Enjoy “Unnatural Hugeness” with the 20 Craziest Kaiju

A kaiju is a giant monster like Cloverfield or Godzilla, and there have been some pretty insane ones invented over the years. The discerning kaiju aficionado has exposed herself to creatures great and large, from the giant ass in Rectuma and the giant rat-bat-spider in Angry Red Planet, to the giant chicken in Guilala (pictured…

There Can Only Be One More, Thanks To Highlander Remake

Having conquered the world of science with Iron Man, screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway are moving into the world of… well, a kind of magic. Apparently feeling so confident that anything else will be easy after managing to make Tony Stark seem cool, the two writers are heading up a Highlander revival. Yes, their…

New Wanted Clip, Plus Ron Moore’s Battlestar Forecast

Spoilers are mind-expanding! To prove it, we have a new clip from Angelina Jolie’s mega-assassin movie Wanted, and some last-minute spoilers from Indiana Jones. Plus what to expect from the next few episodes of Battlestar Galactica, direct from producer Ron Moore. There are also tons of details about the fifth season of Stargate: Atlantis, including…

Leon Theremin: Rocker, Lover, KGB Agent

You’ve probably heard the ethereal theremin, often called the first electronic instrument, in countless scifi movies and the Beach Boys song “Good Vibrations.” A simple device which produces sound when your hands come into contact with an electro-magnetic field, it was invented by an engineer named Leon Theremin in the early 1920s. An amazing documentary…

The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek (And How To Survive Them)

They yell at you and fire you twice a day. They insist that a five-day job should only take five hours. They flip-flop and then blame you for their mistakes. Star Trek’s captains model all kinds of bad boss behavior, but luckily they also show us what to do with a boss who’s out of…

Luchadores… In Space!

Here’s the cover illustration for the story “D-3 Base De Monstruos” by Spanish artist Jose Luis Sampedro Macias, who drew dozens of covers for the pulp magazine Luchadores del Espacio, plus tons of pulp paperbacks, in the 1950s. Despite (or maybe because of) being unable to see the work of American artists of the time,…

Science Brings Aleister Crowley For The Ladies [NSFW Trailer]

Iron Maiden’s front man Bruce Dickinson combined his dark mind with Monty Python editor Julian Doyle, to produce a strange science fiction movie about the occult and government conspiracies. Chemical Wedding is set at modern-day Trinity College in Cambridge, where a shy stuttering professor’s experiments with sub-zero interactive suits experiments goes horribly wrong (as they…

Selectively De-Activate Parts of Your Brain with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

By holding a giant magnet to your head, you can literally turn off parts of your brain. Not only will this make getting high potentially a lot cheaper for millions of college students, it could also become a very useful weapon in the right hands. A journalist for UK paper The Daily Telegraph filmed himself…

Watch Out for Sexually-Transmitted Diseases in Space!

If there’s anything worse than meeting a dangerous alien in space, it’s having sex with an alien and getting a dangerous disease. As Mercury de Sade once said, the main point of meeting aliens is to find their holes so you can fuck them. That may be true, but galactic VD isn’t the only disease…

3 Chances To See Christian Bale Time-Travel Naked

The producers of Terminator 4 plan to keep Christian Bale around as John Connor in three Terminator movies total. T4 producer Derek Anderson revealed to the BBC that “he [Bale] read the script and he loved it, so he’s signed on for all three.” Another producer, Victor Kubicek, says he’d doubted whether Bale would be…

Cyber-Aliens Are The Last True Go-Gos Fans

Move over, Gene Simmons’ Zipper. Go-Gos guitarist Jane Wiedlin is putting out a new comic called Lady Robotika in which Wiedlin (yes, she stars in her own comic) gets kidnapped by aliens and transformed into a sexy cyborg superhero. Wiedlin is developing the comic with Simpsons artist Bill Morrison, who also runs publisher Bongo Comics.…

The Ultimate Blaxploitation Scifi Hero Finally Has A Movie

An African American man goes to prison for a crime he doesn’t commit, where he’s subjected to weird experiments at the hands of a scientist who tries to kill him. It could be a horror movie, but it’s actually the origin of Luke Cage, comics’ most famous blaxploitation hero. Transformers star Tyrese Gibson says he’s…

Venus Is Loaded With Candy and Ice Cream Is Found Upon Mars! 1959

Snack your way through the universe with this drive-in movie intermission film from 1959. No wonder they call it the Milky Way—it’s filled with nougat and other delicious treats.

Falling Apart In First Clips From Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York

Here are the first few clips from Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Kaufman, of course, wrote science fiction classics Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless MInd. In this case, the science fiction hook is a mysterious disease that’s slowly shutting down Philip Seymour Hoffman’s body’s autonomic functions, one…

Retired Frat Guys To Destroy The Fabric Of Time With A Hot Tub

MGM’s new movie, Hot Tub Time Machine, takes a closer look into the lives of a group of guys that own a hot tub and drink a lot of vodka and red bull, then figure out how to travel back in time to discover their past “mojo” — via their tub. Josh Heald (All You…

Robert Charles Wilson’s Hugo award-winning novel Spin has been optioned for a movie, to be produced by Leslie Urdang with Olympus Pictures and Rob Morrow’s Bits & Pieces Picture Co. In Spin, aliens put a membrane around the Earth which causes time to pass much more slowly on our planet than in the rest of…

TV Simulating Lamp Foils Burglars: Because Couch Potatoes Are Not Easy Targets

A device called FakeTV is intended to deter would-be burglars by making it seem like you are up watching the television when in reality you could be sleeping or out of the house. After all, burglars would rather move on to an easier target than tangle with a dangerous couch potato watching infomercials at 4…

E.T. Hangs with the Dukes of Hazzard

E.T. has a lot of friends, especially among fictional characters from other pop culture franchises. He really likes to hang out and race cars with the dudes from Dukes of Hazzard, as you can see in this great painting from Scott C. He also shoots the breeze with the dudes from Star Trek, does Speak…

Sub-Zero And Batman Beat the Hell Out Of Each Other And Wreck Metropolis

Superman’s city of Metropolis lies in ruins, with flames bursting out all over, in this piece of concept art from the forthcoming Mortal Kombat Versus DC Universe. crossover video game. The Daily Planet is mere rubble. Another piece of new concept art from Worlds Collide shows a new version of “Hell” from Mortal Kombat, populated…

Philip K. Dick’s Ubik Will Be A Creepy Art Movie

Philip K. Dick’s paranoid novels have spawned a ton of action movies, from Blade Runner to Paycheck, but they’ve only recently started to be seen as fodder for art films like Scanner Darkly. And now one of Dick’s weirdest books, Ubik, has just been optioned by Celluloid Dreams, a European company better known for producing…