Screw gravitational anomalies, they should be looking for magnetic anomalies on the moon.

So what you're saying is that the twist is that there is no twist?

Antje Traue can lock me up any day.

I'm digging the fact that the apparent code name for this movie is "Freezer Burn".

Wait, Darth Vader is going to be in this movie?

The Heechee?

It's pretty obviously an open-pit mine. Dug by aliens.

Maybe it's just me, but the vibe that I'm getting from all the Superman, I mean Man of Steel, publicity is one of deadly earnest seriousness.

The Stockholm subway system ("T-bana", or "tunnelbana", for the Swedes) is quite pretty and very artistic, but it's not nearly as bright and shiny and glossy as these photographs make it out to be. Not anywhere close.

I would think that Marvin the Android would be the canonical example of the non-evil sentient AI that you really, really, really don't want to go with you into deep space.

I'd suggest the slightly obscure electro-pop band Ganymede. Their biggest hit was a Blade-Runner-ish track called Neon Rain and their last album was a concept piece that tracked a doomed manned mission to... the Jovian moon Ganymede.

John Cho as a redshirt at about 2:55?

They are filming Spider-man nearby—about 30 yards down the street, in a different building (trivia time—it's the same building that was used in the Spike Lee film "Inside Man").

That's exactly what it is.

It has nothing to do with Spider-Man. I live in the neighborhood and that motorcycle belongs to a guy who lives around here.

It's not Photoshop. I live in the neighborhood and that bike belongs to a local.

Magic wins, obviously, but would the magic of the Island or the magic of Hogwarts prove superior? I'd have to go with Rowling's magic: it's practical and gets things done. The magic of the Island, on the other hand, will take five years to change a lightbulb and create a rip in space-time in the process.

Speaking of chemistry on the X-Files, aren't Scully and Mulder shacking up these days?

Fair enough.

Das Booted Grounder