Do you ever sit around and wonder how great life would be if you were a Hobbit? No? Well here are some reasons why being a Hobbit wouldn’t be so bad. A Shoeless Lifestyle Known for their notoriously large and hairy feet with leathery soles, the hobbits get away with going shoeless. Now I don’t [...]

Casual Spaceship Lying Around? Perfect. This tactic comes straight from the movie Independence Day. Here’s the scenario: The aliens have blown-up the White House, as they always do, and our weapons are useless against their defense shields, what do we do? Get Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum to fly an abandoned alien ship to the [...]

Earlier this week J. K. Rowling announced that her first novel after Harry Potter will be called The Casual Vacancy, and will have a release date of September 27, 2012. Harry Potter defined a generation; it was a series that led children to read who otherwise wouldn’t. Now with the release of her highly anticipated [...]

Most people want to be Han Solo. Why? Because he’s cool. He has the coolest spaceship. It can do amazing things. Spaceships are a quintessential ingredient of many science fiction stories because they are a fictional representation of science. They can do what ships can’t do today. Go where ships can’t go right now. They [...]

Are you sad that there won’t be a new Transformers movie this year? Don’t fear, brought to you from the same company, we give you Battleship.  You want aliens that transform you say? Battleship has those, well at least their ships transform, mid-air too, and they are pretty badass if you ask me. You want [...]

When a classic movie is remade, it often loses touch with the message of the original movie, much to the ire of its fans. Many remakes are simply terrible, but there’s really no reason why they can’t be even better than the original. Science fiction is one genre that relies heavily on special effects to [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is an incredibly successful work of literature.  There are clothes, accessories, the books themselves, the movies, and more.  But, as often happens with things attached to massive titles like this one, oftentimes profits can outweigh accuracy and actual quality [...]

The numbers are in, The Hunger Game’s movie has grossed over $300 million dollars since it’s March opening. There is no doubt that Lionsgate succeeded in making The Hunger Games movie the next big franchise, and this fact was reinforced this week when news was released of a Hunger Games Fan Convention, which is scheduled [...]

Whenever you see those lists of top movie soundtracks, somehow sci fi films always seem to be underrepresented. This is surprising when you consider just how many of John Williams’ soundtrack masterpieces were tied to great sci fi, but even more surprising is how most modern movies get ignored entirely. Considering the massive amount of [...]

Your MacBook is a beautiful, blank canvas just waiting to be turned into an art piece, and the recent upsurge of creative laptop decals means that you have almost unlimited options for expressing your personal style. That said, Mac is a pretty classy brand, and many of the gaudier decals just don’t do justice to [...]