NewsScience
Spiral Galaxy? It’s big… damn big!
The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the…
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NewsFilms
Django Unchained (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) (2012).
Say what you like about ‘Django Unchained’, there is a lot that works and a lot that does not. Quentin Tarantino writes and…
NewsScifi
Let’s help Jay Lake.
Update. Since we posted this news, the total raised has jumped from $12k to nearly $30k (with a $20k target). Thanks to all…
NewsScience
Free planets for everyone… NASA’s great new world rush.
NASA’s Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the…
NewsFilms
The Last Stand… Arnie feels old.
Here’s a new trailer for The Last Stand, with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s somewhat-anticipated return to the big screen after his side-trip as Governator.…
NewsScifi
Robot & Frank… file under sensitive and moving.
Here’s a slice of near-future science fiction, the Sundance-winning SF film Robot and Frank, in which an old codger played by actor Frank…
NewsFantasy
Oz: The Great and Powerful gets be-witching.
The true joy of an Oz prequel movie like Oz: The Great and Powerful – for the studio, not the viewers – is…
NewsScience
Planetary disruption beyond imagination at Fomalhaut.
Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it…
ReviewFantasy
Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (book review).
A single incident sparks a war between three separate but somewhat interdependent kingdoms. Auranos, Paelsia and Limeros used to be one, according to…
NewsScifi
Alien invasion? Offer… Defiance.
Defiance is the SyFy Channel’s latest piece of original programming and can best be described as aliens do to humanity on Earth what…
NewsHorror
Da Vinci’s Demons… TV does Renaissance-punk.
Here’s an interesting looking TV series from the creators of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Da Vinci’s Demons, which recasts Leonardo da Vinci in…
NewsStar Trek
The Big Bang Theory does Star Trek the Next Generation.
Here’s a trailer for an upcoming episode of The Big Bang Theory entitled ‘The Bakersfield Expedition’ where the geeks travel to a SF…