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George Clooney Still Isn't Down With the Critical Reappraisal of Batman and Robin
19.12.2020
It’s been a couple
decades, now, I think we can all just admit it: for a certain version of
Batman, Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin kind
of rules. A cheesy fever dream, it’s an incredible exercise in ‘90s Blockbuster
excess and the sort of Batman that fans of Adam West’s ‘60s series...
The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
17.12.2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s...
The Physics of Tenet Is Shaky, but It Still Kicks Ass
17.12.2020
“Don’t try to understand it,” a scientist tells the protagonist of Tenet, as she briefly explains the physics of Christopher Nolan’s $205-million, time-traveling spy thriller. Sure, the physics is often unrealistic and confusing, but it’s fascinating. And with its many Easter eggs, Tenet sets...
Our Favorite Comic Moments of 2020
16.12.2020
While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people...
These Are the Most Ridiculous RGB Gadgets You Can Buy
16.12.2020
Much to the dismay of my fellow coworkers, I admit I’ve got a soft spot for gadgets with RGB lighting. I prefer keyboards that light up like a disco ball (after all, you can always turn the lights off), and I pay extra to make sure that all the smart lights in my house can go full RGB instead...
The Biggest Climate Wins of 2020
15.12.2020
Somehow, not everything was bad this year.Read more
Scientists Just Dropped a Bunch of New Animals
14.12.2020
There are some 8.7 million known species on Earth. But it’s always exciting to know when scientists find some mysterious creature they didn’t know existed or rediscover one not seen in ages. When it comes to biodiversity, more is a good thing. And I know this is silly, but honestly, bonus points...
The Star Wars Kids YouTube Channel Tries to Condense the Plot of The Rise of Skywalker Into Five Minutes
13.12.2020
Star Wars Kids does a great job of making
entertaining, accessibly bite-sized chunks of Star
Wars that are probably great for children. But this latest time they had
an unenviable task: condensing The Rise of
Skywalker, which has a… less than simple plot, into a scant five
minutes. Read more
Watch the Extended Trailer for Ark: The Animated Series, the Show Based on the Survival Video Game
12.12.2020
Starring Gerard Butler? Yeah, this is weird news, look, I’m just reading what they send me. Read more
Fantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News
11.12.2020
It’s official. The Fantastic Four is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts (Spider-Man Homecoming) will direct. And that’s only the beginning.Read more
The Best Pop Culture We Caught Up On in 2020
10.12.2020
It has been a year of weirdness, especially when it comes to wrangling the kinds of media we’ve been watching. Though there’s been new things to read, watch, listen to, and play, 2020 has seen many of us revisit familiar favorites as well as things we missed when they first came out. Here’s...
The Best Animated Series of 2020
9.12.2020
While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds...
The Mystery of Illinois' Short-Lived Cookie Monster Mural
8.12.2020
Forget the monoliths—there’s a new monument perplexing America. An artist was commissioned by a local business owner to create a mural of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster on the side of his building. There was only one problem: This patron of the arts didn’t actually own the building, and he’s...
Alaska May Be Hiding a Huge Volcanic System
4.12.2020
As if we needed more upsetting right news right now, geologists have reason to suspect that a cluster of Alaskan islands is actually part of an interconnected volcanic system of the same kind seen at Yellowstone National Park. Read more
The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Movies io9 Rewatched in 2020
3.12.2020
Twenty-twenty hasn’t been good for much, but it has been given us bountiful free time— time you hopefully used to finally make good on that statement “Oh, I’d love to watch that but I don’t have time.” Well, in 2020 you did. As a result, many of us revisited and once again fell in love with...
Age of Calamity Is a Zelda History Lesson That Echoes Across Time
3.12.2020
Each entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise has been a discrete story following the Hero of Time and Hyrule’s legendary princess as they fight to keep the ultimate evil at bay. At the same time, all of the different games also fit together as pieces of a larger overarching narrative that...
Your TV Speakers Are Terrible. Amplify Your Audio With the Best Soundbars, According to Gizmodo
2.12.2020
It’s amazing the picture quality you can get with a cheap TV these days—but as TVs have gotten thinner and better, their speakers have gotten tiny and terrible. If you want explosions to rock the room, your TV isn’t going to cut it—hell, it can barely even make dialogue intelligible. So a soundbar...