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Hold On To Your Butts: Insanely Detailed Maps From Jurassic Park
We're overwhelmed by the power of these Jurassic Park maps. Look closely at the amazing detail built into each island map. But that's not all: fans also found the Jurassic Park brochure and concept art for the San Diego park. More »Actors Reprise Their Iconic Roles, Without Costumes
The film magazine Empire celebrated its 20th birthday with a photoshoot of famous actors returning to their most recognized roles. The shots finally leaked online, and here are the most geektastic. More »Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?
Just how crazy were film-makers willing to get to convey the awfulness of dinosaur combat, back in the day? Check out this horrendous sequence from 1960's Irwin Allen spectacular The Lost World, in which lizards covered with makeup battle. More »Jurassic Park 3 Director Wants His Own Off-Island Dino Trilogy
Even though Hollywood producer Frank Marshall told us that another Jurassic Park was a long shot. That doesn't mean JP 3 director Joe Johnston is lacking a few ideas for his own off-island dinosaur trilogy. More »Epic Movie Narratives, Conveniently Charted
Today's xkcd takes an unusual approach to explaining epic movies: diagraming the interactions between the characters. He charts out Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, and the original Star Wars trilogy, and takes an amusing crack at Primer. More »The Man-Eating Ladies of Science Fiction
We're still a week away from watching Megan Fox snack on schoolboys in Jennifer's Body. In the meantime, we're serving up a list of the other women in science fiction who hunger for human flesh. More »100 Years of Visual Effects From Kong To Tron, And On
This compilation of visual effects over the past century is thrilling enough to make even the biggest CG critic misty-eyed. While it misses the Matrix, this video (compiled for students) certainly hits all the other greats. [via First Showing]Jurassic Park 4 A "Long Shot," But NeverEnding Story's Coming
A Step-By-Step Guide to Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
Tasty Super Scifi Cereal Breakdown
As a child, I was forbidden to eat marshmallowy cereal unless it was a special occasion - - so naturally, like any youth told that they can't have something, I became obsessed. I wanted to know what the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pizza cereal tasted like and screamed for a taste of Batman's bowl of bat wings. I've rounded up a collection of cereal boxes and commercials that should bring back so much breakfast nostalgia, you'll get a contact sugar rush. So, pass the milk and lets go on a cereal sugar bender together. More »Scifi Sports Franchises Demand Your Fandom
Michael Crichton: Evil, Or Just A Crazy Luddite?
Career in Creatures: A Stan Winston Art Retrospective
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 »Stan Winston, Special Effects Master, RIP
Resurrecting the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger from Preserved DNA
When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?