Giant Freakin Robot

Blumhouse Production’s latest low-budget venture, The Purge, appears to be a sort of synthesis of horror and dystopian science fiction. Two great tastes, right? The futuristic thriller promises to be a grim, bleak time, and this new poster serves as a reminder that you’re on your own and that you’re screwed.

The central premise of The Purge is that in the future, in an attempt to combat skyrocketing crime rates, the American government tries something drastic. For one night every year, all crime is legal. As it turns out, being able to get our ya-yas out like this once every 365 days, consequence free, does the trick, and the world is a much safer place. Unless, that is, you find yourself stuck outside on the night of the annual Purge. Then you’re on your own.

I don’t watch American Idol, and I rarely listen to the radio, so to be honest, I don’t have much of an opinion when it comes to Nicki Minaj. She does look like a cartoon from space, so there’s that, and she did write “Starships,” which appears to be a celebration of interstellar crafts, which is pretty cool. Then again, maybe it’s just about partying. I do, however, have a weirdly intense love for Pitch Perfect, which prominently features the song.

This fan-made video, set to the Day-Glo superstar’s hit song, is really a supercut of all things starship. It’s clip after clip after clip of crafts flying through the deep, dark void of space. Created by someone who calls herself bironic—very different from the term Byronic—this video is intended as a “celebration of pilots, captains, engineers, crew members, and the spacecraft they love to fly.” The video only contains clips where the people that appear onscreen look totally psyched to be flying. Wouldn’t you be? And aside from launches and crashes, these crafts are actually flying in space, not in Earth’s atmosphere.

Over the past few months, we’ve seen a lot of fan support for short-lived TV series finding new life. There was the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign to fund a feature film, the upcoming return of Arrested Development on Netflix, and the rumored return of Heroes on MSN. It’s no wonder that it’s all sparked new buzz of whether Joss Whedon’s beloved Firefly could possibly return in some fashion. If you were holding out hopes for Firefly to rise from its ashes on Netflix, prepare to be disappointed.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Netflix Chief Content officer Ted Sarandos explains why he thinks a potential Firefly return wouldn’t be as successful as Arrested Development‘s. Please keep in mind: Sarandos is trying to promote the return of Arrested Development on May 26th, so take this with a grain of salt. Here’s Sarandos’ rationale:

Let me give you one broad statement about these recovery shows. In almost every case the cult around the show gets more intense and smaller as time goes by. Arrested Development was the rarest of birds in that the audience of the show grew larger than the original broadcast audience because people came to discover it years after it was cancelled.

The Firefly fan is still the Firefly fan from when it was on TV and there’s fewer of them and they’re more passionate every year. Whereas with Arrested Development we’re going to be serving a multiple of the original audience. Any of the other shows we could bring back would be a fraction of the original audience.

In a few short weeks, audiences across the country will finally get to watch Star Trek Into Darkness. The release of the film will usher in a new era, not only for Star Trek, but for Star Wars too. After the Star Trek sequel comes out, J.J. Abrams will embark on a new journey to bring Star Wars: Episode VII to life. The video above features Abrams having a discussion with Star Trek Into Darkness star Simon Pegg on the impact Star Wars had on their lives, and the big differences between Star Trek and Star Wars.

I grew up with the Star Wars franchise already in place in pop culture. There was never a time in my life when Star Wars was not a giant force (no pun intended). It’s always interesting to hear reactions to Star Wars from people from an older generation, like J.J. Abrams and Simon Pegg. When they were growing up in the ’70s, Star Wars was a surprising pop culture phenomenon like no one had ever seen before its release.