I kind of had to like Thunderball. Come on! It combines (and quite possibly, may have created) several of my favorite supervillain tropes. You have the shark tank, the cadre of evil villains, and their incompetent henchmen making their plans for world domination just a little more difficult. It's over the top in several places and boring in others, but I've got to say that getting into the movie was super easy.
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We are currently judging this book by its cover—so of course, we expect it to be perfect.
Read MoreOne of the most exciting parts of C2E2 for The Mary Sue crew? Getting to chat with self-professed geek girl (and Doctor Who's Madame Vastra) Neve McIntosh about Star Wars, sticking out from the status quo, and the need for more female creators. Allons-y!
Read MoreWelcome to this week's Orphan Black #CloneClub Recap! Episode 2 of the season, "Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis" focuses on the theme of Family: what it means (for clone and non-clone alike), and what one is willing to do to protect it. Let's dive in!
Read MoreAre teen girls with magical powers your reason for getting up in the morning? If so, Dark Horse's latest offering, Zodiac Starforce, may become your new favorite thing, and The Mary Sue got an exclusive look at this store variant cover!
Read MoreA thing that's not The Thing, and Mulder was a space nerd as a child. Whodathunkit.
Read More"I think there's a lot of mythology about what a man or a woman is supposed to be, a lot of mythology about what gay men and gay women are supposed to be. There's just a lot of storytelling surrounding human beings and what sexuality and gender identity means to your value. It's all a lie. And it's a lie we've been told for many many years, and it's destructive and exclusionary and I resent it. "
Read MoreWe've previously reported on those in the broadcast sports field being willfully oblivious to the fact that eSports is a huge industry, and rest assured, it's still happening. ESPN Radio show host Colin Cowherd reacted to seeing a Heroes of the Storm tournament on ESPN2 by promising—I mean, er, threatening. Yeah—to quit if he were ever forced to cover eSports.. aside from angry rants, I guess.
Read MoreI have a feeling Marvel knew what they were doing when they included a page containing Captain Marvel fighting a shark in their first preview of A-Force, their new all-female Avengers team.
Read MoreAs you may have noticed from the million hearts shattered simultaneously 'round the world, Zayn Malik recently announced he would be leaving One Direction. At an event on Saturday night at the Sydney Opera House, a devastated 1D fan got to ask the leading authority on boy band culture about ask about Zayn's departure: Stephen Hawking. His advice is as flawless as expected.
Read MoreI never thought I'd be jealous of a toddler.
Read MoreAgent 83's (played by True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld) mission is to take down an arms dealer (Jessica Alba), but all she wants is to get out of the special ops game and be regular high school student. (Sounds like most of our childhoods, right?) But she won't if her handler (Samuel L. Jackson) or competition (Sophie Turner) have anything to say about it. Check out the trailer for the upcoming high school spy comedy (is that a genre?), Barely Lethal.
Read MoreI want to like this show. I really do. The Astronaut Wives Club is an upcoming limited event television series based on the book of the same name by Lily Koppel, and it tells the story of the wives of the first astronauts: the celebrity they navigated, the secrets they kept, the lives they and their husbands lived. That's all stuff I'm very interested in. Also, period costumes. Also, female leads.
Read More"You're trying to tell us what's disrespectful to us? You try to call us names, and we say it's disrespectful and you say it's not?"
Read MoreHere be Game of Thrones book spoilers! If you're not up on your ASOIAF reading, you'll probably want to stay away from this discussion thread and check out Jill's book-spoiler-free episode recap for last night's "High Sparrow" instead.
Read MoreIn which "uncomfortable" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Read MoreCurse you, "Lip Sync Battle with LL Cool J" for making me actively look forward every week to a show that airs on Spike TV. (The channel for NotAllMen!) If, like me, you can't get enough of the syncing and the battling, be sure to also check out The Rock's rendition of "Shake It Off" and Emily Blunt's "No Diggity," which I have by now watched approximately a zillion times.
Read MoreI hope today's kids appreciate just how much Sesame Street has been nailing it with parodies lately.
Read MoreThe new Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants follows the teen kids of Disney's most infamous villains—Jafar, the Evil Queen, Cruella, and Maleficent—as they're sent away from home to a "preppy school" for the first time. If fourteen-year-old alt-kid me had seen this, I would have been all over it.
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