Tag Archives: science fiction

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s season debut of Doctor Who. Otherwise dive in and dish the new Doctor.

A retread of I, Robot. Also: Melanie Griffith.

From the press materials: Ever wondered what it might look like if a science fiction film presented LGBT people the way it should be done? The trailer for #Credence, the first Sci-Fi of it’s kind to challenge the way gay characters are portrayed, has launched today. Released as part of an IndieGogo campaign raising budget to help finish the film …

The Grapes Of Wrath in space.

The apes use smartphones!

Titan Media director and JMG reader Jasun Mark describes the series via email: Project: Phoenix which is a sort of zombie/military sci-fi web series that stars a bunch of pretty big names including former Catwoman Lee Meriwether, gay Australian rugby star Ian Roberts, Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks and even a small role played by former gay porn star Jeremy …

Via Variety: The first trailer for the Wachowski’s “Jupiter Ascending” arrived Monday and it looks every bit as extraordinary as you thought it would. Starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, the Warner Bros. sci-fi tentpole tells the story of a young destitute human woman who is targeted for assassination by the Queen of the Universe because her very existence threatens …

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s 50th anniversary and mega-twisty episode of Doctor Who.  Otherwise dive and dish.

Source. Huge version. I actually recognize about 20 of these.

Contagion + 28 Days Later?

Yesterday BBC America revealed the identity of the 12th doctor since Doctor Who launched 50 years ago. And the sonic screwdriver goes to Peter Capaldi. The Scottish actor was named the new star of the British sci-fi franchise Doctor Who on Sunday during a live broadcast on BBC America. He will replace the departing Matt Smith, whose time in the …

Geeks Out has posted a response to Orson Scott Card’s plea for “tolerance.” This plea for tolerance is perhaps a bridge too far, especially from someone who characterized gay marriage as “the bludgeon [The Left] use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools,” (2012). There’s nothing more democratic and tolerant than a consumer …

“After twenty years of despicably virulent homophobia, no. This is just another detestable characterization of LGBT people — that we are intolerant. Intolerant? Of people who want to lock us up, put us in concentration camps, deny us our civil rights? Intolerant? Are you fucking kidding me? You want me to be tolerant, Scott? First be one of those people …

“Ender’s Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984. With the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution will, sooner or later, give legal force in every …