Andrew Liptak

Celebrate Independence Day With The Original Independence Day Trailer

Because what other movie would you watch today?

Eagle 629-03142, America’s Oldest Bald Eagle, Has Died At Age 38

The Audubon Society has reported that the oldest tagged Bald Eagle in America has died at the age of 38. The bird has overseen the dramatic recovery for his species in the United States, and is a testament to some of the successes of the environmental movements of the 1970s. Eagle 629-03142 was struck by…

Science Fiction And Fantasy Is Pakistan’s Hope For The Future

In an excellent essay for, Pakistani author Usman Malik has a fantastic look at his home country, and how speculative fiction can help it regain some hope for the future . Writing for The Herald, one of Pakistan’s widely-read magazines, Malik looks back on his own education in Pakistan and how the lack of encouragement…

Massive Bee Attack Kills Texas Man

A Texas man died last week when he was attacked by a massive swarm of bees when he hit a pipe containing their hive. According to ABC News, the man fled nearly a hundred meters before being overwhelmed. 54 year old Rogerio Zuniga had been operating a tractor in his field when he struck an…

Open Channel: What’s The Geekiest Thing About Where You Live? 

Where do you live, and what’s the geekiest/coolest/neat point of interest from your area? The picture above is from 1944: a B-24 bomber clipped the top of Camel’s Hump and crashed while on a training mission. As a kid, military history appealed to me (enough so that that’s what I studied in grad school), and…

Ava DuVernay Won’t Be Directing Black Panther After All

In an interview with Essence Magazine today, Selma director Ava DuVernay noted that she decided to pass on directing Marvel’s Black Panther adaptation. The movie, which will star Chadwick Boseman (42) as the titular character, is set to be released on July 6, 2018. DuVernay had spoken with Marvel about directing the film, to much…

For a long time, we’ve heard about that time that Nicholas Cage was tapped to play Superman in Superman Lives back in the 1990s. Meredith Woerner, formerly of io9 and now writing for the LA Times, has some footage of what Cage looked like in costume. Watch here.

Meet Negasonic Teenage Warhead In This New Deadpool Image

Empire Online has a new picture from the upcoming Deadpool movie. Negasonic Teenage Warhead, played by Brianna Hildebrand, joins Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool in the upcoming film, due out February 4th, 2016. [Empire Online]

Wingsuit Adrenaline Junkies Thread The Needle

GoPro has a ton of films of people doing some pretty crazy stunts, but this one can be summed up in one word for me: NOPE. The hole he’s flying through is 2 meters wide; not much bigger than a womp rat. That they pulled it off is pretty spectacular.

Our Valued Customers On The State Of Television Today

You know, this thought has crossed my mind more than once. There’s only so many hours in the day to keep up with the number of television shows that currently on the air or on Netflix/Hulu/Steaming/Etc. [Our Valued Customers]

The Strange History of Bubble Wrap And Why It’s Changing

In the last couple of days, the internet has been abuzz with some shocking news: soon, you won’t be able to pop bubble wrap. The Sealed Air Corporation, which manufacturers the product, announced a replacement that’s come a long way since it’s original use: wallpaper. Sealed Air’s new product, iBubble Wrap, is designed to help…

Sweden Goes Post-Apocalyptic In This Suspenseful Short Film

In Andrée Wallin’s debut short film State Zero, four soldiers are deployed to a post-apocalyptic Sweden on a routine mission. Once they’re on the ground, however, everything goes wrong. There’s really some stunning visuals here, and Wallin has a good eye for setting up some of his framing shots. There’s no surprise there: he’s worked…

New Horizons Shows Off New Color Faces of Pluto

New Horizons is just days away from Pluto, and it’s beaming back some incredible images. In the latest set, the probe has shown us that the dwarf planet has two distinct hemispheres, along with some new detail on the darker spots. Scientists have yet to see anything quite like the dark spots; their presence has…

The First Stills Of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Are Here!

Entertainment Weekly has our first look at the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adaptation. Based off of the parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith (who’s other book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has already been adapted), the action follows Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters as zombies invade Regency era England. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…

There’s Gonna Be Chaos In The Final International Ant Man Trailer

The Marvel marketing juggernaut has put out a final international trailer out for Ant Man. In it, Scott Lang wants to call in The Avengers for help. There’s some slightly new details: Lang apparently doesn’t want to be a hero, and his new suit isn’t ‘cute technology’ like Tony Stark’s armor, as well as a…

A Second Star Wars Mythbusters is coming!

Get ready for more geeky fun from Adam and Jaime! The Mythbusters are returning to a Galaxy Far Far Away with another Star Wars themed episode coming in July. According to Cnet, the pair will test out the effectiveness of Stormtroopers and Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber duel: The duo will blow up a boat, make a…

Though Dune won the Nebula and Hugo awards, the two most prestigious science fiction prizes, it was not an overnight commercial success. Its fanbase built through the 60s and 70s, circulating in squats, communes, labs and studios, anywhere where the idea of global transformation seemed attractive.

Ebola Has Resurfaced In Liberia With Three New Cases

On May 9th, Liberia was formally cleared of the Ebola Virus Disease after its last patient recovered on March 20th: the end of the outbreak in the country was a major milestone in the greater outbreak that has crippled West Africa. Earlier this week, a 17 year old teenager died of the disease, and nobody…

The Milky Way Is Breathtaking At Mount Rainier National Park

This shot of the Milky Way is simply breathtaking against Mount Rainier. via US Department of the Interior. Photo credit: Stephen Byrne

Ghost Fleet Reveals The Terrifying Future of Warfare

P.W. Singer and August Cole’s debut novel Ghost Fleet isn’t like any other Future War novel out there. One, they’re not your typical novelists, and two, it’s a novel that’s more realistic than anything else that typically has the ‘Military Science Fiction’ moniker attached to it. Military science fiction has a long and distinguished history.…