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(opens in new tab) With the arrival of a certain super-powered baby from Krypton in 1978, superhero movies took over the mantle of the ’70s disaster movies. Films like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno did huge business early in the decade, but ever since superhero movies have been …

TV Trend Of The (Past Two) Weeks Forget all that kerfuffle in Australia about legal moves to enforce plain cigarette packaging. The real anti-smoking drive has been in telefantasy over the past fortnight. Sinbad, Warehouse 13 , True Blood and Teen Wolf have all had stomach-churning scenes of characters coughing …

Science fiction is full of evil geniuses, but not all sci-fi scientists want to take over the world. Here’s Alasdair Stuart’s tribute the boffins who wear white hats with their white coats Firstly, whilst we accept Mr Stark’s formal protest that he should be on this list, and acknowledge his …

Week two of the Olympics and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the only thing Twitter’s been talking about is the Olympics. Well, until this morning when the only thing Twitter wanted to talk about was the Mars landing. Neither of these are sci-fi (technically), of course, but both have exemplified humanity at its …

Familiar-Looking Room Of The Week (opens in new tab) Evil game coders in Continuum create their own Dreamatorium! We hope Abed is suing*. Quite why they even need a Dreamatorium is unclear. “Come play on our new VR game!” says evil coder, and when you see this room you’re thinking, …

Unexpected Cameo Of The Week [VAMS bc=”1731386684001″ url=”sinbad-leaves-port-0M9QzD6U27PNk”] (opens in new tab) Suddenly, in the middle of the premiere of Sky One’s cracking new adventure series Sinbad (Sundays, 7pm) we couldn’t believe our ears. Is the Providence really leaving port accompanied by the jingle from Who Wants To be A …

Twitter 101: unless they’re being retweeted, you’ll never see an @ mention of someone you don’t follow if the @ is at the beginning of a tweet. The reason this is important is because if you’re not following the right people you could be missing out on some hilarious exchanges. …

(opens in new tab) MONDAY 25 JUNE Comic Heroes 13 arrives in shops today! Splash the cash on Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance on Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, and Howl’s Moving Castle on Blu-ray and DVD, both in the shops today. Hooray! A rather beautiful looking wood box edition of …

It was the series Time magazine called the “best show on television”. It was the reboot that showed you could update an old format and improve it beyond all recognition. It was so addictive it should have come with a warning like the ones you get on cigarette packets (“Beware! …

But this feature isn’t about the sci-fi and fantasy musical numbers that always make it into these kinds of features. Hell, if you tried to list “10 Best Musical Moments In Sci-Fi” then “One More With Feeling” and Dr Horrible’s Sing-Alog Blog would nab most of the places in the …