Dec 20, 2021
Spock’s Pointy Ears Are Headed To The Smithsonian
Leonard Nimoy’s Spock ears are set to live long and prosper at the National Air and Space Museum.
Mar 13, 2015
Out of Frame: Eva
“Eva” may be a completely derivative sci-fi melodrama, but it features some beautiful photography.
Rare Avengers comics, the eternal Star Wars vs. Star Trek debate, and matchmaking abounded at Awesome Con D.C. last weekend.
Jul 16, 2012
Capital Fringe 2012: The Diamond Star Project
The Diamond Star Project is a stage adaptation of Diamond Star, the 11th book in Catherine Asaro’s long-running science fiction series
The White House released a statement from President Obama on the death of the science fiction author Ray Bradbury, who died yesterday at age 91.
Apr 01, 2011
DCist Interview: Source Code Director Duncan Jones
Anyone worried that a bigger budget, digital effects, and a less personal project might lead Duncan Jones into a sophomore slump can rest easy. The ads may make make Source Code appear to be the polar opposite of his brilliantly understated, cerebral science fiction debut, Moon, but the two films have more in common than one might think; though to go into too much detail on that point would be to spoil some of its immensely satisfying plot twists. Suffice it to say that Jones is no one-hit-wonder, and Source Code shows that he can make an effects-laden action thriller just as thoughtful and engrossing as a meditative one-man show.
Jun 04, 2010
Out of Frame: Splice
Honey, I genetically engineered the kids. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley in ‘Splice’.Better living through genetic engineering takes a serious hit in Vincenzo Natali’s Splice, a seriously creepy and surprisingly effective science-gone-awry thriller. There’s a certain 50’s B-movie sensibility going on here: where films like Godzilla or Them! expressed a public’s fears about the dangers of radiation, creating mutated monsters that threaten to bring down humanity, Natali’s film does the same with gene-splicing. Here,…