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This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood's propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You've got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there's Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to "improve" upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. More »
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West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin, uses the Force for political gain. Watch as the Senatorial candidate paints his opponent as a Sith lord, and then shoots a TIE Fighter down with a rifle. There's a disturbance in the Force, indeed. More »
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Sure, Walter Bishop's crazy ass managed to vanquish Reed Richards AND Victor Frankenstein... but today he faces a professional! Doctor fricken Evil! We're turning up the heat on io9's Mad Scientist Smackdown! More »
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When was the last time you walked into a movie, without knowing anything beyond the title and maybe who was in it? Not even seeing the trailer first? These days, it's hard to believe such an experience even exists. More »
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You've met someone new, and things are going great, but you start to notice something off about them. Could your significant other be a robot in disguise? Check our list for the possible signs. More »
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As soon as we have convincing(ish) androids and gynoids, we'll create pleasure-droids. And soon after that, those sex-machines will use their super-powerful thigh muscles to try and kill us. Here are 15 examples of the sexy robot death that awaits you in the future. More »
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Mike Myers has taken the wrong lesson from The Love Guru's failure to attain box-office Nirvana: he's going back to his only non-animated vehicle that still runs. Myers is hard at work on the script for Austin Powers 4... but it gets worse. It's going to be autobiograhical. More »
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If you've been having withdrawal symptoms from seeing Mike Myers dressing up in elaborate costumes and making fart/sex jokes, hang in there! DirectorJay Roach says another movie about superspy Austin Powers could be in the works. And Roach confirmed that star Mike Myers was also "thinking about it." There's no script, or any other solid evidence of Austin Powers 4, but "it's something, that [is still alive]...he's got other stuff to do too, and that one's completely driven by Mike. If he wants to do it, I'll definitely want to be involved. But I don't know yet when that's gonna happen." Perhaps this will be the internet-rumored Austin Powers: For Your Thighs Only version. Gisele Bundchen was also rumored to be in the running for Austin's gal-pal. And since he's already visited the 60s and 70s, my guess is Austin will have to solve crimes in the 80s. [MTV Movie Blog] More »
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Click to viewEver since the first cheesy monster or goofy robot leered out from the cover of a pulpy magazine, science fiction has struggled to shake off a certain tinge of campiness. No matter how hard creators may try to tell cool stories, that slightly ironic silliness is always lurking just outside the frame. And there will always be science fiction which takes those little hints of camp and amplifies them a million-fold. A little campiness may be fun to get stoned and giggle at, but it also stands in the way of telling amazing tales about the impact of technology on humans. Here's a rulebook for rooting out the campiness from science fiction. More »
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Everyone wants a personal time travel device, but with so many different devices to choose from, how do you make a well-informed decision? Everyone knows about Doc Brown's Delorean, the Doctor's TARDIS, and H.G. Wells' contrapulation, but what about some of the other time time travel gizmos? We walk you through the nine best ones, and explain how each one can take you back to that painful high school moment. More »
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