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Galactica: Sabotage

Take the classic Beastie Boys music video/song "Sabotage" and pay an homage to it using nothing but footage from five seasons of Battlestar Galactica. Think it can't be done? Think again 'cuz katamaran78 nailed it right down to using Fat Apollo.

Sandra Bullock accepts her Razzie award

For the past 25 years, the day before the Academy Awards are presented the Golden Raspberry Awards are given out. Commending the very best of the very worst of the past year in film, with their spray painted awards and mocking commentary at the pomp and ceremony of Hollywood, The Razzies are the anthethesis of the Oscars.

Tim Burton's secret formula

Can someone who has access to Tim Burton schedule an intervention?

The trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter that's not in theaters

You remember hearing about Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, don'tcha? Published one year ago, written by Seth Grahame-Smith, optioned as a movie. Grahame-Smith is back and he's here to show you that a) he's not a one-trick pony, and, b) he still wants to mess up historical stories that you know.

Live Avatar Role Playing

When Titanic became the number one movie of all-time, did people dress us in early 20th century costumes, pretend that they were upper-class and lower-class and then dunk themselves into freezing water? Hell no. Then why are people smearing on blue paint, dressing in loincloths and running around winter Wisconsin pretending to be the Na'vi from Avatar??

The look of a real-life Buzz Lightyear

I don't know how many people have lost sleep wondering what a real-life Buzz Lightyear would look like but if these people do exist, tonight they sleep well.

Toronto artist creates minimalist Tarantino posters

Ibraheem Youssef is a Toronto-based self-described art director and designer. He draws stuff, designs stuff, cooks stuff and even sells stuff on his website. The latest goods that Ibraheem is hawking are six posters he designed for Quentin Tarantino's movies: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Parts I and II, Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds.

Oh, THAT Kirsten Dunst cosplay video

Back in September I first gave the heads up that Charlie's Angels helmer McG was soothing his post-Terminator Salvation wounds by filming a music video in Tokyo's Akihabara district, where all the high-end electronics stores are and J-nerds outnumber normal people by a ratio of 852 to 1. Spider-Man squeze Kirsten Dunst was photographed by passers-by wearing a cute Sailor Moon-inspired costume. I'll admit, the photos made me feel a little whirly inside.

The amazing Aliens rap that you have to see

Before James Cameron was the king of the world's box office (twice) he was the writer and director of Aliens. There may be better dramas that have been made, more serious science fiction movies worthy of critical acclaim and documentaries that do more good for the world but if I had to pick one movie as my all-time favorite, hands down, it's Aliens.

Reviewing Avatar in Phantom Menace style

Remember that infamous 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace that swept over the film blogosphere like wildfire a month back? Now the creators of that review are back with their take on the merits of Avatar. While their Avatar review may be a lot shorter than the one they did for Star Wars Episode I, Red Letter Media's brilliant mixture of insightful commentary and twisted comedy is still bang on. After watching their two-part Avatar review, now I finally have a practical use for my Titanic popcorn bucket.

Wes Anderson's stop motion acceptance speech shows his animal side

Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox came and went at the theater and it really shouldn't have, not in a world where ten-foot-tall blue aliens are going to make close to two billion dollars. (No, I'm not crying for 20th Century Fox...that must be a speck of dust in my eye, pay it no attention, alright?) Nevertheless, when Anderson accepted his Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review he decided to do it a little different than what's standard. I never knew what a hairy guy Wes was until I saw this vid.

You will believe that a starship can fly underwater

As we wind down the final moments of 2009 the scarcity of news stories is itself becoming a news story. Thankfully the team at Sci Fi Wire haven't loaded up on champagne yet: they found a pleasing YouTube video made by a group of niche Japanese modelbuilders that take flying to a whole new level.

The making of Avatar the Bootleg

With the zeitgeist filled about how the technology in Avatar "pushes the envelope" and "shatters the paradigm", y'think that Cameron and his creative team could have thought up a couple of new and less cliché sounding phrases about how awesome the movie is? Well, maybe not; if the story in Avatar is the weakest link in the chain it makes logical sense that nobody would spend any time thinking of a new way to say "This movie is awesome!"

The Slingers sizzle reel

It's called Slingers. These guys are trying to make it as a television series. This comic book guy liked it and so do I. Want to know what it's about? Sure: it's Ocean's Eleven in space. And that's Sean Pertwee providing the voice-over.

Perfect for the tired smuggler making the Kessel Run, it's the Millennium Falcon bed

When my wife sent me a link to this geekette's Millennium Falcon bed, the subject line of her email was "Ooooh Mr. Sooooollooooo". I knew exactly where her filthy mind was, and that secretly she must harbor fantasies of making a double braid in her hair, wearing white thermal clothing and wondering how to pass the time while the droid fixed a broken hyperdrive in her secret scoundrel's spaceship.

Yeah, my woman rolls it old school when it comes to her girlie geek fantasies. No emo-vampires with too much gel in their sparkly hair locks for her.