2023-02-14 00:13
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2023-01-13 20:20
You ever get that feeling you are about to be dipped into a vat of molten gold?Indiana Jones and Marvel Comics Copyright 2023 by the Walt Disney Company. No infringement is intended with thi… Read More
2022-10-21 18:29
Because I love James Bond movies and I love pugs, why not combine the two favs?! Read More
2022-08-08 01:12
If you love Asian food as I do, then you must know about Uncle Roger. Uncle Roger is a character played by comedian Nigel Ng who is very concerned that Asian cooking be done correctly. If yo… Read More
2022-08-08 00:40
The cover for The Uncanny X-Men #141 is one of the most legendary in all of comics. Penciller John Byrne and inker Terry Austin (likely under the direction of their X-editor Louise Jones (Si… Read More
2022-08-08 00:21
Henry Fonda, one of the greatest actors of his generation, was in many classic films, including the Sergio Leone masterpiece Once Upon A Time In The West.Fonda was also in The Swarm. That's… Read More
2021-10-19 16:47
Alright I'll admit it: I am a font junkie. I'm not a graphic designer but I love the many, many fonts which have been created over the years for books, movie posters, and advertisements to n… Read More
2021-10-19 16:33
With all the hubbub this weekend from DC's Fandome I just want to remind everyone that Robert Pattinson's Batman drive this new Batmobile. Read More
2021-10-05 00:44
Two great genre tastes that go great together (or at least they should).Journey with us now as our stalwart heroes, including Taylor, a cynical astronaut, Reverend Scott, a cynical priest, R… Read More
2021-10-05 00:29
Batman just doling out a general purpose Bat-slap to the Boy Wonder.We all know Robin will deserve one sooner or later.Batman and Robin are Copyright and Trademark 2021 by DC Comics In… Read More
2021-10-05 00:23
Need to get away for a few days? Bajoran Airlines has you covered.Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is Copyright and Trademark 2021 by CBS Studios, Inc. No infringment of those rights is inte… Read More
2021-08-31 23:02
You know him. You hate him. He is Star Trek's most boring character. Yes, it is Vedek Bariel. And now he is getting his own variety special: Star Trek: The Vedek Bariel Bariety Show.Wat… Read More
2021-08-31 22:56
"Imperial Tellers have entered the base! Make your withdrawals now." Star Wars is Copyright 2021 by Lucasfilm Ltd and the Walt Disney Company. Original AT-AT art copyright by its creato… Read More
2021-08-31 22:45
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Flint, the Immortal Man from the #TOS classic "Requiem For Methuselah" has a nice TV in his den but not only is it not 4K it is not even widescreen? Where does he get his tech toys from?&nbs&hell…Read More
2020-12-20 01:52
Star Trek is a Registered Trademark and Copyright 2020 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. No infringement of those rights is implied with this parody Read More
2020-04-15 00:07
This cock was a crock. The episode "The Taybor" of Space: 1999 featured, hands down, the lamest alien menace with the WORST hairstyle in all of sci fi: he looked like a cockatoo.So in honor… Read More
2020-03-18 16:46
Just after President Trump declared a National Emergency at the end of last week due to the spread of the coronavirus, American shoppers decided to LOSE THEIR GODDAMN MINDS and go panic shop… Read More
2020-02-04 18:25
I used to watch the classic sci-fi TV series Space: 1999 as a kid and I always thought it was more than a bit slow: it was leisurely paced, compared to say Star Trek, episodes were often fil… Read More
2019-12-16 02:57
I just watched the execrable "Christmas Comes To Pac-Land" Pac-Man cartoon special from 1982. I took a bullet for you Internet with this one. We're talking full metal jacket. When San… Read More
2019-12-16 02:48
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2019-12-16 02:41
Why is Han Solo often referred to as a "space pirate?" Ninety-nine percent of the pirates I picture are of the Long John Silver variety, often swilling cheap rum and dressing even cheaper. T… Read More
2019-12-16 02:29
"Cry havoc, and let us slip into sensible slacks to wage war!" #startrek #christopherplummer #theundiscoveredcountry #TUC #TOS #generalchang [from my Twitter feed] &nbs&hell…Read More
2019-11-03 02:24
John Byrne is my favorite comic book artist of all time, with his sleek pleasing style and strong sense of composition and storytelling, he can make virtually any superhero tale a pleasure t… Read More
2019-11-03 01:57
Back in the Dark Ages, we're talking early 2000s, the Batman film franchise was going nowhere after the cringe inducing box office failure of Batman and Robin, released 1997. Here is one pro… Read More
2019-07-25 20:37
The reason the Bridge of the USS Enterprise was always covered in Cheetos dust Read More
2019-07-25 20:33
Viewers of a certain age may fondly recall the NBC sci fi series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century which ran for two season (1979 - 1981).Created by the soon to be legendary Glen A. Larson, th… Read More
2019-07-25 20:21
This is what happens when you watch episodes of Space: 1999 at night and then listen to the Miami Vice soundtrack during the day Read More
2019-07-25 20:14
The cover of Superman #281 (Nov 1974) popped up on a Twitter account recently, featuring the introduction to a hirsute, mustachioed villain named Vartox. If you thought he looked just… Read More
2019-05-18 18:16
Godzilla: King of the Monsters opens in theaters May 31, 2019. Whatever supplies you may have accumulated for the zombie apocalypse...DOUBLE THEM Read More
2019-04-19 01:29
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2019-02-18 02:33
Await Further Instructions (2018)MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!Nick Milgram and his Indian girlfriend Annji show up unannounced to Nick's family home in England for the worst Christmas gathering of a… Read More
2019-02-12 17:47
We love poking fun at Rob Liefeld, the lightning rod artist known for co-creating X-Force for Marvel Comics and for being one of the seven artists to quit Mavel to start up Image Comics with… Read More
2019-01-29 03:45
Ultraman.A giant (of course Ultraman) starfish -- excuse me, DOUBLE starfish with baby bat in the middle kaiju.Some days I don't want to know what the Japanese are smoking/drinking/eating/im… Read More
2018-12-23 21:21
The audience has spoken.And they are not happy with Mortal Engines, the new blockbuster produced by Peter Jackson.Per boxofficemojo.com's projections through December 23, 2018, the $100 mill… Read More
2018-11-30 04:48
Netflix just announced they are canceling the acclaimed and popular series Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as the titular horn-headed hero. This announcement comes on the heels of the stream… Read More
2018-10-30 05:45
The Onion has this very important and timely article regarding airline safety mishaps vis a vie super-villain henchmen. LINKMy takeaway from this story is simple: NEVER to fly Blofeld Airlin… Read More
2018-10-06 20:45
I can't believe I went through the entire decade of the 1980s without ever watching the movie The Wraith.You know the one I'm talking about: the goofy flick about a ghost sports car and its… Read More
2018-10-06 02:13
Ladies and gents, boys and girls, dolphins and porpoises, here is the first LONG ASS trailer for the new James Wan movie FLIPPERBOY!Just kidding, it's AQUAMAN, starring bro-man/bro-dude/bro… Read More
2018-09-26 05:09
Being a lover of All Things Japanese - the food, the culture, samurai traditions, and, yes, Godzilla movies - I hesitate to admit there is one area of the Japanese arts in which I am sadly l… Read More
2018-09-15 15:34
Recently I bought a box of vanilla-flavored animal crackers, a favorite cookie from my youth. This was NOT the famous red-colored box with circus-themed animals such as lions and elephants.T… Read More
2018-07-20 00:43
San Diego Comic Con 2018 is underway.Some rumblings from the get go:1. Robin blurts out "F--- Batman!" in the trailer for new "Titans" series. What, did Frank ("Are you RETARDED? I'm the GOD… Read More
2018-07-19 06:05
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)The latest "run the dinosaurs are attacking!" movie is an abysmal failure, adding nothing new to this long in the saurian tooth franchise.Jurassic World:… Read More
2018-02-17 07:47
Copyright 2018 by CBS Studios. No infringement of those rights is intended with this parody. Feed your lizards as directed by your veterinarian and clean their habitats daily Read More
2018-02-05 23:22
Copyright 2018 by CBS Studios. No infringement is implied with this parody. Daft Punk rocks! Read More
2018-01-28 04:04
My review for the movie Warcraft (2016).With apologies to the millions of faithful Warcraft gamers, I just could NOT take this movie seriously. A bunch of overly muscled and very toothy acti… Read More
2018-01-17 16:59
One of legendary author Ray Bradbury's seminal novels is finally coming to television. Or rather, not TV but HBO.Fahrenheit 451, about a near-future society where censorship is everything an… Read More
2018-01-17 16:51
Back in 2012 Entertainment Weekly held a reunion for ET: The Extraterrestrial, the magical 1982 science fiction film, reuniting director Steven Spielberg with now-adult stars Henry Thomas an… Read More
2018-01-01 20:01
Happy New Year!Let us start 2018 by looking back at "TV Show Endings That People Still Don't Understand" (from LOOPER).This article includes series finales which confused (St. Elsewhere), co… Read More
2017-12-19 02:21
One of my personal writing/showrunner gods, Ronald D. Moore, is going back into space, courtesy of a new as-yet-untitled series from Apple. Mr. Moore is behind the current critical/audience… Read More
2017-11-30 04:01
My favorite thing this year was the character of Bad Ape in the thrilling War For the Planet of the Apes, the likely conclusion to the latest Apes trilogy involving the intelligent talking a… Read More
2017-11-30 03:52
Avengers Frickin' Assemble!Avengers: Infinity War. Holy shit! Read More
2017-10-02 01:36
Hurricane HarveyHurricane Irma.Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.Earthquakes across Mexico. So many lives lost, so much devastation and destruction, so many survivors trying to pull it back tog… Read More
2017-09-15 00:02
The TV series Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the iPhone era.BrainPilot on YouTube helpfully posted a list of the 5 Most Powerful Moments from this series (through Nov 2016). SPOI… Read More
2017-08-12 21:13
Short films can really pack a punch, if done well.With little to no budget these mini-movies can deliver the goods. Sometimes the directors of these shorts hit the big time and the material… Read More
2017-07-16 03:55
One of the greatest, perhaps THE greatest, action adventure cartoons is "The Adventures of Jonny Quest".Doug Wildey, working for Hanna-Barbera, created a mature, stylish series that is as th… Read More
2017-07-01 16:04
I believe that title says it all. Check out 20 sec to 45 sec.You can watch the rest, the most bizarre thing might be the cup noodles/Tabasco/kabuki-diapered-demons vignette which would have… Read More
2017-07-01 16:04
I got up at my normal time of oh-dark-thirty, but since it's Saturday, I'm off. So I tuned into over the air station Heroes & Icons, and The Green Hornet TV series was on. GH and… Read More
2017-06-24 02:11
Great movie poster illustrations are becoming a lost artform.Here is a quite standard Hollywood poster for the upcoming BABY DRIVER. It's not terrible, with its collage of characters grouped… Read More
2017-06-16 15:52
Adam West will always be remembered by kids who grew up in the late 1960s and 70s for his winning portrayal of DC Comics' favorite character BATMAN in the series of the same name.Mr. West pa… Read More
2017-05-06 04:12
The Musketeers is a great, old-fashioned romantic adventure series, something sadly lacking on American television in these times. Thank goodness the British and the BBC have not forgotten h… Read More
2017-05-06 03:59
We can all relate to Adam Scott's birthday wish - to meet his hero LUKE SKYWALKER (Mark Hamill) in the flesh - and his heartwarming reaction to having it fulfilled many, many years later Read More
2017-01-22 02:40
"I fucking love that guy!"That exclamation in the sci fi classic RoboCop (1987) forever cemented actor Miguel Ferrer into the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere.Mr. Ferrer, the son of Holl… Read More
2016-12-28 03:14
The year 2016 does not want to end quietly. With only a few more days left, Carrie Fisher, most famous for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars Saga passed away today; she had suffered a h… Read More
2016-12-25 04:31
The Fantastic Four, once Marvel Comics' flagship title, now a series canceled since 2015, was like the Star Trek of comic books: a group of adventurers boldly going into the unknown frontier… Read More
2016-12-24 17:35
King Kong roars back to life, and onto to the big screen.Kong: Skull Island looks terrific, with a great cast including om Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and John Goodman.The… Read More
2016-12-23 17:30
"Listen up, a-holes!"That phrase will be on everyone's lips and t-shirts next summer, thanks to Chris Pratt's charisma and the deft writing and directing of James Gunn in reassembling his mi… Read More
2016-10-08 23:16
John Wick: Chapter 2, the sequel to the killtastic John Wick, has a brand new poster, which is reminiscent of a piece of business we did here at Bad News From Outer Space when we re-watched… Read More
2016-10-02 02:58
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford have committed to another Indiana Jones adventure for 2019.I prefer my Indiana Jones at the age he was - late 30s - when we first met him in… Read More
2016-09-18 20:46
So yesterday, September 17, was the third annual celebration called Batman Day.I don't know if you get a free ice cream cone (Gotham Chocolate Chunks With Extra NUTZ) or free pancakes, or wh… Read More
2016-08-20 18:19
Teaser poster for 2017's Spidey reboot, done under the successful creative leadership of Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige Read More
2016-08-07 06:48
This has NOTHING to do with science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, comic books, or anything like that.But it's hot in Los Angeles. Damn hot. So, here is the classic song "Heat Wave" as sung… Read More
2016-08-07 06:37
Good grief but there have been so many mediocre big screen movies of late. Every summer seems to be filled with so many turds.Last year though, there was a gem among the duds in the form of… Read More
2016-08-07 06:25
I like robots.You like robots.Who doesn't like robots?Well, how about 1,007 tiny robots. All dancing in unison. (originally found on Gizmodo) Read More
2016-06-20 02:15
Actor Anton Yelchin, who had quite a resume for a young actor, passed away earlier today at the age of 27. Mr. Yelchin guested on television shows such as ER and NYPD Blue, and appeared in f… Read More
2016-06-06 03:55
Oh, my. What is going on with Rogue One: A Star Wars story?You get a promising up and coming director in Gareth Edwards to helm your Star Wars story, which is written by top established writ… Read More
2016-05-22 00:33
Now that's what I'm talking about!Paramount Pictures FINALLY held their little soiree Friday to promote the release of Star Trek Beyond, which is one of the crown jewels in their possession… Read More
2016-05-04 01:36
I have yet to see Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. The movie opened HUGE in March, breaking/setting records.But then word of mouth spread, and week two, week three, and more came an… Read More
2016-05-01 20:39
Way cool new Star Trek poster artwork from Joshua Budich, via Gizmodo. Mr Budich titled it, "To Boldy Go."Art copyright by Joshua Budich. Star Trek is a Registered Trademark of CBS Studios… Read More
2016-05-01 00:44
Gizmodo has a neat look at the evolution of control panels on real spacecraft.Here's the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2011. Image: Ken Thornsley/NASA via Gizmodo Read More
2016-05-01 00:26
Here's the teaser trailer to this summer's new movie "Fast & Furious Final Frontier," aka "Star Trek Beyond." One question: Who gets to play the Vin Diesel role? ("I live my… Read More
2016-04-16 13:19
The first teaser trailer for DOCTOR STRANGE, Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts. The movie opens in November Read More
2016-04-07 00:13
Artist extraordinare BILL SIENKIEWICZ nails another great cover for Marvel's Daredevil title. (Image copyright Marvel, from Comics Alliance) Read More
2016-03-08 16:11
So the much anticipated 10th Season of The X-Files came and went (it was only six episodes). And just a few months ago the latest James Bond adventure SPECTRE was out in theaters.If yo… Read More
2016-02-24 05:15
From the turntable to the Trektable.Some genius edited a bunch of kinetic Star Trek clips to that great old school jam Pump Up The Volume by MARRS Read More
2016-01-06 04:51
Silent Running was originally released in March 1972. It was a modestly budgeted (made for about $1 million) science fiction film, but one with a very big environmental message which is stil… Read More
2015-12-30 04:13
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)We return to that galaxy far, far away with “a story about a boy, a girl and a universe.” Ads for the original 1977 Star Wars movie used that t… Read More
2015-12-20 17:46
Trailers, trailers, trailers, y'all.Star Trek Beyond (July 22)Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 25) X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (November 18)Cap… Read More
2015-11-22 04:48
In this edition of Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy (NOT!), io9 reports that Vin Diesel just. won't. let. Riddick. die.Yes, Pitch Black (2000) was good - a lean, muscular lower-budgeted sci-fi action… Read More
2015-10-22 04:51
Happy Back To The Future Day, everyone.Though don't you think it's time to update that analog Flux Capacitor for a digital model? Just a thought.(pic from AlienRobotZombies.com) Read More
2015-10-14 18:40
Kids growing up today have access to animated entertainment 24/7. They can get their favorite 'toons On Demand, off the web, or if they want to do it the old fashioned way, watch Cartoon Net… Read More
2015-09-15 02:31
There's a new fang in town, and his name is Stephenson.If you like vampires, and vampire movies - let's face it, who doesn't - then check out "The Gospel According To Stephenson."Writer/dire… Read More
2015-08-03 14:27
Science fiction movies are my bread and butter, but horror movies can still totally fascinate me.This movie, called "Goodnight Mommy," from Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fia… Read More
2015-07-22 18:09
"James Bond Will Return."That sentence at the end of every James Bond film is always a welcome sight.Now, James Bond is back in SPECTRE, opening November 6, 2015. Daniel Craig once again sli… Read More
2015-07-15 17:37
Another San Diego Comic Con has entered the history books.DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. got my attention with trailers for their two big movies for 2016.Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justic… Read More
2015-07-06 05:30
It used to be that when you wanted a quick buzz in the morning or a pick me up to get you through the end of your work day, you'd hit up the old coffee pot for that caffeine buzz.Nowadays, e… Read More
2015-06-13 03:32
There’s a new(ish) over the air channel called The Works. A quick Google search shows that it’s another one of those “retro” channels (like Me-TV, Cozi, etc); f… Read More
2015-05-18 02:27
On May 20, 2015, David Letterman is signing off the late night airwaves.Between his 11 year stint at NBC hosting Late Night and his current gig leading The Late Show at CBS, Letterman has gr… Read More
2015-05-03 03:01
In the tradition of weird/silly/stupid shit like Sharknado, Dinocroc, Piranhaconda and Mega Python vs Gatoroid (basically 99% of the flix The Asylum craps out), we present WASPATULA.Yes, it… Read More
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