Tag: Entertainment

‘The Dream is [still] Alive’: First IMAX film shot in space at 40 years

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James Neihouse had one more thing to share. From inside a tote bag, he pulled out a chrome frame displaying 11 strips of tape, each of which had printed text and handwritten notes. These were labels removed from film cans, the award-winning cinematographer explained. But not just from any film — these were the 41-year-old labels from the third space shuttle mission to carry an IMAX camera into Earth orbit. The rolls were used in the making of the first movie to include scenes shot in space, as first released…

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‘Doctor Who’ Season 2 premieres this week with a robot revolution and AI terrors

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Doctor Who | Season 2 Official Trailer | Disney+ – YouTube Watch On The sands of time might be running out for Ncuti Gatwa’s turn in the TARDIS as the Fifteenth Doctor since rumors circulated this year that he’ll exit for creative endeavors in Los Angeles after this run. But if so, there’s still some gas in the tank for one more trip around the universe as this whirlwind “Doctor Who” Season 2 trailer plainly reveals. Last season saw a significant viewer drop-off and longtime fans’ underwhelming response to the…

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The Wildgate reveal trailer looks like Sea of Thieves in space, with more interesting progression (video)

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Wildgate | Reveal Trailer – YouTube Watch On If you’re one of the millions of players who have sampled Sea of Thieves since its launch way back in 2018, and found yourself thinking “this is fun, but what if it was in space?”, some former Blizzard devs have got some great news for you. Wildgate looks like the kind of multiplayer, ship-vs-ship, loot-hunting action that’s made Sea of Thieves such a roaring success for the last eight years, except set in a frontier region of space called The Reach. In…

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 teaser trailer promises more gimmicky hijinks in the final frontier (video)

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Technically, this isn’t the first footage shown by Paramount+ for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” That label goes to a fun San Diego Comic-Con scene of Pike and crew physically transforming into Vulcans that we shared with you back in July of last year. But this latest sneak peek at the “Discovery” spin-off series hints at new genre-bending installments being given a certain “Star Trek” twist that include a candy-colored retro-style romp, a cheesy romantic comedy, a “Clue”-like ’70s-set murder mystery and a straight-laced documentary-based episode.…

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‘Red Planet,’ ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Batman Forever’ star Val Kilmer dies at 65

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We all woke this morning to the sorrowful news that charismatic actor Val Kilmer had passed away yesterday at the age of 65 from pneumonia after a decade-long struggle with throat cancer, and it seems like our world is significantly less cool with the harsh reality of his demise. The often abrasive, difficult, and temperamental actor on set was a veteran Hollywood performer with an impressive career spanning over four decades, often portraying tough, individualistic characters that he immersed himself in completely by employing equal measures of rare talent, raw…

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New alien abduction film ‘Watch the Skies’ is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)

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Watch the Skies Exclusive Trailer (2025) – YouTube Watch On Not since the days of Erich von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods,” director Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and publisher Bob Guccione’s “Omni” magazine has there been this much interest in the study, history, and research of UFOs, an arena of curiosity branded as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The latest entry into the mysterious mire of flying saucer mania is a new abduction thriller from Sweden called “Watch The Skies.” The ominous title is a nostalgic nod…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 154 — The View From On High

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The View From On High – Live From the International Space Station – YouTube Watch On On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy about bringing content and video from the International Space Station down to Earth. If you’ve ever wondered what the view from the International Space Station might look like in real-time, this is your episode. Or if you just want to know more about who’s up there and what’s going on at the ISS on…

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Doom games in order: Chronological and release date

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Doom is the daddy of first-person shooters and one of the most influential games of all time, so we battled through hell and put together these lists of the Doom games in order, both by chronological timeline and release date. Doom: The Dark Ages is set to arrive on May 15, 2025, and we can hardly wait! If you’re a newcomer or only played the last two installments, you might be a bit confused about the loose timeline of the sci-fi-horror-fantasy series. Now, before diehards move in for a glory…

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‘Chappie’ is 10 years old, and Blomkamp’s flawed humanist take on robots and AI is more relevant than ever

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It’s safe to say Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) became an instant modern sci-fi classic, which explains why both moviegoers and Hollywood studios had massive expectations for the filmmaker’s follow-up flicks: Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015). Neither reached the same heights and remain divisive to this day, but we think the latter is worth a quick rewatch a decade later. Most can agree that Blomkamp has a knack for delivering grounded and tangible sci-fi worlds on reasonable production budgets. It’s been the key to his long-term success, despite recent failure…

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“The monster will come for us all!” Mon Mothma rouses the rebels in new ‘Andor’ Season 2 trailer

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Andor | Official Trailer | Final Season Streaming April 22 on Disney+ – YouTube Watch On We’re a mere month away from the climactic second season of Disney+’s “Andor: A Star Wars Story” that will take us straight up to the beginning of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” A fresh Disney-delivered trailer has just dropped, and it makes us want to join those pesky rebels and charge blindly into the fray in defense of galactic freedom. Well, until we see the dreaded Death Star! Arriving on April 22, “Andor”…

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