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Don’t Count The Tenth Doctor Out Just Yet

David Tennant could receive a record-breaking £1.3 million to stay on as the star of British time-travel action-soap Doctor Who. Not only that, but the BBC may offer him some other inducements, like plum roles in some of its other dramas. “Everybody assumes David is quitting, but that’s not the case,” a BBC source told … Continued

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Batman Doesn’t Just Walk Down A Corridor: 33 New Dark Knight Pics

Batman knows the best way to get through those drab institutional corridors – in his screaming Batpod, sparks flying and linoleum burning. This is just one of 33 new photos from July’s The Dark Knight that came out today, and others include some nice looks at Harvey Dent and the Joker, and a tiny spoiler … Continued

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Wanted Strips White-Collar Rage Bare

Wanted is one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen, but also one of the most beautifully filmed. And its scream of strangulated middle-class frustration will lodge in your mind afterwards. Wanted, which opens tonight, is like a John Woo remake of Falling Down, the story of a shlubby white-collar worker who finally, violently, breaks … Continued

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Secrets Of The Joker’s Scruples And Wall-E’s Weird Humans

An early review of the Batman film The Dark Knight includes a bushel of new spoilers – including the one person the Joker can’t kill. Also, a new interview and featurette give new insights into what’s ailing the human race in Wall-E’s dystopian future. And a crucial character you haven’t seen in the Star Wars: … Continued

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The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains

Click to viewDarth Vader rocks out with the rest of the original Star Wars cast in this awesome painting by Hugh Fleming. Vader has starred in more than his fair share of offbeat and arresting artworks, but he’s not alone — other classic science fiction villains have also inspired some provocative and clever art, from … Continued

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We’re All Slaves Of History, In Sprawling Dystopian Novel

What would the United States look like after the collapse of everything? The answer isn’t a zombie-strewn wasteland or a sudden revival of punk-rock fashions, but rather something more like a flashback to the mid-19th century. The frontier spirit, small communities banding together, roaming Indian tribes… and huge masses of the population living in slavery. … Continued

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Warner Bros. Fighting To Shorten Watchmen?

Zack Snyder, who’s directing the movie version of Alan Moore’s mega-graphic novel Watchmen, says he’s fighting with the studio to keep the movie as long as possible, to preserve the “core” of the story. And the DVD will most likely be three-and-a-half hours long. Luckily, the 20-minute “sizzle reel” Snyder showed Warners was cool-looking, so … Continued

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The Searing Laugh Of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible

The first teaser trailer for Joss Whedon’s Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog has gone online, and it’s every bit as fantastic as we’d expected. Neil Patrick Harris does the loser-supervillain thing the way Buffy’s nerd trio only wished they could, and the goggles are spot-on perfect. Suddenly I’m wishing that Joss would direct the … Continued

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Watch The Dark Knight’s Batman-Joker Confrontation!

Four new TV spots for the Batman movie The Dark Knight give a much clearer glimpse of the early confrontation between Batman and Heath Ledger’s Joker than we’ve seen before. And a new Doctor Who clip reveals who ends up a prisoner of the Daleks this Saturday. We also scored some new pics of Shia … Continued

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Guns, God And Giant Dominatrixes In U.S.A. 2099

Since it’s an election year, it’s an excellent time for a State Of The Union message from Reverend Jimmy Joe II, who’s President in the year 2099 according to the awesome movie Storm Rebel. Jimmy Joe has an important message about exactly who ought to be allowed to vote. In 2099, America is run by … Continued

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The Top 5 Special Effects Sequences From Bollywood’s Time Travel Movie

The transformation of Mumbai into a super-futuristic metropolis, modeled on Shanghai, is just one of the awesome special effects coups in Love Story 2050, the Bollywood time-travel movie that comes out July 4. Director Harry Bajewa listed the top 5 greatest SFX sequences in the movie in an interview with Star Box Office, including robot … Continued

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First Teaser Poster From The Day The Earth Stood Still

Here’s the first teaser poster from December’s remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves. As we reported a while back, the new version is missing many of the coolest moments from the original, and has an environmentalist message, as Keanu’s Klaatu comes to warn us of our Earth-destroying ways. Click through … Continued

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Which Summer Movie Chick Could Carry Her Own Spinoff?

You might have noticed a distinct lack of female heroes at the movies this summer, Sex And The City aside. It’s almost as if the studios decided women couldn’t carry a big movie — but nah, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Luckily, the summer’s big movies have a wealth of female supporting leads, and … Continued

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Hulk Sequel’s Villain May Be The Character You Least Suspected

If you liked yesterday’s freaky Heroes set pics, you’ll love the followup, which includes some incestuous groping and doppelgangering. Also, it turns out the villain for the Incredible Hulk sequel (if any) may be the last person you were expecting. There are a couple of new G.I. Joe posters, and a list of the craziest … Continued

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Doctor Who’s Year (And A Half) Of Hell

I’m a total sucker for the alternate universe, everything goes Sprang! kind of story. I was addicted to Marvel’s What If comics, even the ones with the nonsense titles like What If Civil War?. (What indeed?) So I was pretty much the target audience for the latest Doctor Who episode, and it still exceeded my … Continued

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Our Future Galactic Overlords Glow Red With Power Lust

Do you notice anything funny about this picture of NGC 6946, the “Fireworks Galaxy”? Like that lurid wealth of red splotches, for example? The bright red areas represent regions in the galaxy that are actively forming new stars, and there do seem to be an awful lot of them. Could we be facing a star-formation … Continued

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George W. Bush Escaping From New York?

First he’s playing the current president of the United States in Oliver Stone’s new biopic, and next Josh Brolin could be sent to rescue the president of the U.S. from an alternate dystopia. A French site reports that Brolin is in talks to star in the remake of Escape From New York, which was originally … Continued

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Hulk Missed Beating Get Smart By… Well, By A Lot, Actually

Remember how we said Incredible Hulk had to pull in an impressive second weekend box office to be considered a hit? And how the Hulk movie really had to beat Get Smart? Well, get in the lotus position and stare at a metronome – we’ve got some upsetting news. Get Smart pulverized TIH at the … Continued

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New Hints About What Mulder And Scully Are Searching For

If X-Files: I Want To Believe does as well as everyone’s hoping, you can expect to see a third movie about the paranomal-investigating FBI agents in two or three years, writer/producer Frank Spotnitz told a crowd at the LA Film Festival yesterday. Too bad the general public is barely aware of the movie’s existence so … Continued

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A Virtual-Reality Racetrack Turns Into A Death Trap For Speed Racer Jr.

This week on TV, ummm… well, maybe we should all Netflix the same things and then discuss them as if they were newly televised. No, wait. Actually, it’s not that bad. Among the things that may keep you from killing your TV this week: Batman meets his inspiration, Doctor Who follows Steven Moffat into a … Continued