Cli-Fi: Why Isn’t Chasing Ice Up For An Academy Award?
“A nomination would be an incredible longshot. But our hope is that it would bring a lot of significant attention to climate change, because this is the issue of our time.”
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Soda Cancer Sucks, I Deal With It
So…sodas. Here’s the deal: I loved sodas. OK, I still do. I’m down to one a week, which is an astronomical achievement. For all of us, really: Earthlings are addicted […]
Hyperreal Comedy and Real-Time Tragedy, With Carrie Brownstein
Certainly, that seems to be our deep-seated fear, that this kind of violence will become part of the fabric of our lives.
Exclusive: Alan Moore’s Occupy Comics Essay
Fans of Alan Moore and his prescient comics like V For Vendetta and Watchmen knew he’d one day anchor a revolution.
Karen Berger’s Coolest Vertigo Comics
DC Comics has lost one of its most influential tastemakers with the news that executive editor Karen Berger will be stepping down.
World’s Most Wired: Black Mask’s Matt Pizzolo
Who knew we needed to kill comics to save them? Matt Pizzolo, that’s who.
What The Force? Disney Can Protect Star Wars, Says Fandom, George Lucas
Can an independent visionary who created a vast sci-fi entertainment multiverse really think that a pop-culture multinational can better protect his brainchild? You bet your asteroids, kid. And he’s not alone.
Novel Approach: 10 Book-Based Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Standouts
Transforming transfixing genre fiction into memorable cinema is no simple task.
Exclusive: Pinback’s Spacey Sherman
Pinback’s Rob Crow and Zach Smith touch down on a prehistoric planet in the new music video, “Sherman.”
Exclusive: Boots Riley Brings a Guillotine to Oz
The Coup‘s frontman is looking for our nation’s heart and power, as the 2012 general election nears.
Discordia Illustrates Greece’s Disaster Capitalism
Instead of investigating fear and loathing in Las Vegas, artist Molly Crabapple and journalist Laurie Penny tripped off to Greece.
We Are Bilbo, Heading Off To Perpetual War
It is no irony that Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s work have arrived in a world at war
We Need To Go Where Star Trek: The Next Generation Has Gone Before
Star Trek’s longest-running television series, which alternately bored and blessed us all with a sci-fi optimism now long since buried, blows out 25 candles
Exclusive: David Lloyd’s Ballsy Occupy Comics Cover
“The timing is perfect, because as year two begins there is a lot of soul searching about what the movement means and how it can evolve.”
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis Mantra: Let It Express Itself
“It’s different if I’m writing something original, but when I’m adapting these novels I’m attracted to them for what they are, not how I’m going to squish them.”
Six Organs of Admittance Enters the Space-Rock Race With Ascent
“This record has a pretty heavy gnostic sci-fi element.”
Exclusive: Barry Sonnenfeld and Grant Morrison’s Sci-Fi Experiment Dominion: Dinosaurs vs. Aliens
“Both dinosaurs and aliens can be seen as representatives of where we are as people right now.”
The Inventor Electrifies Nikola Tesla
“Tesla’s true story is more surreal than any fictional account I’ve seen of him.”
Legend Of Korra Is The Smartest Show On TV
“Its core message is not about trying to exploit power differences between the haves and have-nots. It says that real power is what you have between your ears.”
Patagonia Rising’s Water Shock Doctrine
Set in South America’s breathtaking Andes landscape, the visually sweeping new documentary Patagonia Rising bills itself as a frontier story of water and power. But both its frontier and its story nevertheless belong to anyone on the planet that needs water to live.
Maus Creator Art Spiegelman Joins Occupy Comics’ Growing Chorus
“The image I drew over a decade ago seems to still be relevant,” Spiegelman said. “Occupy is one of the most significant things happening that could actually bring hope and change to our ravaged nation.”
Nine Earth Day Films That Will Make You Think
From rapidly acidifying oceans and shortsighted deforestation to perpetually pollutive wars and the propping up of obsolete markets, Earth is taking killer blows that we’re going to seriously regret delivering.
Legend Of Korra Upgrades Avatar’s Mythic Epic
A psychokinetic steampunk upgrade with a fearless female hero leading the charge.
California’s Unregulated Fracking Problem
Punch the term “fracking” into DOGGR’s search today and you’ll receive a white screen with the perhaps accidentally ironic query “Did you mean: cracking” in response.
Michael Bloomberg May Have His Own Army, But Has He Already Lost the War?
“No matter which door he picks in this Let’s Make a Deal episode, he comes out a loser. It’s kind of awesome.”