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Porkins’ B3-3R Astrokeg LEGO Droid Mixes Our Three Favorite Things

Forget about the LEGO Millennium Falcon. Here’s the definitive LEGO model that mixes three of our favorite themes: LEGO, Star Wars and beer. This LEGO B3-3R is Porkins astromech droid and beer keg. And probably his best friend too. Porkins and B3-3R are just the last of the dozens of LEGO models that Mike Crowley—aka…

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Evil Brain Commands You To Watch

You can watch the Evil Brain From Outer Space and many other scifi B-movies for free. Right now, instead of being a productive employee, you could be watching Starman use his Globemeter to track the missing brain of Balazar. Other choices include Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Bad Taste and Planet Outlaws Just go to…

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Scifi That’s Actually Funny — On Purpose

Audiences have been laughing at science fiction since it was conceived, but usually for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t until television became popular that producers decided to get in on the joke and start making comedies about science fiction — and those early shows gave birth to everything from films like The Three Stooges…

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Acid-Spitting Chitinous Beasts for the Holidays

Some have expressed poorly-worded consternation that savage monsterfest Aliens vs. Predator II is coming out on Christmas. Last year’s Black Christmas also provoked outrage (especially from Christ-worshippers), but a rep from its production company Dimension Films responded blithely that gore-drenched mayem is “counter-programming to the more regular yuletide fare.” In sum, horror is a holiday…

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Iron Man’s Crotch: Codpiece Or Diaper?

The newest image of the Iron Man armor doesn’t reveal anything from the waist up. But the newly displayed pelvis of steel has us debating fiercely: is it a codpiece or a diaper? You tell us. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your…

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Where Will The Weird Alien Kid Strike Next?

Since 2004, actor Cameron Bright has played four versions of the same freaky alien kid. You may remember him from Stargate, Ultraviolet, X-Men 3: The Last Stand, or The 4400. When a script calls for a “bizarre child with a powerful blank stare,” he must be the only actor they phone up. Here are some…

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The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Before the word “robot” was invented, L. Frank Baum wrote about a clockwork man named Tik-Tok who lived in Oz. Tik-Tok is a portly metal creature who constantly needs winding. Though he has no emotions, he is ridiculously grateful to Dorothy after she discovers him in a cave and winds him up in the 1907…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Bill Murray Plays Dystopian Underground Ruler for the Kids

Bill Murray cackles like a cartoon villain in this first glimpse of tween post-apocalyptic flick City of Ember, out next fall. He plays the corrupt mayor of an underground city who tries to prevent our two teen heroes from discovering how to get back above ground now that the city’s power generator is failing. The…

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First Peek at Glorious Freakshow of Hellboy II

Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, is back for Hellboy II: The Golden Army this summer. Expect loads more monsters and an evil fairy tale look that the director says is more badass than the so-called “dark” versions of various other comic books getting made into movies. (Ahem Batman.) IGN just posted…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a fortnightly column about all things scifi and horror. This week, a crucial topic: Aliens vs. Predators. Not the movie, the smackdown. Colin Strause, one of the two Brothers Strause who directed the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator sequel, is known across the webonets as a serious Predator fan. The brothers claim…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

A giant mutant could once again terrorize Korea in the Host 2, due in 2009. Korean comics superstar Kang Full is writing the script, which takes place a few years before the original film. The original Host (Gwoemul) featured “a carp crossed with a T-Rex,” according to design firm The Orphanage. Image from the Orphanage.…

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Stan Lee Shouts ‘Excelsior!’ At io9

Stan Lee was the recipient of a much-deserved Jules Verne Lifetime Achievement Award this week, presented to him by Doug Jones (who played the Silver Surfer onscreen in the recent Fantastic Four sequel) and by Heroes creator Tim Kring and co-executive producer Jeph Loeb. It might have been a lifetime achievement award, but he certainly…

Movies Kevin Kelly

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

The new science fiction movie from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle) features this insanely cute alien dog. It turns out the toy that Chow’s character finds in a dumpster for his son isn’t just alien tech, but an alien creature. It also confirms our original suspicion about Chow’s CJ7. (More cute doggy pics after…

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‘Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem’ Directors Tell io9 About Extraterrestrial Urban Life

The Brothers Strause (also known as Greg and Colin), directors of the new Aliens vs. Predator flick, are living the FX geek dream. They bought off-the-shelf visual effects software in their early teens, and by 1995 they had moved to Los Angeles to work on visual effects in the X-Files movie. Eventually they formed their…

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Heath Ledger’s Joker Plays Chicken With Bat-Cycle

The trailer for Batman: The Dark Knight has finally hit the Internet, after showing in theaters over the weekend. It’s our first chance to see Heath Ledger’s take on the Joker, which is less campy and more nerdcore than previous versions. When he calls himself a freak, he sounds like he used to get beat…

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Four Dystopian Movies Starring Adult Babies

Why do dystopian-future movies always turn their protagonists into sexless infants? Often, our hero is reduced to the mental status of a confused toddler, and may actually end up hairless and naked, like Neo in The Matrix, or everyone in THX 1138. We all secretly want to be children again, and dystopian movies indulge this…

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Watch Your Own Neighborhood Drop Dead

I Am Legend proves NYC looks hauntingly beautiful emptied of people. But if you needed more evidence, the film’s official site has a map that lets you visit various locations around the city. At each stop, you can compare the movie version to how it looks right now, courtesy of Google Street View. But we’ve…

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“I Am Legend” is Beautiful Instead of Scary

The best parts of I Am Legend, the virus apocalypse flick hitting theaters tomorrow, may be largely unintentional. As the movie opens, we’re treated to a rich soundscape of New York City taken over by non-human creatures. Wind keens between the buildings, birds sing, deer clatter down roads in the East Village, and grass grows…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

Nothing warms the hearts and soothes the soul at holiday time like a hot laser slicing through your pain receptors. That’s why we put together this list of the top seven torture scenes from science fiction, including one that spawned one of the lamest action figures in the world. (We didn’t include the Star Wars…

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XstreamHD Promises Full HD Movies from Satellite to Cheap Set-Top Box In Minutes

In November, we got a vague press release about XstreamHD, a new kind of satellite video service that claims it would go where DirecTV, Amazon, TiVo, Apple, and Netflix couldn’t, and deliver full 1080p movies with 7.1-channel sound to the home. Well, new details have come to light that make us hanker for a test…

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Porkins’ B3-3R Astrokeg LEGO Droid Mixes Our Three Favorite Things

Evil Brain Commands You To Watch

Scifi That’s Actually Funny — On Purpose

Acid-Spitting Chitinous Beasts for the Holidays

Iron Man’s Crotch: Codpiece Or Diaper?

Where Will The Weird Alien Kid Strike Next?

The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Bill Murray Plays Dystopian Underground Ruler for the Kids

First Peek at Glorious Freakshow of Hellboy II

Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Korea’s Giant Monster Plots Comeback

Stan Lee Shouts ‘Excelsior!’ At io9

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

‘Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem’ Directors Tell io9 About Extraterrestrial Urban Life

Heath Ledger’s Joker Plays Chicken With Bat-Cycle

Four Dystopian Movies Starring Adult Babies

Watch Your Own Neighborhood Drop Dead

“I Am Legend” is Beautiful Instead of Scary

The Seven Best Torture Porn Scenes in SciFi

XstreamHD Promises Full HD Movies from Satellite to Cheap Set-Top Box In Minutes

72 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in April

A Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

Nothing Might Get Into Smart Glasses at the Worst Possible Time

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