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This 6-foot-9-inch former Olympian makes an excellent Resident Evil tall lady

2021-03-31T11:33:12-04:00

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Resident Evil Village is coming on May 7th, but if you have been keeping up with the news surrounding the game, you may have heard about Lady Dimitrescu, a very tall woman who has become very popular on the internet. There have been a few cosplayers who've attempted to re-create the iconic villain, but the most recent cosplay from Yekaterina Lisina is arguably the best yet.

Lisina, a former Olympian-turned-model, recently shared some content on Instagram of her cosplaying Lady Dimitrescu, even going so far as to re-create a parody of one of the trailers for the game. But don't take my word for it, just check out the video she shared on her …

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Watch Adam Savage nerd out over the costume from the high school Alien play

2019-08-02T13:02:40-04:00

Adam Savage is a bit of a fan of Ridley Scott's film Alien. He spent years constructing his own replica of Kane's space suit from the film, visited the sets of Alien: Covenant to check out the props, and wandered around San Diego Comic-Con with a space suit from the same film. Now, he has a new suit in his collection: one that a group of high school students constructed for their stage adaptation of the film.

Back in March, the students of North Bergen High School in New Jersey decided to adapt Alien for their spring play. (You can still watch it online.) They spent months assembling the complicated sets and costumes for it, making almost e …

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I wish Hasbro’s new Boba Fett helmet was available when I was a kid

2019-07-20T08:15:52-04:00

You'll soon be able to dress up as Star Wars' most infamous bounty hunter - or at least get a start on a costume. On Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, Hasbro revealed that it will release a new entry in its premium Black Series line of costume accessories: Boba Fett's helmet.

The Black Series line is Hasbro's higher-end toy line, comprising of detailed action figures, lightsabers, and wearables. Over the last couple of years, it's released versions of the helmets for characters like Kylo Ren, Stormtroopers, Shadow Troopers, and the X-Wing pilot helmets worn by Poe Dameron and Luke Skywalker.

Boba Fett's helmet will join that lineup sometime i …

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Watch Adam Savage make a flying Iron Man suit in his new show, Savage Builds

2019-06-16T15:23:03-04:00

Adam Savage became a household name as the cohost of Mythbusters, and now, he's returned to the Discovery Channel with a new show: Savage Builds. In each episode of the series, Savage goes out and builds something, consulting with other experts and builders. The series just began airing on Discovery, and the first episode, in which he builds a flying Iron Man costume, is available for free online (at least in the US) for the next two weeks.

Think of it like a builder's version of Mythbusters: take a thing from pop culture or history, and make a version that functions as closely as possible to its on-screen counterpart. In the show's first e …

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English Heritage is posting watchers on Hadrian’s Wall before Game of Thrones returns

2019-03-30T16:00:00-04:00

The final season of Game of Thrones is almost upon us, and the promotional onslaught for the HBO series is underway. English Heritage, the charity that preserves the country's historic sites, announced that before the finale premieres, it is posting its own version of the Night Watch on Hadrian's Wall in northern England - the original inspiration for the wall in George R.R. Martin's fantasy series.

The organization said earlier this month that its members will be decked out in black cloaks and shields, and will be posted at four main Roman sites along the historic structure - Birdoswald Roman Fort in Cumbria, and Corbridge Roman Town, Hous …

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A New Jersey high school adapted Alien for its spring play

2019-03-23T14:07:14-04:00

Like something out of Rushmore or Bob's Burgers, a group of highly-motivated students and teachers in New Jersey staged an elaborate play based on Ridley Scott's classic science fiction film Alien earlier this week as spotted by The AV Club. It's not your typical high school spring play.

North Bergen High School's drama club staged the play on the 19th and 22nd this past week, and one of the school's students posted some details about the production on Reddit. They noted that it follows the plot of the film, "with a few scenes added to kill time for scene changes," (which apparently included the Xenomorph walking amongst the members of the …

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This beautiful Star Wars fan film brings Hamlet to a galaxy far, far away

2019-01-13T12:00:08-05:00

The works of William Shakespeare are incredibly versatile, especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy. They've been translated into Klingon, been reinterpreted as science fiction films and novels, and even been used as a way to reinterpret the Star Wars franchise. A new Star Wars fan film takes one of the playwright's most famous monologues as a devastating inspiration.

Directed by Quebec-based director Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer, Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy (spotted by io9) follows a lone sandtrooper (portrayed by cosplayer David Blouin and voiced by Anton Golikov) as he navigates his way across a desert planet, reciting Hamle …

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League of Legends’ virtual K-pop band is helping the game attract a whole new audience

2018-11-11T12:00:02-05:00

This week, Riot Games tapped into three things the internet loves: K-pop bands, women kicking ass, and augmented reality. The K/DA music video for "POP/STARS" reimagines four of the murderous champions of League of Legends as internationally acclaimed artists back with their latest single. In addition to releasing a music video, Riot also brought the virtual band onstage using AR. They performed next to the actual singers at the 2018 Worlds Finals opening ceremony, the conclusion to an annual month-long battle between e-sports teams hailing from the US, Europe, and Asia.

The band started as Riot's way of building hype for Worlds and getting …

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This Halloween, use a 3D-printed prop to complete your last-minute costume

2018-10-27T10:00:02-04:00

Halloween is just a couple of days away, and if you're celebrating the evening, you're probably throwing together some sort of costume for a party, or getting something squared away for your child.

Over the years I've been building costumes, I've found one thing that really makes or breaks a costume: attention to detail. Costuming is a hobby into which, in the pursuit of perfection, you can dump endless time and money, but for something like Halloween, not as much effort is required for something like a party or trick-or-treating. But even for those casual costumes, a detail piece can turn an outfit that you clearly threw together at the la …

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A man evades relentless drones in this action-packed science fiction film

2017-12-24T14:00:02-05:00

In a new short film called SENTiNEL, a man wakes up in an empty field and discovers that he's being chased by a flying drone, which sets off a desperate race for survival.

That's the premise behind Ryan Connolly's intriguing new short film, which premiered earlier this week on YouTube and Vimeo. The film is really short: it clocks in at just under five minutes, but it lays out a gripping action sequence that reveals just enough information to hint at a larger story as it plays out.

At first, it seems as though the man is simply trying desperately to escape from his would-be killer, but Connolly flips those expectations at the end when the …

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