Signs Teaches What To Wear In Case Of Alien Attack

The best defense against a chameleon from beyond the stars is a tin-foil hat. At least that’s what Macaulay Culkin’s autistic brother thinks, so Joaquin Phoenix and Abigail Breslin decide to go along with it in Signs. Culkin’s encyclopedic knowledge of alien invasion tactics is unsettling and eerie. So it’s a let-down when the monster…

Who’s The Final Cylon?

Forget Admiral Adama or President Roslin. Chances are the final Cylon will be the last person you expect. Which stalwart BSG character will turn out to be a sleeper Cylon? Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

Avoid Turkey Day By Visiting Space

I know, I know; you want to get into comics, but you don’t know where to start. And who can blame you? This week alone sees the release of more than 100 comics and graphic novels, many of which are unspeakable dreck. What you need is someone smart to give you a heads-up on what…

Mutant Pussy Bites The Hand That Pets It

An innocent Christian girl discovers her vagina has teeth of its own. On its gleaming white surface, Teeth looks like another gross-out horror comedy. Judging from the just-released trailer, it’s definitely over the top. But critics are already praising its exploration of female sexual empowerment through mutation. When Teeth premiered at Sundance, Cinematical wrote: At…

Elective Organ Removal Is Good for Your Health

As we ramp up for Turkey Day, it’s a good idea to remember that the meatiest parts of your body are . . . optional. If you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it’s better to get your colon removed in an elective surgery than to wait around for an emergency to take it out. Yes,…

Creepy Mind-Controlling Dad on Heroes

Now that psychic cop Matt has basically adopted mutant kid Molly, we’ve been getting some seriously twisted family drama on NBC’s superhero show Heroes. Last night’s episode was no exception. Molly has finally recovered from her coma, which was caused when Matt guilted her into using her powers of finding to locate his mind-destroying dad.…

A new campaign wants to rename 42nd Ave. in Portland, OR to Douglas Adams Blvd in honor of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author. The group’s site claims that renaming the street will show Portland’s commitment to the arts and the environment. Insert your own joke here about how this would be a “mostly…

Doctored Photographs Can Rewire How the Brain Remembers

People in Rome remember the 2004 anti-war protest as peaceful. But when university students in the United States looked at photographs of the protest later, they called it violent and disturbing. What happened? Was it a cultural gap? No — it was a doctored photograph, much like the ones the New York Times ran of…

Being John Malkovich, Again

For Europeans, the chance to get inside John Malkovich’s head is more than just a concept from a Spike Jonze movie. Malkovich has joined forces with Sony to create something called the Vaio-John project, which offers people the chance to see short movies of Malkovich discussing grand topics and influences, see what Sony computers he…

A Kryptonian City Refracts The Blood Red Sunlight

It’s sunset on Krypton. The towers of Krypton grew organically, like crystals, but then humans carved and polished them afterwards. That’s the theory that concept artist Jason Dunn brought to a Krypton flashback in a recent episode of Smallville. This mix of the organic and the hand-crafted informed Dunn’s sketches and matte painting for the…

Ang Lee’s “Lust” Spreads Sexually Transmitted PC Virus

People who didn’t want to settle for the sanitized version of Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution turned to the dirtier illegal download, and ended up in need of a shot of virtual penicillin. Chinese censors chopped about 30 minutes of the old hot-n-heavy out of the movie, increasing demand for a pirated copy showing the American…

Battlestar Could Be Knocked Out By Contract Tangles

Will Battlestar Galactica ever film its final episodes? Maybe not, says Ron Moore. Blame complicated contract wrangling: the studio wants to keep the show’s actors on contract without paying them, under the “force majeure” clauses of their contracts. But because the show managed to film the required minimum of 13 episodes before halting production, their…

Death Race 2000 Remake Has No Balls

A remake of the 1975 cult classic that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Death Race 2000, is on the way next year. But this version has all the testosterone drained out. Gone are the point systems for running over pedestrians, gone is the entire revenge plot that had David Carradine after the President, and gone is…

What Mutant Powers Are Most Popular?

NBC’s phenom hit Heroes, the X-Men comic books, and the USA scifi series The 4400 all feature heroic mutants. These super-powered humans have been born with “mutant genes,” or they’ve had some tinkering at the genetic level. But we still see the same powers cropping up again and again. Since the X-Men were first published…

“What’s That Supposed to Mean?” on Flash Gordon

In Friday’s episode of dimension-hopping serial Flash Gordon, a bizarre ritual involving dudes from Burning Man and a scorpion reveals all. Except to Ming, the bad guy who is supposed to rule dying planet Mongo like a tyrant but in fact acts like a prissy bureaucrat. He and his “deviate” advisor Rankol are trying to…

Blade Runner Sequel Rumors Start Replicating

Blade Runner is enjoying a resurgence in popularity — the new cut hit theaters last month, and a five-disc ultra edition coming out on DVD next month. Now, rumors have it that Hollywood may churn out a sequel to this classic about rogue androids and the reluctant “Blade Runner” cop (Harrison Ford) who tracks them…

Green Ooze Controls Woman’s Mind

From “Can algae save the world?” an exhibit at the Science Museum in London running until April 2008. Scientists are hoping the entire planet will use algae as biofuels in the future. More menacing algae after the jump. Images by Kirsty Wigglesworth for AP.

Veronica Mars could totally crush Elle from Heroes, says Kristen Bell, who plays both characters. Also, Elle and Claire are going to have a really awesome relationship soon. Lesbian electrocution is the best kind. Kristen Bell image by INF Goff. [E!Online, Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

The Moon Is Our Personal Art Project

Photos like this one prove that you don’t need a fancy telescope to take incredible moon pictures that vividly reveal lunar geography. ComputerHotline took this much-admired picture using a Nikon Coolpix P5000 in afocal behind binoculars (12*40), without a color filter. Images by ComputerHotline.

Behold the Future of Womankind!

Waiting backstage at the 1939 World’s Fair “Railroads on Parade” pageant, a Woman of Tomorrow displays the familiar “crested braless” look all the rage today. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-G623- 35189.