Entries Tagged as 'sci-fi'

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016

Short Film Time Trap Shows Why Time Travel is a Great Tool for Stealing

Australian director Michael Shanks’ film follows a strange cyborg astronaut as he crashes on a post-apocalyptic Earth and has to repair his ship to get off the planet and on his way. But he has an unusual way of doing that, a time-travel device that creates a kind of “time bubble” so he can travel [...]

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

Awesome Fan-made Star Wars Short Featuring a Force-Sensitive Teen

Kara is a seven-minute short by filmmaker Joe Sill that centers on a Force-sensitve woman named Kara and her father. They’re traveling on a desert planet, of course, towards a Rebel base when they spot a Star Destroyer. Before long, there are TIE fighters and X-wings soon follow, along with some Stormtroopers—who Kara soon dispatches [...]

Sunday, December 20th, 2015

Learn the Art of Lightsaber Combat at LudoSport International

If you’re a kid and your mom or dad asks if you want to train in a martial art, then just say you’d like to go to LudoSport International, an Italian combat school that trains students in martial arts based on the lightsaber battles from Star Wars. Obviously you don’t get to use an actual [...]

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Everything Wrong With Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope With Kevin Smith

After many years of requests the guys at Cinema Sins take on that holy grail of fanboy and girl moviemaking Star Wars: A New Hope—and they’re joined by geek god Kevin Smith to count down those sins from the original movie that started it all in a galaxy far, far away.

Friday, November 27th, 2015

Are the Star Wars Prequels Secretly Brilliant?

Mention the Star Wars prequels to any fan and they’ll immediately roll their eyes, at best, and cry out in anguish at worst. But, as infamous as they are for being a big stinking pile of poop, in light of the new film coming out, is it time to reassess? The makers of this video [...]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

Star Wars: The Original Design for the Millennium Falcon Was Nothing Like How it Finally Appeared

The Millennium Falcon is an iconic-looking fictional spacecraft, instantly recognisable to us all and a piece of cinema history. But originally it wasn’t going to look like that, instead it wasn’t the circular shape we all know and love, but was going to be long and thin—this was scrapped because it was thought to be [...]

Sunday, September 27th, 2015

Awesome Short Film Combines Aspects of Zombie, Sci-Fi & Superhero Flicks

Director Mitch Cohen mashes up the nerd-dream of zombie, superhero, and sci-fi movies into short film “Super Zero: Badass Journey Into Zombie Awesomeness” which takes place in the near future where a discovery of life on Mars leads to the zombie apocalypse back on Earth.

Friday, September 18th, 2015

Google Engineers Invent New Body Part To Strap Gadgets Onto

Fed up with the human body not matching up to their moon shot designs and ideas, Google decided to start messing around with nature herself and redesign the human body, creating an entire new body part which they can strap gadgets onto.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2015

Spoof Trailer Imagines if Ken Loach Directed Star Wars

Imagine if Star Wars wasn’t set in a galaxy far, far way but instead was relocated to the North of England, and it had the naturalistic, social realist Ken Loach as director. It might look something like this very funny spoof, where kes the kestrel becomes a Millennium Falcon.

Monday, August 10th, 2015

Hilarious ‘Musicless’ Version of Star Trek’s Kirk Vs. Corn

The Kirk versus Gorn fight is a favorite of fans of Star Trek: The Original Series, which featured in the episode called “Arean” and showed Kirk taking on a Gorn warrior (well, a man in a green rubber suit). It was already a pretty weird fight scene, especially strange compared to today’s hyped fights, but [...]

Friday, August 7th, 2015

A Scientist Type Explains Terminator: Genisys

By now you’ve had the chance to either see Terminator: Genisys or avoid it like the plague—but even if you’ve only seen the trailer then you’ll know the plot involves an evil John Connor and a parallel time-line where seemingly elements of both Terminators 1 and 2 have merged. It’s all very confusing.