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Lego’s 25th Anniversary Star Wars Sets Deliver Ships, Droids, and a Must-Have Minifigure
In 1999, Star Wars changed the world all over again with the start of the prequel trilogy in The Phantom Menace—and changed the toy world all over again too. Not just with its own action figures though: 1999 saw Lego reveal its very first licensed subset in Lego Star Wars, and has been pillaging our…
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Happy ‘Threshold’ Release Week, Star Trek Sickos
Twenty-eight years ago, Star Trek asked a daring question, one fitting of a franchise that triumphs boldly going and facing the unknown: should experimental FTL travel culminate in a captain and her helmsman turning into amphibians and doing the scaly deed? The answer is unequivocally no, but it has given us a reminder that even…
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Holy Crap, Dev Patel Made a Wild Looking Action Movie
Produced by Jordan Peele, Monkey Man sees Patel go behind the camera, and in front of it as a brutal fighter on a quest for revenge.
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Just How Bad Was Star Trek’s Most Devastating Battle?
Star Trek’s idyllic utopia might try to move past it, but it is defined by conflict. From the long moral question of whether or not Starfleet is a military or scientific organization at its core, to the deadly wars that have pushed it to defend its greatest ideals, Star Trek as we know it cannot…