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  • Why Farscape Ended With a Miniseries Event – The Peacekeeper Wars

    Why Farscape Ended With a Miniseries Event – The Peacekeeper Wars

    [ad_1] Not all sci-fi shows get a proper ending, but Farscape was one of the lucky ones. The beloved SYFY original series, which ran for four seasons from 1999-2003 (and is streaming now on Peacock), was one of the networks earliest and most acclaimed original series to really enter the cultural zeitgeist, paving the way…

  • Resident Alien Stars Sara Tomko & Alice Wetterlund Tease Season 3

    Resident Alien Stars Sara Tomko & Alice Wetterlund Tease Season 3

    [ad_1] The close bond between Patience, Colorado lifers Asta Twelvetrees and D’Arcy Bloom doesn’t end when the director calls, “Cut!” How to Watch Catch up on Resident Alien on Peacock. In a recent video posted to her Instagram account, Resident Alien star Sara Tomko showed off how much the cast members get along behind the scenes, as…

  • How Mel Brooks Inspired Cult Classic The Hebrew Hammer

    How Mel Brooks Inspired Cult Classic The Hebrew Hammer

    [ad_1] Before Eli Roth’s Donny Donowitz and Logan Lerman’s Jonah Heidelbaum, there was Adam Goldberg’s Mordechai Jefferson Carver — aka The Hebrew Hammer. It’s a little hard to say if the Jewish avenger of Jonathan Kesselman’s kosher cult classic (currently streaming on Peacock) helped pave the way for subsequent Semitic heroes, but the writer-director doesn’t rule out the hypothesis…

  • NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Watch and It Won’t Be the Last

    NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Watch and It Won’t Be the Last

    [ad_1] Christopher Nolan’s 2023 biopic Oppenheimer features an explosive cast including Cillian Murphy as the titular scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, alongside Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downy Jr., Florence Pugh, and more. The film took home five Golden Globes, has 13 nominations in the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, and is streaming right now on Peacock.…

  • Harrison Ford Thanks Calista Flockhart After Critics Choice Win

    Harrison Ford Thanks Calista Flockhart After Critics Choice Win

    [ad_1] Harrison Ford has been fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest cinematic voices of all time, but none of them were called out by name when the 81-year-old actor accepted the Career Achievement Award at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards ceremony last weekend. The only individual who got a specific shoutout…

  • Fun Facts About Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    Fun Facts About Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    [ad_1] The meticulous technique of stop motion has been getting its flowers of late with a steady flow of projects using the painstaking style of animation. From the recent sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget to Peacock’s first adult animated comedy, In the Know, there’s been no shortage of fresh releases in this relatively niche animation…

  • They Literally Built That Awesome Bubble Ship from Oblivion

    They Literally Built That Awesome Bubble Ship from Oblivion

    [ad_1] Science fiction has no shortage of iconic ships: the USS Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, TIE fighters, U.S.C.S.S. Nostromo, the Ornithopters of Arakkis, UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, The Milano, Serenity, Event Horizon, Planet Express… the list really does go on and on. One vessel that doesn’t get enough love, however, is that awesome — and ever so phallic…

  • Which Mortal Kombat Movie is the Best? Comparing 1995 and 2021 Versions

    Which Mortal Kombat Movie is the Best? Comparing 1995 and 2021 Versions

    [ad_1] Right or wrong, movies based on video games have walked a dark, shameful path for most of their existence. Even as gaming has seized the top market-share spot as the world’s most dominant form of entertainment, adapting their cartoonishly fantastical settings and sometimes-cryptic stories for the big screen has felt like an impossible final-boss…

  • Remembering Crank, Jason Statham’s Adrenaline-Fueled Race to Survive

    Remembering Crank, Jason Statham’s Adrenaline-Fueled Race to Survive

    [ad_1] The year is 2006. Bush Jr. is in the White House; NASA launches its New Horizons spacecraft on a nearly decade-long journey to Pluto; the Nintendo Wii arrives on store shelves; we’re still a year away from the first iPhone and the smartphone revolution; and Google buys YouTube. It’s there that you see a trailer…

  • The Oldest Fossilized Skin Ever Found Predates the Dinosaurs

    The Oldest Fossilized Skin Ever Found Predates the Dinosaurs

    [ad_1] The mad geniuses at Jurassic Park (and later, Jurassic World) had to make some assumptions about the dinosaur-shaped creatures they were creating. Paleontology is, by its nature, an exercise in building a complete picture with missing puzzle pieces. They got hold of what genetic and fossil material were available and freestyled the rest. The…