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Big SciFi Flicks This Year Will Make Good Look Evil

At WonderCon over the weekend, everybody was talking about a handful of spring/summer scifi flicks that all had one thing in common: the kind of moral ambiguity that would never fly in Superman. We saw an action-packed clip from Wanted, whose superheroes are assassins with a mission to control the world's destiny that sounds creepily like the tenets of Scientology. No fighters for truth and justice these — they're just using their powers to become godlike. Get ready for a giant moral gray area in other flicks coming your way, like Iron Man, the new X-Files flick, and Starship Troopers III. Get a quick look at all three below. More »

10:10 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Annalee Newitz
4,633 views, 13 comments

Latest by superbryant88: @_MARVKO_: holy crap that would be sweet more »

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Comics Wrapup from WonderCon: DC Abandons Lesbians; Vertigo's Superheroes Are Reluctant

Now that the dust is settling on WonderCon Weekend it's time to look back and wonder, as we so often do, what just happened? Anywhere that you can see Elvis with a hustle of Leias has to be one of the most wonderful places in the world, despite the hype and inevitable disappointments. The headlines, the low points, and bits that we didn't tell you about at the time all await you after the jump. More »

8:40 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,027 views, 6 comments

Bollywood Vigilante Fights Evil Mecha A Bollywood robot movie is back from development hell. S. Shankar's Robot has been in development since 2001, but now seems to be back on track to start filming next year.

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Mist Mutations Are the Latest Fashion in Hollywood

Stephen King's The Mist is vaporizing from theaters left and right, but there's already another fog-shrouded mutant mist movie heading to your multiplex. Night & Fog, which is in production with Myriad Pictures, has a very familiar-sounding plot: military experiment on a remote island results in monsters in the mist. Got your lawyer on speed dial, Mr. King? More »

8:45 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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