Proving once and for all that Hollywood has completely given up on new ideas, another remake of Buck Rogers has just been announced. Nu Image/Millenium, the group behind the revival of Rambo (and, it’s rumored, Conan the Barbarian) is producing. In his original 1928 incarnation, Buck was a U.S. military pilot who fell into a…

(Subtitle, Oh FFS) As Slice of SciFi points out, the original 1957 version of the movie was a drama which probed serious questions about the nature of humans and their place in an ever-expanding universe. It goes without saying that Murphy is turning this into a comedy. The remake features Murphy as a Las Vegas…

Salon.com’s Andrew O’Hehir wrote an article blasting the decision to have Guillermo del Toro direct the upcoming The Hobbit. John Scalzi, who has begun blogging for SciFi Scanner, blasts back. Most geeks are spittle-flinging happy that Pan’s Labyrinth director, Guillermo del Toro, has signed on to helm The Hobbit (and its ill-defined and almost certainly…

Commenting on this Wired article where J.J. Abrams claims that he is “reinventing” Trek with the new movie, Wil Wheaton offers his thoughts. Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about “reinventing” something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless…

Topless Robot has cut loose with a condemnation of the worst 11 songs from geek-friendly movies such as Superman and Men in Black, and they do not spare the mouth froth. Say what you will about the changes and additions Lucas made to his original trilogy for their Special Editions–even if you didn’t agree with…

Just in case you don’t spend enough time in front of the computer, CBS has posted full-length episodes of several classic TV shows online. Currently on offer is all three seasons of the original Star Trek and the first two seasons of The Twilight Zone. So if you just can’t go another minute without watching…

Whenever Captain Kirk left the Enterprise, there were always three things he made sure he had equipped: His phaser, a tearaway shirt, and his communicator. ThinkGeek has carried the phaser for a while, and they’ve now added the communicator. Carry around one of these babies, and you’re sure to get the chicks, just like Captain…

The Flux Capacitor is doing a not-particularly-in-depth series of articles on SF character archetypes in movies and TV. I’m amused by the file title of the “Villains” piece: McG,-the-Matrix-and-KHAAAAAAAN! Protagonists Villains Leading Ladies Sidekicks