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The first trailer has arrived for Fox’s Minority Report TV show, outlining the set-up for the sci-fi spin-off which follows on from the events of Steven Spielberg’s big screen smash. The new series is set 10 years after the end of Pre-crime in DC, and follows one of the programme’s Pre-cogs attempting to lead a…
END “MORE ON” SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 TriStar Pictures; Touchstone PicturesWhen Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers hit theaters 16 years ago today, most American critics slammed it. In the New York Times, Janet Maslin panned the “crazed, lurid spectacle,” as featuring “raunchiness tailor-made for teen-age boys.” Jeff Vice, in the Deseret News, called it “a…
Luc Besson started dabbling in sci-fi once again with last year’s Lucy, but his next film will really be his big return to the genre. Besson announced on Twitter this morning that he’s started work on an adaptation of Valerian, a French comic series that’s supposed to be a mixture of space opera, adventure, and time…
The miniature wargame play celebrated in the War Game Digest could reach only a limited audience because it required painstaking efforts from dedicated and artisanal adults. Avalon Hill’s board wargames, on the other hand, could reasonably aspire to reach the mass market. They built on the recognized tradition of juvenile board games, but with a…
How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web On January 17, 1980, FBI agents descended on a small business in Wisconsin to investigate a plot against the life of an American business executive in Beirut, Lebanon, named William Weatherby. The tip came to local…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 If you are anything like me — and you are — you watched Galaxy Quest at least four times this weekend. You already know that it is commonly referred to as “the greatest Star Trek film of all time,” that Takei loved it despite initial misgivings, that Tony Shaloub’s stoner subplot was imperfectly…
Galaxy Quest, the Star Trek parody that turned out better than some official Trek movies, is getting a TV reboot. The cult sci-fi satire followed a cast of washed-up actors who starred in the fictional Galaxy Quest series, affectionately poking fun at sci-fi fandom in such a shrewd way that Star Trek star George Takei jokingly called it “a powerful piece…
What’s going on with the Hugo Awards and the what are the Sad Puppies? Read this first: The Hugo Awards are a yearly Science Fiction and Fantasy set of awards given by an organization called WordCon, a long lasting convention around the same topics. Nominees for the award are voted in by members of WorldCon,…
“Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin has written 20,000 words about a culture war brewing in the science-fiction world. Can the Internet be saved? The culture wars have claimed a new victim: the next Game of Thrones book. I’m exaggerating. But Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has spent more than…
As I’ve said before – in the religious liberty context – when one takes their eyes off the “head for the hills” Republicans and focuses on the vast conservative grassroots, the social-justice and identity-politics Left is taking beating after beating. And now that losingstreak is extending into a new cultural arena — the arts. Conservatives who love gaming…