Awesome Leisure

Luther creator Neil Cross’ mini-series looks incredibly intense. Hard Sun is a fresh take on police dramas, as two cops stumble onto details about a coverup that reveals the end of the world is upon us. Streaming now on BBC Player, and starting 3/7/18 on Hulu.

Turn up the treble, turn up the bass… cause i’m shoving guacamole all up into my face. Fans of The Regular Show will be thrilled with Chetreo’s songification of Mordecai and Rigby. The track was inspired by The Chimichanga Song, but takes things to a whole new level.

Master builders at LEGO America HQ paid tribute to the 60th anniversary of the brick by constructing a 10-foot-tall, 1200 pound statue of a red 2×4 brick, using over 133,000 bricks. Now they just need to build a bunch more of these to build an even bigger LEGO brick.

Hot Toys’ new sixth-scale Black Panther action figure features both a new body and likeness of actor Chadwick Boseman. It’s also the first Hot Toys figure to have patterns that glow under “specialized” light, which is probably UV light. An LED that emits said light is included.

Musician Amy Turk turns in two excellent covers of Muse tracks, the powerful Plug in Baby and the emotional Falling Away with You, beautifully rendered on her harp. Be sure to check out her YouTube channel for more great performances.

“We all have our own problems. Our own issues. Our own demons.” Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock, the disgraced and depressed journalist who would eventually bond with an alien symbiote to become one of Spider-Man’s greatest enemies, Venom.

Musician Billie Eilish applies her resounding jazz vocals to Michael Jackson’s 1987 hit Bad, with this smooth and soulful reinterpretation. We have little doubt that this will turn up in a movie trailer as some character walks away from a giant explosion or some other badass move.

Is your cat growing up too fast? This book will help you speak with kitty about morality, and keep them on the straight and narrow from sex, drugs, satan, and unsafe gun usage. It’s time to Make America Great Again for Kitties!

A ceramic coffee mug inspired by Thor’s mighty hammer. Holds up to 20 oz. of your favorite caffeine buzz, though you might have trouble lifting it to your lips to take a sip unless you were born on Asgard, have a body chiseled by a god, and flowing blonde locks.

This amazing book from Taschen lets you construct a life-size (5’9″ tall) paper model of a human skeleton. It has movable joints, and each bone is labeled with its English and Latin name. While we don’t have a release date yet, it’s available for pre-order from Amazon now.

Mathieu Terrade performs a wonderful cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on a pair of unusual string instruments, the Marcodi Harpejji G16 and K24. His performances of Bohemian Rhapsody and While My Guitar Gently Weeps are worth a listen too.

Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but one thing you can’t say is that he isn’t dedicated to his craft. Not only did Cruise learn to fly a helicopter for Mission Impossible: Fallout, he performed solo flying stunts, while acting his part, and operating on-board cameras.

Ready to feel old? 1990s nostalgia is now officially a thing. This new Netflix original series is about relationships and coming of age in the heyday of Beavis and Butthead, Nickelodeon, and America Online. Drops 2/16/18.

(PG-13: Language) Deadpool prepares us for the arrival of his badass nemesis in the sequel to our favorite Marvel movie yet. Looks like Josh Brolin’s gonna have a busy summer (and some big paychecks from Marvel) between playing both Cable and Thanos.

Most gaming mice are packed with buttons and scroll wheels. But the Lexip takes a different approach. It has two joysticks – one inside that you control by tilting the mouse itself, and one outside to be used with your thumb. A left-handed version is also available.

After wowing us with his 90,000 piece LEGO roller coaster model, builder Tomáš Kašpařík aka Chairudo shared this footage that gives us a look at what minifigs see when they go for a ride. We wish we could go through the shrinker ray and hang out at his theme park.

Instead of the usual blob of wax, Kyle Haines’ The Rocket lava lamp is filled with ferrofluid – a liquid filled with tiny magnetic particles. The lamp comes with two magnets so that you can play with it out of the box. There’s also a variant that comes in an alien head bottle.

The latest in Bandai’s Manga Realization line of Marvel action figures features the Merc with a Mouth. The Samurai Deadpool action figure comes with 2 pairs of hands, 2 swords, 2 guns, 2 holsters and 3 swappable eyes.

Nissan had a little fun with this modded 370Z by fitting it with tracks in the back and skis in the front. Otherwise, the 332 hp winter convertible is largely stock besides the lifted suspension and widened wheel wells. The car will debut at the 2018 Chicago Auto Show.

The way things were left at the end of last season, it was pretty clear that things were just about to start getting really bad for the humans, and a bit better for the hosts. Dolores and the rest of her kind start to claim what’s rightfully theirs when the new season premieres.

Build your own desktop robot factory with this amazing wooden model from UGears. The 598-piece kit comes in flat-pack form, and features a variety of moving parts as well as robots that roll off the assembly line.

Puddles Pity Party belts out another couple of soul-stirring covers, this time performing a smoosh-up of the Styx classic Come Sail Away and Let It Go from the Disney animated flick Frozen. Crank the volume up to 11 for this one.

A woman with a stalker begins to unravel when she’s convinced the man continues to follow her everywhere she goes, despite having moved far, far away. Steven Soderbergh’s disorienting psychological thriller is quite a departure from his lighthearted heist flicks.