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[ad_1] “A brighter future is on the horizon,” reads the tagline for Season 2 of SYFY‘s The Ark. Is that sentiment cautiously optimistic or hopelessly foolish? Based on the recent trailer that’s loaded with high-flying space action, we’d place it somewhere in the middle. No future can be that bright when space explorers encounter electricity capable of thinking for…

[ad_1] When fan favorite SYFY original series Stargate Atlantis wrapped up after five seasons, way back in 2009, the creators still had a few ideas on where the series might’ve gone next. So what would a potential sixth season have looked like? The series, a spinoff of genre-defining SYFY original Stargate SG-1, followed a new…

[ad_1] A number of Universal Pictures’ most iconic genre icons are becoming adorable Pop! figures inspired by the ever-expanding roster of licensed characters in the upcoming Funko Fusion video game, the company announced last week. Among the first wave of Fusion items is a tiny version of Kurt Russell’s flamethrower-toting R.J. MacReady from The Thing. Rather fortuitous,…

[ad_1] When viewers were first introduced to the Sharknado franchise it was a wholly natural (if bizarre) weather phenomenon. The combination of a Pacific hurricane and a series of twisters lifted a school of toothy fish into the air, creating the titular sharknado. By the time we reached the fifth installment, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, things…

[ad_1] Director Jake Van Wagoner’s Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out (streaming now on Peacock) follows the Earthly adventures of Calvin (Jacob Buster) and Itsy (Emma Tremblay), two teenage friends hunting down the truth about Calvin’s parents. As a kid, Calvin was out with his dad one evening, looking through a telescope…

[ad_1] In the 2021 disaster film Asteroid (streaming now on Peacock), an unassuming family moves from the big city in search of a quieter life in the ‘burbs. What they don’t know is that their new home is in the direct path of an oncoming asteroid. It might seem like the sort of thing that’s unlikely to…

[ad_1] To be frank, movies based on board games have always been a weird sub genre of IP mining. What makes a board game successful often has nothing to do with narrative, characters, or cohesive arc. So figuring out how to translate the theme of a game, or even its parts, into something worthwhile is truly…

[ad_1] Mars has a kidney problem, and scientists are going to have to solve it before we can send any astronauts there. To date, the farthest any person has traveled is to the vicinity of the Moon, about a quarter of a million miles from home. The 12 people who have walked on its surface…

[ad_1] After nearly half a century on the air, Saturday Night Live is still making headlines with its hilarious sketches. And in a new video shared by the show following the May 18 finale, SNL has compiled the top five most-watched live sketches from Season 49 in 2023-2024. Sketches starring Hosts Shane Gillis, Sydney Sweeney, and…

[ad_1] In the mid-’90s, NBC’s seaQuest DSV (now streaming on Peacock) took viewers into the deep in an experimental research submarine. Set in the near future (though, that near future was 2018 when the show first aired), a planet rocked by climate disasters and resource shortages sends humanity underwater. The seaQuest deep-submergence vehicle (DSV) operates under the…