I suspect that the "vs" in "Batman vs Superman" means something more subtle, sophisticated, psychological, and even metaphysical than airborne fistfights or eyeball-to-eyeball contests using lasers.... Or at least I hope so - or I won't be seeing the movie.

By writing "Thus making one very white cast, for a movie about Egypt", you're not bringing up the anachronistic, methodologically-compromised, and largely polemic "Black Athena" model of ancient Egyptian history, are you? You're speaking of the diversity of Semitic peoples, North African Caucasoids, Nubians, and…

I have a question. If Jonathan C.K. Wells is correct, and obesity is caused by the characteristic results of capitalism in food production, pricing, and ritualistic class-based behavior - when did marmosets, chimpanzees, mice, and domestic cats embrace capitalism?

Berreby's article is a classic example of an…

Heh. Here ya go....

Well, y'all realize that with Peter Weller's Bruce Wayne flirting with Diane Lane's Martha Kent, while Batman beats down Superman - Snyder & Nolan missed a nicely complicated, near-Shakespearean plot twist.... (wink)

Affleck, huh? I, for one, don't mind Snyder's finger-to-the-internet gesture in this choice. But there is only one grizzled, cynical, jut-jawed, crime-fighting veteran capable of credibly kicking Henry in the super-chops:

Sigh.... ST/Worf/etc. has been "played out" only if you have as little imagination as JJ Abrams & crew. There's plenty that can still be done, especially since the suits have modified or destroyed iconic ST backgrounds and contexts and "rewritten" history. One example off the top of my head - Vulcans don't step out of…

Threads. (Or, nuclear holocaust from Sheffield, England's POV.)

That illustration puts me in mind of something entirely different. Ever seen an extensive, gated community built entirely around a large golf course? Upscale houses and condos, streets, businesses, etc., where wealthy aficionados of the game buy in, live, compete and recreate, and commit themselves to a golfing…

He can't do Deckard again. Why?

Or modified humans. Ultimately, what may be easier - recreating habitat, or recreating humans?

In fact, "active shielding" shows up in Elysium - Kruger's "plasma-shield", used to deflect bullets from Max's modified AK-47.

Some journalists aren't even familiar with FOIA. Many others have neither the time nor the commitment to go through the (lengthy, complex, and frustrating) process. Most journalists, when faced with a FOIA issue, either abandon the issue, try to work around it, or go to a source that has already taken on the issue -…

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Might've been fun to see Sean Connery as Gandalf, and Helen Mirren (Galadriel) and Michael York (Frodo) getting it on - all dressed in early '70s synthetics and billet aluminum armor....

Let's see....

#7: There are many compelling sociological and psychological reasons why replicants/robots might be anthropomorphic. Really, this shouldn't be a discussion about what's most efficient or rational - which largely misses the greater point; it's a discussion about how human predilections, values, and needs…

Sigh.... So what's the next "hope-it's-a-masterpiece-because-every-other-potentially-great-SF-movie-for-the-last-X-number-of-years-has-been-a-mild-to-overpowering-disappointment" film? Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity? Or...?

Karl Urban, who (a) brings a fine, light heart to McCoy, (b) is better than the iteration of Star Trek he stars in, and (c) is exactly right about the necessity of an original story for the next chapter of ST froth, needs to be an older, more cynical, tired and beat-up Batman. And yes, you can keep Cavill where/who he…

Recovering several First World War era naval mines from the bottom of the sea, that enormously sophisticated, bio-engineering-based civilization inhabiting the deepest abyssal trenches of our planet spent decades deciding how to contact us - sentient life, imagine, somewhere above the water. Mimicry was the strategy…

'Tis always good to read closely - "Metropolis" is a great film, I wrote, but it does not really share the values of science fiction, modern or way-back-when. It's Marxist polemic with anti-corporate, anti-technocratic, and strangely-evangelical (German variety) religious overtones. Those of you who answered that "if…