A jury finished deliberating in the contentious Peter Watts case. The Canadian author of Blindsight was beaten by US border guards when returning home...
Teddy Daniels, the U.S. Marshal played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's new movie doesn't know what he's in for when he arrives on Shutter Is...
Henry Kuttner is one of the lost masters of science fiction, according to Ray Bradbury, who wrote the introduction to a posthumous collection of Kuttn...
In the new movie Frozen, a group of fun-loving snowboarders -- played by Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zegers -- get stuck on a chair lift. As t...
March 30, 2164. - I have spent a lot of time on Pandora lately. I have explored its verdant valleys, lush rain forests, and floating mountains. I have...
For author Peter Watts, life can be stranger than science fiction.
Watts - who has written six books in the genre - was on his way back to Toronto Tu...
Just when I despaired about the overweening cleverness of screenwriters confusing a chopped up timeline with intelligence and craft, two films popped up to prove there's still life in this unconventional convention.
Over the last two months, we've set out on a mission to bring five underrated and unappreciated science-fiction masterpieces back from the shadows. To...
Sleator was one of the very few "YA" authors I loved when I was young. Earlier this year, I read a bunch of them out of curiosity, and realized that they're really ingenious, elegantly constructed novellas.
Any science-fiction movie is predicated at least a little on the suspension of disbelief. But then there are points where what we're presented with so...
District 9 is one of those movies that comes to the screen out of the blue with no name actors and no real appeal except in this case it is produced by Peter Jackson.
"I felt like half of my mind wanted to make some serious film about these topics and the other half wanted to make a bloody genre film, "said Blomkamp. "And then I thought maybe I'll be able to do both."
Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience may have been the smartest movie I've seen this year, but Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is definitely the most fun.
Davis's startling and starring reappearance makes for a snappy and sharp-witted comeback. She plays the maternal head of a decidedly distraught and traumatized suburban family.
Your iPhone or Blackberry could have an application that every 5 minutes or every hour or every day could store your GPS location at that particular time.
Warning! SyFy (yes, that's how they spell their name now) has just announced that the series finale is not 2 hours long. It's two hours and eleven minutes long!
FOR years, television viewers, journalists who write about TV and services that compile listings have wondered how to refer to a certain cable network...
On Battlestar Galactica, Kate Vernon plays Ellen Tigh, wife of Colonel Saul Tigh. Ellen has always been a wild card, seducing the crew, sleeping with cylons to get info and save her husband.
"When you look at the future from the POV of the South, labor, migration, border security...all these issues, including privatization of water, waterworks, aqua terrorism loom large."