Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director James Gunn divulged details on his social media behind one of the more subtle sci-fi cameos in his latest Marvel superhero blockbuster. Some of the most adamant supporters of the Guardians of the Galaxy films like to note the influences that James Gunn took from the deepest roots of the science-fiction genre to make them. There are your more overt and obvious influences from movies and TV shows like Star Wars and Firefly that are sprinkled out the Guardians franchise, but there are also fingerprints from all over the genre and pop culture in general that Gunn pulls from to pack his films....

Hobbs & Shaw’s mysterious villain will play a part in future Fast & Furious installments, according to the film’s writer. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, the film served as a direct spin-off of the hugely popular franchise. Johnson made his debut in 2011’s Fast Five. That particular sequel is often seen as the transitional installment, moving the franchise more towards being a series of outlandish, action-packed heist films. The move paid off, not only at the box office but also in drawing increasingly recognizable stars to the cast....

Fear the Walking Dead’s season 5 midseason finale made zero sense, and it ended up being quite anticlimactic because of the writing (and story) issues. Admittedly, Fear the Walking Dead got off to a relatively decent start this season, and the writers and producers have even managed to introduce intriguing elements into the overarching franchise, such as irradiated zombies. But overall, there have been quite a few problems; one of them is that characters tend to say and find themselves in situations that make no sense....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the most popular entertainment brands on the planet, and a good deal of that popularity has manifested through the massive amount of merchandise produced featuring the various characters. However, a persistent criticism of the brand has been that female characters have been underrepresented in merchandising efforts - leaving fans of such characters unable to find toys, apparel, etc featuring them. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige weighed in on the controversy, stating that the company is taking steps to correct this perception....

The Human Torch and the Thing are coming together for an adventure of their own that could potentially bring the Fantastic Four back together. Since the events of Secret Wars fans have been wondering what the collective fates of Reed Richards, Sue Richards and their kids Valeria and Franklin are. Fortunately, it appears that Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm would embark on a mission to get to the bottom of their current whereabouts and possibly even reunite the iconic Marvel team together for another go at world-saving....

The executive producer for Fargo has confirmed that season 4 is definitely happening, but production won’t start until fall in 2019. It’s bittersweet news for viewers of the award-winning FX series, as it means it will be some time before the crime anthology drama reaches TV screens again. But, after some concerns that a new season might never be filmed, it does confirm that Noah Hawley will continue to write the show and that fans have plenty of surprises to look forward to....

The Synergy Q2 2008 Mobile Handset Market Share report confirms the US smartphone market posted strong double-digit growth, with the iPhone continuing to break records, shipping over a million units in three consecutive quarters. “Even with Q2 shipments dropping in anticipation of the new 3G iPhone, Apple retained the second place spot for the first half of the year with Motorola a close third,” the researchers said. Motorola is currently the number one US mobile vendor with 25 per cent of the overall market, but it’s facing challenges taking a bite of the growing smartphone sector, researchers explained....

While Fear The Walking Dead doesn’t have the same drama and zombie action as the main Walking Dead TV show, it marches on with an impressive main cast that includes Kim Dickens as Madison and Cliff Curtis as Travis. There are a few bits and pieces that have the potential for high drama, like Madison dealing with her heroin-addicted son Nick (Frank Dillane), but the spin-off series still needs to find its footing after a shaky and brief season one....

I know not everyone gets along with Siri, but personally I love it. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it’s my default way of interacting with my iPhone, whether it’s searching the web, dictating a text message, setting an alarm, setting for location-based reminders, noting appointments, phoning friends, playing music, getting directions … even opening apps. The main reason I use Siri is simply efficiency – which some of my friends insist is spelled ‘laziness....

At the time of this article, over 500,000 users have switched to Feedly after getting the news about Google axing Reader. Feedly for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari Browsers Just navigate to the Feedly homepage in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome and click the button to install it. No matter which browser or mobile device it’s installed on, you need to allow Feedly access to your Google Reader account. After it’s installed, you can open it using the Feedly button next to your browser’s address bar in Firefox....

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald will have a much darker tone than the first movie did. The upcoming sequel will bring back Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander as he is recruited by Albus Dumbledore to take on rogue wizard, Gillert Grindewald (Johnny Depp). In 2016, director David Yates and author J.K. Rowling brought Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them onto the big screen. As the predecessor to the Harry Potter films, Fantastic Beasts followed Newt Scamander as he located his mysterious creatures throughout New York City and battled an even darker magic....

Michael Fassbender is playing two different android characters in Alien: Covenant, and he wanted to make sure the differences were striking. Fassbender stole scenes as the android David in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, beginning as a maintenance worker for the real humans aboard the ship but developing his own dangerously human-like characteristics, such as jealousy and insecurity toward the crew. Fassbender is back in Alien: Covenant, which also brought back Scott to direct his first proper Alien film since the 1979 original....

Netflix has revealed the first-look images and cast for its upcoming animated series, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers. The street-racing family drama turned-international thriller franchise is getting a CGI animated spin-off show, and it’s set to begin streaming on December 26. A teaser trailer was released earlier this year. Fast & Furious: Spy Racers will be executive produced by franchise leading man Vin Diesel, writer Chris Morgan, and producer Neal H Mortiz, who have collaborated on every film since 2009’s Fast and Furious....

Quite a lot of tech features are designed to protect us from ourselves, and most of the time I’m fully in favor of this. I like it, for example, that my iOS devices ask me if I’m sure I want to delete a photo. I like it that my Macs ask me if I really want to empty the wastebasket. I love that Time Machine performs hourly backups and offers me an easy way to recover an earlier version of documents – and so on....

Fantastical has long been my go-to calendar on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, and today the Fantastical 2.2 update is hitting the Mac App Store. The intelligent calendar and reminders app started out as a menu bar utility with really, really good natural language detection for creating appointments and entries, plus a streamlined list view of upcoming items. Then a year ago Fantastical 2 debuted on the Mac, which graduated the menu bar app to a full-fledged calendar that easily competes with the built-in calendar app....

Hobbs & Shaw is partially successful in evolving the Fast & Furious property, yet mostly comes off feeling like a branding exercise for The Rock. The Fast & Furious movies got a new lease on life when they added Dwayne Johnson to the mix in 2011. In many ways, The Rock was the perfect match for the brawny franchise and its exploration of multicultural brotherhood. Now, following his much publicized off-screen clash with Vin Diesel on The Fate of the Furious, Johnson and his costar Jason Statham are headlining a spinoff of their own called Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - a project that, if nothing else, maintains the series’ proud tradition of not being able to settle on a consistent title scheme....

As far as technology has advanced, there are still times when you might need to send or receive a fax. Whether it’s a rare or regular occurrence, fortunately, you can handle your fax needs with an app. Read on for three ways to receive and send a fax with iPhone or iPad, including two free options as well as solutions for businesses with strict privacy requirements. There are a few major industries that still rely on faxes including legal, healthcare, financial, and government....

Warner Bros. released the Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald trailer and we break down all the Harry Potter references and connections. The now expansive Harry Potter multimedia franchise first kicked off with a novel by J.K. Rowling published in 1997. Over the last two decades, the seven-book series inspired an eight-movie film franchise that has since continued with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - itself the first installment of a five-movie series....

With a series as massively successful as Harry Potter, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood found a way to extend its lifespan by branching out from the literary source material. Sure enough, that is happening with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to Harry Potter that takes place in New York in the 1920s rather than London in the modern era. With the movie taking place in a different country and different era, it stands to reason, then, that Harry and his schoolmates won’t be making any cameo appearances....

With a budget of $759 million dollars, the Fast and Furious franchise is one of the biggest global money-makers in film history thanks to its combined gross of $3.9 billion. Across seven films—and two mostly unheard of shorts—the series has impressed audiences all over the world with its practical stunts, novel action sequences, and diverse cast. Next month’s The Fate of the Furious is projected to open with $110 million and is already garnering positive reviews; so there’s no telling just how big of a profit Universal Pictures will earn, when all is said and done....