The next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, Thunderbolts*, is headed to theaters in less than a month. The premise of the film is relatively straightforward: It’s centered on a team of MCU antiheroes—Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker—who s … | Continue reading
It's from the director of Room, so you know it's going to be upsetting! The post Another Tom King Comic Series Is Headed to the Big Screen appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Good doggie? The post A Sneak Peek at James Gunn’s Superman is More of an Extended Edition of the First Teaser appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
The latest riff on Sherlock Holmes is coming to the CW network in mere days, and we’ve got a trailer with the detective himself, played in this version by the indomitable David Thewlis, as well as his… daughter(?), played by Blu Hunt, whose previous credits include The Originals … | Continue reading
It’s been over two years since we found out Phineas and Ferb co-creator Dan Povenmire was working on forty new episodes for the popular kids animated series, which has been off the air since 2015. Today, we not only got a trailer for the new season, but we also got news on when w … | Continue reading
A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity. The post rekt by Alex Gonzalez: Who Needs Cosmic Horror When the Internet Is Right Here? appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Featuring what every teen girl wants: a live-in butler. The post Hijinks and Homicide: Richie Tankersley Cusick’s April Fools appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
From rivalries to ride-or-die, and everything in between... The post Five SFF Stories Driven by Complicated Sibling Relationships appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
These song choices are weird. The post Murdery Androids Get an Upgrade in M3GAN 2.0 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
If you grew up loving this film, you're not alone. The post Willow: Lessons in Bravery, Hope, and Having Fun With Fantasy Tropes appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We learn more about Liandrin's past—and about her plans for the future… The post The Forsaken Plot, Perrin Flirts, and Elayne Sings in The Wheel of Time’s “The Shadow in the Night” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We're leaping into spring with a set of speculative books set in dystopian hellscapes... The post Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Dystopian Books appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Warning! This interview contains spoilers for “The Shadow of the Night”—season three, episode six of The Wheel of Time. Liandrin does quite a bit in the third season of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, and we as viewers learn more about her, especially in cold open for the latest … | Continue reading
We’ve been longtime fans of Cameron Reed’s iconic 1996 science fiction novel The Fortunate Fall, a story about AI, surveillance, and queerness. In 2010, Jo Walton called it “one of the most important books of the last twenty years”, and in 2018, Bogi Takács praised the novel for … | Continue reading
Apple TV+ released a trailer today for Fountain of Youth, their star-studded film helmed by director Guy Ritchie (The Man From U.N.C.L.E., 2009’s Sherlock Holmes) that looks like 2025’s attempt at a film like National Treasure and/or 1999’s The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and R … | Continue reading
Almost 30 years after the publication of Wicked, Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie—the future Wicked Witch of the West. The post A Verdant Childhood: Gregory Maguire’s Elphie appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Put Asajj Ventress in every Star War, please The post Tales of the Underworld Puts the Spotlight on Two Notorious Star Wars Bounty Hunters appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover Stephen Graham Jones’s “Xebico,” first published in October 2012 in Weird Ficti … | Continue reading
A long video from the interim director detailed the decision. The post NaNoWriMo, the Nonprofit Organization, Is Shutting Down appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Does he suck? Send him to the attic! The post Juno Temple Will Face an Overabundance of Love Interests in The Husbands appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
This week’s Daredevil: Born Again episode, “Art for Art’s Sake” was directed by David Boyd and written by Jill Blankenship. I wish I could say that the show turned a corner, and that the high of last week’s double episode continued, but I thought this episode felt rushed and much … | Continue reading
"All of that with weekly space adventures?" The post Star Trek: Strange News Worlds Get Mysterious This Summer appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Systemic dehumanization, cutout animation, and avant-garde jazz. The post Fantastic Planet: A Surreal, Unsettling Allegory of Oppression appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
You bring the snacks, we'll bring the zombies, robots, and life-threatening peril! The post Five Unconventional SFF Road Trips appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Suzanne Collins’ latest Hunger Games novel, Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, just came out in March. The book, unsurprisingly, has already sold more than 1.5 million copies in its first week, which is triple the sales that Mockingjay—the third book in the original trilogy—sa … | Continue reading
So much Wick news! We just posted about the John Wick anime feature coming out of Lionsgate, but that’s far from the only announcement the studio made about the franchise at CinemaCon today. Perhaps the biggest news is that the much-rumored John Wick 5 is officially happening—wit … | Continue reading
A woman fleeing her abusive ex finds herself running from more than just her past… The post Read an Excerpt From The Cut by C.J. Dotson appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
The John Wick universe continues to expand. Lionsgate announced today during its CinemaCon panel that they were backing an animated feature-length prequel that would see Keanu Reeves returning to voice his iconic character. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the project: Wr … | Continue reading
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has nominated author Nicola Griffith to be the 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, an honor that recognizes the recipient’s lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy. Griffith is the author of nine novel … | Continue reading
Nothing good ever happens inside a magical salt circle. The post The Bring Her Back Trailer Makes Me Not Want To Bring Anyone Back, Please appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A dystopian government assessor puts would-be parents through a surreal childrearing crash course in Fleur Fortuné’s gripping debut. The post The Assessment Mocks Us For Trying To Have It All appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A legendary run of X-Men adventures, featuring classic art! The post Taking Comics to a New Level: X-Men Visionaries 2: The Neal Adams Collection appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
We can blame this casting on the fortune of our birth. The post Sydney Sweeney Might Get Mecha in the Live-Action Gundam Movie appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
No, this is not an April Fool's joke. The post Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Is Only Two Years Away appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
This week in Reading The Wheel of Time, Faile fears losing herself in the role of Sevanna’s slave, carries the burden of having quite a few of the wetlander prisoners sworn to her, and experiences a strange rippling of reality. But not everything is bad news, as it turns out, and … | Continue reading
How many more Lanterns will be in this show, anyway The post Nathan Fillion Will Bring Guy Gardner’s Terrible Hair to Lanterns appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
And it hints at more changes in poor Peter Parker's life... The post The Next Spider-Man Movie Has a Title appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Stunning, startling, jaw-dropping dance scenes — let's boogie. The post Defiant Jazz and Disco Robots: Dance Scenes in SF/Horror appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
In news that won’t be surprising for those who’ve read Frank Herbert’s novels, Jason Momoa, who played Duncan Idaho in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One, will be coming back for the filmmaker’s third movie in the franchise, Dune Messiah. In an interview with Collider to promote h … | Continue reading
Filming for the third season of HBO’s House of the Dragon is underway, and we’re getting news about some new actors we’ll see in the land, seas, and skies of Westeros in the upcoming episodes. We found out in late January that James Norton (The Nevers, Happy Valley, pictured abov … | Continue reading
Transmentation | Transience offers a sweeping multiverse of adventure and intrigue, courtesy of five authors from the Many Worlds Collective. The post What Laws Govern The Multiverse?—Darkly Lem’s Transmentation | Transience appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
This week’s exes chat gives new meaning to “chew the fat.” The post Yellowjackets’ Idea of “A Normal, Boring Life” Involves Cannibalism Ultimatums appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
A new Narn ambassador arrives to replace G'Kar, while an alien probe threatens to destroy Babylon 5... The post Babylon 5 Rewatch: “A Day in the Strife” appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Meep! MEEEEEEEEP! The post Coyote vs. Acme Will Make It to Theaters Thanks to Ketchup Entertainment appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Aliens living among us... and vice versa. The post Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
To “Into Infinity” and beyond! The post A New Trailer Introduces Black Mirror’s Latest Techno-Miseries appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
This is what cryptid hunters hope for when they pursue the legends... The post When a Species Rises From the Dead: The Lazarus Taxon appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
Adolin mentors Yanagawn, Kal dances with Syl, and it's Nightblood's time to shine! The post Wind and Truth Reread: Chapters 52 and 53 appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading