Because Warner Bros. is convinced it can somehow top the perfection that was 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 1998’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, this is the recently released red band trailer for the Mortal Kombat reboot set for release April 16th. It’s about as ridiculous as you’d expect, although the graphics are
- February 19, 2021
This is a short video from Texas following the string of nasty winter storms there of an outdoor ceiling fan that formed icicles on its blades while it was still spinning, causing the icicles to grow outward due to the centrifugal force acting on the water droplets. Should you even
- February 19, 2021
This is a video of cat Alexis and human Anika of Austria setting the Guinness World Record for most cat tricks in one minute, with a very respectable 26 (although whether some of these should qualify as tricks remains highly debatable — e.g. ‘look left’). Anika adopted Alexis when he
- February 19, 2021
Brought to us by Youtuber glamourdaze, this is some AI restored footage (noise and artifacts removed, upscaled to 60fps and 4K, color added) of life at Paris’s cafes in the 1920’s. It’s all got a very Great Gatsby feel to it, just Parisian. Obviously, while watching it I’ll try to
- February 19, 2021
Edited together by video essayist Jacob T. Swinney, this is ‘First And Last Frames’, a supercut of movies’ opening and closing scenes he created “in a meditation on themes.” I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that movies would be way shorter if they consisted entirely of only the
- February 18, 2021
Because snow is all the rage these days (we got eight inches this morning before it turned into some ungodly frozen slurry), this is a video of a man lighting the gas fire pit on his back porch while it’s still covered with snow. The result is mesmerizing. Speaking of
- February 18, 2021
Because life imitating video games imitating life, this is a video of a guy walking around like he’s a character in a video game, and getting stuck on an invisible wall until he pays the gatekeeper to access the area. I’m not sure if this is Twitter user KaoruGans0 (who’s
- February 18, 2021
This is a video from Valencia, Spain of a front end loader with an orange harvesting attachment spreading its cape around an orange tree planted on the sidewalk and shaking and catching the fruit as it falls. Well, some of it at least. Apparently these particular orange trees produce fruit
- February 18, 2021