Looks like Disney is super-serious about this stand-alone Star Wars movie plan. Vulture says that Zack Snyder, of 300 fame, Watchmen infamy and Man of Steel not-sure-yet-edness, is currently developing a "Star Wars samurai" flick inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, where seven Jedi help... More »
How twitchy are people about the issue of school violence right now? Very, very twitchy. So much so, that a high school principal who made a silly video of himself as the Terminator, complete with imagery from the James Cameron films, could be suspended or fired. Erick Naumann had recently become... More »
If the twentieth century was the dawn of spaceflight, then the twenty-first is its full, bright morning. We have probes and robots exploring every corner of our solar system; More »
We've got an exclusive trailer for Syfy's new alien Western, Defiance. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth that's trying to rebuild after a long and disastrous alien war, the show centers around the population of a town called Defiance, formerly Saint Louis. More »
Hundreds of years before Superman guarded the skies, a group of ageless fighters stood up against evil. DC Comics' Medieval team book Demon Knights features Etrigan, Vandal Savage and a host of other classic heroes kicking butt and engraving names. More »
Cheetara in Roberto Cavalli, Jem in Balenciaga, and the whole Sailor Moon cast outfitted in their cartoon couture best — this is the fashion forward runway we've been waiting for. More »
Here now is the latest installment in Ze Frank's always entertaining, occasionally scientifically accurate "facts about _______" nature series. To date, Frank has covered hedgehogs, anglerfish, and now baby echidnas, a.k.a. More »
(Kotaku.com ) The Japanese influence in Star Wars is no accident. George Lucas' hero is acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and he was inspired by the Japanese director's films, such as The Hidden Fortress. According to a famous bit of Star Wars trivia, Lucas even wanted actor Toshiro Mifune, who starred in... More on Kotaku »
Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America's capability to blast humans to Earth orbit from American soil -– perhaps as early as 2015 -– which was totally lost following the forced shuttle shutdown. More »
This week on television, there are eight new and returning TV shows — including the Canadian time travel show we've been talking about for months, Continuum, which is finally coming to American TV. More »
Because holy crap, just look at that headgear. Everyone, meet Bocydium globulare. Better known as the Brazilian treehopper, B. globulare excels at living a solitary life, hanging out on the leaves of glory bushes, and head-sphering its way into your nightmares. More »
Very little is known plotwise about Captain America's sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But we do know that Steve Rogers will be interacting with a handful of classic Captain America characters, such as Bucky Barnes and the Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie. More »
Famed actor/lunatic Gary Busey has taken time out of his busy schedule of yelling at invisible people to have a seat on a quiet, secluded hill, wear a tiny baseball cap, and tell us all about the tiny denizens of Middle-Earth known as Hobbits. More »
If our eyes were just a little different, we might see green when looking up at our sun. Because they aren't, we'll never see a green star no matter where we look. More »
Because it's the weather system Texas deserves, etc. Over at Newton Blog, Ross Pomeroy serves up a great example of misperceived random stimuli in the form of a 3-day rainfall forecast. More »
One can only imagine what was going through the mind of the person who took this photo. Taken a mere two to five minutes after its detonation, it's a ground-level perspective of the atomic explosion that decimated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. More »
J.J. Abrams explains why Star Trek Into Darkness had to be in 3D, despite his objections. Could some newly registered domain names hint at the new Batman movie? More »
YOU THINK IT'S ROUGH NOW | Think the weather is crazy now? Just imagine what it looked like on Earth right after the mega-collision that formed the Moon. More »
The Orion Nebula, as the closest site of massive ongoing star formation to Earth, has long been one of the most intensely studied objects in the night sky. More »
