Category: NEWS

  • Remembering Ed Stone, JPL Director and Cosmic Voyager

    Remembering Ed Stone, JPL Director and Cosmic Voyager

    [ad_1] SYFY’s The Ark imagines what it might be like when humanity finally crosses the threshold of our own solar system and cuts a path through interstellar space. It’s a dangerous journey and one that our species isn’t yet ready to make ourselves. Instead, we’ve sent a collection of machines to explore the places we…

  • Remembering Dante’s Peak, the Other Volcano Movie from 1997

    Remembering Dante’s Peak, the Other Volcano Movie from 1997

    [ad_1] Amid the disaster movie revival of the 1990s, we were bound to get some films competing on similar turf. The most famous of these accidental rivalries is, of course, Deep Impact and Armageddon, the pair of asteroid films that arrived to rock the summer of 1998. Just one year earlier, though, we got another accidental disaster movie…

  • Nic Cage Almost Turned Down The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

    Nic Cage Almost Turned Down The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

    [ad_1] Believe it or not, Nicolas Cage actually turned down The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (now streaming on Peacock) “three of four times” before he finally agreed to star in the critically-acclaimed meta comedy hailing from writer-director Tom Gormican. “I wanted no part of it,” the Face/Off and National Treasure star admitted to The…

  • Alligator Is Still One of the Best Animal Attack Movies Ever

    Alligator Is Still One of the Best Animal Attack Movies Ever

    [ad_1] The years following the blockbuster success of Jaws were a fascinating time in the history of popular cinema, and not just because that film opened the floodgates for future successes like Star Wars and E.T. The Extraterrestrial to keep breaking box office records. For years after Steven Spielberg’s killer shark movie struck gold with moviegoers, other filmmakers were chasing the…

  • After Six Months in Limbo, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Again

    After Six Months in Limbo, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Again

    [ad_1] A hundred years from now, the crew of The Ark (returning to SYFY for Season 2 this July) will embark on the most daring adventure in human history. In Season 1 (now streaming on Peacock), they began their journey toward Proxima centauri, and a small rocky world where humanity hopes to find a new start.…

  • Cosmic Clouds May Have Caused Ice Ages on Earth

    Cosmic Clouds May Have Caused Ice Ages on Earth

    [ad_1] Today, we have the benefit of living on a planet that is relatively comfortable, but it wasn’t always so. For much of human existence, the world was going through a rash of ice ages which reshaped the planet. The disaster movie Age of Ice (streaming now on Peacock) imagines what it might be like if…

  • Astronomers Spot Oldest Merging Quasars Ever Seen

    Astronomers Spot Oldest Merging Quasars Ever Seen

    [ad_1] When Oppenheimer and his gallery of atomic scientists built their bomb, they were tapping into a power which is usually only unleashed on cosmic scales. The processes which occur inside atomic bombs are the same which occur in the hearts of stars. Even now, nearly a century later, atomic power is the most energetic…

  • New The Thing Documentary Digs Into John Carpenter’s Classic

    New The Thing Documentary Digs Into John Carpenter’s Classic

    [ad_1] More than 40 years on from its inauspicious release in theaters, John Carpenter’s The Thing (grab it here on disc or digital from Universal Home Video!) has only grown in power and influence — much like the mysterious, organism-absorbing alien creature that wreaks bloody, icebound havoc in the film itself. Critics (and many moviegoers) panned Carpenter’s…

  • Universal Orlando Unveils Dark Universe Details For Epic Universe

    Universal Orlando Unveils Dark Universe Details For Epic Universe

    [ad_1] If you’ve got big love for Universal Picture’s classic monsters, then get excited because for the first time there’s a whole theme park world being readied that will revolve around horror’s greatest characters including Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Bride of Frankenstein. Universal Orlando Resorts revealed today the third of five portal…

  • Peacock’s Twisted Metal Adds Four to Cast as Season 2 Revs Up

    Peacock’s Twisted Metal Adds Four to Cast as Season 2 Revs Up

    [ad_1] Peacock’s Twisted Metal has announced four new cast members for its upcoming Season 2, including a major player that fans of the video games that the show is based on will definitely recognize. NBCUniversal revealed today that Barry and Bill and Ted Face the Music star Anthony Carrigan has joined Twisted Metal as a series regular for Season 2. Carrigan…