Desktop Wallpapers That Give Away The Enterprise’s Secrets

We’ve spurned “wig spoilers,” but we’re not above “desktop wallpaper spoilers” here. Especially when they may help to explain just what’s up with the Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie. Meanwhile, there’s a batch of new Transformers 2 details, including Megan Fox claiming to be a special kind of Transformer. Plus spoilers for BSG,…

Vudu XL2: Internet Streaming Goes Rack Mounted

For the guy who wants a Vudu system but demands a rack-mountable setup, the Vudu XL2 is here to foot the bill in Armani boots. It’s essentially a Vudu XL in a premium aluminum package, storing a terabyte of content while squeezing within one rack unit of space. The catch is that it’s priced at…

Best Unsung Filk Ever, in Honor of Star Wars Holiday Special

Today is the 30th anniversary of the ill-fated TV experience known as the Star Wars Holiday Special. Featuring a group of Wookiees trying to celebrate the holidays while being hassled by Imperial troops – along with song-and-dance numbers and comedy bits in a variety show format – the two-hour special was deemed so hideous that…

Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Classic Doctor Who Companion?

Here’s a look at the filming of the classic Doctor Who story “Caves Of Androzani,” where co-star Nicola Bryant is faced with a major acting challenge. She has to ad-lib saying “Doctor, what’s happening?” and “Doctor, I’m frightened!” and making scared faces for, like, two minutes. Just in case they need a little extra reaction…

True Blood Gives Birth To Whiny Little Sister Vamp

I didn’t think the latest True Blood episode could possibly live up to last’s weeks crazy vampire dentistry session, but I was wrong. What it lacked in blood, guts and gore, it made up for with twisty plot reveals and whiny baby vampire births. Spoilers ahead.This week, Bill begrudgingly “makes” whiny-faced Jessica. While I’m not…

First Look at Fan Auteur Sandy Collora’s “Hunter Prey”

Sandy Collora is known as the auteur of fan filmmaking because his dark short film Batman: Dead End took 2003 Comic-Con by storm, and its comparatively lavish production values changed the whole fan filmmaking game. Though Collora had some setbacks, including having his films shoved off the bill by lawsuit-shy Comic-Con, he’s back with his…

Won’t Somebody Save Robotech?

If you were hoping that Warner Bros’ big budget version of anime classic Robotech was going to be… well, good, then the studio’s choice of writers may be upsetting. Smallville creators (and vets of The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor and Shanghai Noon) Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been hired to adapt the…

Battlestar Clues Part 1: Who’s The Final Cylon?

Click to viewIn a just and sane universe, we would have known the identity of the final Cylon on Battlestar Galactica a long time ago. The Sci Fi Channel chose to break the show’s fourth season in half, putting a nine-month gap in the middle of the chain of episodes that reveal the remaining hidden…

Gender-Bending Body Swap Experiment Leaves Subjects Wanting More

In science fiction, characters often swap bodies to achieve immortality, pose as someone else, or walk a mile in a loved one’s shoes. Now neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute have found a way to convince subjects that they’ve swapped bodies with another person. Men become women, humans become mannequins, and the participants are eager to…

Benicio Del Toro Channels Han Solo For Wolf Man

The new Mezco figurine for Joe Johnston’s The Wolf Man looks like it’s channeling our favorite Star Wars anti-hero. Even though it’s a little Han-esque I’m still much more excited for a werewolf revival after the vampire craze that’s been sweeping the nation. Especially since Benicio Del Toro is playing wolfie – that actor commits…

Sam Tyler, Futuristic Dance Instructor

The American remake of Life On Mars continues to find its own, slightly silly, groove. And it’s hit on a new schtick: Sam Tyler, the cop from 2008, teaches the people of 1972 about future pop trends. Here he is, teaching the everybody the Moonwalk and other “futuristic dance moves,” courtesy of Michael Jackson. Click…

Next Year To Give You All The Astro Boy You Want

Next year won’t bring the return of Astro Boy just to movie theaters. Thanks to the wonders of merchandising, you might have a hard time avoiding Osamu Tezuka’s little atomic pinocchio by the time that his big-budget CGI revival hits the multiplex.Last week, Astro Boy owners Imagi Studios announced partnerships with five different companies as…

Cyberpunk South Of The Border: io9 Meets Sleep Dealer’s Alex Rivera

The next step for cyberpunk movies is to include more of a global perspective, says Sleep Dealer director Alex Rivera. He’s looking for the “cyberpunk of the South” or “cyberpunk of the developing world,” and hopes his film will become the first branch of a whole new direction. Rivera came to San Francisco and showed…

Zeppelins Transport You To Your Floating Island Hotel

The airy experience of Alexander Asadov’s Aerohotel begins when you leave the mainland, gliding over the water in one of the island hotel’s designated airships. The hotel itself is so lacy and light that it seems to float high above the surface, letting the ocean and sky stretch out in all directions while having minimal…

Why So Copyrighted?

TorrentFreak reports that The Dark Knight is officially the most pirated movie of 2008. Maybe the Joker’s lectures about law-breaking and those burning piles of money taught audiences a lesson? Apparently, the flick got a million downloads in under seven days, and those are on top of the cam and DVD-screener versions that were swapped…

Alan Moore’s Worst Nightmare: Watchmen Video Game

Click to viewIf Alan Moore had been even thinking about opening up to Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of his classic graphic novel Watchmen, this new video game ought to be the final nail in Moore’s anti-social coffin. The game, entitled Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, has released a batch of stills that show Rorschach and…

Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In ’09

2009 is going to be a big year for DC Comics’ Superman. He’s going to leave his comic book home for the last 70 years, and he’s also going to be abandoning his adopted home planet forever (or the comic book version thereof, which is at least six months). What could make the Man of…

Star Trek Trailer Goes Online, Just In Time For The Inevitable Backlash

The HD version of the full-length Star Trek movie is finally online, and it wants you to know two things: Kirk and Spock are troubled youngsters who find their purpose (and each other) on a ship with a big tortilla in front. And there will be big splodey starship battles. Now that we’ve had a…

Will the Global Economic Crisis Kill the Large Hadron Collider?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest physics experiment, was all set to start up a few months ago – its miles of underground tunnels would provide answers to deep physics questions about the nature of everything from atoms to black holes. And then it broke. Big time. Six tons of ultra-cold liquid helium…

New York improv comedian and writer DC Pierson just sold a novel that’s being billed as “Superbad meets E.T.” The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Didn’t Have To, forthcoming from Broadway, is about two outcast teens who bond over their love of comic books and science fiction. One of them never sleeps, and instead just…