May 30, 2012 | Forbes
If you want to know how a science fiction film approaches its science or even its mood, you need only look at its spaceships. In Firefly, the universe (or “’verse”) had underdeveloped, underfunded colonies, while the ship Serenity was kludged from scavenged parts. The...
May 29, 2012 | Forbes
If you’ve read the George R.R. Martin series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the basis for the HBO television series, Game of Thrones, you’d know that a multitude of characters have been written out of the show. Producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss did it to keep the...
May 28, 2012 | Forbes
Holy smokes, I'm leading an army! I didn’t know how to summarize the penultimate episode of season 2, “Blackwater,” so I thought I’d have the opening crawl of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith do it for me: “War! King’s Landing is crumbling under attacks by the...
May 26, 2012 | Forbes
As we all know, the state of Rhode Island loaned 38 Studios $75 million on the condition that the video game developers create 450 new jobs over the next three years. As we also know, 38 Studios could either make a payment or keep its staff, but not both. The loan was...
May 25, 2012 | Forbes
What is the nature of good and evil? Do I have a destiny? Do these eyes make me look fat? Young people become have increasingly irreligious in countries such as Denmark, yet they still ponder the big questions: Is there a heaven? What happens to us when we die? Will...