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[ad_1] Physically exploring the universe comes with some pretty serious limitations. Our most distant spacecraft is NASA’s Voyager 1. It launched on September 5, 1977, and nearly 50 years later it’s a little more than 15 billion miles from home. After a while, measuring distances in miles becomes prohibitive so we switch to measuring in…

[ad_1] Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o is a mechanical fish out of water in the first trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s next amazing offering: The Wild Robot. Based on the bestselling children’s book of the same name by Caldecott recipient Peter Brown, the film adaptation (opening in theaters everywhere this September) follows a robot named ROZZUM unit 7134 —…

[ad_1] In 1978, John Carpenter released Halloween, setting his career on the trajectory we all recognize now. Today, Carpenter is recognized as a master of the horror genre, and his work on Halloween is what kickstarted it all, but while Carpenter’s horror output is legendary, it’s not the only thing he can do. In fact, the only reason…

[ad_1] On Resident Alien, D’arcy Bloom returned to Patience, Colorado, to tend bar after she was in a skiing accident at the Olympics. Alice Wetterlund, the actress who plays D’arcy on the SYFY series, may not have been an Olympic athlete, but she had a pretty successful career before she started co-starring alongside Alan Tudyk…

[ad_1] Sharks have been ruling the seas for 450 million years, but they only really hit their stride in 1975, at least in terms of public interest. Before that, sharks were largely the stuff of sailor’s stories and rarely entered into the thoughts of ordinary people. Then Steven Spielberg adapted Peter Benchley’s shark-themed novel Jaws…

[ad_1] Actor Scott Bakula has played plenty of iconic roles in his career, but few have had the cultural cachet as his starring role in the original run of the sci-fi series Quantum Leap in the early 1990s. Bakula played Sam Beckett, a scientist who leaps through time and spends the rest of his life…

[ad_1] Still haven’t checked out Matthew Vaughn’s star-studded spy caper Argylle? The film is now officially available on premium video-on-demand services to purchase and watch via streaming — so there’s no reason not to finally learn what’s up with Elly Conway and her prescient spy adventure. Argylle stars Bryce Dallas Howard as the mysterious author Elly…

[ad_1] When you look at Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic resume, it’s a little jarring to comprehend that he’s only directed 11 theatrical films. Seven of those are thrillers, with his last four films — Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune and Dune: Part Two — critically ranking amongst some of the very best sci-fi films to hit…

[ad_1] In 2006, a total solar eclipse offered a moment of global unity and unleashed a wave of supernatural abilities within otherwise ordinary people in NBC’s Heroes, streaming now on Peacock. In the real world solar eclipses don’t unlock latent superpowers (that we know of) but they’re pretty good for unity. Next month, a total…

[ad_1] The world of movie stunts has always been compelling, as far back as the days of Buster Keaton’s death-defying comedy work and as recently as Tom Cruise’s cliff-jumping motorcycle rides. We’re fascinated by this world in which real people will undertake real danger for the sake of fictional entertainments, and that means that stunt…