Looks like Josh Trank just lost out on a big one. We still don’t know who the new director on the planned second Star Wars Anthology spinoff movie will be after Trank was reportedly fired by Disney/Lucasfilm, but now we may know what the movie is about. Before Lucasfilm made their movie plans known, there were lots of rumours swirling …

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There’s a ton of great sci-fi shows available to watch. From various Star Trek spin-offs to Sliders [Editor’s note: Darryn please update pop culture references], the medium is filled with numerous series that are high-concepts with even higher stakes. But very few TV shows set in a sci-fi universe have ever been predominantly comedy and successful. Save for one. I am of …

I’m going to start off unusually today, by quoting myself from when I told you about Bryan Singer adapting Robert Heinlein’s ‘The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress’ two months ago: Now, can someone PLEASE adapt Joe Haldeman’s Forever War – or do we still need to figure out how to make an anti-war sci-fi novel work? Thank you, it looks like …

Video game to movie adaptations have a Hollywood track record that’s rockier than the Thing’s ID photo, but I’m still holding out hope for two upcoming attempts: the Tom Hardy and director Doug Liman’s Splinter Cell, and the Michael Fassbender produced/starring Assassins Creed. We’ve heard next to nothing about the former other than the talent involved, but the latter has …

Fancy a bit more bug for your viewing appetite? Paul Verhoeven’s spectacular adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s novel has legions of fans and they might be happy to hear that Starship Troopers is on its way back – maybe. And if it does arrive, it may be a television series. Last Updated: May 5, 2015

Heroes know how to use their powers for the greater good. Villains know how to use that same power to throw their enemies and they buildings they reside within, into outer space. But what does a regular guy do with such power? If it were up to me, pretty much anything I’d want to do, especially if there were none …

We live in a society where the moment anything even remotely remarkable happens (usually involving somebody falling down the most dramatic fashion), everybody whips out a mobile phone to record it. And thanks to the quality of cameras on newer phones, we can now watch people fall down in 4K Ultra HD! So with that in mind, it’s pretty amazing …