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Mythbusters Take on the Moon
The Mythbusters will be taking on the enduring Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy theory on August 27. The Mythbusters take on one of their biggest, most controversial myths ever: Could the July 1969 moon landing have been an elaborate hoax? First, Adam and Jamie focus on photos, testing the theory that two of NASA’s most famous…
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Made in Eureka
The Sci Fi Channel series Eureka, which follows life in a small town of genius inventors, returns for a second season tonight. Sci Fi created a bunch of fake “infomercials” to advertise the show when it first premiered, and they’ve been updated for the new season. There are apparently more at the Made in Eureka…
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I Do Feel More Grateful
(From Basic Instructions)
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Disaster Averted
Here I’ve been griping about all of the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel SF/fantasy remakes coming down the pike (like, f’rinstance, Escape from New York and Red Sonja, oh my head), and it turns out that things could have been much, much worse. Cracked Magazine has a list of the worst movies that Hollywood almost made, including a remake…
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Win 100 SF/Horror DVDs
Electronic Arts is promoting the release of its new game Dead Space by giving away a collection of 100 science fiction and horror DVDs. The list of movies is fairly eclectic, although it appears to be weighted slightly toward dystopian futures and slasher flicks. To enter the sweepstakes, you need only sign up for their…
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Y’Know, He’s Got a Point
John Scalzi has an article about SF movies over at SciFi Scanner, and he makes an interesting observation: In science fiction, unlike every other movie genre, “classic” does not automatically equal “good.” Gojira and its dozens of sequels are so bad that if there was any honesty in the world, people would have to admit…
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The Classic Science Fiction Channel
The Crotchety Old Fan really loves science fiction, and really really hates what the Sci Fi Channel calls science fiction.* So he’s scoured the Web for classic science fiction shows and has created a wonderful repository of links to old movies and TV episodes. There are hundreds of hours of programming to choose from, and…
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That’s It…
…we have officially reached the Bottom of the Barrel. There is no place left to go. Stick a fork in Hollywood, it is done. They’re remaking Plan 9 from Outer Space. The company behind this sacrilege abomination retelling is Darkstone Entertainment, a production company which can be termed “low budget” only by engaging in riotous…
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It’s Like Y2K, But with Volcanoes
Filmmaker Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot) is taking on the Mayan prediction about the end of the world with his new movie 2012, due out in June 2009. The Mayan “long count” calendar ends in 2012, and some nutballs New Age theorists believe that this signals a global cataclysm. The movie apparently begins…
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Dollhouse Sneak Peek
Fox has posted a couple of previews for Joss Whedon’s new series Dollhouse, which we’ve mentioned previously. (hat tip to Big Dumb Object) Writer/producer Tim Minear (Angel, Wonderfalls, Firefly, Drive) and writer Steven S. DeKnight (Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel) have also agreed to be involved with the series, so this should have quite…