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Sci Fi Author Beaten And Maced By Border Guard Found Guilty Of Felony 'Resistance'

io9 | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

A jury finished deliberating in the contentious Peter Watts case. The Canadian author of Blindsight was beaten by US border guards when returning home...

ReelzChannel: Shutter Island and 10 Others Not to Get "Lost" On

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

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...

The Last Mimzy: Stories: Well-Thought Out But Poorly Written WWII-Era Sci-Fi

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Alex Remington

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...

ReelzChannel: The Top Ten "No Escape" Scenarios

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

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...

The Avatar Sequel: Damming Pandora

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Peter Bosshard

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...

Sci Fi Author Peter Watts Arrested At US Border

The Star | Kristin Rushowy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

DVDs -- Fractured Fairy Tales

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

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.

Fanboys Geek Out At Big Apple Comic Con

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — A three-day love-in devoted to pop culture opened Friday with William Shatner unveiling his new comic book and fans geeking out on th...

A Hollywood Blockbuster Arrives

Bill Swadley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Bill Swadley

James Cameron's new film, Avatar, which just had its premiere in London last night, is about to take the world by storm.

Best Sci Fi Movies: 5 Underrated Masterpieces

techland.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

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...

An Interview with William Sleator, YA Novelist

Nick Antosca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Nick Antosca

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.

ReelzChannel: The Top Ten "Oh, Come On" Moments in Sci-Fi Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

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...

ReThink Review: District 9 -- Earthlings Aren't Easy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

My ReThink Review of Neill Blomkamp's excellent film, District 9, and why its creativity and social/political commentary make it a modern classic.

Looking For District 9

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jackie K. Cooper

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.

Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Brad Balfour

"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."

District 9

Will Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Will Menaker

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.

Y O Y the Syfy Channel?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Patt Morrison

Do the network honchos think this is the next, hip iteration of the texting-literate generation? Or that we R 2 dum 2 no betr?

Q&A: Actor Geena Davis Got an Oscar and Now Makes Accidents Happen

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Brad Balfour

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.

Mapping Your Life's Journey

Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Daniel Lubetzky

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.

Battlestar Galactica Finale DVR Alert!

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

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!

Syfy Channel: Sci Fi "Imagines Greater," Rebrands

New York Times | Stuart Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

FOR years, television viewers, journalists who write about TV and services that compile listings have wondered how to refer to a certain cable network...

An Interview with the Final Cylon Kate Vernon

Jenna Busch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jenna Busch

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.

Greening Hollywood: "Globalization on Acid" Is Sleep Dealer's Theme

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Paige Donner

"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."

The Frakking Nukes

Daniel Holloway | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Daniel Holloway

But one of the reasons Battlestar works so well is that humanity's demise is rooted in its Alfred E. Neuman-esque attitude toward the machines of war.