The cinema of science fiction began to mature in the 1950s, concurrent with the arrival of the Cold War and the Atomic Age, as well as the growing sophistication of the literature. But it was during the 1960s that the genre really began to expand in different directions, still heavily influenced by the ideological paranoia and...
Disney turned Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny into one of the most expensive movies ever made. So why do audiences seem fairly ambivalent?
"From forgotten oddities to essential peripherals, these are the accessories that helped make the Nintendo Game Boy legendary..."
Final Fantasy 2 is already seen as one of the strangest titles in the franchise. As it turns out, the game was almost even more different than it already is.
Charlize Theron made Furiosa a great character. So why is she missing from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga? Director George Miller explains the reason.
Without Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the home video market may have never experienced that '80s boom that changed movies forever.
Science fiction on film has been around almost as long as cinema itself. Starting in 1895 when the first public showings of motion pictures commenced in France and the United States, and as filmmakers began to realize that they could string scenes together to tell a complete, coherent story, the genres of sci-fi, horror, and...
Usually you’re supposed to throw out what doesn’t work and focus on what does. But if developers did that all the time, then Final Fantasy would never have adopted the Active Time Battle System.
Indiana Jones is a throwback to pulp heroes and the golden age of archeological exploration which inspired them. But does this make him a bad guy now?
Simple, audacious, exhilarating, with excellent lead performances. Steven Moffat, and Doctor Who, are back. SPOILERS
Actor Ahmed Best wants a better canon ending for The Phantom Menace's Jar Jar Binks. For now, there's Darth Jar Jar in the next LEGO Star Wars animated special.
Hollywood must be afraid of Einstein considering how few movies seriously address the theory of relativity. Here are the ones who actually face the cold truth about space travel.
The Xenomorph might be one of the best monsters in movie history but the real terror in Alien comes from the company Weyland-Yutani....
How did a terrifying alleged incident involving "real" extraterrestrials inspire Steven Spielberg to create the cuddly E.T. and Poltergeist?
Anya Taylor-Joy's Alia will presumably have a much bigger role in Dune: Part Three, but adapting this Frank Herbert character won't be easy.
The article discusses the potential rise of AI-powered “dating” apps that provide artificial companionship, sparked by an anecdote about a man spending $10,000 per month on “AI girlfriends.” It draws parallels to the films “Her” and “Blade Runner 2049,” which explored the implications of AI companions and the...
The ZX Spectrum shouldn’t have been that big of a deal. It was a budget and underpowered personal computer released at a time when the personal computer industry had more options than most people would ever need. At the very least, the ZX Spectrum’s audio cassette media format and bizarre methods of software distribution...
Think grown-up British drama in the Misfits, The Power and Heroes vein, but specifically exploring Black British perspectives on the superpower genre....
Doctor Who senior art director Crissy Howes may have hidden a robot from another sci-fi franchise someplace under the Doctor's nose.
Yet, amid this very welcome Gaiman-is-suddenly-everywhere trend, we’ve somehow all managed to ignore the project of his that’s most overdue for a lavish, expensive on-screen reimagining: Neverwhere. An urban fantasy that follows the story of an everyday young man who finds himself transported to the mysterious world of...
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