Early Edition Gets Disasterous Makeover In Tomorrow News

Journalistic integrity is preparing to take another knock with the announcement that Korean movie producer Mirovision is planning to adapt 1980s comic Tomorrow News into a movie. With a plot that includes strange radio transmissions and advance warning of upcoming disasters, it’s like Heroes meets White Noise – or perhaps just a big-budget downbeat version…

The Only Thing More Mega than MegaForce is UltraForce!

If you haven’t yet unburned from your mind the image of a blow-dried Barry Bostwick laughing heartily while flying his motorcycle against the bad guys in 80s cheesefest MegaForce, then we’ve got at least an hour of diversion for you. About five years ago, Matt Gourley and Jeremy Carter made a DIY web series called…

Watchmen Movie Was Almost About The War On Terror

Click to viewLast night, it was finally New York’s turn to see the 25 minutes of Watchmen and get a chance to hear from director Zack Snyder and Watchmen’s artist, Dave Gibbons, about the heavy undertaking that is bringing the classic graphic novel to life on the big screen. But more importantly, Snyder shared with…

Did You Survive Terminator Boot Camp?

I thought last night’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was the best episode of the season when I watched it over the weekend. Now that it’s aired, you can weigh in for yourselves. What did you think?

Are You 24 Pages Away From a Multi-Book Contract?

When the struggling writer is pitching a book to an agent, he or she had better have a book, right? Well, Finnish SF author Hannu Rajaniemi sold three of them to classy UK-based Orion imprint Gollacz based on a mere 24 pages. Could you also be 24 pages away from selling your book? Find out…

New Chapter Of Watchmen Motion Comics Released

It’s been way too long since iTunes updated the latest in the Watchmen motion comics series. But now the second chapter is finally up and you can get your fill of man-voiced women and find out what’s with all the tension between The Comedian and Sally Jupiter is really about. Plus more Rorschach. [Watchmen Motion…

This Week’s Comics Have Something For Everyone… Even Monkey Fetishists

It had to happen; after the relatively quiet weeks of yore, this Wednesday sees a deluge of good stuff to your local comic book store. Whether you’re looking for secret histories of your favorite superheroes, happier times for your favorite cancelled TV shows, something to make you pretend that the Speed Racer movie never happened,…

Holographic Television Coming Soon

We use high-definition television, dark rooms, and surround sound to create an immersive media experience. But for those who want television that more closely resembles the holodeck, there’s good news. A University of Arizona research team has made a significant breakthrough in 3-D displays that could put holographic sets on the market in five to…

What Will Remain of Us 100 Million Years After the Apocalypse?

What will be left of humanity in 100 million years? Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester suggests that hyper-evolved rats or aliens (his picks for future scientists) will find scant clues. There will be faint fossils and chemical traces, all packed into thin layers of rock easily disrupted by water, weather and geologic…

Attack Of The Giant Leeches Reboot!

Finally someone is remaking a scifi movie that I’m not terribly upset about. In fact I think I could watch numerous reboots of Attack Of The Giant Leeches and never get tired of the big, black, blood-sucking creatures. The 1959 Roger Corman classic is getting remade by My Dead Girlfriend indie director Brett Kelly, who…

We love wasting hours at the Speech Accent archive at George Mason University. Where else can you listen to the English accents found on the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia? The mad linguists behind this archive’s recordings found someone to say, “We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids”…

Guillermo del Toro: No Shirtlessness in My Frankenstein

While cautiously talking to press about the plot for his upcoming Frankenstein movie, Guillermo “Hellboy” del Toro revealed that he’s not going to do yet another origins story that is all the rage in Hollywood these days. Thankfully you’ll find del Toro’s monster fully-formed and on the road to adventure. Without any mostly-naked companions.Guillermo Del…

Heroes Has Lost Its Spirit Guide and Is Growing Slime Fingers

Last night’s Heroes returned to a problem the show had in its first season — too many characters doing too many random things — without returning to that season’s strengths. What was rewarding about that season was that we watched our main characters coming together and pulling the narrative threads of the show into an…

Read The First 10 Pages of Marvel’s Enders Game

The first issue of Marvel’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game hits stores tomorrow – but if you can’t wait that long, you’re in luck. We’ve got an exclusive preview of the book’s first ten pages to whet your palette.The five issue series, Ender’s Game: Battle School, is adapted by New X-Men and X-Force…

Bonanza Of Heroes Spoilers, Plus Major Transformers Scoop

Spoilers rule! An inside source has dropped some knowledge about the secrets of the most impressive giant robot yet, in Transformers 2. There’s also the motherlode of Heroes spoilers, including some hints about the tail end of volume three, “Villains.” We found out exactly what the science fiction plot twist of My Own Worst Enemy…

Breakthrough in Holographic Tech Makes 3D Sets 5 to 10 Years Away

Holographic television sets may be only a few years off thanks to a new breakthrough in 3D technology. Researchers at the University of Arizona said they had made the first updatable 3D displays with memory, a prerequisite for getting any holographic image to move. With the new technology, displays can now be erased and rewritten…

Best Superhero Origin Ever

When Master P smokes weed, he turns into Black Supaman, with abilities and powers above ordinary mortals. Black Supaman is a direct-to-DVD one-hour movie that came out last year, about the greatest superhero in the neighborhood. He goes out and stops criminals, and takes away their weed, so he can use it for the greater…

Spinal Tap Blu-ray Hits January; Game Lets You Create Your Own New Originals

The upcoming This Is Spinal Tap Blu-ray is of course exciting to me. After all, it’s been what, like seven years since I last hurled money at Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest and the rest of the lot for their well-deservedly best-selling DVD special edition. But while the Blu-ray will come with an intriguing-sounding game, this…

Cormac McCarthy is Huge in Spain

Spain announced the results of its fan-voted scifi awards Los Premios Ignotus over the weekend, and nabbing the prize for best Spanish novel was Alexander the Great and the Eagles of Rome by Javier Negrete. The Spanish author was previously a university professor of Greek, and his classical alternate history asks where Alexander the Great…

Do Protestant Terrorist Robots Have Souls?

Ken MacLeod’s latest novel, The Night Sessions, is about a near-future Earth that’s ruled by atheists who have driven Christians into the closet. An intricate murder mystery about Protestant terrorist factions of the future, The Night Sessions is also a strangely moving tale of the emotional bonds between humans and robots. The “Faith Wars” have…