After being on hold for three years, Ottawa Comicccon is finally back in 2022 with over 40,000 visitors! Of course, your friendly Geeks are Sexy staff was on location to photograph some of the best and funniest cosplays at the event! We also had quite a feast sampling some amazing poutines from various food trucks […]
You probably heard about it, it’s everywhere online these days: Internet trolls are relentlessly attacking Amazon’s new series, The Rings of Power, for the diversity of its cast among other things. Middle Earth, being such a large place, would naturally be filled with people of multiple origins and colors, so it stands to reason to […]
Star Trek made its US television debut on September 8, 1966 with the airing of the episode “The Man Trap.” In honor of the 56th birthday of Star Trek, please enjoy this “happy birthday” compilation, featuring The Wrath of Khan, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and Enterprise. [John DiMarco]
House of the Dragon may have cost around $20 million an episode to produce, but that wasn’t enough to stop an unfortunate CGI blunder. In the latest episode, it was revealed that King Viserys had received several injuries from the Iron Throne, including losing two fingers. Rather than ask actor Paddy Considine to take method […]
“Futurism” is what people believed the future would be like at a given time. Similarly, “retrofuturism” is futurism of the past. Most people think of Victorian futurism (steampunk) and 1950s/1960s futurism (atompunk). 1920s futurism sits right in the middle, mostly forgotten. Technically, it’s grouped in with “dieselpunk,” which extends into the WWII period, but I […]
The tentacle-faced creature Cthulhu is H.P. Lovecraft’s most enduring eldritch creation. But while Lovecraft may be Cthulhu’s inventor, this monster has outgrown its creator, impacting both horror fiction and the real world in significant and unexpected ways. The world is full of monsters, myths, and legends and Monstrum isn’t afraid to take a closer look. […]
A woman who died last June has answered questions at her own funeral. Although Marina Smith’s “responses” were pre-recorded, a chatbot-like system selected them to fit the spontaneous questions asked by mourners. Smith was the founder of the National Holocaust Center in the United Kingdom and campaigned to educate on the topic. Her funeral “appearance” […]
Disney+ is joining rival streaming services by giving customers a choice between price hikes and watching ads. It’s a surprise move given the company’s history with a family audience. The overhaul of pricing, which takes effect in December, means that customers who do nothing will continue to pay $7.99 but will now start seeing ads. […]
Author Neil Gaiman takes to Twitter to answer the internet’s burning questions about mythology. What links Viking and Greek myths? Why does Anubis have a dog head? Why do so many cultures have a ‘Great Flood’ myth? What do Biblical angels look like? Neil answers all these questions and much, much more! [Wired]
Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in Star Trek, has died of natural causes at the age of 89. A pioneering black actress, she later worked for NASA to encourage more women and people of color to go to space. While Nichols was not the first African-American woman on US television, she was the […]