In the HBO series 'Game of Thrones', the 'White Walkers' are always referred to by that name. However, they actually have a few different…
Eric Northman is a one-thousand-year-old vampire Viking and one of the most powerful vampires in the HBO series True Blood, based on a series…
A monster's creation gone wrong, we're familiar with the concept. Frankenstein is the elephant in the room. But Splice from 2009 is something else,…
Troll Hunter, the Norwegian sleeper hit from 2010, took the whole shaky-cam genre to the next level, adding the concept that the fictional fantasy…
The Faculty is a forgotten monster movie from the late-90s. The film is notable for a few things, such as Elijah Wood's portrayal of…
Saruman ("Man Of Skill" Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon language), also known as 'Saruman the White' was an Istar (wizard) who lived in Middle-earth during…
J. R. R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel) was the writer, poet, philologist, and academic, who is best known as the author of the classic…
The original sci-fi-fantasy epic 'Highlander' starred Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod, a Scottish man who finds himself immortal, Sean Connery who plays a swashbuckling…
1994’s Stargate is perhaps not cinema’s most iconic portrayal of aliens but is still one of our favorites simply because of its playfulness with…
Superman's home planet of Krypton was wiped out by terrifying natural/unnatural instability that its leadership decried as fake news (input suitable real-world reference) and…
Ever since humans first started looking into space for exploration, the concept of life on Mars has always been a topic of interest. The…
When Riddick (Vin Diesel) and the other passengers aboard the Hunter Gratzner crash land on the planet designated M6-117 in the movie 'Pitch Black'…
The rancor seen in 'Return of the Jedi' was given to the Hutt kajidii Jabba Desilijic Tiure as a birthday present from his henchmen.…
The above compilation of scenes from the two movies offers a fascinating comparison of the striking likeness of Sean Young's Rachel in 1982 and…
The reimagined version of a 70s cult favorite sci-fi series 'Battlestar Galactica' took the world of science fiction by storm. The space opera is…
Based on the novel, "All You Need is Kill," by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the 2014 movie 'Edge of Tomorrow' is a darkly comedic war movie,…
There are plenty of monsters in director Bong Joon-ho's movies, but the monster and the film that would firmly establish Bong as a creative…
In Star Trek from 2009, Spock (Zachary Quinto) maroons Kirk on a desolate planet where he is promptly set upon by a giant, Cloverfield-esque…
"IT" returned in 2017 with 'It: Chapter One', 27 years after the original miniseries was made. And Stephen King must be very happy with…
Netflix’s surprise hit of 2016, the awesome Stranger Things, is packed with tips of the hat towards 80s music, movies, and TV. Its Spielbergian…
The nameless aliens in the Independence Day franchise (commonly known "The Harvesters") although superficially different in appearance to humans, are built to the general…
In the movie Arrival from 2016, Earth is visited by an intelligent alien race, the 'heptapods', and the contact forever changes humanity’s sense of…
"Delta-V" was the transitional episode for The Expanse season 3, moving onto the next stage of its story after "Immolation" brought everything to a…
When 'Seven of Nine' ('Seven' for short) was first introduced in season 4 of Star Trek: Voyager in 1997, she became one of Star Trek's…
Star Trek: Wrath of Khan While I will argue that The Motion Picture is a valid and essential Star Trek experience, nevertheless, 'The Wrath…
Picard (Patrick Stewart) makes his case for vengeance against the Borg. "I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already, too…
The best science fiction stories capture our imaginations with clever worldbuilding, cool visuals, and interesting ideas. But sometimes the most powerful thing of all…
The best science fiction stories capture our imaginations with clever worldbuilding, cool visuals, and interesting ideas. But sometimes the most powerful thing of all…
The best science fiction stories capture our imaginations with clever worldbuilding, cool visuals, and interesting ideas. But sometimes the most powerful thing of all…
The best science fiction stories capture our imaginations with clever worldbuilding, cool visuals, and interesting ideas. But sometimes the most powerful thing of all…
What is the preferred beverage and food item for each Star Trek captain? Well, Janeway sure likes her coffee served black, but what about James…