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Star Trek: Into Darkness , the sequel to the 2009 big-screen reboot of the half century-old Star Trek franchise, is of course one of the maj...

Yes, you read that right. The old adage has it that sex sells, and the conventional wisdom holds that pop culture is becoming markedly more ...

Skyfall is now a billion-dollar hit, and in all likelihood just a few days away from being the highest-grossing Bond film of all time in in...

Since the 1970s North Americans have typically gone to the movies four to five times a year. When the figure falls toward the low end of the...

It was with some dismay that I heard about the cancellation of the TNT show Leverage , one of the few shows (and fewer non-genre shows) I...

Frank Herbert's Dune , according to a poll taken by Locus Magazine, the results of which were published Saturday , part of a larger ...

Reflecting on the likely response (long as well as short-term) of audiences to the release of The Hobbit my first thought was for what migh...

As with most of the young adult-oriented WB fantasy dramas of the late 1990s and early 2000s ( Charmed , Angel , Supernatural ) I missed the...

Tom Clancy is widely remembered as the writer Patrick Anderson hailed in the New York Times as the "king of the techno-thriller,...

Here are what I think of as the five most important science fiction books (and in some cases, series' of books) that I have read. By tha...

Back in 2004 Jeremy Rifkin published a book titled The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the Americ...

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007, pp. 292. In The Other End noted cyberpunk and horror writer John Shirley turned his att...

The James Bond franchise has been global success, but has also had a very particular niche in postwar British culture: the lone hero as a so...

It is taken for granted that there is a vast gulf between the "highbrow" critics who hand out literary awards, write for the upmar...

Over at Hero Complex , director John Carpenter recently speaking about his 1988 cult classic They Live , remarked that the movie was just a...