The Pop Mongers

The Pop Mongers: the purveyors of pop culture with an emphasis on culture. We bring you the awesome, the weird, the timely and the timeless. Let Metronome and the Yeti guide you through the mythical labyrinth of fun and entertainment on a magic carpet ride.

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Moana Official Trailer

Watch the brand new trailer for Disney’s Moana! See the film, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson & Auli'i Cravalho, in theatres in 3D this Thanksgiving! Websit...

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Spike Lee Brings She’s Gotta Have It Series to Netflix

Netflix will light the next Spike Lee' joint.

Please baby, please baby, please baby, baby baby please! Spike Lee is coming to TV. Netflix ordered 10-episode series based on Lee’s debut feature movie She's Gotta Have It. Prior to that he’d just cut heads in Bed-Stuy.

Netflix says the She’s Gotta Have It series will be a contemporary remake of the film and Lee will direct all 10 half-hour episodes. He will also executive produce with wife Tonya Lewis Lee. The project was originally set up at Showtime two years ago.

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One of the Best Animated Films You've Never Seen Is Getting Two Short Sequels

Back in 2009, a vibrant, hilarious French animated film called A Town Called Panic was released. Ninety-nine percent of us didn’t see it. The few that did, though, fell in love with its simple, brilliant aesthetic and funny, eccentric toy characters. Now, seven years later, two short sequels are coming to theaters.

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Astronomers Just Dug Up a 30-Ton Meteorite in Argentina

An excavating team in Argentina just pulled an over 30-ton rock out of the ground. But is it really the world’s second largest intact meteorite?

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We talk to Cat Davies about Connie, the joys and challenges of short filmmaking, and Hugo vs Chucky

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Watch the Excellent Trailer for RZA's Live Scoring of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

Music and film fans in Austin and Los Angeles are getting a real treat in the next few weeks. Legendary music guru RZA is performing a live, hip-hop score to the classic kung fu film The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and the trailer is here.

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Proving that pretty much anything goes in the DC Rebirth status quo, this week's issue of Suicide Squad mercilessly killed off a member of Task Force X and brought back a surprise Superman villain...

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Song of the day

Ainslie Willis “Drive”

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These New Posters Make Your Favorite Scifi Properties Look Better Than Ever

Where can you see Ghostbusters, Batman, Ex Machina, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Scott Pilgrim, Big Trouble in Little China, and Alien all at the same time? At Craig Drake’s latest show at the Hero Complex Gallery, or right here.

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10 Things You Might Not Know About STAR TREK

On the 50th anniversary of Star Trek's television debut, Geek Dave boldly goes back to the beginning. 1. Although Star Trek debuted on ...

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Creating the insane VFX for 'Kubo and the Two Strings' | Hedonistica

If you haven’t seen Kubo and the Two Strings yet, get off the Internet and go watch Kubo and the Two Strings.

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Collateral Beauty trailer Will Smith meets Death, Time and Love

Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley and Edward Norton star in Collateral Beauty

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NECA Unveils Preacher Series 1 Figures - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News

NECA has revealed the first to figures in their Preacher TV series line. Series 1 includes both Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a

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Set The Thames On Fire film review: London’s burning

The post-apocalypse gets strange in Set The Thames On Fire

Director:Ben Charles EdwardWriter:Al JoshuaCast:Michael Winder, Max Bennett, Noel Fielding, Sally Phillips, Gerard Mcdermott, Sadie Frost, Lily Loveless, David Hoyle

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Top 5 Takeaways from DRAGON CON

These are the top 5 things that LRM took away from Dragon Con this past weekend

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5 Scientific Theories That Will Melt Your Brain

These suggestions belong in a book by Douglas Adams.

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An Exclusive Look Inside the Beautiful Art of Jock

If you’ve been on io9 before—or hell, the internet at large—you’ve probably seen the gorgeous poster work of British artist Jock. Or maybe you’ve seen it in comic series like The Losers, Wytches, or his work on Batman and Judge Dredd. Now the artist is releasing a whole book filled with his amazing work, and we’ve got a sneak peek.