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The biggest issue on tap for the 2012 presidential campaign season? Dealing with zombie terrorists. In the independent horror film Osombie, Osama Bin Laden will emerge from his water grave to convert Afghanistan — and eventually the world — to his zombie fundamentalism.

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With Ridley Scott giving us a Ripley-free Alien movie, it wouldn't be surprising if his new Blade Runner project didn't include Harrison Ford's replicant hunter Deckard. But Harrison Ford may be picking up the blaster for a direct Blade Runner sequel. More »
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Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length cel-animated feature to appear on the big screen. But if things had gone a little differently, that honor might have gone to John Carter of Mars, which MGM was developing with legendary animator Bob Clampett. We do, however, have some remains of the failed project in the form of Clampett's test animation. More »
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It took several decades before the Muppets became the jovial mop-puppet hybrids we know and love today. Before they hung out with Alice Cooper and hosted wrestling competitions, the Muppets lived in a sometimes unsettling world full of hungry dismembered heads, Cookie Monster selling IBM computers, and Kermit extolling the virtues of pig meat. More »
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Why was A Clockwork Orange such a controversial film when it originally came out? It's not just because of all the sex and violence — or even the combination of the two. More »
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Everyone knows you can't survive a nuclear blast in a refrigerator (unless you're Indiana Jones). But what can the human body withstand? We take a look at the damage explosions cause and how humans survive it. More »
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What's Tattooine look like nowadays? Can you walk around David Lynch's Dune? Is there any geographic logic to Vulcan? Salon.com has an amazing travelogue/gallery of real-life locations where classic science fiction films were shot. Photo: Shara Johnson. [Salon.com] More »
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Daily Grail has a documentary on UFOs made in the 1970s: There's much footage from old movies, featuring ominous orchestral music. However, the documentary also covers the origin of the term 'flying saucer.' And there's a clip of Steven Spielberg discussing whether he'd take a ride on a spaceship, since 1977, the year the documentary was made, was the same year that Spielberg brought us Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Check it out here. More »
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The Green Hornet adaptation is still short a Kato, but may have found its villain in the form of Nicholas Cage. Is this mere big-name casting, or are we finally seeing director Michel Gondry's crazy plan coming together? More »
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Peter Petrelli and Chewey meet up, and it looks like Chewbacca has some acting/script notes for the latest Heroes episodes. What do you think the Wookiee is saying? Picture from Watching Heroes. More »
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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 her best and worst of the year. Plus she snubs science fiction films altogether. Memo to Claudia: Danny Boyle's brilliant (and underappreciated) film Sunshine was just about the darkest-themed film out there this year, plus shining a beacon of light! It's all about reigniting our dying sun. More »
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Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. They'll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really tight steel lids, to keep the freshness in. What other scifi films were deemed by the government to be worthy of preservation forever? More »
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Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968's The Planet of the Apes. The success of this film led Heston into other, equally cheesy, scifi movies. Take a tour of his late 1960s/early 70s flirtation with scifi after the jump, including his own take on I Am Legend. More »
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The upcoming Michael Gondry comedy starring Jack Back and Mos Def Be Kind Rewind features no-budget recreations of films like Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey, RoboCop, and Ghostbusters. In fact, their RoboCop looks better than the original film did. Jack Black really nails Peter Weller's robo-monotone. That got us thinking about all those fan-made films out there on the internets. Here are the top five fan films that didn't make us lose our lunch. More »
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Wonder Woman could be on hold forever — thanks to Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank. Actually, blame the sexist stumblebums at Warner Bros. The last three Warner movies with female leads bombed: Nicole Kidman's The Invasion, Swank's The Reaping, and Foster's The Brave One. So Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov says he won't even look at a script with a female lead ever again. More »
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