February

When you read a truly perfect description, you just know you’ll never be able to unsee it.

Thanks to the brilliant minds over at BoingBoing, who titled an article about the wind running through the improbable object that is Donald Trump’s hair, “Morgellons Tesseract atop Trump’s head peels off in high winds,” my day was made early in the morning. Hats off to this.

If you’re curious as to the sight that BoingBoing was so aptly sketching, here it is.

Even better with dramatic music pic.twitter.com/ULKnbCvP5c

— mf soon (@_iPed) February 7, 2018

(image: screengrab)

• As Congress nears a budget deal, Paul Ryan is still refusing to agree to hold a vote on a solution for the DREAMers, even though Mitch McConnell agreed to hold one in the Senate. And so Nancy Pelosi is holding the House floor.
  

  Pelosi has now been talking about Dreamers for 7+ hours. In 4-inch heels. https://t.co/rWArktEeSg

  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) February 7, 2018

• One of the magical sisters in the Charmed reboot will be a feminist lesbian, and her girlfriend’s name is Detective Soo Jin. OK, now I’m listening about the Charmed reboot. (via TV Line)
• According to DNA analysis of the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man,” early modern Britons had dark skin and blue eyes. (via The Guardian)
• Where is the lie?
  

  This looks like the Han Solo from a porn version of “Stars Wars,” and, like, not a high-quality erotic production either pic.twitter.com/HcW43lDocp

  — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) February 7, 2018

• We got our first poster for the upcoming Venom movie starring Tom Hardy, and reports say we’ll see the first trailer tomorrow. (via Comicbook.com)

So what’ve you got for me today?

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With Ash vs Evil Dead coming back to Starz for its third season later this month, we wanted to do something special to get ready. But instead we did something amazing! We had Bruce Freaking Campbell himself and the rest of the cast join us in studio for today’s incredible episode of Nerdist News Talks Back.

Host Jessica Chobot and Andrew Bowser welcomed the legendary Bruce Campbell along with his co-stars Lindsay Farris, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, and Arielle Carver-O’Neill on today’s show to talk about what we can expect from season three. How would they describe this year in one word (or two when you’re the show’s star)? What did Bruce mean when he told us “nothing will ever be the same” after this year? And who is this year’s standout demon or deadite? Will it literally be “the mother of all demons?” That’s an interesting phrase for a season where Ash finds out he’s a dad…

We also wanted to know why they think people relate to an unusual hero like Ash, who Bruce definitely undersold when he described himself as “the average man who has to be tested by evil every so often?” But we also had plenty of less important, yet very important questions, like how often do they get covered in blood on set? “I got a blood cannon eight time in ten episodes,” said poor Arielle Carver-O’Neill, before Bruce explained to us the finer points of blood cannon nozzle settings. (Who knew?)

We also wanted to know about the Knights of Sumeria and what they want. And how will Ash respond to finding out he’s a father? How will all of that connect to what Dana Delorenzo said are the two main things the season is about: “destiny” and “family bound by blood.” (No wonder they need the cannons.)

They also told us how the show will continues to build off of the movies and what kind of Easter eggs we can expect (get ready for Ash’s dad to return!), and Ray Santiago hinted at some smooching Pablo will be doing this year, though we’re more excited by Dana’s announcement that “body parts definitely touch this season.”

But if all of that has you hyped, wait until you hear Bruce throw some serious horror television show shade at The Walking Dead before telling us that this year Ash will meet the one enemy he can’t defeat. Who could she be and what makes her so dangerous to him? Why does that make Bruce angry about the Millennium Falcon?



When Andrew wasn’t busy asking Bruce about meth (in fairness, it made total sense in context), we had plenty more questions about the upcoming season though, which Dana and Ray said somehow manages to outdo last season’s head-up-the-ass/hanging-dong zombie scene. How will it be possible to top that?

And of course we asked the most important question of them all: what power tool would you want as a hand? (We’re still debating if Bruce’s “a fist on a very tightly wound spring” counts as a power tool though.)



Today was the perfect reminder why you should always tune into Nerdist News Talks Back every weekday when the show airs live at 1:00 p.m. PT on our YouTube and Alpha channels. Because where else can you join in on our conversation with Bruce Freaking Campbell without having to worry about getting drenched with fake blood?

But we still want to hear your thoughts on today’s show, so talk back to us about it in the comments below.

MarvelTV Podcast Episode 2: Runaways And Upcoming Movies

Hi Everyone,

Kimberly, Chris, and Matt are back to discuss Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu and the upcoming movie slate for Marvel including Black Panther, Infinity War, and Ant-Man and The Wasp. Are you excited for these upcoming Marvel movies? Let us know in the comments!

The post MarvelTV Podcast Episode 2: Runaways And Upcoming Movies appeared first on The Nerd Element.

.@JordanPeele is “seriously considering” a sequel to #GetOut: “There is more story to tell. I don’t know what it is now, but there are some loose ends that feel like they want to be tied up.” #NomineesNight pic.twitter.com/4MDEO77tDs

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 6, 2018

Jordan Peele has been riding high with his Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture this year. But even as he goes on to work on other projects, it seems as if he might not be ready to leave the Sunken Place entirely behind just yet.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter at the Oscar Nominees’ Night, Peele talked about the things that meant the most to him in the response to Get Out, and in the video above, he mentions fan reaction to the idea of the Sunken Place, as well as why he feels the greater message of the film is so important.

He’s then asked about the possibility of a Get Out sequel, and here’s what he had to say:

I will definitely seriously consider it. I love that universe and I feel like there is more story to tell. I don’t know what it is now but there are some loose ends… that feel like they want to be tied up.

However, he wouldn’t just do it for its own sake. Peele continues, “I would never wanna do a sequel that just feels like for the sake of a sequel. I would have to have a story that I feel would take it up a notch.”

Would you be into a Get Out sequel? What loose ends would you be most interested in seeing tied up? Tell us below!

(via Geek Tyrant, image: Screencap)

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