I like Twilight, and I don't mind Twilight mockery (if it's not homophobic "sparkles are gay!" crap). I thought Supernatural's goof on Twilight/Vampire Diaries was pretty funny. Stephenie Meyer herself joked about writing a book called 'Breaking Down.' The parodies just show what a cultural impact Twilight and…

I like the three designs but they need to do something different with the hair of the female cenobite. There are too many sci-fi/horror characters with pseudo-dreads already (Predator, Battlefield Earth, Avatar).

Inky, blue-tinged cinematography. Jump cut cheap scares. No rhyme or reason to the monster's actions. Reminds me of the new Hellraiser, even if its budget is larger by orders of magnitude.

Explanation: Viruses are nanoscale molecular assemblies. Hence, viruses are a form of nanotech. By sci-fi law, nanotech can do anything. Therefore, viruses can do anything!

Indeed.

It's very tempting to relate pop culture - fashion, music, movies, books - to events, the economy, geopolitics, and the political zeitgeist. But of course correlation does not prove causation, and the threads connecting these things is hard to establish and disentangle.

Would the paper book (AKA 'book') be even closer to death if it were not for rock star 'everyone's reading it' novels like Harry Potter, Twilight, Sookie Stackhouse, Millennium Trilogy, Song of Ice & Fire, The Help...? Could be. As well the glib, easily digestible, faddish nonfiction books (how to…

I agree on Team America, both as a prime example of a post-9/11 War On Terror movie - an oft-quoted one at that - and as science fiction. Thunderbirds connection, Megaforce homage, sci-fi spy movie tech, and SPOILER below:

For its screen adaptation V For Vendetta was changed from Alan Moore's rumination on Thatcherism and anarchism to a post-9/11 anti-Bush/Blair security state parable.

"$300 to make sense of the story"

If Less Than Zero had been published a decade ago rather than 1985 there would have been a lot of pressure to market it as a memoir.

Speaking of fake memoirs, have you seen the movie 'Who Is K.K. Downey?', a 2008 black comedy loosely based on the J.T. Leroy hoax? It's a hilariously cynical skewering of hipsters and the fame industry reminiscent of Art School Confidential. Available on Netflix Instant.

Memoir falsifier James Frey is now running a writing hack-shop of YA sci-fi/fantasy novelists to cash in on the trend. Frey is actually a minor offender. He partially fictionalized his biography rather than creating a completely bogus identity.

The problem is that because of the internet and Netflix television - especially basic cable - is dying, so all of the once-specialized cable networks are under enormous pressure to become a generic mix of reality TV, contest shows, reruns of procedural dramas, and sports.

Hers was the most egregiously blatant female costume in superherodom until the redesigned Harley Quinn.

"Don't tell me they CGI that in in post"

I'm straight (or at least I thought so until today), but can't... take... eyes... off... bulge. Dr. Manhattan was just tastefully nude, like a classical statue; I thought that the grousing over that was silly. But Cavill's Bulgeman? The concealing-yet-displaying look is downright fetishistic. Not that there's…

And for post-apocalyptic: yellow-brown tint.

In hindsight, Blade Runner seems like a big budget, production design-heavy counterpart to three obscure proto-cyberpunk 'civilizational malaise' movies of the late 70s and early 80s: Jubilee, Born In Flames, and Burst City. Plus Alphaville's sci-fi noir, The Creation Of The Humanoids' 'Who's a robot?' theme, and…

The two pinnacles of The Terminator franchise are 1) the gritty cyberpunk first film (Cameron's best, before his budgets got too big) and 2) the entire run of the truly groundbreaking The Sarah Connor Chronicles.