It's Oscar season, so brace yourself for more snubs when it comes to science fiction movies. Speculative fiction has a crummy track record when it comes to the Academy Awards, and even when an iconic scifi flick scores Oscar nods, it tends to be ignored in everything but the technical categories (see: E.T., Star Wars, Avatar). Many unfairly overlooked scifi Oscar nominees have been vindicated by history, but we nevertheless feel compelled to … [Read more...]
Incidentally, this isn't too far from the truth. As reality would have it, Crowe (a main character in Iron Fists) spent all of ten days on set, channeling legendarily unhinged and deceased Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard. Said Robert "RZA" Diggs — the film's director and famed Wu-Tang producer — in the movie's press packet: More … [Read more...]
Today — after nearly three years of editorial service — is my last official day with io9. More … [Read more...]
Don't let the headline lead you astray — we actually enjoyed this week's installment of The Walking Dead, just as Glenn and Maggie enjoyed each other's unwashed bodies in the prison's newly anointed Sex Tower. More … [Read more...]
Courtesy of DC Comics, here's a first look at this Wednesday's issue of Animal Man, which sees Buddy Baker stuck in a hellish nightmare future known as "The Rotworld" alongside mutated corpse versions of Deathstroke the Terminator and Grifter. Here's the rundown: More … [Read more...]
Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here's over twenty pages of sneak previews of this week's issues of Doctor Who, Godzilla, and 30 Days of Night. All of these issues hit shops this Wednesday, October 31. Here are the synopses: More … [Read more...]
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