasn't what you wanted.

Fans far and near in Smith's final season clamored non-stop about how they felt the show was really stepping away from sci-fi and focusing far too much on romance and sexual tension. Too much fan service, not enough hard-hitting story. Placating to Americans was even a casual term thrown around! Many have forgotten these complaints and now even the most loyal fans after a season are stepping away and saying Moffat is "ruining" the series.

If you feel that way, don't feel bad. We are all creatures of habit, and when geeks essentially clamor for revitalization, fresh story lines, and new ideas...our wallets betray us. We talk a big game, but at the end of the day we really want more of the same, and that's what's killing the show...not Peter Capaldi.

I say this because I love Peter Capaldi as much (I won't say more as it's too soon) as my favorite 10th doctor. Every new actor always lends a new voice to the role, but Capaldi's has ushered in a completely new era different from what we've seen thus far in the rebooted series. Hear me out...I'm going to get really poetic.

The Doctor is approaching 2000 years old. A man the age of a millennia, who is the last of his kind, and constantly burdened with the saving of multiple worlds should not be someone who's kooky and bouncing off the walls. That's my personal opinion, and it's one I never really grasped until I spent a season with 12.

He's a man who's long made peace with being the last of his kind has just recently discovered that all he's lost may not be lost at all, and the key to it all rests in the hands of his greatest nemesis. He's so close and wants to commit all his time to finding his home but has earned himself the burden as protector of the galaxy. The world depends on the Doctor...he can't and won't just disappear to pursue his own ambition.

So he's angry, and frustrated, and, yes, depressed. The Doctors always worn a mask that I think Smith did quite well showing, and now having an undoubtedly wavering relationship with perhaps his closest confidant (Clara), The Doctor is upset. 

While some are seeing poor writing, a loss of focus, and a disconnect between the actor and a role, I see a massive development in a character who's floated on a couple years largely stagnant. We've seen the Doctor's character more in the past year than we've seen in the past six years. That's an entirely bad deal for some, but incredibly refreshing for me.

Mind you there are still glimpses of the man with a box that you still love. Capaldi still shows some of the humor and goofiness displayed by some of his predecessors. There's less of it though, and really considering the story, it's appropriate for the character.

12 is not 11, nor 10, or 9. 12 represents a new chapter in a successful series that has been operating on "ain't broke, don't fix it." If you've fallen out of Doctor Who recently, I encourage you to stick with it. Give him a chance — I promise his best is yet to come.

It's always hard to believe when a long-running movie franchise like Resident Evil says there is going to be one final film. But that might actually be the case for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. I hope so because this franchise really needs to end! It's just gotten progressively worse with each movie. 

Sony Pictures has released the official plot synopsis for the upcoming movie, and it seemingly confirms the end of Alice's crazy-ass journey through post-apocalyptic hell.  

"Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution. Humanity is on its last legs after Alice is betrayed by Wesker in Washington D.C. As the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead hordes, Alice must return to where the nightmare began – Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

"In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and an unlikely ally, in an action packed battle with undead hordes and new mutant monsters. Between losing her superhuman abilities and Umbrella’s impending attack, this will be Alice’s most difficult adventure as she fights to save humanity, which is on the brink of oblivion."

I'm sure she'll kick zombie ass and save the day...again. Milla Jovovich returns to role of Alice in director Paul W.S. Anderson's film and she will be joined by Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, along with new recruits Ruby Rose, Iain Glen, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, and William Levy. 

The movie is set to be released on January 27th, 2017. 

Suspenseful and tedious in equal measure, The Keeping Room is not the badass feminist western I wanted it to be. Its central premise is compelling, but a ponderously slow build-up and a thematically confused ending ultimately undercut its effectiveness.

Set in South Carolina during the final days of the Civil War, Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld play Southern sisters who live on a farm with their female slave (Muna Otaru), left alone to tend to the crops and chores by their father and brother who went off to fight. They all sleep in the same room with the door barred to protect them, and the film's main strength is in making us feel how these women feel: that strange men are not to be trusted, and the threat of sexual assault and violence is a clear and present danger. (I imagine, sadly, that many women probably feel that way all day every day, even in 2015.)

It turns out their precautions are warranted, because two Yankee soldiers (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller) eventually end up following Marling home, and the film morphs into a home invasion thriller with shades of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs as told from a female perspective. Steinfeld isn't given much to do here — Otaru has even less — so it's Marling that stands out as the film's MVP, such as it is. She's convincing as a tough, do-what-needs-to-be-done woman who rolls with the situation she's dealt, and Worthington and Soller are decent as the creepy, lustful men who will stop at nothing until they've had their conquest.

Director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown) dials up the suspense and crafts a handful of exciting moments, but for the most part, our heroines act how you'd expect moronic characters in a horror film might, consistently making terrible decisions that inevitably come back to haunt them.

But it's the film's ending that really left me scratching my head. After spending the entire story glorifying, or at least endorsing, the women's actions and imbuing the film with an undercurrent of "girl power" mentality, the script's final pages counteract that messaging in a disappointing way. Spoilers ahead (see the film, come back and read the rest of this review, and we can talk about it in the comments): the movie ends with the Union Army arriving on the farm, and the women decide to dress like men in order to escape. How long can they possibly get away with that charade? Not long, one would think, but the movie isn't interested in telling us — only to show how the individuality and femininity they relied on thus far inexplicably needs to be suppressed in order to survive.* It's out of left field, and it's frustrating that the movie could have been a lot more effective had it simply ended a couple of minutes earlier. Link that with a strange and out of place attempt to recast Worthington's character in a somewhat sympathetic light, and we're left with the feeling that The Keeping Room faceplants and ungracefully rolls its way across a dusty finish line instead of ending with any sense of confidence in its storytelling.

*A possible alternate reading of the ending — that dressing as men completes a thematic transformation that's been happening throughout the film as the women embraced the same violence that left more than half a million men dead during the Civil War — still doesn't quite work for me, since that transformation isn't clearly defined over the course of the movie. It's a shame, too; this film had serious potential.

No one predicted Jurassic World would become the third highest-grossing film of all time, but because of its staggering success, a sequel has already been given the greenlight and a new trilogy is underway. Director Colin Trevorrow has moved on to helm Star Wars: Episode 9, but in the meantime, he'll write and produce Jurassic World 2, and he's spoken with the Jurassic Cast about what we can expect from the sequel:

"We looked at it as a trilogy from the very beginning. We designed the whole thing that way. And, honestly, the whole trilogy is articulated in Jurassic Park. Jurassic World is all based on Ian Malcom’s quote: ‘you stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you knew what you had, you’d packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you want to sell it.’ That, to me, is Jurassic World. That’s why I had all the product placement, that’s what it was. So with Jurassic World 2 it’s: “dinosaurs and man separated by 65 million years of evolution have been thrown back into the mix together – how can we know what to expect?’. That’s not the exact quote, but you get the idea...

And that’s why its exciting the movie did well. I had a beginning, a middle and an end and it was designed this way. So now we get to play that out."

But anyone hoping the sequel will include more people running from dinosaurs on an island is going to be disappointed, because after mentioning it once before, Trevorrow says they're definitely moving on from that conceit and advancing the story:

"We made [Jurassic World] with the fans very much in mind. And I’m not going to forget that, but we’ve seen a lot of ‘dinosaurs chasing people around on an island’ movies. And I think you guys and the general audience are going to be down to explore where else we can go. Owen is going to be in it, Claire is in it and neither are going to be in the same place we left them in the first movie. And even though Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy, it’s her story that mirrors this changing world. Owen has shit to deal with. They’ve both opened Pandora’s Box in Jurassic World and both of them are responsible for different elements of it. And I think the way these characters are connected to these circumstances of what’s happening, it’s different than previous films. It’s not ‘let’s manufacture a way to get them somewhere’, they’re embedded into it now in a way that us storytellers are able to keep them involved without it feeling contrived."

I liked Jurassic World more than a lot of people (it seems there was a big backlash because of how much money it ended up making), and I'm definitely intrigued about the future of the franchise moving forward, especially with Trevorrow making comments like these about the future of the characters of Claire and Owen. I'm a big Bryce Dallas Howard fan, and I'm hoping Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly learned something from the high heel controversy of JW; lets hope Claire and Owen are even better developed characters in the sequel.

We saw what happens when a T-rex invaded San Diego in The Lost World, so it should be fascinating to see if this new generation of filmmakers can create an organic way to bring the action off-island and keep everything logical and exciting. Jurassic World 2 hits theaters on June 22nd, 2018.

Via: Screencrush

Artist David G Ferrero has created a great series of Art Deco-style movie poster art inspired by the classic animated films of Disney. There are twelve pieces of art here for you to see, and I'd like to see him make more. I'm happy to see films such as The Great Mouse Detective and The Hunchback of Notre Dame represented here, as they are both amazing movies that are usually overlooked. 

According to the official press release, Oscar winner Christoph Waltz is playing a character named Franz Oberhauser in the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre. But many have wondered if we'd be seeing another Star Trek Into Darkness-style twist in which it's revealed that he's actually playing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, one of the best villains in the history of the Bond franchise. Everyone involved with the production seems to be playing things close to the vest, with Waltz denying the suggestion outright in interviews. But now director Sam Mendes has spoken about it with Empire in their latest edition, and he mentions "there are depth charges you hopefully don't see coming."

The B-word! We talk about it all the time. It’s the great figure from the Bond vault, as it were. There was this big spectre hanging over the movie and the franchise, which is Blofeld, and what happened to the supervillain. That’s all I’m going to say […] There’s some big stuff the movie is moving towards.

Big stuff, eh? I wonder if all of this speculation is exactly what Mendes and the producers intended when they hired Waltz, because it seems so obvious that he's playing Blofeld just from his status as an Oscar-winner and the kinds of characters he's played in the past. He's such a great fit for the part, but my hope is that he's actually too good of a fit, so good that the film will throw us for a loop and not have him play Blofeld after all. We'll find out on November 6th when Spectre arrives in theaters.

Check out a (pretty dumb) Heineken commercial featuring Daniel Craig as Bond and a snippet of the new Sam Smith theme song below:

4 days!! http://t.co/LYGQePI8Cm Thanks to everyone pre-ordering, can't wait for you to hear 'Writing's On The Wall' https://t.co/nEYRMK8qif

— SAM SMITH (@samsmithworld) September 21, 2015

We've seen a lot of recreations in the amazing Unreal Engine 4, from Sonic the Hedgehog to Mario. But none of them have really captured the spirit of the originally material quite like this one. I'm a huge Legend of Zelda fan, and Ocarina of Time was one of the first games I ever logged an ungodly amount of hours into. So seeing it recreated with such amazing detail by Ioannis Papazis made me feel so nostalgic that I could've sworn I was nine years old again, sitting in my parents' living room. If you're a fan of the N64 classic, you owe it to yourself to check out this video!

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The Clown Prince of Crime has undergone some changes since his first appearance in Batman #1 back in 1940. With Gotham returning to TV tonight to kick off its second season, the team at HalloweenCostumes has unveiled a new infographic that charts the evolution of The Joker through all of his appearances in comics, TV, and movies over the years. Let's see if it puts a smile on that face.

Just last week, Liam Neeson joined an action comedy called The Revenger from the writers of Night at The Museum that will presumably poke some fun at his tough-guy persona. But he's apparently not done with that phase of his career quite yet: he's just signed on to play the lead in a suspense thriller called The Commuter, which Deadline says centers on a businessman who unwittingly gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his commute home. First-time writers Byron Willinger and Phil de Blasi wrote the screenplay.

About six months ago, Neeson said he planned on retiring from action films in about two years, so it looks like he's cramming in as many thrillers as possible before his self-proclaimed time is up. I don't blame him, but you'll have to forgive me if I'm not sold on The Commuter based on how little information there is available about the project at this point. Hopefully Neeson knows what he's getting himself into. Production begins in New York this spring. Let's see if they can come up with a better title before then.

I'm always blown away with how much unappreciated work goes into the creation of visual effects in film and television production. There are an insane amount of people who work insanely hard to create elements that the audience barely even thinks twice about, all in service of making a story feel real and visceral. A few months ago, we shared a video from Pixomondo about the creation of the dragons on HBO's Game of Thrones, and now the visual effects company is back with a new reel that showcases the detailed work they do on Dany's dragons on the fantasy series. Like all of these VFX reels, it's eye-opening to see just the layers and layers of creation it takes to pull off a convincing special effect, and it just makes me respect the show even more.