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Good God, we are getting old. Lee Majors is doing Bionic Hearing Aid commercials. Nothing is more depressing than listening to our favorite cyborg talk about "frustrating tiny batteries." [via David Indy ]
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Lee Majors
Not content with starring in both Terminator Salvation and Avatar , Sam Worthington 's mission to become the go-to guy for big budget SF movies continues with the just-announced Last Days Of American Crime . American Crime , based upon an as-yet-unpublished comic created by current Punisher ...
Movies
Avatar
Marvel Comics
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins
This supersized infographic from Koldcast TV charts superhero movies from Superman to Wolverine , examining the earning power of costumed heroes, the biggest hits and flops, and superhero firsts, as well as adding the occasional interesting factoid. The Evolution of Superhero Movies [Koldcast ...
Movies
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Superhero Movie
Does Megan Fox really die in Transformers 3 ? Find out below. Plus, Star Trek 's next redshirt revealed! See telltale pics of Lost, Harry Potter ... and Smallville 's Justice Society. Plus Doctor Who , Resident Evil, Dollhouse, V, Chuck and Stargate spoilers. Transformers 3: Megan Fox ...
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Diane Sawyer
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Smallville
We've got a grab-bag of crazy for you this week. First up is a look at the test footage of the movie adaptation of graphic novel El Eternauta , complete with poison snow. Plus creepy flying kids and Nic Cage . El Eternauta Last year, we found out that 1950s graphic novel by Héctor Germán ...
Movies
Nicolas Cage
Last week's episode of Supernatural , "Abandon All Hope..." was jam-packed with action and heartbreak. Lucifer is back, engineering a mega-slaughter in Missouri, and the brothers find a strange ally in a homoerotic demon. Written by Ben Edlund , this story was full of beautifully weird ...
Television
With Watchmen , GI Joe , Transformers and now V , American pop culture seems stuck in a particular part of its past. Why are we so fascinated with taking things from the 80's and making them our own? Written by David Grossman Everyone gets nostalgic. What's odd is when an entire society wants ...
Television
Unafraid to run an idea into the ground, we've come up with a twist on the Pride And Prejudice And Zombies formula to give it new life: Merge works of classic literature with classic sci-fi movies. How could it fail? We'll admit it; we're as unconvinced that the world needs any more ...
Movies
Pride
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is preparing to roll out hundreds of small, seafaring robotic explorers. If you're out for a swim and a robot tries to make friends with you, don't stand in the way of science! The San Diego-based Scripps Institution recently got funding from the ...
Movies
Well, as artificial intelligences go, it's no HAL, but it's definitely a step closer than we've ever been before. IBM researchers have reportedly simulated the cerebral cortex of a cat using 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory. This latest simulation, following on from 2007's ...
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The reign of The Dark Knight is over: The Twilight Saga: New Moon is now officially the movie with the most successful opening day of all time, easily beating Batman's 2008 record. But what about the opening weekend total? The movie's final opening day gross was $72.7 million, which ...
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New Moon
Twilight
The Dark Knight
Batman
With less than a month to go before Avatar is released, the movie was unfinished as recently as midweek. Isn't that just a little too close for comfort? The news came from a Wall Street Journal report about the rush to finish the movie in time for its December 10th premiere, with the paper ...
Movies
Avatar
James Cameron
It's enough to warrant a "TV Movie Event" and a special subtitle, but does the appearance of Smallville 's Justice Society of America actually look good? Click through and judge for yourself. I'm one of the more cynical Smallville viewers around, but dammit if this doesn't look promising. ...
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Smallville
Green Lantern
Marvel Comics
Michael Shanks
Legion of Super Heroes
With Avatar 's release nearing, new footage continues to appear in promos. This CokeZero-sponsored spot introduces you to Stephen Lang's military industrial villainous character, Colonel Quaritch. Please, tell me I'm not the only one who hopes that " Are you out of your jarhead mind? " ...
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Avatar
Amanda Tapping went crazy on last night's episode of Sanctuary — and not just because she stepping into the director's chair. It's all linked to a conspiracy within the Sanctuary Network, and one of the most destructive abnormals on Earth. Last night's episode began with what was ...
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Sanctuary
What happens when not enough people know about your book for it to see print? If you're cartoonist Andy Ristaino , you take to the internet to spread the word. Introducing Escape From Dullsville , the kind of thing that comics need. We've loved Ristaino since his last book, The Babysitter ...
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Marvel Comics
What happens when English mobsters come face-to-face with vampires? We got a sneak peek at the answer when we visited the set of new Brit gangster horror film, Dead Cert , currently shooting in Dagenham, on the Northeastern outskirts of London. Taking over a disused warehouse, Dead Cert ...
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EastEnders
When it comes to superhero fiction, there are certain iconic archetypes; Superman is the iconic whitebread hero, Batman the iconic OCD loner. But did you realize that Iron Man 's James Rhodes is the accidental iconic black superhero? We'll explain. By accident more than design, Rhodes has ...
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Iron Man
Oh, Batman: The Brave and The Bold , clearly you know the way to my heart: A guest-star filled episode featuring heroes and villains having to race each other in special vehicles for the fate of the planet? Yes please. Last night's "Death Race To Oblivion" was exactly the kind of thing Brave ...
