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We'd like to take a moment to thank all the readers of Bad News From Outer Space. We know you have a choice in blogs so thanks for flying with us. Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. Star Trek Copyright 2009 and a Registered Trademark of CBS Studios, Inc. No Infringement of those rights is ...
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Collider.com looks (favorably) on the new-fangled Blu-Ray release of Galaxy Quest , one of the greatest science fiction (and comedy) movies of all time. It's very funny, and after watching so many big budget "comedies" lately that maybe have one laugh every half hour this truly means something. ...
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According to IGN.com , Joshua Jackson from Fringe has been cast as Paul Foster in the feature film version of Gerry Anderson's UFO . Also it's apparently titled U.F.O. which doesn't look as cool, but whatever. Since Jackson is committed to Fringe, and the show hasn't been cancelled, are we to ...
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Hercules (1983) Instead of a formal review, here's a new feature "Guy Watches a Movie With A Laptop in his Lap." Tremble at these names of legend: Golan-Globus, The Cannon Group, Luigi Cozzi and Lou Ferrigno. “Darkness and chaos merged and formed the four elements: night, day, matter and ...
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FlashForward (episode descriptions from Wikipedia) "Playing Cards with Coyote" - Mark gets a lead on the tattooed assassin that he saw in his flashforward. Simon and Lloyd play a game of poker to settle old scores. Aaron uncovers the harsh truth behind Tracy's death. Janis has second thoughts ...
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Would the Gorn's tweets be better labeled "grits?" Or perhaps "greets?" Why's that little pale dude wearing a ssskirt? And why's he so sssparkly? Stardate: 7134.8 I am SO gonna throw gray boulders at that man. Stardate: 7136.6 ERRRRISSSSIITTTHHHHH. Stardate: 7013.5 Where’s my tunic? And my ...
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This Wired.com article has something I've never seen even in the most visionary of science fiction movies: LED tattoos . (One thing Blade Runner missed!) Crazy, sexy, cool.
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Fringe - "August" A puzzling abduction case leads the Fringe team to...The Observer? A great episode, revealing more details about the mysterious Observer, the hairless man who dresses like Mad Men's Don Draper at a funeral. For one thing there is more than one Observer! In fact we see four in ...
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The nice folks at Cinematical.com have an article about scifi series that need movie reboots . Let's roll up our spacesuit's sleeves and weigh in, shall we? 1. Space: 1999 Great special effects in the original, no argument there. But the stories and acting were so veddy British, as in dry, it ...
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Galactica.tv has some great, often little seen, concept artwork for the original, old school Battlestar Galactica . All the greats from the original Star Wars worked on BSG-TOS , including Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston; they were joined by such similarly awesome talents as Andy Probert ...
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Fringe - "Of Human Action" "You're going to hold this over my head for a long time, aren't you?" Two used car salesmen take a teenage boy on a crime spree killing policemen, robbing a convenience store and demanding a $2 million ransom from his scientist father, who just happens to work for ...
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LiveScience.com has a cool article looking at the history of computers . Check out the Difference Engine (isn't that just the most awesome name?) designed in 1822 but not built until recently. The greats are all there: ENIAC, the IBM 360, the Xerox PARC Alto, the Apple II. In a parallel ...
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V – “Pilot” and “There is No Normal Anymore” SPOILERS Writer/director Kenneth Johnson’s fondly remembered 1983 mini-series V is dusted off without him and given a new coat, or skin, as the case may be. You should know the plot by now: giant spaceships appear all over the world one day. The ...
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Director Roland Emmerich's kiss your ass goodbye, end-of-the-world movie 2012 was the number one film at the box office this weekend, scooping up $65 million sawbucks. Here's a CGI-laden clip from this blockbuster . (make sure you watch it, it's awesome!) Roland, you've destroyed the same ...
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This is a fun article on MSN.com that looks at the evolution of the indispensible cell phone . The SRA/Ericsson MTA looks from 1956 like one of the wall-mounted phones on the Battlestar Galactica (the SRA weighed 88 pounds!). The Nokia Mobira Talkman from the Orwellian year 1984 looks a lot like ...
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Land of the Lost (2009) "Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition met the greatest earthquake ever known...." If you're a child of Saturday morning TV in the 1970s, there's a better than average chance you recognize that theme song. But it does you little good with this empty-headed, ...
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What's on Medusan Ambassador Kollos' mind is today's "Moment of Zen:" Star Trek is Copyright 2009 and a Registered Trademark of CBS Studios, Inc. No infringement of those rights is implied. Screencap from Trekcore.com.
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Bouncing, careening and ricocheting off the shelves of the L.A. Library system. Crank 2: High Voltage (2009) Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) survived his mile-long fall from a plane in Crank 1 and is kidnapped by Chinese mobsters who plan on harvesting all his organs for their aging mob boss. ...
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This LiveScience.com article looks at the WORLD'S OLDEST KNOWN SPIDER WEB. It's about 140 million years old, and of course it was preserved in amber. That amber (tree sap) is amazing stuff. I don't know why Ted Williams didn't just have his head coated in amber instead of going the cryogenic ...
