Category Archives: geeking out

Check out the amazing trailer for Wadjda, the first Saudi Arabian movie directed by a woman. Anime fans! There’s a Studio Ghibli documentary headed your way, hitting Japanese cinemas in the fall, and our hearts… forever. Two of the most watched shows in … Continue reading →

Teaming up with advocacy group in Ireland, Ben and Jerry’s have re-branded some of their ice cream flavors to feature Irish celebs who support marriage equality. Question is, how do we get our hands on these in the US? You … Continue reading →

We may have an Alma Coin! Julianne Moore in talks to play the enigmatic President Coin of District 13 in the final Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay. Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan in Annie? Can she pull it off? A biophysicist talks about scientific plot … Continue reading →

Whoa! Congrats to Issa Rae, who’s been tapped to play Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic about Lorraine Hansberry. Rae is also getting ready to make her network television debut as writer and co-producer of Shonda Rhimes’ upcoming ABC comedy … Continue reading →

Snowpiercer international trailer is here! See lots of badassery, and Tilda Swinton with prosthetic teeth being very classist and shouting a lot. Either way, we can’t wait. Still want to ponder and talk about ASOIF even though Season 3 just … Continue reading →

Check out this candid and enlightening chat with Kerry Washington and Don Cheadle about life in Hollywood. First look at Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  Long running comic series Fables is being adapted for the … Continue reading →

The puppet version of MST3K classic, Manos: The Hands of Fate has reached its Kickstarter goal. Gene Kim’s undergraduate thesis film for NYU Tisch features ballerinas and big guns. Grumpy Cat movie: Is this how far we’ve come? Or fallen? Anita Sarkeesian‘s second … Continue reading →

Steven Universe is Cartoon Network’s first series created by a woman, Rebecca Sugar, and it looks pretty awesome. A mystery actresses on Game of Thrones has stated that she will not do anymore nude scenes for the show. (Link contains some … Continue reading →

A Medieval Times movie is in development, and pretty much everyone agrees it won’t fly on brand alone. Here’s hoping it’s not too terrible? NBC is rebooting Dracula with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the title role, directed by Steve Shill (The … Continue reading →

Disney attempted to trademark “Día de los Muertos” for an upcoming Pixar movie. The Internet took care of that real quick. Setting aside our feelings about Orson Scott Card, here’s the trailer for Ender’s Game. This made our week: The IT Crowd … Continue reading →

If you have the time, watch all of these Assassin’s Creed movie clips edited together. Anders Holm talks The Mindy Project, Chris Messina’s magic eyes, and Mindy Kaling’s aggressive charm in this interview with Vulture Omar Sy confirmed (or so it … Continue reading →

Excellent news for gamers who don’t want to interrupt play time to talk on the phone or  grab a laptop: you can just order your Pizza Hut directly through your Xbox. How a group of librarians fooled Al Qaeda and saved ancient … Continue reading →

We love what the ladies over at the Black Girls Talking podcast are doing, so we were pretty stoked that HelloGiggles sat down with them for an interview! It’s in French but it is super awesome: Batwheel. There is a new Star … Continue reading →

According to Reddit, this is the Best 2013 Summer Playlist. Neil Blomkamp talks about creating the dystopian world for Elysium. Check out Jeffrey Veregge, who combines well-known comic and pop culture characters with Native American art. A Tardis bunk bed! … Continue reading →

The Game of Thrones cast says readers of the books will be “shocked” by the changes to this season’s events. Now we’re even more curious to see what goes down in Westeros next week! Comic artists Noelle Stevenson and Danielle … Continue reading →