Awesome Leisure

(Flashing lights) Ellie Fanning stars as a young aspiring model who is “devoured” – figuratively, we hope – by Los Angeles’ beauty-obsessed women. It seems like your usual Nicolas Winding Refn film, blurring the line between the grotesque and the beautiful.

If you want to try out a tattoo design before committing to get inked, you can get a temporary tattoo, or you can use Ink Hunter. It’s an augmented reality app for iOS that lets you upload designs, project them on your body and edit and share the photo.

(PG-13) The video for Breakbot’s disco-infused track mixes ’70s sci-fi elements to create a world in which men are replaced with creepy robots who do the bidding of their female masters. It’s like Westworld meets Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.

In 2014, Austin Granger set the world record for largest K’nex great ball contraption with a 40ft-long machine. The 23-year old outdid himself this year, creating a mesmerizing contraption that’s a whopping 912ft. long.

An upcoming Godzilla reboot from the folks behind the Evangelion anime and Toho, the studio that created the King of Kaiju. シン・ゴジラ (Shin Gojira) aka Godzilla Resurgence is said to be a reflection of “the world’s recent “loss of innocence” from modern real-life tragedies.”

While we wait anxiously for season 6 of Game of Thrones to begin, HBO has something to whet our appetites for the time being – a look at some of the amazing visual effects work that goes into the series. That flamethrowing crane dragon stunt was pretty epic.

A dizzying stunt performed by pilot Spencer H. Suderman, who broke his own Guinness World Record of the most inverted flat spins in an aircraft. The daredevil spun his Sunbird S1X biplane around an astounding 98 times over the Arizona desert. We’re gonna go puke now.

Adjust the bass, and let the Alpine blast with another well executed lip-sync video from Mylo the Cat. This time, the cast of Sesame Street celebrates the warm weather with a little DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, and one of our favorite sunny day jams.

Peel-and-stick spoke reflectors that are incredibly thin, light and tough. Flectr has thousands of reflective prisms to ensure visibility, and its aerodynamic form will not flap, move or make noise even at high speeds. There’s also a wheel magnet variant.

(SPOILERS) The second in the three-part story of the critically-acclaimed tactical RPG and management sim adds a new race, class, combat mechanics as well as a more fleshed out and capable caravan. You can import your save from the first game or start a new one.

Jason Bateman directs and stars with Nicole Kidman in this adaptation of Kevin Wilson’s novel. A couple became famous in the ’70s for pulling bizarre pranks, which often included their kids. Now they’ve gone missing, and their offspring don’t know if it’s another prank or not.

A team of talented and thrillseeking skateboarders literally set their boards and ramps on fire, then performed a variety of cool tricks in front of the watchful lens of BeyondSlowMotion. Needless to say, don’t dare try this at home.

Radiooooo (that’s five Os) is a musical time machine. Pick a country and a decade and it will play a pop song from that setting. You can buy the songs (if there’s a link online), upload a song and if you register, bookmark songs. Yes, Antarctica has “songs.”

Dr. Stephen Strange used to be a neurosurgeon, but an accident damaged his hands. While looking for a way to heal, he comes upon a mystical being that trains him to be the Sorcerer Supreme, which sounds like an awesome pizza flavor but is sadly just a mystical Neo.

Theory11’s elegant U.S. made playing cards feature intricately detailed line art and are packed in a glorious gold and bronze foil hot-stamped box that’s alone worth the price of admission. Splurge for the handcrafted African hardwood box set for a truly special gift.

Titanfall was one of the big Xbox One launch titles, offering epic mech battles, but decidedly last-gen graphics. Its sequel aims to remedy that, unshackled from the Xbox 360, plus this version is coming to the PS4 too. Here’s our first tiny glimpse at a jumbo mech with a big sword.

“Anything edible in there? Any livestock?” British Ministry of Magic officer Newt Scamander meets with his counterparts in New York City. When the creatures in his suitcase escape, the already tense atmosphere between wizards and American muggles worsens.

The cinematic teaser for Xbox One shooter Gears of War 4 sees JD Fenix – son of previous franchise hero Marcus – return to his home under very different circumstances. The game is set 25 years after GoW 3 and features a new enemy called the Swarm. More here.

(Season 5 Spoilers) Whether it was meant to prevent us from eyeing key plot elements, or it’s just a reflection of the show’s dark themes, the latest Game of Thrones trailer is so dimly lit that we recommend watching it with the lights turned down.

The bad guys forced to be good crack jokes and skulls in the latest trailer for Suicide Squad. The Joker also shows up, and if he starts causing trouble, you know who’s not far behind. We wonder what an insane person with a mallet can do that her teammates can’t.

VPCabs‘ amazing new home arcade machine uses a 32″ vertical display to play both virtual pinball and arcade games. A 15.6″ secondary display displays game marquees and doubles as a pinball scoreboard. Includes all current Pinball FX2 tables, and 60 arcade classics.

LEGO weaponsmith ZaziNombies made a life-size replica of Locus, the powerful sniper rifle in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The toy is made of around 2,000 LEGO pieces, weighs 8lb and is nearly 4ft long. It even has a moving bolt and a detachable magazine.

Adventurer Klemen Premrl takes us on a tour of some of Iceland’s most astounding natural structures, made from ice and volcanic rock. We’re still blown away every time we see the blue-green color of naturally-occurring ice.