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Leonard Nimoy Explains How Science Fiction Has Improved Since The 1950s

Star Trek and Fringe star Leonard Nimoy got his start in the 1952 serial Zombies Of The Stratosphere. We talked to him on a conference call the other day, and he raved about how science fiction has improved since then. During the conference call with reporters, someone asked Nimoy how he felt science fiction had…

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Super 8 Viral Site Hides Clues In Newspaper Articles And Popsicle Ads

Super 8 wouldn’t be a proper J.J. Abrams film without perplexing viral marketing. This weekend, the clues began filling the internet in earnest, as two newspaper clippings – complete with hidden messages – surfaced on the website ScariestThingIEverSaw.com. ScariestThingIEverSaw.com – a website whose name was gleaned from a camera reel in the Super 8 preview…

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What it looks like when Shoggoths invade your home

Shoggoths are giant, polymorphous beasts who were once slaves to aliens. But with their former masters long dead, the creatures sometimes erupt from basements to feed. This is just one of the fantastical photo-manipulations we’ve got from Jim Kazanjian. An artist in Portland, Oregon, Kazanjian says: I am interested in a kind of “entropic” image,…

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Kaboom’s Teen Sex Revolution Of The Future Starts Now

You’ve seen the strange bondage stills from Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. Now check out the first three (NSFW) clips from the film that star Thomas Dekker calls an “apocalyptic-rock-n-roll-sex-art movie.” This first clip is NSFW: [via Quiet Earth]

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How Did Science Fiction Defeat Horror In The War For The Zeitgeist?

Once upon a time, science fiction and horror were both pulpy genres, in both books and movies. But now, science fiction has its own bookstore section, and SF films are huge blockbusters. How did SF beat horror, Cinematical asks.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Holy Fish Biscuits! It’s The Series Finale Of Lost!

This week offers us a solid 3.5 hours of new Lost, but it’s the last new Lost we’ll ever get. That is, until The Lost Polynesian Christmas Reunion Special of 2020. Also, the season finales of V and Fringe! MONDAY 5/17/10 On the penultimate episode of Chuck (8 PM, NBC, “Chuck Versus the Living Dead”),…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Looking Down at Clouds in the Sky

While one could spend hours gazing up at the endless variations of clouds, satellite imagery has revealed that looking down on them can be even more astonishing. Anvil Cloud, Western Africa Cyclones, Indian Ocean Von Kármán Vortex Street, Selkirk Island Gravity Waves, Indian Ocean Wired Science has a massive gallery of these bad boys —…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Down With Crappy CG Aliens, Support A Real Monster

A new short film, Vessel, is attempting to bring back real monsters, with an alien created out of practical effects. Support real monsters, and check out our exclusive gallery of Vessel’s new alien including creepy prosthetic limbs and bits! Vessel is a project after our own hearts. Shunning the recent crop of over CG-ed aliens,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Shia Labeouf Admits that Indy 4 and Transformers 2 Just Weren’t Very Good

Looking back at the most recent films he made with Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Transformers 2 — the young star admits that they both kinda sucked. Doing the press rounds during the Cannes Film Festival, in support of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel,…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Will Bruce Willis’ New Film Be Like Twelve Monkeys 2?

Bruce Willis has joined Brick director Rian Johnson’s time-travel film Looper, and new plot details make it sound a bit like 12 Monkeys 2. Deadline is reporting that Willis has joined the cast of Looper , and reveals that Willis and co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play the same character at different ages, thanks to the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

In The 1930s, The US Conducted A Fake War Over The New York Skyline

In the 1930s, military drills weren’t just for top-secret bases. No, they occurred right above New York City, where 672 fighter pilots once convened to lay smoke screens and drop fake bombs over Wall Street. In 2009, Air Force One and two F-16 fighters scheduled a flyover of New York City. What happened? Offices were…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Heroes Might Get a Two-Hour Movie Finale

Word on the street is that NBC is approaching the producers of their recently canceled superheroic drama about some kind of closure event, a climactic good-bye movie. Should they even bother? Listen, I’ve devoted as much time as any of you in Heroes — moreso, if you count the hours upon hours of midnight lamp-lit…

io9 Marc Bernardin

New Updates On Thor, Cowboys And Aliens, Transformers 3, Jonah Hex, The Cape, Lost And Fringe!

The cast of Cowboys And Aliens keeps getting better. Stars talk Thor, Jonah Hex, Transformers 3, Fringe and Eureka. There are details on the Wachowskis’ war movie. New Airbender, Cape, Undercovers and Chuck pics. Plus Supernatural, Doctor Who and Lost. Cowboys and Aliens: The cast of Jon Favreau’s alien-fighting Western got fleshed out. There Will…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Finally, The Giant Squid Movie You Deserve

This new picture seems like Hunt For Red October meets 20,000 Leagues but with a HP Lovecraft twist. About time. Plus, a whole new look at the Tin Man from Oz. It is absolutely gorgeous. Bleak Sea We’re over the moon excited about this submarine picture. Pointed out by Quiet Earth. The acting looks solid,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Infecting The SGU Crew With Space Madness Means We All Win

This week everyone went bananas on SGU and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Watching each crew member sift through their own personal mind hell revealed a lot about each character and enabled one excellent back-from-the-dead cameo. I’m normally not a fan of filler, but lately some of my favorite SGU episodes have been…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch The First Previews Of The Cape, NBC’s New Superhero Drama

In NBC’s The Cape, Dave Lyons plays Vince Faraday, a cop who assumes the mantle of his son’s favorite comic-book hero after he’s left for dead by his corrupt police force. How do the first clips look? Spoilers on! In The Cape – which debuts midseason on NBC – Lyons stars as the titular hero,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

First Glimpses Of J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers And NBC’s The Event

Watch Martha Jones’ sister kick a whole lot of ass in our first clip from J.J. Abrams’ new spy show Undercovers. It looks frankly amazing. And there’s also a tense clip from NBC’s new 24-esque conspiracy show The Event. NBC’s upfront presentations aren’t until tomorrow, but you don’t have to wait to see your first…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Alec Baldwin’s Timecrowave Serves Up Roast Beef And The End Of Humanity

Last night on Saturday Night Live, host Alec Baldwin unleashed the Timecrowave. Be warned, the time traveling microwave side effects include nazis, cat monsters and hilarious time paradoxes. Watch the video clip, it just keeps getting better and better. [via NBC]

io9 Meredith Woerner

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

A while back, Disney scrapped Terminator Salvation director McG’s darker version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Now Disney’s talking with a new director, David Fincher of Fight Club and Se7en. His oeuvre ain’t sunshine and rainbows. https://gizmodo.com/disney-beaches-captain-nemo-5406605 According to THR, Fincher got the gig this winter by approaching Disney about directing “a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyright, Studio Claims

Does filming a movie being filmed violate copyright? A man who passed by the set of Transformers 3 found his Youtube footage of the shoot removed for copyright violation after Paramount Studios complained. On Monday business strategist Ben Brown was in a meeting in a downtown Los Angeles office building when he heard a commotion…

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Leonard Nimoy Explains How Science Fiction Has Improved Since The 1950s

Super 8 Viral Site Hides Clues In Newspaper Articles And Popsicle Ads

What it looks like when Shoggoths invade your home

Kaboom’s Teen Sex Revolution Of The Future Starts Now

How Did Science Fiction Defeat Horror In The War For The Zeitgeist?

Holy Fish Biscuits! It’s The Series Finale Of Lost!

Looking Down at Clouds in the Sky

Down With Crappy CG Aliens, Support A Real Monster

Shia Labeouf Admits that Indy 4 and Transformers 2 Just Weren’t Very Good

Will Bruce Willis’ New Film Be Like Twelve Monkeys 2?

In The 1930s, The US Conducted A Fake War Over The New York Skyline

Heroes Might Get a Two-Hour Movie Finale

New Updates On Thor, Cowboys And Aliens, Transformers 3, Jonah Hex, The Cape, Lost And Fringe!

Finally, The Giant Squid Movie You Deserve

Infecting The SGU Crew With Space Madness Means We All Win

Watch The First Previews Of The Cape, NBC’s New Superhero Drama

First Glimpses Of J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers And NBC’s The Event

Alec Baldwin’s Timecrowave Serves Up Roast Beef And The End Of Humanity

David Fincher To Tackle Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Remake

Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyright, Studio Claims

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Anker Prime Docking Station Hits Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Winds Down (14 Ports With 160W Output)

Google TV Streamer 4K Drops to an All-Time Low, Final Hours in Amazon Spring Sale to Turn Any TV Smart on a Budget

The New ‘Masters of the Universe’ Trailer Brings Eternia to Life

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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