The Cosmokrator in this movie is one of my favorite Golden Age rocket ship designs. It’s like a flying cathedral. A lot of the Eastern Bloc sci-fi films had really great design work and worldbuilding details in them.

Wow, a story about DC on io9 that isn’t just relentless shitting on it?

Depending on the artist, Dream pretty clearly is Bowie, too.

Obi-Wan in ROTJ: “When I first met him, your father was already a great pilot.”

I remember before the AMC remake, Christopher Nolan talked about being interested in possibly doing The Prisoner. I think the last two Dark Knight movies and Inception both show clear influences of the show on him.

During the really early development of what became The Force Unleashed in the mid-2000s, one of the ideas they had was having the game be Episode VII.

Gun control becomes uncontroversial in America.

You should watch the Discovery Channel mockumentary Alien Planet, and especially read the book it’s (loosely) adapted on, Expedition by Wayne Barlowe. The entire book is about a fictional version of the author describing a year spent alone meticulously recording and illustrating his observations of an alien planet’s…

Ben Kingsley’s father was Muslim, so I’d say Prince of Persia does indeed have a main character played by an actor of “Muslim descent”

And Mark Hamill was in both, too! (At least the English versions.)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Superman explicitly save the entire population of Earth in Man of Steel? Or does that just not count because it doesn’t fit into your clickbait title narrative?

Analogue: A Hate Story

I mean, the movie came out two and a half years ago... it kind of is too late to come to the realization that shooting a movie with an unfinished script wasn’t a great idea.

TDKR was actually the best of Nolan’s Bat-Trilogy.

I hope the older ship they find and escape on is the Enterprise NX-01.

Durable? They only last for 11 episodes.

Still waiting for his Animal Farm...

One of the things I liked best about the book was a brief passage where Clarke mentions that the development of cheap, effective birth control, effective paternity testing, and acceptance of divorce led to the sexual revolution and a change in how the nuclear family was no longer the only forms families could take. It…

Back when the show came back in 2005, Doctor Who Monthly was originally planning on having a “Ninth Doctor: Year One” comic strip, which would have gone from when he regenerated from the Eighth Doctor to when he went off to fight in the Time War. But Russell T. Davies dictated that they couldn’t use Eccleston without…

The story of Aleister Crowley and Ian Fleming using fake astrology to lure Rudolf Hess to Britain would be much more interesting to see as a movie.