Awesome Leisure

Makers Simone Giertz and Laura Kampf were looking for inspiration for projects and came up with Build Dice. This set of aluminum dice helps set parameters for creative projects. The first cube has objects, the second has materials, and the third one has properties. They come in a handsome walnut display box.

Instruments? Where we’re going, we don’t need instruments! The members of the Korean a cappella group MayTree hit 88 MPH with with another great performance, taking on the most recognizable part of Alan Silvestri’s main theme from Back to the Future.

Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Fred Armisen, and Christina Ricci star in Tim Burton’s comedy-mystery series about Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Coming to Netflix 12.23.2022.

LEGO has revealed a brick-built tabletop foosball table. Inspired by a fan-submitted design, the 2339-piece set is fully-playable. It comes with 22 Minifigures – 10 on the field and 12 cheering them on from the grandstand. 44 unique heads and wigs let you create players from many races and ethnicities. One figure even has vitiligo.

This mini chess set from Arcane Science Academy has tiny laser-cut chess pieces that stick into holes on a wooden board. The board folds up and has interior cutouts for holding and organizing its pieces. Magnets and steel hex nuts hold the set together for travel.

When it comes to the songs of the old West, there’s nothing quite like a deep baritone voice to set the mood. Singer Geoff Castellucci is able to achieve low bass notes that can rattle your bones, and his cover of the Stan Jones and his Death Valley Rangers classic Ghost Riders in the Sky makes perfect use of his vocal abilities.

The latest in Need for Speed game has a bold look that combines photorealism with cel-shaded animation. The story takes place in a fictionalized version of Chicago as a racer tries to reclaim a priceless car stolen from his family’s auto shop. Expect police chases and an emphasis on character customization.

A few years back, we took a POV ride-along on a coaster ride that winds through the mountains in Kandersteg, Switzerland. That original video was fun, but shaky and a little grainy. The Flying Dutchman took the same ride, but wearing a better camera that shoots in crisp 4K and has image stabilization for a much smoother ride.

Robyn Adele Anderson is going to Wichita, far from this opera forevermore. And Kansas seems like an appropriate place for some twangy bluegrass music. If you ask us, her arrangement of The White Stripes hit Seven Nation Army sounds just right with the addition of a fiddle and banjo.

This isn’t the first time there’s been a Super Mario Bros. full-length film, but this animated feature looks more true to form than that live-action mess from 1993. It’s voiced by a star-studded cast including Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, and Fred Armisen.

If you haven’t read the recent interview that GQ did with actor Christian Bale, you should definitely check it out. He also sat down with the magazine to talk about many diverse roles over the years and how he gets deep into the minds, bodies, and mannerisms of his characters, from Patrick Bateman to Batman.

We already know that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. But if you’re looking for more Santa Claus in your vigilante action films, look no further than Violent Night, an upcoming holiday flick about a wealthy family held hostage when a tired and jaded Santa (David Harbour) comes down the chimney and stumbles onto the criminals.

Get Get Up. James Brown meets Judas Priest in another genius mashup by music editor Bill McClintock. Mixing soul vocals and heavy metal rhythms, the track is a real banger that makes us wish this collaboration had happened in real life. See if you can spot the audio cameos by Metallica and Megadeth.

LEGO builder MOCingbird celebrates unsung heroes with this diorama that features a city scene and a team of workers fighting off a “fatberg.” As part of their unpleasant but necessary jobs, sewer professionals must clean up these blobs of fat, oil, grease, and waste that accumulate and clog or damage sewage systems.

Marisa Tomei, Minnie Driver, and Paulo Costanzo star in this unsettling short film about a body that goes missing from a hospital. When the patient’s doctor goes looking, she stumbles onto an experiment that attempts to capture what happens to our souls when we die. Written by Terry Rossio and directed by Jocelyn Stamat.

While tasting their latest barrels, Frey Ranch’s farmer-distillers came across a firecracker with their highest proof yet. The 140.18-proof Hazmat Single Barrel yielded only 126 bottles of dark mahogany bourbon, rich with notes of orange peel and oak. Drops 10.8.22 only at Frey Ranch Tasting Room in Fallon, Nevada.