Parachuting in to bring up Fury, which had the most stunning war action (though out-of-genre for io9). The scene where they go in the tanks to help out the pinned-down infantry, or the duel with the Tiger—incredible.

“and hence suffered the illusion of being a conscious self.”

Here’s where I recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts. The book deals with an intelligent but non-conscious alien, and postulates that the conscious mind might be a evolutionary anomaly.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently published an extensive discussion of this event. Anyone who’s interested in the technical or the policy dimensions of the incident would probably appreciate it: http://thebulletin.org/flash-past-why…

The first Prometheus films was one of only a couple where I marched out before the end and demanded my money back from the cinema (which I got). I don’t have any hope for this sequel, I really don’t believe it deserved one. The plot was nonsensical, the people didn’t act like actual humans, the scientists weren’t very…

As a parent of a child diagnosed under the new standards, I feel like it’s a double edged sword.

BTW what kid these days knows Morse Code? No kids, that is how many.

RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!

I’m confused. These aren’t new at all. They were originally released by a company called Jailbreak Collective back in the early 2000s as I recall. I know I already have the Einstein figure sitting on my desk at work and it’s been there for years. My son has an Edgar Allan Poe figure from the same original line. Looks…

Never Let Me Go. It’s a mildly sci-fi flick about a time in the future where nearly all illness is eliminated. Clones of healthy folks are made, and their organs are harvested once they reach adulthood. The ending... god damn the ending. I dunno if it hits as hard without the context of the rest of the film, so watch…

Oh man, I wasn’t 100% against it until I realized it would effectively be the same team that made Jack The Giant Slayer. Foof. A bad movie made worse by squandering a pretty great cast.

Here In its entirety; “The UFO Incident”, the 1975 TV movie Betty and Barney Hill movie starring James Earl Jones. Pretty good for its time. These aliens look scarier than a lot of modern CGI ones, at least.

You know the cast of the movie was pretty good. I’d love to see those actors in that kind of scenario where the fellow survivors are the real enemies.

I suppose that they’ll never learn their lesson. If stretching Under the Dome, which is a big book, was a bad move, I can only imagine how terrible the results will be when stretching The Mist.

Makes me think of You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney. Just read it recently and really enjoyed it. He goes into detail with quite a few of these.

Am I the only X-Files fan who never gave a rat’s ass whether Mulder and Scully got together?

“So far, nobody has ever detected a signal that stood up to rigorous testing”

It seems that as well as being a genuinely nice guy. Jimmy Carter had a pretty great taste in the movies. The late 1970s a was a great era for American cinema

Of the core group, definitely, but that Tobias kid has got his. Shit. TOGETHER.

“What is YOUR favorite way that Star Wars could troll audiences?”