With a film franchise that spans a mind-boggling 18 films, it can be a tall order to actually get up to speed ahead of a tentpole release like Avengers: Infinity War before its April 27 premiere. So, in case you don't have two full days and nights free for a binge session, we've narrowed it down to five essential films that should get you up to speed just in time for Thanos to start wrecking everything.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child made its American debut on Broadway yesterday and SYFY WIRE was one of the lucky few outlets that got to cover the event, attended by the likes of Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Liev Schreiber, Fran Drescher, and ">

Winning Alfonso Cuaron the Academy Award for best director back in 2013 was just the brightest of Gravity’s many critical accomplishments, but one group the movie can’t pull to its side is the women of NASA who engineer real-life space tech.

Can you believe that our boy Billy Shakes is 454 years old today? Depicted in every medium from film to television to LFO songs, William Shakespeare remains more relevant today than most every piece of media that bears mention of his name.

One of the coolest post-apocalypse shows you might not be watching is back this week, with a big time jump and semi-reboot that makes for a perfect jumping-on point. But that's not all — there's also a whole lot of new stuff to check out.

There are times you get a press release in the email and you think, "Well, I'm going to have to write about this. Might as well jump in."

So yes, Uranus smells like rotten eggs. Just a little.

Spoilers within for the Into the Badlands Season 3 premiere, "Enter the Phoenix."

Into the Badlands is back! Fans were ecstatic to learn that the show had been renewed for a third season, especially after serving up such an epic finale in Season 2. It's only been a few months since those devastating events, but when we caught up with all of our Badlands faves in the Season 3 premiere, much has changed. 

Spoiler Warning: If you haven't watched the Season 3 premiere of Into The Badlands, “Enter the Phoenix,” you might want to turn back now. Besides, as we all know: No one escapes the Badlands.

Hey, Badlands fans! I know you’re all just as excited as I am for this show to finally return. It’s definitely been a minute since we last saw our favorite faces. Let's dive in, shall we?

After huge anticipation bolstered by strong reviews and tons of teases by its creative team, Westworld’s second season was met with tons of buzz from fans. After the HBO show spent a season exploring the Western amusement park and pointing out the others that could possibly exist, the premiere of the follow-up season never slowed down.

It’s taken a while, but Fear the Walking Dead has quietly become a pretty great TV show. It just had to chuck pretty much everything, and start over, to get there.

Rather than just recapping the most recent episode of Fear the Walking Dead, each week we are going to break it down into the most interesting, weird, delightful, and mind-boggling bits.

This week, we take a look at episode 402: "Another Day in the Diamond." Check out our break down of last week's episode here.

Spoiler Alert: The following discusses plot points from Westworld episode "Journey Into Night" written by Lisa Joy and Roberto Patino, directed by Richard J. Lewis.

Imagine a network of satellites that can zero in on any place on Earth and beam down live video a literal second later. This is not science fiction.

Some of the best Sunday night shows are officially back, and I'm happy about one thing in particular: Westworld and Into the Badlands are not on at the same time, so I won't have to make the impossible choice about picking which one to watch. Thank you, TV gods.

What are you tuning in for tonight?

Are homo sapiens just not giving themselves enough credit? Elon Musk seems to think so.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered today at Broadway's Lyric Theater in Manhattan, and the red carpet was studded with stars. Ezra Miller, David Hyde Pierce, Fran Drescher, Chris Rock, Liev Schreiber, Emma Thompson, Allison Williams, and none other than ">

In 2014, Marvel’s Nova Corps made their debut in Guardians of the Galaxy as an interstellar police force. It wasn’t the Nova fans may have been hoping to see, but the success of that franchise may lead the human rocket to headline his own Marvel movie. 

Today, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child enjoyed its premiere on Broadway in New York City at the Lyric Theater, and among distinguished guests like Glenn Close, Chris Colfer, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ezra Miller was the magical author herself,

Today, April 22nd, This Day in Twilight Zone History and The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia remember actor Albert Salmi, who passed away on this day in 1990 at 62.

Salmi was a popular TZ player, well cast in "Execution" as Joe Caswell, the condemned wild west killer who is inadvertently plucked from the hangman's noose by a time travel-experimenting professor (Russell Johnson). Salmi perfectly captures the spirit of a man totally spooked by the future.

While the sequel to Spider-Man Homecoming has been under wraps so tight we don’t even know for sure what actors decided NOT to be in it, some new information has broken from the Marvel higher-ups about the official start of a post-Thanos MCU.