I’ll spare you the Star Wars Christmas Special jokes, by now I think we all know what to expect from George Lucas plus Star Wars plus TV. Anyone having any doubts at all, can go look at any given 5 minutes of a Clone Wars episode, before falling to the floor and shrieking in agony. Now the MTV...

I have to admit, the first time I saw Step Brothers, my reaction was this: “Eh….” But like all Will Ferrell movies, Step Brothers eventually wormed its way into my brain and now I love it. I felt the same way about Anchorman when I first saw it, and I really disliked Talladega Nigh...

This is a sponsored article, brought to you in association with Atkinson’s Sports Socks: now twice as absorbent. We must begin with an apology to the nation’s High School teachers: you are about to experience an outbreak amongst your male pupils of awkwardly hunched walking, unwillingnes...

Roger Ebert’s review took a swipe, or a bunch of swipes actually at fanboys, both the movie Fanboys, and actual Star Wars fanboys, touching off a backlash from fanboys, the real ones, not the movie variety. Now lately Roger Ebert has fallen into the habit of not so much reviewing the movie, as...

5. Bardon’s Revenge of Fury by David Drake and David Webber - First they blew up his planet, then they blew up his galaxy and then they blew up his starship. But that was their last mistake. Now Jon Bardon, mercenary with a grudge, and former Imperial Commando of the Secret Space Guards is aft...

Slice of SciFi #202: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of SciFi TV In the News: Heath Ledger’s final performance in Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is having a hard time find a U.S. distributor. ID is offering a free web-based version of multiplayer “...

Slice of SciFi #201: Interview With Gord McWatters of Klingon Night School In the News: Created by professionals in the field of new media, TV, film and other productions, eGuiders is a “TV Guide� of sorts for on-line content. The site has the intention of becoming a modern guide to the best cli...

We know that many porns have taken their inspiration from mainstream movies, and even sci-fi movies—it's just that, well, we never really expected AMC to be the ones to do a story on it. Seriously, American Movie Classics namechecking "The Re-Penetrator"? Is this an attempt to stay relevant an...

From JapanProbe we have this wonderful find: In the twilight months between living in the Philippines and moving to New Orleans, Channel 6 in San Diego showed Star Blazers. I found the notion of reviving a dead battleship for the purposes of traveling to space and defending Earth to be inspiring. I ...

I love most Tim Burton movies, but I have a special fondness for Beetlejuice. It still kind of blows my mind to see the young, skinny Alec Baldwin, and I can’t quite reconcile that Beetlejuice is Michael Keaton. Mr. Mom? Jack Frost? C’mon. It’s pretty hard to argue that he’s ...