SyFy’s Sharknado franchise came to a close last night, sending its surviving (and resurrected) cast members back in time—“If we stop the first sharknado we can stop them all,” dribbles Tara Reid—so it could have a shitty CGI shark eat a shitty CGI T-Rex. Elsewhere, flying, fire-breathing sharks spiraled their way…

Anyone who’s paid attention to the movies of 2018 is aware that we are living in a glorious age of bonkers cinema, premises that would be lucky to crack direct-to-video somehow getting opening weekends. As my friend Drave observed, it’s like we’re in the alternate timeline where all of the fake movie trailers are…

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They say all good things must come to an end, but apparently that old proverb also applies to things that are bad (or maybe so-bad-they’re-good) because TVLine says that Syfy’s Sharknado series will finally end after this summer’s Sharknado 6. We reported earlier this year that the yet-untitled sequel would involve…

At the end of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Dolph Lundgren showed up as the time-traveling son of Ian Ziering’s character, and the two of them flew into the past as part of an extended homage to Back To The Future. Sharknado 6 is coming this summer—because this series is unstoppable—and now …

Sharknado could have saved the world.

Like both of its namesake nouns, the Sharknado franchise is indiscriminate in its appetites, devouring cameos and guest stars with undisguised, buzz-craving hunger. These range from the relatively benign—hey there, Steve Guttenberg—to the absolutely disastrous (like when the franchise had to race to chop Jared Fogle…

Variety reports that Syfy has given a greenlight to the fifth film in its endlessly self-aware Sharknado saga, ensuring that Ian Ziering and Tara Reid will once again be chumming the waters of their careers with the tiniest possible amount of fresh blood. Following in the national-scale footsteps of Sharknado: The 4th…

A curious tweet blipped across The A.V. Club radar this week:

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It was the incredibly crass, brilliantly stupid title that sank its fangs into the internet and wouldn’t let go: Snakes On A Plane. Directed by the late David R. Ellis, a stuntman turned director, and starring a never louder Samuel L. Jackson, the airborne, serpent-heavy thriller finally reached theaters on August 18,…

In 2016, the Syfy brand exists in something of a split personality state, less a unified front than the network equivalent of Two-Face’s scarred coin. On the shiny side is the network that remembers it was once the home of Battlestar Galactica and wants to be a home for interesting and progressive genre fare like …

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One sharknado is freakish—but hey, these things happen. Two sharknados seems implausible, and three deadly maelstroms really stretch credulity. Four sharknados, though? That actually kind of makes sense, if we consider the possibility that nature is actively working toward humanity’s destruction, due perhaps to our…

Listen, there are a lot of lies—sorry, “pranks”—going around today, but we have no reason not to believe that Deadline’s report on the title for the fourth Sharknado movie is true. Coming from basically anyone else, we would have discarded the story immediately, but this is SyFy we’re talking about. The only thing…

When Sharknado introduced us to Ian “Fin” Ziering, Tara “Line?” Reid, and their trusty shark rippin’ chainsaws, I loved every dumb second of it. When Sharknado 2: The Second One built upon that momentum, casting everyone from Today Show hosts to Richard Kind to Vivica A. Fox into its world of chaos and buzzsaw arms, I…

The back half of 2013 saw the release of two films that share a spiritual kinship and fall under the same broad cinematic classification. One film boasted established characters, an esteemed director, a generous, eight-figure budget, and a cast stocked with name actors, including two Academy Award winners and another…

Those Riverdale kids must be pretty jaded by now. They’ve been terrorized by Jason Voorhees, mended political fences between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, beamed up to the Enterprise, and most recently stared down a Predator. And now, Deadline is reporting that Archie will be able to cross “surviving a Sharknado” off…

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