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All Visual Effects in 2008 Will Involve Gases and Fluids

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences handed out their “sci-tech” achievement awards today, you know the ones that they blur through during Oscar night with someone like Jennifer Garner saying “I was forced… er, had lunch with these amazing people last month, and here are the highlights” and so forth. We noticed that…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 4

“One Missed Call” Makes Fun of Christian Reality TV

“Psychic energy is electromagnetic energy like microwaves or light, so it makes sense that it travels through cell phones.” That paraphrased quote from one of the characters in One Missed Call is the perfect example of the “science talk” from this haunted cell phone movie hitting theaters tonight. Though I had few hopes for this…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 4

io9 Talks to “World War Hulk” and BSG Comics Writer Greg Pak

Greg Pak‘s Robot Stories was one of our favorite indie science fiction films of recent years. It explored people’s emotional relationships with robots — and robots’ relationships with each other — through three short narratives. Now Pak is writing comics, including the recent World War Hulk and a Battlestar Galactica miniseries. He talked to us…

io9 Charliejane Jan 4

Singing Cowboys vs. Radium in “The Phantom Empire”

One of the best parts of watching old science fiction serials from the 1930s are the strange title cards that come at the beginning of each installment to remind you about what happened in the last. This is a gallery of those titles from The Phantom Empire, a popular serial starring “singing cowboy” Gene Autry,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 4

LEGO Indiana Jones Set Collection Whips Us Into a Frenzy

(UPDATED: New 2008 LEGO sets information after the jump) Just when I was looking for the completion of the LEGO Millennium Falcon, I got sidetracked by another Harrison Ford minifig, this time with a fedora and a whip: these LEGO Indiana Jones sets are not as massive as the 5,195 pieces of the Falcon, but…

Movies Jesus Diaz Jan 4

Space Age Noir in the Original “Day the Earth Stood Still”

I think we’re all dreading the remake of stately, spare 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still because the original is still so visually stunning even after all these years. Here, a human who has befriended visiting alien Klaatu has to tell Klaatu’s super-robot Gort to help her rescue the endangered alien. The scene…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 3

15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year

Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven’t come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and…

io9 Charliejane Jan 3

Harvey Milk Is The New Kryptonite

Bryan Singer probably won’t direct the next Superman movie after all, because he’s too busy with his Tom Cruise Nazi movie, followed by his Harvey Milk biopic. Also, George Miller’s Justice League movie is probably delayed until after the writers’ strike, which means it may actually have a real script. But there’s one piece of…

io9 Charliejane Jan 3

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

We can’t wait for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine to come out on DVD next Tuesday. Sunshine might have been the best SF movie of 2007, even though its science was iffy in places. Take this cool-looking scene, where hapless communications officer Harvey tries to jump from one spaceship to another without a suit and doesn’t quite…

io9 Charliejane Jan 3

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

Let’s face it, there are times when something like a laser pistol, a fancy light-up sword, or the ability to crush people with your mind just won’t get the trick done. When you’re commanding an entire fleet of ships hell-bent on invasion, you need a weapon that’ll really get things done. In the world of…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 3

Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls

Yes kids, it’s time for Horrorhead, a fortnightly column where grossout chaser Annalee Newitz talks about the dark intersection of scifi and horror. Tonight I’m going to a “special advance press screening” of cell phone horror flick One Missed Call because I’m so starved for new scifi-horror that I’ll take anything — even a haunted…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 3

South Park Creators Camp Up Monster Island

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are set to do to Japan what they did to the U.S. in Team America World Police: inflate every pop-culture stereotype until it soars overhead with a loud farting noise. The only twist is, their new movie Giant Monsters Attack Japan! will be aimed at kids. Find out the reason…

Movies Charliejane Jan 3

Netflix and LG Bring Netflix Movie Streaming to TVs

Netflix’ movie streaming is fine if you’re OK with watching movies on your computer, but LG’s planning on integrating hardware into their TVs to allow you to watch those same films in your living room. The NYT says LG and Netflix have reached a deal to be announced at CES to allow integration via its…

Movies Jason Chen Jan 2

Before Human-Cylon Love, There Was A Dude And His Cherry 2000

You didn’t think Number Six was really the first blond sex bot to tangle with a human, did you? Here’s a great human-bot bonding moment, from the cheesy mid-1980s flick Cherry 2000. The moment is also tragic because our hero does what you should never do with a piece of consumer electronics: dunk it in…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 2

Chart Shows Most Post-Apocalyptic Movie Of All Time

How does I Am Legend stack up against other post-apocalyptic movies? We compared fourteen movies to see whether they contain key elements of the post-apocalypse, such as pee-drinking and cannibalism. The folks at io9 have made you a handy chart showing the most (and least) hardcore post-apocalyptic films of all time, after the jump. So…

Movies Charliejane Jan 1

Screw “Scanners” Reboot — Remake “The Brood”

Poor David Cronenberg, the artsy B-movie director who brought you Videodrome, Scanners, and A History of Violence. The guy just wants to keep making subversive indie actioners like his recent Eastern Promises, but the world loves him for his early horror work and just wants to keep remaking it into the ground. He told MTV…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 1

iTunes Rentals Adds Disney to Stable, Might Not Get Others

It comes as no surprise when we hear that Disney has just joined Apple’s movie rental service (following Fox, late last week) seeing as Steve Jobs says “I”m hittin’ that” to both companies, but it does surprise us when Variety reports that Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. would not participate because of “various competitive reasons.”…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 31

Tron’s Creator Kvetsches Against The Machine

Downloading your brain into virtual reality is so 1982. Soul Code, the new movie from Tron writer/director Steve Lisberger, will be about backing up your memories instead. And unlike Tron’s bouncy cyber-liberation theme, the collaboration with IGN diva Jessica Chobot will be a “cautionary tale” about technology, Lisberger says in a rambling new interview. Why…

Movies Charliejane Dec 31

Apple Wheeling and Dealing For Movie Rentals From Multiple Studios?

According to the New York Times, Apple is in negotiations with multiple studios for iTunes movie rentals, not just Fox as was previously reported. The NYT sources did confirm the Fox deal but, not surprisingly, they declined to comment further saying only that more than one studio would be on the stage at Macworld. Wusses.…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 28

USA Today Can’t See The Sunshine

Claudia Puig over at USA Today gets it wrong, yet again. The film critic has posted an article called “Dark themes shine a beacon of light at the theater” which is supposed to be about how depressing flicks were big at the box office, but it quickly devolves into nothing more than a list of…

Movies Kevin Kelly Dec 28

All Visual Effects in 2008 Will Involve Gases and Fluids

“One Missed Call” Makes Fun of Christian Reality TV

io9 Talks to “World War Hulk” and BSG Comics Writer Greg Pak

Singing Cowboys vs. Radium in “The Phantom Empire”

LEGO Indiana Jones Set Collection Whips Us Into a Frenzy

Space Age Noir in the Original “Day the Earth Stood Still”

15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year

Harvey Milk Is The New Kryptonite

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls

South Park Creators Camp Up Monster Island

Netflix and LG Bring Netflix Movie Streaming to TVs

Before Human-Cylon Love, There Was A Dude And His Cherry 2000

Chart Shows Most Post-Apocalyptic Movie Of All Time

Screw “Scanners” Reboot — Remake “The Brood”

iTunes Rentals Adds Disney to Stable, Might Not Get Others

Tron’s Creator Kvetsches Against The Machine

Apple Wheeling and Dealing For Movie Rentals From Multiple Studios?

USA Today Can’t See The Sunshine

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