For those of you who have had the pleasure of watching Stuart Gordon’s masterpiece Re-Animator, his 1986 follow-up movie From Beyond is sure to please. It’s pretty much the same cast, including a weirdly hot Jeffrey Combs, and is based extremely loosely on an H.P. Lovecraft story. Basically what happens is that a bunch of…
The Lambda Literary Awards’ science fiction category sometimes comes in for derision (for example, for passing over Octavia Butler’s awesome Fledgling in favor of a markedly inferior work a couple years ago.) But this year’s Lambda winners, announced last night, do include some great SF writers in non-SF categories. Most notably, Ammonite and Slow River…
It takes a lot of imaging power to capture the awesome aftermath of a star committing suicide. To get this freaktastic death blossom pic of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, it took three of NASA’s Great Observatories, using three different light wavebands. The red is from the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared data, the yellow is visible…
Stuck trying to find your way back to the island all week? Don’t worry we’ve composed a collection of the weeks best stories for your pleasure. Star Trek Cake Upsets Nerds Everyone likes cake, right? Especially if the cake is a Star Trek-themed one made by Charm City Cakes. But if that were really true,…
While we all wait excitedly to see if the Denver alien video will sway UFO-doubting voters to vote for Jeff Peckman’s ballot measure to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, let’s take a moment to remember the greatest UFO believers of all time, the members of the ill-fated Heaven’s Gate religion. Sure there are…
The Sci Fi Channel brings us deadly contagious birds driven mad with a flu so nasty they want to kill. The sickly fowl set their beady eyes on a lost flock of teens stumbling through the woods. Now it’s up to the kids to destroy these sniffles-afflicted birds before they reach the city and spread…
Every day somebody releases a new spam solution, but just as often you hear dire predictions about how spam loads are growing exponentially. How will future generations deal with spam floods in 2030? Though some pundits claim email is becoming obsolete, it’s unlikely that most people are going to give up on what is still…
Not satisfied with who was in the Lost coffin that Jack visited in last night’s finale? Good Morning America debuted two alternate endings this morning. See which stiffs we could have had. [Newsarama]
A typical gag from the new parody film Disaster Movie is a play on The Day After Tomorrow where Lady Liberty is wearing a snorkel mask. How spoofy. It must be that time of year when all of the actors that populate the Scary Movie, Epic Movie etc. franchises need more money because Carmen Electra,…
From the moment of their plane crash until last night’s season 4 finale, Lost’s castaways have wanted nothing more than to go home. But there’s a sort of observer effect of the heart that keeps home, like the island itself, from being permanently fixed in space or time. Getting back to civilization isn’t exactly the…
Yesterday we told you about the Denver man who is pushing for his city to create an Exterrestrial Affairs Commission.” He even got a measure on the ballot, so voters can weigh in on this issue in the next Denver election. Today, he showed selected press a video which he claimed was “living breathing proof”…
Nothing says “massive destructive force” like the rocks exhumed from two kilometers down in the earthquake-causing San Andreas Fault. Mangled and twisted by the fault’s awesome power, these rocks help you understand why a flick of this fault’s little finger is enough to flatten entire cities. And now you can see them up close, with…
It’s a slightly different Gotham city in the direct-to-DVD animated movie Batman: Gotham Knight. The city proves it deserves to be name-checked in the DVD’s title, with some startling vistas including new and stranger gargoyles, weird searchlights and even a giant ferris wheel. The city of dark spires suddenly has a ton of personality. Check…
Click to viewThe stasis field generator is the Swiss Army knife of technological devices. But people haven’t given these awesome time-stopping zones their props — until recently, when they started turning up as weapons in a ton of video games, from Dead Space’s stasis module to Destroy All Humans: Path Of The Furon’s “Temporal Fist.”…
Universal has released new pictures of The Incredible Hulk, and unfortunately the more stills they release the more I’m inclined to see similarities between Hulk and a cartoon… or the produce aisle. Take a good close look: his skin is so waxy and shiny it looks like a cucumber. There is so much going on…
Did you catch the viral marketing commercial during last night’s Lost season finale? It looks like Octagon Global (which is connected to the mysterious Dharma Initiative) is looking for a few good Roger Workmen get slaughtered and tossed in mass graves. And it looks like you’ll have your chance to join up at Comic-Con. Full…
It’s not been a good couple of months for fans of SF theme music. Following last month’s death of electronic music pioneer Bebe Barron, one of the composers for the 1956 Forbidden Planet movie, May 15th saw the sad passing of Alexander Courage, the man who gave the world the theme music for the original…
You can buy Shia LaBouef’s underwear online. Think how much it would enhance that crotch-slapping forest chase sequence to have his underwear clutched in your hands! [Hollywood Scoop]
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Time for a little reality check. It seems like almost every day there’s a piece of news about how “research suggests there were once oceans floating in the vacuum of space!” or “life could have once existed at the center of the Sun!” You know, we all get a little over-excited sometimes. Well, geochemist Nicholas…
