The first press screenings of Avatar were held late Thursday night, so naturally the reviews are flooding online today. We’re dying to hear what TIME’s film critic, Richard Corliss, thought of the whole thing – his review will be posted here in a day or two – and we’re going to be publishing a lengthier roundtable discussion …
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The Techland Show: Giant Xbox Controller Edition
I just want to explain that I am better than Peter at Halo 2. I didn’t have my glasses. And I was using the old-style monster controller. Plus he kept killing himself. I want the record to be clear.
Apologies for the funky audio. We were getting some interference from the Hometree. That’s an Avatar joke. It will make sense to you next week.
Interview With Mass Effect: Redemption Co-Writer JJM
Set to launch in conjunction with Mass Effect 2 in January, BioWare and Dark Horse Comics have teamed up for a 4-issue miniseries dubbed Mass Effect: Redemption. We sat down with co-writer John Jackson Miller of Star Wars: KOTOR fame to talk about space operas and Shephard, among other things.
The setting for this story, The Terminus …
Say Hello To Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash
Peter Jackson on Lovely Bones: You Don’t Make a Movie For a Book’s Fans
Alice Sebold’s Lovely Bones is a brutal and intense story – the tale of a teenager who is raped and murdered, who then must watch from heaven as those she loved attempt to move beyond their loss.
It’s a story that’s a little bit about death, a little about life, and not quite about heaven. Young Susie exists in the …
A Sexy-Looking Caprica, Back in Action Monday
Caprica’s coming back – and a little sooner than you may have expected.
We’ve been checking out some of the new show’s initial artwork, which is honestly pretty damn sexy (the message is clear: eat your fruit kids!), and then we saw that an extended PG cut of this spring’s pilot will be available again on Syfy Rewind come …
Neal Adams Does PvP
This is so rad. Like, mindblowingly rad to see a comic book legend Neal Adams work his magic on PvP. I’ve been a longtime fan of both artists and this is just so damn cool. Bleeding Cool has a panel from the upcoming Christmas story arc. Neat stuff.
Exclusive Look at Paul Pope’s ADC Screenprints
The Art Directors Club in NYC kicks off their holiday party dubbed the December Editions tonight. A select group of artists will be showing off their respective limited edition prints including Paul Pope, you know, the guy who made Batman: Year 100. Anyway, admission to ADC’s Holiday Party is $20, which will benefit The Children’s …
Panel of the Week 12/9/09
It was a big week for new people appearing as old characters. It’s the new Batgirl, the new Deathlok, and the new/old Captain America. Back again. For the first time. Or something. It was also a big week for series debuts. Issue #1 of God Complex, the much hyped Image title by Powers co-creator Michael Avon Oeming dropped. Also …
Best of the Decade: Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels
So this was way less pleasant than I expected. I mean, we all know top 10 lists are exercises in bogus click-whoring, so standard caveats apply, blah blah blah. But still: painful. (And this is probably the tenth top-10 list I’ve written this month. Some of these books I’ve already summarized three or four times in the past two weeks. My …
Testing Out the WikiReader
The $99 WikiReader is a divisive device. Smartphone owners will scoff in disbelief at the sheer audacity of a non-connected portable with a black and white screen that displays text-only Wikipedia entries. “What’s to be done with this WikiReader?!!” they’ll cry out, iPhones brandished and ready to download an infinite number of advanced …
Star Trek Beams Into Theater of the Absurd
Picard orders red alert, then launches into song.
The Ferengi dude is clearly stoned.
For some reason Geordi won’t shut up about apple juice.
And I now know more about Riker’s digestive system than I’m comfortable with.
(More on Techland: Best of the Decade: Sci-Fi Movies)
This absurd mash-up of Star Trek: The Next …