Everyone is looking for the next Game of Thrones, a big adaptation that'll become an award-winning global phenomenon. Netflix is tossing a lot of…
Big Trouble in Little China from 1986 is a John Carpenter outlier in the director’s filmography, a martial-arts adventure slash monster-comedy extravaganza that suggests…
"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor" — Mjolnir's enchantment Mjolnir (Mjölnir/Mjölner/Mjølner) is the hammer of the…
The Ten Commandments from 1956 tells the story of Moses, leader of the Hebrews, considered to have been a prophet by Jews, Christians, and…
The movie industry has consistently relied on some type of visual effects even in the early years of film making. Even in the earliest…
The HBO series Game of Thrones (2011-2019) was based on the novels in the series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-) written by…
Boardwalk Empire is a five-season exploration of Prohibition-era Atlantic City and the gangsters — some factual, some fictional, some fictionalized — who fought for…
Sometimes a television show can perfectly capture the spirit of its era. Miami Vice evokes the Reagan years, both in its subject matter and…
Smallville was developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.…
The Six Million Dollar Man ran from 1973 to 1978, it tells the story of a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by…
The original MacGyver, which ran on ABC from 1985 to 1992 was an adventure drama about an ex-secret agent who uses his investigative skills…
One of the most overlooked, yet one of the most influential of all 90s genre series, 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys' (1995-1999) was pure escapism…
K and Joi head to San Diego, or rather the desolate junkyard that the area has become, and the two are attacked by a…
For a supposedly utopian setting created by Gene Roddenberry, the Star Trek universe features plenty of space warfare. This means that, throughout all the…
We learn in The Expanse books that the Protomolecule was created by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization around two billion years ago and launched as…
The Earth Spacedock in Star Trek made its début in the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and subsequently in the fourth,…
The Death Star of Star Wars is a colossal weapon. Not only is it the size of the Moon, but with a single blast,…
Baymax is the world’s first nurse-bot, his huggable exterior, and his ability to rocket punch any villain who stands in his way - makes…
Visual effects in the movies have evolved dramatically in recent years. The art of creating realistic-looking environments, characters, monsters, creatures, and buildings continues to…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture received mixed reviews from critics. Its final production cost ballooned to approximately $46 million and earned $139 million at…
For those who didn’t watch Television of questionable quality in the mid-90s, the pitch for SeaQuest DSV (stylized as seaQuest DSV) was relatively simple.…
Max (Matt Damon) has fallen ill, and in his weakened state, he is unable to get to the space station 'Elysium' where he could…
Neill Blomkamp’s dystopian science fiction features all kinds of cool futuristic gadgets, one of those technologies are the medical devices known as “Med-Bays.” The…
The dinosaurs in Stephen Spielberg’s adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel were done both digitally and with animatronics. Spielberg has been at the forefront…
The often scary realistic and prophetic science fiction series 'Black Mirror' continues to deliver dystopian visions of the future, including robotics. In “Metalhead,” dog-like…
The Rebellion has given way to a new Galactic Republic, but there is a specter of evil looming in the galaxy; the First Order,…
Hard to believe that Minority Report is from 2002. More than fifteen years later, the film continues to influence the technology we use and…
The year is 1997 and James Bond has... a mobile phone! In the mid-1990s, there were three cell phone makers dominating the world market;…
In The Living Daylights (1987 ), "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn) is escorting James Bond (Timothy Dalton) through the workshop as part of the Bond movie…
"HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is…
Yes, Iron Man 2 was a bit of a bloated mess at times. But when it comes to Iron Man, what are we really…
Major Kusinagi's climactic fight against the Alakuneda 'R3000' Spider Tank in the original Ghost in the Shell is easily one of the best fight…
The Xindi, an alliance of alien species, decided to send a large mobile particle beam superweapon to destroy Earth since they were being manipulated…
The Intrepid-class starship that was launched in the latter half of the 24th century by the Federation was no match for the much more…
The Death Star of Star Wars is a colossal weapon. Not only is it the size of the Moon, but with a single blast,…
Following the success of the Terminator (1984) and Aliens (1986), the Abyss (1989); James Cameron wrote, produced, and directed the 1991 sequel to the…
The Milano is an M-ship class used by the Ravagers but customized by Peter Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy. As Star-Lord, Quill…
There’s no denying the awesome power of V’Ger. Taking the form of a mysterious, menacing, luminous cloud the size of a solar system, V’Ger…
Chappie followed a naive, artificially intelligent robot (Sharlto Copley) that gets separated from its creator Deon (Dev Patel) and is raised by gangsters to…
In draft scripts for the film that would become Star Wars 'A New Hope', the term "Stardestroyer" refers to two-man fighters flown by what…
The Scimitar was a massive, heavily-armed warship of unique Reman design. It is a variation on the classic Romulan Warbird that appeared in the…
The Voth are a bipedal reptilian species who are distant kin to Humans and had evolved from the dinosaurs of their shared homeworld of…
The Krenim weapon ship was a weapon developed by the Krenim Imperium sometime around 2174. Its design and construction were spearheaded by Annorax, a…
Dwarfing the Earth Spacedock, this unknown cigar-shaped probe came to Earth in order to contact members of the long-extinct humpback whale species in the…
In the Star Trek Enterprise episode 'Silent Enemy', the Enterprise NX-01 is attacked by an unknown alien starship, as Archer orders the crew to…
Not everyone thinks war is hell in Paul Verhoeven's satirical sci-fi movie 'Starship Troopers'. In fact, a lot of them come to think it’s…
Assuming that a Tesla Rifle is a weapon that fires electricity, it would have a limited range and high spread - but its…
I, Robot is a collection of nine short stories by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov that imagines the development of “positronic” (humanlike, with a form…
The gun from the 1997 science fiction movie 'The Fifth Element', has a rocket launcher, arrow launcher, net launcher, flamethrower, ice blast, a feature…
Originally written in 1980, the 23,000-word 'Nightflyers' is a science fiction horror novella by George R. R. Martin, the American novelist, and short-story writer…
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