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Yesterday, we showed you the second trailer for Christopher Nolan's dream-theft thriller Inception, jam-packed with surreal images and lots and lots of water. We give you the shot-for-shot breakdown to aid in your speculation. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Last night the first ever trailer for Iron Man 2 was released, and it is jam-packed with spoilery goodies. Here's a shot-by-shot break down of what we noticed. More »
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The new British movie Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel bills itself as "Doctor Who meets Shaun Of The Dead." But this trailer makes it look more like Primer meets The Goodies. More »
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Rumors have circulated all day that Megan Fox would be replacing Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider action flick. We went straight to the top to find the answer. More »
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Science fiction didn't conquer the media world in 2008 all on its own: A host of creative people helped power the mighty battlecruiser. Here's our list of the 20 biggest science fiction movers-and-shakers of 2008. More »
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Click to viewNo wonder John Connor is always so pissed: his calendar is full of Terminator slaying, leading a rebellion, running from giant harvester bots, and a whole lot more. More »
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Still confused about all this crying and screaming mob nonsense surrounding the Twilight movie? Don't worry — Tyra Banks is going to get to the bottom of it, by inviting the weeping fan masses onto her show. I can just see it now: Tyra Banks in all her "look at me, look at me" glamor parading little 13-year-olds around like the Lion King cub crying about vampires and Robert Pattinson. Give it to them straight, Ty-Ty — let them know that these vamps are total ninnies and they need to be fawning over the fierce vamps of yesteryear, not these silly little pasty faced girly fangers that "glisten" in the sun, and while you're at it give them some tips on how to look listless. The full email is below. More »
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From his role as the as the unflappable werewolf Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer to his part in co-creating TV’s lo-fi nerd-satire Robot Chicken, Seth Green has almost effortlessly amassed an adoring fanbase. The actor hopes to expand on that niche appeal with his first directorial effort for the big screen, an upcoming adaptation of his popular comic book, The Freshmen. We spoke to the ever-amiable, indefatigable Green about tweaking the title for the big screen, seeking advice from George Lucas, and his upcoming cameos in Entourage and Heroes. More »
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Will Zach and Miri Make A Porno's "Star Whores" spoof skin-flick stand up against actual Star Wars porn? We've collected the best Star Wars porn from artistic porn site Cathouse and compared it with a few shots from the new Rogen comedy. On one hand, you've got Elizabeth Banks as Princess Leia, a dianoga dildo and little tubby Rogen running around with a blaster strapped to his exposed thigh in Solo's duds. But Miravi from Cathouse is a genius, as the artist manages to disrobe a young Aunt Beru and get her and Padme together. It's NSFW in any capacity. More »
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Before Lisa Bonet and the guy with dreads from Stargate Atlantis started dating, the couple we saw when we closed our eyes was actress Rose MacGowan and director Robert Rodriguez. Formed when Robert cheated on his wife of 16 years on the set of Planet Terror, the couple is actually going through with plans to get married, an unholy union that will screw up the bottom lines of two or three companies, and in the process leave America — and us all — worse off. More »
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With the sad news earlier this week that special effects master Stan Winston had died, Hollywood lost one of its master creature-makers. Though Winston's studio did do some digital effects, Winston may have been one of the last great artists of the animatronic. With the help of a huge group of artists, sculptors, mechanical engineers, and even (at one point) the Sociable Robotics Lab at MIT, Winston built everything from a life-sized dinosaur for Jurassic Park to the uncannily realistic teddy bear bot for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He also had a hand in some productions you might not have guessed, like 1970s Wizard of Oz remake The Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson (holy crap I loved that movie when I was a kid). At the time of his death, he was working on James Cameron's upcoming Avatar, and Martin Scorcese's Shutter Island — but despite his association with primo directors, his amazing creations have appeared in more than one cheesy-but-awesome movie, too. Below, we take you on a photographic tour of Winson's career in creatures. More »
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Alec Baldwin has an idea for the most perfect science fiction show ever: a cross between Falcon Crest, Star Trek and Girls Gone Wild. Alec's show will be called Interplanetary Pie, or The Last Tango On Saturn, he tells the Hollywood Reporter. It's a sex-driven, family drama. Oh Alec you know the way to our hearts, through orgies and space travel. The best part is when he discusses how his characters will manage to land on planets and collect mineral samples, but then decides nobody cares about that. But seriously, why not make this show? It sounds like everything else that came out of the 70s. [Hollywood Reporter] More »
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Some movie producers are as identifiable as directors — just think of Jerry Bruckheimer and his splodey-boom school of film-making — and their oeuvre forms a coherent statement. One producer who doesn't get the props he deserves is Joel Silver, who's produced everything from the cheese-plattery Xanadu to the paranoiac Matrix trilogy. Silver's movies all share a certain demented logic — and in fact they fit together so well, they could all take place in one unified Silververse. Here is the history of that shared universe of craziness. More »
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Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. I wasn't born a horror movie fan, I made myself one through years of careful practice and studious watching. Everybody has an origin story, and mine begins with the pulsing, gooey strands of sludge that enveloped and destroyed every single point-of-view character in the 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was so young that I missed the political allegory about Nixon, and the joke about how Spock plays one of the pod people. I crunched down into the fake velvet movie theater seat, wondering if there was a way to worm out of the narrative but still make it through. My first discovery came then: If I plugged my ears, blocked out the heart-beating soundtrack, I could survive the alien invasion. More »
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This exclusive new preview clip for Battlestar Galactica season 4 reminds us why the science fiction series' violent moral ambiguity has made it the most compelling political drama on TV. Sure the show is about humans fleeing for their lives from cyborgs in space, but it has a realistic, ripped-from-the-headlines urgency that 24 could only dream of. Even the basic BSG premise sounds familiar: Separatists with a burning desire for religious purity have launched a coordinated nuclear attack on our heroes, who are themselves struggling in a mire of corrupt political leadership and a military gone mad with power. It just so happens that the separatists are cyborgs called Cylon and the heroes are from a star system halfway across the galaxy from us. More »
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Here's photographic and video evidence of what must surely be one of the signs of the approaching apocalypse: Tori Spelling in a Cthulhu movie. Make sure that sinks into your cranium before proceeding further. Yes, the very same Tori Spelling of Beverly Hills 90210 and the Tori & Dean Inn Love reality show strips down and gets her groove on in a wannabe horror film entitled Cthulhu: The Movie, where you never see any monsters. Unless you want to use the term "monster" metaphorically. Which we do. More »
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