LONDON (AP) ā Getting to the Olympics was incredible enough for Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee track star running on carbon fiber blades. Now h...
While being able to create a black hole, or recreate the Big Bang with the Hadron Collider sounds like super fun experiments, what if we're really able to create a black hole in an underground laboratory in Switzerland?
Science fiction has often held a mirror to our society in order to teach us about our evolution (or regressive behavior). We probably owe many of our...
The ultimate relevance of Blade Runner lies in its challenge of what it must mean to be human. It raises the eternal gnawing doubt as to our own humanity or lack of it.
Why not start your week off with a hilarious bit of rumor and speculation? According to TwitchFilm, Harrison Ford has begun "early talks" with the pro...
Ridley Scott's dystopic "Blade Runner" struck a bleak, dirty note that still reverberates today. We don't have pyramidal skyscrapers or intelligent an...
Theron's Mavis is the classic narcissist: cut off from objective reality, lacking any concern for other people, insecure in private but willing in public to ride roughshod over anyone and everything in order to gratify her whims.
From "Footloose" to "Dirty Dancing" to "Titanic," lately it seems that almost every movie has been getting revamped -- so much so that it's almost dif...
A pair of new films this week offers a critique of capitalism sure to gladden the heart of any Occupy Wall Street protester, but they offer simple solutions to a very complex problem.
Now just eight years from the wrecked, futuristic Los Angeles envisioned in the original, Ridley Scott will be helming a new entry into the iconic "Bl...
For years, novels and movies have warned us about the ominous future that we face. In fact, film may be the best representation of what we now face as a society that is fulfilling Orwell's prophecy.
Harrison Ford turns 69 years old on Wednesday, but really, you'd think a guy who helped defeat Darth Vader and the evil Empire a long time ago, in a g...
I confess that in a quasi-religious way I have long been intrigued by the concept of a godlike computer, and Watson has kindled that interest back into flame.
"Among other things I do," says the British musician, "I'm the music director of an organization called TED or Technology, Education and Design. That's an annual get together of people sort of figuring out how to save the planet."
You can enjoy Inception in any number of ways, as action film with big brain, science fiction with multiple twists, spy flick, heist flick, love story, or simply a big budget spectacle.
Maybe a new generation of designers will make civic and social responsibility cool -- the Walkman of this era might be a personal solar power storage unit that can be carried around and snapped into power grid anywhere in the city.