This Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 Toy is Gonna be Huge

The company Sphero has unleashed a toy so adorable it may just blow your (or your 10-year old son's) mind. Behold, the already-beloved BB-8, now in miniature form, controllable from your Android or iOS device. Bow down to your new master:

You can drive your new BB-8, you can put the BB-8 in "patrol mode," its autonomous setting, so it can keep an eye on you while you raid the fridge (data on the BB-8's speed,

Great Quotes From J.J. Abrams About Making Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Internet is abuzz with speculation this morning that a new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be coming next week, while The Force Awakens global toy unboxing live stream event is happening now. If you’re looking for more concrete Star Wars info, however, the Associated Press’s Jake Coyle nabbed an interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J.

Everest Opens Venice Film Festival With Thrills & Chills

The 72nd Venice Film Festival got off to a thrilling, chilling start with Baltasar Kormakur’s Everest. The 3D drama premiered out of competition at the festival, the first of several high-profile U.S. films playing alongside films by a slew of international superstar directors.

Described by The Hollywood Reporter’s chief critic Todd McCarthy as a “gripping and immersive dramatization of a tragic trek,” Everest follows the real life account of a deadly 1996 expedition by two different climbing teams during one of the mountain’s legendarily brutal storms.

Three Seriously Talented Actresses on Star Wars: Episode VIII Shortlist

The folks over at The Wrap reported that Oprhan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’s Olivia Cooke are all on the shortlist for Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, to be directed by Rian Johnson (Looper,

Killer Cars: Check out This Mad Max: Fury Road Infographic

Back in May, we introduced you to Jacinta Leong, art director on Mad Max: Fury Road and one of the people responsible for bringing you those beastly machines. Leong's task was huge, both literally and narratively, as without the machines, Mad Max: Fury Road can't exist. Fusing two Cadillacs bodies together, installing a massive engine and having the thing actually drive was just part of her task.

Today,

Downton Abbey Season Six Fashions: The Times They Are A Changin’

The Crawleys and their downstairs gang will be roaring into the ‘20s bedecked and bejeweled in the latest in 1925 fashions thanks to Downton Abbey costume designer Anna Mary Scott Robins. Robins’ fashions are a vital character in this period drama, and serve the crucial function of moving us along in time.

Gone are the conservative and quite restrictive gear, and slipping are the attitudes of Edwardian England in 1912,

New Gotham Clip: Ginger meets Gorgeous

“So whatcha’ in for?” Jerome Valeska (Cameron Monaghan) asks the beautiful Barbara Keen (Erin Richards). “Killing my parents,” she deadpans.  “Me too” Jerome replies, visibly excited, displaying the gleefully sadistic personality of a certain soon-to-be clown prince supervillain of Gotham.

“A girl needs a good friend in here,” Jerome tells Barbara, assuming she’ll be eager to avoid any potential unpleasantness from fellow inmates that, apparently, only Jerome can protect her from.

Michael Fassbender & Marion Cotillard are Electric in Macbeth Trailer

Some roles are cast so well you cannot imagine another person playing them—in Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, the two leads fit this phenomenon perfectly. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in this decidedly dark (even for Macbeth) take on Shakespeare’s tale of a man destroyed by ambition and desire.

Kurzel places these iconic characters in a viscerally evoked Scotland torn apart by war.

Back to School Watch List: College Edition

Whether you are filling out your 25th undergrad application, heading to monster ragers as your parents drive away with tears in their eyes, or quietly preparing yourself for a whole new phase of your life – we've got a college movie for you. We can all relate to these famous flicks with a wince or a smile…. Everyone is or was one of these famous film foils.

Okay, so maybe you didn’t invent Facebook or get accepted to Harvard (undergrad or law);

The Danish Girl Looks Utterly Moving

The word “Oscar” has been unavoidable ever since people learned Eddie Redmayne would be starring in Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, playing transgender artist and pioneer Lili Elbe. Fresh off his Oscar win for his astonishing transformation into Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, all anybody needed to hear was "Redmayne" and "transgender artist" to grant him his second nomination for Best Actor in a row.

Let’s All Weep While Watching Downton Abbey Trailer for Season 6

As the cast and crew of Downton Abbey prepare to open their home to us for the final time, we can’t help but get emotional. ITV has released the newest trailer for the final season and it does not make saying farewell any easier. We will miss (oh, will we miss) the Dowager Countess’s one liners. Watch a few now and rejoice.

Or what about the love between Mrs.

Why Taylor Swift Gave the Best Speech Last Night at the VMAs

At the VMAs last night, Taylor Swift did something pretty classy after accepting the award for Best Female Video for "Blank Space"—she thanked her director, the prolific Joseph Kahn, and had him come up on the stage to accept the award alongside her. Then Kahn, as any proper director must, went on to name members of his crew, from his cinematographer Christopher Probst to his stylist, Edda Gudman, and then offered a shout out to his mom,

Director David Ayer Shares Suicide Squad Wrap Photo

Can you pick out the various bad guys that star in David Ayer’s upcoming Suicide Squad in this sprawling wrap photo? Can you find the Enchantress (Cara Delevigne), Deadshot (Will Smith), and the Killer Croc (Adele Akinnuoye-Agbaje)? Ayer (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day) is perhaps the perfect director to tackle the story of a bunch of supervillains taking on a suicidal black ops mission, and if the Comic-Con trailer and this wrap photo of what appears to be a pretty happy group of stars and filmmakers are any indiction,

Will Smith’s Concussion Trailer Drops Right in Time for NFL Season

As millions of fans get psyched up for the start of the 2015 NFL season, the sport’s brutality, and its subsequent, lasting effect on the players, is a fact that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore. And now comes writer/director Peter Landesman’s film Concussion, starring Will Smith’s as the real life forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, and his battle against the NFL, which just released its new trailer.

Back To School Watch List: High School Edition

The buses are hitting the road; new planners are blank slates primed for doodling and you're in the homework honeymoon period. Labor Day approaches, which means school is right around the corner, and there's no time like the present to travel back in time and share a little school anxiety and mischief with some of our favorite high school characters.

Who can forget surfer dude Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High or the spirit finger of the Mighty Toros in Bring It On (celebrating its 15th anniversary this week).

Watch the Daredevil VFX Reel

One of the nice surprises about Daredevil is how the show has relied less on showy CGI effects and more on fine storytelling. Eschewing the big budget bomb of Daredevil the film, which put Ben Affleck in tights and had him leaping off buildings, Netflix’s version, created by Drew Goddard, builds on the story of Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), the blind lawyer who uses his other, hugely enhanced senses,

Must-See Doc: He Named Me Malala Trailer Debuts

If you've never heard the story, you should read up on Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, and then you should see acclaimed director Davis Guggenheim's documentary about her when it's released on October 2.

At the age of 15, Yousafzai was targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan. She was shot in the head. The result wasn't Yousafzai's death, but rather international media outrage and the emboldening of the intended target.

We Are Your Friends & the History of DJs in Film

Inventing the next big app and selling it to Facebook for umpteen billion dollars is so last year. If We Are Your Friends, opening today and starring Zac Efron, is to be believed, contemporary, money-minded millennials would rather make it big throwing the party, rather than get rich in order to get into it. Coming up with the next big EDM hit is the new inventing Instagram for Efron’s Cole Carter,

Finn’s Got A Lightsaber? Watch new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser

“There’s been an awakening. Have you felt it”? Um, yes, Star Wars, we have. And now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens released a teaser to a teaser trailer today on Instagram, we can be pretty sure that the 8 people who haven’t yet felt it (they’ve been on the International Space Station) have as well.  While short in length, it reverberated with in sound, scope, and dramatic effect. Also, it showed our new favorite character,

New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Images

Disney has released a few more choice images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and they give us quite a bit to chew on. Let's take a look:

Here's Finn (John Boyega) running towards (or by) a downed Tie-Fighter. Who shot it, and why is he in Stormtrooper gear?

We finally get a name for this cooler-than-your-average Stormtrooper, Captain Phasma (Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie).