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Michael Bay keeps denying that he's really going to do a fourth Transformers movie. Which shows that he hasn't completely lost his mind. Michael Bay is an artist, who needs to branch out and try something new, before he loses all his cred. Michael Bay should spread his groovy wings, man. More »
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Can a book really become a decent television show? Yes, and here's the proof! Here are 12 shining examples of science fiction and fantasy books that actually got turned into television series that are worth watching in their own right. More »
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After Jaime Somers quit fighting international naughtiness as the Bionic Woman, she got her PhD and became a therapist to other secret agents, according to the last ever Bionic TV movie Bionic Ever After. (Which, as you might guess, sees the Six Million Dollar Man marrying the Bionic Woman.) And yeesh, she's a really really bad therapist. I love the way she sort of rolls her eyes when her patient talks about being emotionally scarred by the horrors she's witnessed, and then sighs, "What do you want me to do about it?" In a later scene, Jaime's back with that same patient, and has a "bionic earache" to get out of it. More »
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If you're wondering how the pilot of JJ Abrams' new Fox show Fringe managed to cost around ten million dollars, then you may be disappointed to learn that the answer has more to do with your souped-up plasma HD TV than Abrams and Joshua Jackson blowing millions sniffing coke off the butts of hot Astral projections. But even so, we have to ask: Isn't ten million dollars kind of expensive for a TV show? More »
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With the continued, somewhat inexplicable, success of Hancock, it seems that the only constant in Hollywood math is "(Will Smith) + (4th of July Weekend) x (Genre Movie) = $$$." Bearing that in mind, we thought that it's be kind of us to demonstrate to some stalled SF movie projects just to how to use the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (and, let's face it, wherever else he wants to be the Prince of, these days) to get their movies up and running again. More »
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Barney Miller is trapped on a supersonic plane that's zoomed out of the Earth's atmosphere — and the only way back to Earth is inside an airtight coffin, carried to the space shuttle by two astronauts, in this awesome sequence from Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land. This is by far the trippiest sequence in the TV movie, which mostly involves Six Million Dollar Man actor Lee Majors trying to pilot the dead space-plane back to Earth, as his oxygen runs out. Good thing he's got his incredibly dorky lucky hat. More »
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After you've saved the world from robotic face-changing spies, there's really only one place to go to relax: The Bionic Beauty Salon. Or the Bionic Repair Station. At least, that's what kids in the mid-70s believed thanks to Kenner's range of Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman toys reinforced both the excitement of "bionic action" and wonders of gender stereotyping. More »
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Science fiction is terrific at helping you imagine how you'd enhance, hack, and upgrade your own body — especially your eyeballs. Humans have been trying to improve on the sense of sight since 1300, when spectacles were invented. What comes next? Take a look at our list of some of the vision enhancement tools that science fiction has offered up. It goes way beyond seeing more clearly or getting a glimpse of the infrared side of the spectrum. More »
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Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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