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Will Ferrell’s Male Bonding Among The Lizard People

Will Ferrell will star in a remake of 1970s dinosaurs-and-campy-lizards show Land of the Lost. Marilyn Manson’s favorite TV show is about a family that gets caught up in a mega-earthquake during an expedition and falls into a prehistoric little enclave full of ape-kids, dinos and lizard guys called the Sleestaks. How will Ferrell’s slapsticky…

Movies Charliejane Jan 17

Easily Rip Netflix Streaming Movies To Your Hard Drive

Adam of Lifehacker found this pretty slick way of allowing Netflix users to download and save streaming movies onto their hard drives, meaning that you can take movies on the go without having to always be connected to the net. If this isn’t illegal, it’s most likely against the EULA; and if it isn’t against…

Movies Jason Chen Jan 16

Ten Great New York Monsters (OK, One is from New Jersey)

New York is famous as a breeding ground for monsters. With the metropolis about to get ripped to shreds on Friday in giant monster flick Cloverfield, NY’s love affair with deadly, inhuman beasts is on our minds. HP Lovecraft wrote back in the 1920s that the Red Hook neighborhood was built over a vast, subterranean…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 16

Cloverfield + Boats = Hybrid

If you’re excited about Cloverfield and you enjoy boating, then maybe you’ll like the forthcoming Hybrid. The scifi/horror film follows vacationing students on a sailing trip, who come across an abandoned trawler. But a mutant creature, created by pollution, is living on the trawler and “fishing” for humans in the open sea. Hybrid is based…

Movies Charliejane Jan 16

Ming the Micromanager

On SciFi Channel’s Flash Gordon last Friday, we were all once again reminded why today’s Ming is not as scary nor as campily compelling as Mings of yore. This scene encapsulates everything problematic about today’s Ming. He slurps wine instead of growling; he has no awesome makeup nor a funny hat; and instead of punishing…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 15

Science Fiction Angels Who Are Really Aliens in Disguise

The Left Behind books (and movies) are one of the most popular edge-cases in the science fiction world. They’re shunned by many SF fans as too cheesily religious, yet embraced by zillions of Christians who made this many-volumed tale of the Rapture and Armageddon into bestsellers. They’re an odd anomaly hovering between great apocalypse scifi…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 15

New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding

The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped…

io9 Charliejane Jan 11

Mad Sexology Meets Disembodied Brain in “The Curious Dr. Humpp”

Even if you’re a connoisseur of strange movies, The Curious Dr. Humpp will still be one of the strangest you’ll ever see. It started out as an early-1960s Argentinian brain-in-a-jar flick about a mad doctor who has to harvest sexual energy from hot co-eds to feed a brain (that would be Dr. Humpp) who feeds…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 10

“Leaked” Star Trek Trailer Is Probably An Awesome Fake

This teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie popped up a few minutes ago. Is it the real thing? We’re skeptical. For one thing, the Spock “space, the final frontier” speech is probably lifted from the end of Wrath of Khan. For another, would Paramount really let Abrams put his Bad Robot logo at…

io9 Charliejane Jan 10

Brendan Fraser Plunges Into Our Bowels

A family-friendly new remake of Journey to The Center of the Earth will probably make us wish we were stuck in the Land of the Lost. Brendan Fraser plays a geologist who explores a hidden passage through the Earth’s crust after he receives a mysterious message in an ancient artifact. He discovers a world of…

io9 Charliejane Jan 10

“Just Imagine” Pictures Life and Love 50 Years From Today (1930)

The September 14, 1930 Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY) ran a piece about the people of 1980 who may stumble upon the 1930 film Just Imagine. At the time this article was published the film had not yet been released. The entire article appears below. Hollywood, Sept. 13. – New Yorkers of 50 years hence may…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 9

Boys Don’t Cry Director Tackles Trippy Scifi Classic

Arthur C. Clarke’s weird science fiction novel Childhood’s End could soon be a movie directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry, and the upcoming Stop-Loss). Peirce says she’s attracted to the challenging themes of Clarke’s 1953 novel, but she’ll have a hard time turning it into a big-budget movie. The novel inspired songs with the…

io9 Charliejane Jan 9

When Animals Think Like Humans, They Won’t Thank Us

What happens when we finally figure out how to make non-human creatures into better slaves by giving them implants to help them speak? Or genetically engineer them to have human-like intelligence? One thing is for sure: they aren’t likely to be thrilled. In fact, science fiction about “uplifted” animals generally represent the newly-brainy creatures turning…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 8

Cool 1980s Ming Does His “Pathetic Earthlings!” Speech

All that talk earlier today about the present-day Flash Gordon TV show’s many lacks made me yearn to see the real deal — or at least, the most recent real deal. This is a clip from the 1980 Flash Gordon movie (of the Queen song!), that revels in camp, eyeshadow, scene-chewery, and has the amazing…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 7

Shiny, Scary Iron Man Suit at CES

Our fannish friends at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (hi, Noah!) snapped us some photos of the new Iron Man suit, which got paraded on stage by LG (who have a phone in the movie). This is the Mark-1 suit that Iron Man hacks together in prison. The Iron Man movie will be out…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 7

Every David Cronenberg Movie, Described in Startling Detail

If you need a primer — or even a graduate-level course — on David Cronenberg, look no further than the excellent retrospective at UGO. Each movie, even his most obscure, is lovingly detailed and mined for the “most Cronenbergy” moments. [UGO]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 7

Two Gibson Adaptations, But Only One Peter Weir Movie

Hayden “Anakin” Christensen will star in a movie adaptation of William Gibson’s classic novel Neuromancer, directed by Joseph Kahn. So far, Kahn’s only credits are the low-budget biker movie Torque, and some Britney Spears music videos. (Torque does feature lots of spooky flickering neon lights, which is a start.) The slightly more experienced Peter Weir…

Movies Charliejane Jan 7

Science Fiction That Changed Political Rhetoric Forever

As we ramp up for election season, it’s time to consider how science fiction has changed the face of politics. In California, where I live, we recently elected a science fiction actor Governor, but that’s not what I mean. The question is, can science fiction change politics in the way other rhetoric does? We asked…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 7

Guillermo Del Toro Done with Hellboy — No More Sequels

An insider tells io9 that Guillermo Del Toro, the monster-obsessed director behind Hellboy II and Pan’s Labyrinth, is definitely not doing Hellboy III. Apparently up until a few weeks ago, he was talking about a third installment as a possibility but now this looks very unlikely indeed. Losing Del Toro could ruin the franchise —…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 7

Mulholland Dr. Director David Lynch F*cking Hates People Who Watch Movies on the iPhone

I’ve always thought that watching movies on a tiny portable device is a crummy experience in pretty much every way possible. Crazy-ass director David Lynch (of Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway and Twin Peaks fame) thinks so too. Vehemently. And even if he is a little nuts, his faux iPhone ad both educates and entertains. NSFW…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 4

Will Ferrell’s Male Bonding Among The Lizard People

Easily Rip Netflix Streaming Movies To Your Hard Drive

Ten Great New York Monsters (OK, One is from New Jersey)

Cloverfield + Boats = Hybrid

Ming the Micromanager

Science Fiction Angels Who Are Really Aliens in Disguise

New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding

Mad Sexology Meets Disembodied Brain in “The Curious Dr. Humpp”

“Leaked” Star Trek Trailer Is Probably An Awesome Fake

Brendan Fraser Plunges Into Our Bowels

“Just Imagine” Pictures Life and Love 50 Years From Today (1930)

Boys Don’t Cry Director Tackles Trippy Scifi Classic

When Animals Think Like Humans, They Won’t Thank Us

Cool 1980s Ming Does His “Pathetic Earthlings!” Speech

Shiny, Scary Iron Man Suit at CES

Every David Cronenberg Movie, Described in Startling Detail

Two Gibson Adaptations, But Only One Peter Weir Movie

Science Fiction That Changed Political Rhetoric Forever

Guillermo Del Toro Done with Hellboy — No More Sequels

Mulholland Dr. Director David Lynch F*cking Hates People Who Watch Movies on the iPhone

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