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Chet Zar

Future Recruitment Technique For Alien Space Wars

Now's your chance to meet some monsters straight out of Hellboy, just in time for the release of Hellboy II. Chet Zar, who did monster special-effects makeup and concept art for the first Hellboy and Planet of the Apes, has a new gallery show. His exhibit, "Ugly American" will be at the Strychin Gallery in London opening this Friday. Click through to see a gallery full of Zar's cranky smoking monsters. More »

11:48 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Meredith Woerner
2,658 views, 10 comments

found footage

Proof That Post-Apocalyptic Mutants Should Not Sing

There may be a place for religious acid trips in science fiction, but they can so easily go too far, as evidenced by this bizarre sequence from Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, the movie which was robbed of the "worst sequel" title. First the post-apocalyptic mutants make the ape army hallucinate a flaming, bleeding statue of the Lawgiver, who's sort of the ape Jesus. When that doesn't work, the mutants prepare to set off their holy nuclear missile, a faux religious ceremony that makes Omega Man look like Lilies Of The Field. Praise be to the bomb indeed.

3:23 PM on Thu May 29 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,836 views, 19 comments

Latest by n/a: So exactly how did the guy from inside of Darth Vaders suit end up as a freaky choir-priest-guy? more »

ridiculous plot twists

...And Then WHAT Happened? The Silliest Scifi Plot Twists

Science fiction thrives on suspension of disbelief. When you watch a movie or read a book about space battles and time travel, you're actively cooperating with the story to make it hold up. But when the story takes a sudden, nonsensical swerve, your suspsension of disbelief can turn into a savage retaliation. Here's our guide to the weirdest and least sensible plot twists (Ape Lincoln?!) from scifi books, movies, TV and comics. Major spoilers ahead, naturally. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
14,791 views, 92 comments

Latest by n/a: @Jack: Don't forget Highlander 5: There can be only one, but wait, there's four, and it turns out that The Prize is just an end to the winner's immortal impotence, and oh god this movie sucks so bad it's not more »

R.I.P. Charlton Heston If you hadn't heard the news by now, Charlton Heston passed away Saturday night at the grand old age of 84. His broad-shouldered, square-jawed, teeth-gritting acting style launched historical characters from Moses to Judah Ben-Hur, but we were more fixated on his body of science fiction work, which was considerable as you can see from our breakdown. Hopefully people around the world will be shouting "Get your stinking paws off me!" or "Soylent Green is people!" as a sign of mourning.

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tv this week

Battlestar Galactica Is Back... And We Have A Plan

There's pretty much only one big science fiction show on the schedule for this week: the long-awaited return of Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi. And the other big news of the week is Spike's huge Star Wars marathon, including the first time one of the prequels has ever been televised. But there's some other worthwhile stuff going on, including a decent Torchwood, the end of Legion of Superheroes, and a major turning point for the animated Transformers. Oh, and you can learn how to live to be 150. What can television not do for us? Minor spoilers ahead. More »

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9:00 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,292 views, 36 comments

Latest by Metropolis: @braak: You can get the complete definitive edition in one collect for around 150 now. Its not cheap but its a ton better than buying them separate. I wish I would have waited for the complete box set but can't more »

monkeys in space

Why Everything Goes Better With Space Monkeys

With Space Chimps officially the most anticipated monkey movie of the summer, it's time to take a serious look at our spacefaring simian cousins. (Especially after we discovered our readers are as obsessed with monkeys as we are.) And it turns out there are way more of them than we'd realized, including space-monkey entrepreneurs, superheroes, supervillains and half-monkey half-robot killers. Click through for the complete list of space-faring simians! More »

12:01 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,916 views, 40 comments

charlton heston

The Speckled SciFi Career of Charlton Heston

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 »

12:00 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Kevin Kelly
1,329 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm the person that actually liked Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES. If you hear whispering at the video store in regards to a legend of the One Man who enjoyed it, they would be referencing me. And no, it has more »

i am legend

Movies That Smash the Statue of Liberty

A trailer for the upcoming movie I Am Legend shows Will Smith and his canine buddy wandering an entirely empty New York City. But that's nothing new. Hollywood has always loved to show one of the most bustling cities on the planet smashed to hell and emptied of human life. Check out our list of movies that crush New York under their boots. Special bonus: click through our gallery featuring emptied-out NY, with many mangled Statues of Liberty. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Kevin Kelly
641 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: The Outer Limits episode "Inconstant Moon"shows Manhattan (with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground) being engulfed by flames as the protagonist imagines New York's end due to the sun going nova. more »

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The Only Minute Of Burton's Apes You Need To See

The best parts of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake are like a simian version of 300 . The giant ape army looks totally badass, and the "running apes" special effect still looks cutting-edge. Few films since then have used CGI to create such a convincing non-human society. And the explosion, with the apes raining from the sky, is priceless. Too bad the rest of 2001's POTA was so boring we ended up grooming ourselves for long stretches.

11:30 AM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By charliejane
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planet of the apes

Must See: Planet of the Apes

Must-see movies 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.

Title: Planet of the Apes
Date: 1968

Vitals: Astronaut Charlton Heston returns from a deep space mission and crash-lands on a crazy planet of ... Apes! Pierre Boulle's satirical French novel got a big-screen adaptation from Rod Serling, and a re-write from Blacklist victim Michael Wilson — making for one of the weirdest, hokiest, but nonetheless compelling sci-fi epics of all time. ...




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12:18 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Annalee Newitz
124 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tim Faulkner: Come on, bang for your buck is Linda Harrison as Nova, no matter what your orientation. more »