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Hulk Vs. Wolverine
Marvel Exposes Your Children To Drunk Superheroes and Warring Giants
Marvel released two highly anticipated animated trailers in preparation for their cameos at San Diego Comic Con this year. First is the DVD movie Hulk Vs., which is exactly what it sounds like. The big green giant will be smashing the comic book characters Thor and Wolverine in an epic battle. Second is a trailer of the new Nicktoons animated teen Iron Man series, including teen War Machine. More »
iron man 2
Iron Man 2 Will Have More Armored Heroes, But No Drunken Armor Mastery
Iron Man's coolest armored sidekick, War Machine will have a major role in Iron Man 2, says actor Terrance Howard. Filming for the Iron Man sequel starts next March, in the hopes of meeting the film's release date, set for April 2010, Howard told Military.com. But how does Howard's character, Jim Rhodes, become War Machine in the next movie? In the comics, he has to start wearing battle armor because Tony Stark goes on the mother of all boozy benders. But the movies may take a different tack, says director Jon Favreau. More »
the machine girl
New Japanese Trailer For Machine Girl Is Full Of Bloody Goodness
The sexy Asian ladies of The Machine Girl show us how to kick ninja ass with heavy weaponry and loads of screaming. The movie makes its US debut this week at the SF Indie Fest. Check out the new Japanese trailer, that sprays its wonderful gore all over the lens, including the deadly sharp drill breasts, tempura arms, and a ninja football gang. The story follows Ami, a young girl whose brother is brutally murdered by a local mob boss' kid. She spends the rest of her days taking revenge, cyborg-style, and punishing the wicked in her sexy school uniform. Click through to see the American trailer, which has been out for a while. More »
build your own time machine
Superglue + Leather + Scrap Metal = Your Very Own Time Machine
The internet has changed the world in many ways, from making it easier to find pornography to making it easier for teenage girls to pose on social networking sites for those who haven't worked out how to find pornography yet. But did you ever expect that it would be somewhere that you would turn to to find instructions on how to build your very own time machine? Your latest craft project awaits you under the jump. More »
mangobot
Ass-Kicking Asian Women with Machine Guns Meet the Apocalypse
Welcome to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Fight scenes featuring beautiful Asian women with machine guns are sexy, scary, and fetishistic. If you're in San Francisco in June, you're in luck—you can get a double dose of ass-busting Asian women at the Another Hole in the Head horror movie fest, where two crazy, ruthless Oriental beauties battle evil in a cumulative three hours of gory revenge and fantastical sci-fi crime-fighting. The Gene Generation and The Machine Girl are two completely different kinds of movies—one is American sci-fi, one is a low-budget Japanese gory B-movie. But when stripped of their decor, there are a lot of common themes and subtexts. More »
9:00 AM on Fri May 23 2008
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iron man
Iron Man Less Entertaining, More Propagandizing, Than Initially Expected
Sure, Iron Man may have seemed like harmless fun set in a vaguely "real world" setting, pitting Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark against villains so cartoony as to be easy to hate while realistic enough to hit all of our hidden preconceptions about "evil" in a post 9/11 world. But as it turns out, the movie was much more of an advertisement for the US Air Force than you ever suspected. More »
hot tub time machine
Retired Frat Guys To Destroy The Fabric Of Time With A Hot Tub
MGM's new movie, Hot Tub Time Machine, takes a closer look into the lives of a group of guys that own a hot tub and drink a lot of vodka and red bull, then figure out how to travel back in time to discover their past "mojo" — via their tub. Josh Heald (All You Can Eat) is the author behind this tome and Cale Boyter (Next Friday, Final Destination) MGM's executive vice president of production will oversee the project. Production has already begun. Sadly, this won't be the greatest time traveling tub movie of all time. More »
found footage
Most Disturbing Kaiju Transformation Scene Ever (NSFW)
I am disturbed on so many levels that I'm practically in ecstasy. Watching Meatball Machine made my day because it includes goofy human-sized kaiju fights, an alien invasion, barfing, drooling, piles and piles of blood, and a tender love scene (in the clip you see here) gone terribly wrong. Our hero, a shy nerd, is just about to start making out with the nice girl he's been crushing on when the shit hits the fan. Because our boy, unbeknownst to himself, has brought home a piece of alien technology. When his girl starts freaking out on him, demanding that he hold her after she confesses that she crippled her father with a lead pipe, the mecha-alien bursts out of the bag he's been hiding it in and attacks the girl. What happens next is really weird, really gross, and full of tentacles going you-know-where. Please, for the love of Korn, do not watch this unless you are prepared to see things you can never unsee. [Meatball Machine]
machine man
Find Out What Drives Robots To Drink
He's the sole survivor of a secret military program to create robotic super soldiers who became an alcoholic perverted government operative, and in between worked as an insurance adjustor and mutant-hunting hacked machine. It's been a long, strange road for Jack Kirby's Machine Man. The one-time pacifist robot that spun out of Marvel Comics' short-lived spin-off from 2001: A Space Odyssey gets a new chance at stardom in this week's issue of Marvel Comics Presents, giving you the chance to look inside his head and find out what makes him tick - literally. More »
triviagasm
The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It
The London Science Museum finally completed work on the Victorian era's greatest supercomputer, the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage. This five-ton machine is currently traveling across the pond to San Francisco, and will go on display in America for the first time starting May 10th at the Computer History Museum. Find out everything you wanted to know about Charles Babbage and his wonderful engines in today's triviagasm. More »
false utopias
If you're living in a shiny happy world where everything is provided to you, and your white pajamas never ever get stained, then chances are you're in a false utopia. Someone's going to be coming and harvesting your organs, or culling you at age 30, or drugging you into obedience. The fake paradise built on a foundation of shit seems to flourish most during times when technology seems to be solving all our problems (like during the dotcom boom.) Click through for a list of false utopias.
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Paradise Is A Lie: A History Of False Utopias
If you're living in a shiny happy world where everything is provided to you, and your white pajamas never ever get stained, then chances are you're in a false utopia. Someone's going to be coming and harvesting your organs, or culling you at age 30, or drugging you into obedience. The fake paradise built on a foundation of shit seems to flourish most during times when technology seems to be solving all our problems (like during the dotcom boom.) Click through for a list of false utopias.
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guinea pig for science
Testing the Brain Machine
Mitch Altman is a mad engineer, the kind of guy who invents things designed purely to question social norms. He achieved notoriety for creating the TV-B-Gone, a tiny device that will shut down most TVs by flipping through a couple hundred known remote-control "off" signals at the touch of a button. And now that he's created the perfect device for interrupting your TV signal, he's moving on to bigger and better signals. He's created the "brain machine," a simple DiY gadget (pictured here) that literally changes your brain waves by flashing LEDs at your eyes and pumping low-frequency sounds into your ears. At South by Southwest yesterday, I had a chance to try one out, and find out whether a thumb-sized circuit board and a few LEDs could put me into a meditative or trance-like state. More »
time machine
A reclusive scientist named A.E.R. Pipewell may have disappeared without much notice during World War I, but to his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison he was something of a legend. Sadly, most of his workshop was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, but recently some of his schematics came to light. An engineer named Alan Rorie put together Pipewell's "perplexing device" known as the "dihemispheric chromaether agitator," which apparently Pipewell believed could travel in time at 1 SPS (second per second). Want to see the time machine being powered up by a steam engine?
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A Faithful Reconstruction of A.E.R. Pipewell's Time Machine
A reclusive scientist named A.E.R. Pipewell may have disappeared without much notice during World War I, but to his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison he was something of a legend. Sadly, most of his workshop was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, but recently some of his schematics came to light. An engineer named Alan Rorie put together Pipewell's "perplexing device" known as the "dihemispheric chromaether agitator," which apparently Pipewell believed could travel in time at 1 SPS (second per second). Want to see the time machine being powered up by a steam engine?
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bollywood
Another Bollywood Scifi Classic In The Making
Indian mega-star Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) wants to produce the company's most expensive movie ever, an untitled science fiction film about kids whose wishes start coming true. Khan, the star of international hit Om Shanti Om, was supposed to produce and star in S. Shankar's Robot, but bailed on the project. Now he wants to make his own movie to top upcoming Bollywood epics like Time Machine, Love Story 2050 and Robot. More »
found footage
Smiley Faces Destroy The World's Cutest Killer Robot
This sequence from 1995's Death Machine is awe-inspiring, because the killer robot is CGI but manages to look like stop-motion with its jerky movements. And it's super cute! It's like a robo-Barney. And it's damaged by an explosion that's perfectly timed to coincide with a nice smiley face, as the super-secret evil corporate vault door opens. I've seen Death Machine three times, and I still couldn't tell you the plot. There's an evil corporation in the far future of 2003, and Brad Dourif plays himself as a psycho robot maker. And there are cyber terrorists, and flashy lights. Mostly, though, it's about the cute robosaurus.
planet eaters
Three of the Greediest Planet-Eating Bastards Ever Created
Now that we've all given up on any pretense at a New Year's diet, it's time to celebrate some of the hungriest people in science fiction: Those so hungry, they could eat an entire planet. Not for these fine folk, the questionable pleasures of a Burger King Whopper or espresso chocolate chip cookie or several; instead, they'd rather slurp up every appetizing mortal-filled morsel in the universe. Those who want to feel thin should applaud our hierarchically-organized list of the three greediest bastards ever created. More »
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