Declassified Government Documents Reveal the Truth About UFOs

As any viewer of Fringe or The X-Files will tell you, the governments of the world know more about UFOs and alien life than they’re letting on. The party line may be that UFO sightings are mere misunderstandings and close encounters a fantasy, but not every government official agrees. We’ve rifled through tons of declassified…

Terrence Howard’s War Machine Replaced By Don Cheadle

Terrence Howard’s dreams of being a comic book superhero are crushed: Marvel has replaced him with Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. Hollywood Reporter says that even though Howard wanted to return as Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) bestie and future partner in crime fighting Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes, that won’t be happening. Why would…

Scifi Sports Franchises Demand Your Fandom

Before basketball season, the new Oklahoma City franchise had to pick a new basketball nickname — the first new one since Toronto chose the Raptors in 1995, on the heels of the popularity of Jurassic Park. We’re disappointed to report that Oklahoma City decided to call its team the Thunder. Maybe Oklahoma City Dark Knights…

Street Fighter Poster Does The Impossible: Uglies Up Kristin Kreuk

The live action Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun Li movie team has managed to accomplish the impossible. The new posters for the big action video game movie not only make the main character sexy-kicking-legs-for-days Chun Li look like a pasty albino but also manage to present the gorgeous Kristin Kreuk photoshopped beyond all recognition.…

If the Writers Don’t Kill Half the Characters on Heroes Now, I Will

Once a fun show, Heroes has become an unrelenting barrage of new characters whose faces blur together like the hours of a crazed night spent with six hookers and a pound of bug powder. Why can’t the writers have the decency to at least kill a bunch of people before introducing ten new ones? I…

This Week in VUDU: 70 Movie Update

This week, VUDU has 63 new HD movies and 7 new titles available on HDX. That’s a pretty big fall off from last week’s release 63 HDX movies alone. Hopefully VUDU won’t lose too much momentum on their Blu-ray-challenging digital format. Here’s the full list:HD: Chariots of Fire Little Shop of Horrors The Devil’s Advocate…

Is This The New Doctor Who?

With the future of the BBC’s top scifi franchise almost entirely uncertain following next year’s special episodes, one source is claiming to know what – or rather, who – is the future of Doctor Who under the reign of new executive producer Steven Moffat. And, yes, that means someone to replace David Tennant, apparently. Meet…

Two New Possibilities For BSG’s Final Cylon

Are you running out of candidates for the final Cylon on Battlestar Galactica? We noticed a couple of guest stars appearing in the last few episodes, who are so out of left field, they could just be the answer. Meanwhile, Ludacris tells us the secrets of the dystopian game-playing movie Game, and we have some…

America’s Biggest Universities Build 78-Terabyte Library, Still Missing Front Door

Today, 23 of the biggest public and private universities in California, Michigan, Virginia, Illinois and other states* announced a 2-million book online library made of 78 terabytes of information, 16 percent of which are free of copyright and ready for public consumption. Even though the press release says “public domain materials will be available for…

Joost Flash Player Launches Tonight, Has Serious Hulu Envy

The poor kids at Joost—and their partners at Viacom—thought the future of TV on the computer would be a discrete app that blended a slick TV emulator with internets! power. They were wrong, Hulu and Google were right: It’s all about the browser. So that’s where Joost is going. Its Flash-based player officially launches full-throttle…

Science, Murder and the Sex Lives of Conjoined Twins in 1951

Somehow, Z-movie director Harry “White Gorilla” Fraser managed to convince real-life conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton to appear in a bizarre movie called Chained for Life in 1951. The women had made their first cinematic appearance in Tod Browning’s intense 1930s movie Freaks, and apparently the public outcry at that movie hadn’t soured them…

Phallic Fangs All A Twitter On This Weeks True Blood

If you thought that True Blood might get tired of peen and sex talk, then you think again. This week, sadness is sexy as the characters mourn the best way they know how: by getting naked and humping one another. Also, learn the not-so-subtle connection between sexual stimulation and vampire fangs. Who needs porn when…

The Silverhawks Will Defend Us From Economic Limbo

How can you not love a team of heroes introduced in a series premiere called, “The Origin Story” that features a conflict on the planet of Limbo? The first season of Lorimar’s follow-up to Thundercats hits DVD tomorrow, and there’s no time like the present to pick it up. Preserved in steel, “partly metal, partly…

Look Into The Parasitic Beady Eyes Of Your Alien Foe

Concept artist Goddam has released some crazy cool new artwork for an “undisclosed independent horror film.” The only clues we have about this flick are one, it’s about aliens and two, these aliens are parasites. I know they’re supposed to be terrifying but I got to admit when you take a close look they’re pretty…

Brick Director Rian Johnson Explains His New Time Travel Movie

Brick, Rian Johnson’s high-school noir movie, was one of my favorite films of the past few years. He was in town promoting his new con-man romance, The Brothers Bloom, and we got the chance to ask him about his planned third movie, a time-travel thriller called Looper. And he explained why you are probably trapped…

If the pseudo-scientific voice overs from Suresh on Heroes frustrate you, then there’s a new book that may help. Science writer Yvonne Carts-Powell has just published The Science of Heroes, which explores what scientists actually have done to make ordinary people superpowered. She interviews scientists, digs up weird historical facts, and generally puts on a…

Abrams Explains What Star Trek Isn’t And What Fringe Is

Taking part in a webchat with readers of British newspaper the Guardian, JJ Abrams spilled the beans about everything: The future of Fringe, why he’s rebooting Star Trek and what has changed about the end of Lost. He even touched on the possibility of a sequel to this year’s Cloverfield. We have the highlights of…

Fincher Pulls the Plug on Rendezvous With Rama

Director David Fincher’s post-Benjamin Button project has been somewhat of a mystery—a 3D/CG Heavy Metal? Brian Michael Bendis’ Torso? Matz’s The Killer? Oh god, not the Fight Club musical?!? But now it looks like we can cross at least one limbo-ing project off his to-do list: Rendezvous With Rama, based on the cerebral, 1972 novel…

George Orwell Is Composing More Science Fiction Without Even Trying

George Orwell’s diaries are slowly being turned into a series of blog posts by scholar Peter Davison. You can leave mean comments on each and every 70-year-old blog post. Regular readers of the blog will experience a disjointed narrative of the fantastic, one that is drastically different from our everyday. Illustrated with Google Maps, Orwell’s…

Robots Dancing With Lamas And Superhero Crossovers In Bollywood’s Future

Two Indian science fiction films are roaring forward. First of all, the legendary director Shankar has started filming his movie Enthiram, formerly known as Robot, with some big song-and-dance numbers in America. Here’s the first look at star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, done up like a Vegas showgirl and dancing with a ton of feathered people…