Jun 1, 2012 | Forbes
One of the reasons the Alien franchise, which kicked off in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s horror film, Alien, was so popular is because of the alien itself, an organic kill-machine that was both horrifying and mesmerizing to watch. This xenomorph is unmistakably the work...
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 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...
