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On Our Radar: Calvin Coolidge: Mummy Slayer
Like everyone else, we are pumped for Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter. But maybe we’re just a little bit more excited about Calvin Coolidge: Mummy Slayer. This video comes from the Sketchersons and...
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Black Bottle Sweepstakes!
Now you’ve read the Black Bottle excerpt, and we know you need the rest. So we’ve got ten ARCs! They’re here for you to win! Enter in the comments and may the (sweepstakes) Force be with you!NO...
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Morning Roundup: Funny Bale-Bat Voice Returns
Making fun of Christian Bale’s voice in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight is easy. But the people from College Humor have turned it into high art. Really, no one makes funny Batman videos better than...
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Five Seldom Mentioned Bradbury Creations You Need to Check Out
When Ray Bradbury passed away last week, we all lamented the loss of the man who created classics like The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and more....
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Looking Ahead: Godzilla 2014—Fears and Hopes
Making a movie about a pop-culture icon is always tricky business. On one hand, you have the diehard fans to appease. In this case, the majority of those fans are between the ages of 35 and...
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Secondworld Sweepstakes!
Jeremy Robinson’s latest book has hit shelves, but we’ve got five copies to hand out to five winners! Comment below for a chance to receive a copy of Secondworld!NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN....
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True Blood Fan Confession: I’m So Over Sookie
Hands down, the profanity-laced quote that best sums up my feelings about HBO’s steamy vampire series True Blood came out of the mouth of Pam the vampire in season four (completely NSFW clip here). In...
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It’s the Voyage Home That Matters: Finding Nemo
For years, bath time was Finding Nemo time.Dory would say some silly things and forget where she was going. Marlin would worry. And Crush would take them both on a totally bodacious ride. Nemo always...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: The Bonehunters, Chapter Twenty-Four
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Part 23
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 22 of A...
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Classic Sci-Fi Cameos in Prometheus
There’s been a certain amount of backlash against Ridley Scott’s latest movie, Prometheus. Complaints about plot holes and unanswered questions, pacing, a muddled, patchy script and an overall hokey...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Disaster”
“Disaster”Written by Ron Jarvis & Philip A. Scorza and Ronald D. MooreDirected by Gabrielle BeaumontSeason 5, Episode 5Production episode 40275-205Original air date: October 21, 1991Stardate:...
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Novel Docu-Horror: Last Days by Adam Nevill
Adam Nevill has gone from strength to strength in the years since he invited us all to dine with the dead in his promisingly ominous horror fiction debut, Banquet for the Damned. Its successor,...
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Lasseter, Catmull, and Pixar: Combining Art and Science
Pixar films are known for being computer animated, but they are loved for the stories they tell and the characters that live in them. To get to where the studio is now, they had to combine technical...
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Ghost Key (Excerpt)
Take a look at Trish J. MacGregor’s Ghost Key, out on August 21:Dominica and her tribe of hungry ghosts were driven from Esperanza, that magical city high in the Andes, but they were not all destroyed....
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Sunstone” and “The Movie Vanishes”
Sunstone: In the late 70s, Ed Emshwiller walked into the New York Institute of Technology and said he wanted to make a 3 hour computer graphics film. Once the staff stopped laughing, they told him 3...
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The Most Emotionally Realistic Superhero Movie Ever: The Incredibles
I knew I was going to like The Incredibles for the second I saw the first teaser. For those who don’t remember: it features Mr. Incredible attempting in vain to squeeze the buckle of his super-suit...
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Announcing the 2012 Locus Award Winners
The winners of 2012 Locus Awards were announced today in Seattle, Washington. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. We are, of course, especially excited that Tor Books once again won for...
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Our Favorite SFF Dads (Who Built Their Own Children)
Science fiction and fantasy dads are often a little weird. Fathers can meet their sons before they are born. Fathers can end up being cyborg death lords. Fathers can end up being overgrown boy...
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Cars: Don’t You Ever Just Go For A Drive?
Oh, Cars.Right up front in this review, I should say: I love Cars. And I recognize that this is not a popular opinion.A Doc-Hollywood-meets-NASCAR mashup in a world populated by anthropomorphic...
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