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Power-Armor Vs. Nano-Tech Super Soldiers, In G.I. Joe

Starship Troopers 3 may finally show us a glimpse of the powered armor Heinlein talks about in the novel — but we’ll get our real power armor fix from the G.I. Joe movie, coming in 2009. I haven’t been sure whether Joe really counted as science fiction, but a new script review gives plenty of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Wonder Woman Movie Resurrected in the Wake of JLA Movie Death?

Set your “I’m ambivalent about that upcoming comic book movie” settings from Justice League of America to Wonder Woman. Producer Joel Silver told journalists that the JLA movie is officially dead, but that he’s now interested in reviving the troubled Wonder Woman movie, whose original script was was written by Firefly creator Joss Whedon and…

Movies Annalee Newitz

‘Incredible Hulk’ Smashes All Expectations To Become Highlight of Comic-Con

If you were like me, and hated Ang Lee’s take on The Incredible Hulk with the burning hatred of a thousand radioactive test-sites, you’d be thrilled to attend the New York Comic Con’s Hulk event because it promised something completely different. If you were like me, your brain would have exploded at the results. Along…

Movies Kaila Hale-Stern

The Solar-Powered Astro Zombie Turned Out to Be a Bad Idea

In this terrific little moment from Ted V. Mikels’ classic everythingsploitation movie Astro Zombies, we get so much annum 1968 greatness that it’s hard to encompass it all. A mad scientist has created a remote-controlled, solar-powered “astro zombie” in strange and boring detail (yes, there is a five-minute scene of unscrewing the cover on a…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Take That, Existential Zombie Gutter Slut!

Picture this, if you will: Porn star Jenna Jameson is in a movie playing a stripper who reads Nietzsche, becomes a zombie, and, armed with her new theory of undead power, eventually kills somebody by shooting pool balls out of her superstrong zombie pussy. If you want to know what the cult movie breakout of…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Shockingly, Project Necromancer Turns Out To Be A Bad Idea

The Dark Lurking, a film which just finished shooting in Australia, is described as “Aliens Meets Evil Dead,” but looks more like a better remake of Doom, judging from the new trailer. A team of soldiers goes into the research station a mile beneath the Antarctic to find out what happened to the scientists down…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Real Reason Iron Man Will Crush The Hulk At The Box Office

Even if July’s Incredible Hulk movie does better than expected, there’s no way it’ll do as well as Iron Man, the Robert Downey Jr. film that looks like this summer’s Transformers. But the green world-beater’s lack of supremacy isn’t just due to all the reasons people have cited: less impressive effects, slower buzz, creative spats.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

We’re All Friends In Hulk-Land, Says Edward Norton

Marvel — and Edward Norton — are rushing to do damage control on reports that a feud between them is sinking this summer’s Incredible Hulk movie. And yet their efforts to clear the air are only making things worse. A new Entertainment Weekly article touches on the fact that Norton is refusing to do interviews…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

At last, the X-Files movie that’s coming out in July has a title. It will be called X-Files: I Want to Believe, a reference to the poster Agent Mulder had hanging in his office during most of the series. Director Chris Carter told Yahoo News, “It’s a natural title. It’s a story that involves the…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. I wasn’t born a horror movie fan, I made myself one through years of careful practice and studious watching. Everybody has an origin story, and mine begins with the pulsing, gooey strands of sludge that enveloped and destroyed every single…

Movies Annalee Newitz

When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?

This summer will be the biggest “blockbuster” movie season ever, with no fewer than 23 would-be smash hits coming out between early May and mid-August. It didn’t used to be this way. Back in the mists of time — like, say, in the late 1990s — there were only one or two big science fiction…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Dennis Hopper with a Deevolution Machine — What Could Go Wrong?

The curse of videogame movies goes far beyond the horror of Uwe “Bloodreign” Boll’s oeuvre. The Super Mario Bros. movie, made in the early 1990s and starring the most unlikely Bros ever: Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. The filmmakers took a lot of liberties in adapting the videogame, creating a parallel Earth where dinosaurs evolved…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Greatest Time-Travel Duels Of All Time(lines)

Some of the greatest battles in science fiction haven’t involved dogfights or shoot-outs, but time-traveling smackdowns, with two different people trying to change history out from under each other. Like Marty and Biff, trying to wipe out each other’s timelines in this clip from Back To The Future 2. As soon as you have more…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era

It’s comforting to know that during the height of Reagan’s Cold War in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was making movies that were just as cheesy as the ones you could see in the United States. When you see this clip of the scary, growling radioactive giant turtle from Мутанты (which means Mutant), you’ll be…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate “Ghost in the Shell”?

Ghost in the Shell, a classic anime cyberpunk flick from the 1990s, has mesmerized fans for years with its brutal-but-philosophical story of what happens to a woman’s identity when she merges with technology on physical and psychological levels. Set in 2029, the movie starts out as a pure actioner with our cybercop hero Motoko sleuthing…

Movies Annalee Newitz

What If Your Blog Became A Future Society’s Mythology?

MGM isn’t just remaking Bill and Ted, it’s also greenlit a new spec script that sounds very Bill and Ted-esque. Bobism is about a shy college kid who discovers that life 1,000 years in the future is entirely based on his blog. (I’m guessing he learns this from time travelers.) Writer Ben Wexler has mostly…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Read Michael Chabon’s Script for Spider-Man 2

Michael Chabon wrote one of the smartest explorations of superheroes in his Pulitzer-winning The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, so it was exciting news when he agreed to write the script for Spider-Man 2. Unfortunately, some studio execs, in their wisdom, decided to bring in some other writers, including Smallville co-creators Al Gough and Miles…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

For the past couple of weeks, unauthorized, unofficial images of the main characters from Frank Miller’s new flick The Spirit have been circulating online. The interest has been so intense that Lionsgate finally caved in to fan demand and released two CGI-treated images of the bad guys — Silken Floss, the evil secretary played by…

Movies Annalee Newitz

It’s Finally L.A.’s Turn To Get Crushed

We were wondering what would replace plague movies and dystopian futures as the next trend in movies, and it’s looking like we have our answer: alien invasions and space battles. On the heels of Universal greenlighting Earth vs. Moon, Columbia Pictures is making Battle: Los Angeles, based on a spec script from Chris Bertolini (The…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Vampirism is a Virus

In the flick Quarantine, a U.S. remake of a Spanish horror movie hitting theaters in October, vampirism is a disease. A disease that a Homeland Security-style group is bent on containing at all costs. And hey, if a few journalists are killed along the way, that’s all the better. There’s the premise of the movie…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Power-Armor Vs. Nano-Tech Super Soldiers, In G.I. Joe

Wonder Woman Movie Resurrected in the Wake of JLA Movie Death?

‘Incredible Hulk’ Smashes All Expectations To Become Highlight of Comic-Con

The Solar-Powered Astro Zombie Turned Out to Be a Bad Idea

Take That, Existential Zombie Gutter Slut!

Shockingly, Project Necromancer Turns Out To Be A Bad Idea

The Real Reason Iron Man Will Crush The Hulk At The Box Office

We’re All Friends In Hulk-Land, Says Edward Norton

X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?

Dennis Hopper with a Deevolution Machine — What Could Go Wrong?

Greatest Time-Travel Duels Of All Time(lines)

Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era

Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate “Ghost in the Shell”?

What If Your Blog Became A Future Society’s Mythology?

Read Michael Chabon’s Script for Spider-Man 2

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

It’s Finally L.A.’s Turn To Get Crushed

Vampirism is a Virus

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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