Tag: Entertainment

Netflix’s ‘Terminator Zero’ restores faith in an ailing sci-fi franchise (review)

NeRD

Warning: Mild spoilers ahead! Watching Arnold Schwarzenegger plucking out his cybernetic eyeball in director James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi classic “The Terminator” would tend to have a traumatic effect on any youngster seeing the film on a grainy VHS copy in the ’90s. That’s exactly what happened to “Terminator Zero’s” writer, creator and showrunner Mattson Tomlin when he was just eight years old. This new adult animated series from Netflix is that timely Terminator-centric project that fans have been praying for after suffering through the last two sequels, “Terminator Genisys” and…

Read More

‘Star Wars Outlaws’ enters our galaxy this week! Watch the new launch trailer (video)

NeRD

Star Wars Outlaws: Official Launch Trailer – YouTube Watch On After what might seem an interminably long wait, Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft’s third-person sci-fi adventure game, “Star Wars Outlaws,” arrives Tuesday, Aug. 27 in early access for those who ponied up a bunch more pennies for the Gold Edition, Ultimate Edition, or a Ubisoft Plus membership, prior to its standard global release on Friday, Aug. 30 for Playstation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. An energetic new launch trailer for “Star Wars Outlaws” was recently introduced this past Thursday at…

Read More

Mattel rolling out Matchbox toy of SpaceX’s Tesla astronaut transport

NeRD

As SpaceX’s next commercial astronaut mission rolls out for launch, Mattel is counting down to the release of its latest Matchbox toy based on the space company’s vehicles. Unlike Mattel’s earlier sets, which were modeled after spacecraft and rockets, this upcoming issue is more of a natural fit for the iconic line of die-cast cars. Matchbox’s 1:64 scale version of SpaceX’s Crew Transport Vehicle is set to arrive in U.S. stores on Oct. 1 for $1.25 each. The full-size crew transport vehicles will be back in use tonight (Aug. 26),…

Read More

‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ canceled after just 1 season

NeRD

‘The Acolyte’ had a bumpy journey through marketing and release on the small screen, to say the least.  With a number of sites and permanently disgruntled fans that decided ages ago the series would be terrible, (likely false) cancellation rumors started to pile up even before its season 1 premiere. Now, roughly one month after a strong season finale that capped a notable second half of the season, Deadline and Variety are reporting that Disney and Lucasfilm have decided not to move forward with season 2. No matter how you…

Read More

What is Weyland-Yutani? The ‘Alien’ universe megacorporation explained

NeRD

In the vast sphere of multinational global conglomerates operating with honesty, trust and transparency, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the “Alien” franchise would rank at the absolute slimy bottom. This fictional megalomaniacal enterprise had its greedy tentacles into everything from robotics, biotechnology, cybernetics, AI, and interstellar mining, to terraforming, off-world colonization, medical research and developing weapons using extraterrestrial DNA gathered around the galaxy.   But what are the ambitious beginnings of this notorious San Francisco-based company, how have its personnel, facilities, spaceships and machines been integrated into the “Alien” universe and…

Read More

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ final season lands on DVD, Blu-ray and limited edition Steelbook

NeRD

“It has been a hell of a journey!” Now that “Star Trek: Discovery” has wrapped up its last cosmic mission this past spring, it’s time to clear some space in your video library for “Star Trek: Discovery – The Final Season.” It will hit DVD, Blu-ray and have a limited edition Steelbook release when it arrives from Paramount Home Entertainment on Aug. 27, 2024.  Sure, you can always still stream it on Paramount+ to your heart’s content, but the allure of these deluxe 4-disk physical editions for “Discovery’s” last run…

Read More

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 124 —Space For Everyone

NeRD

Space For Everyone – A Chat with STEM Advocate Czarina Salido – YouTube Watch On On Episode 124 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Czarina Salido about the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Salido, a physics graduate of mixed Mexican and Native American heritage, founded Taking Up Space in 2014. This nonprofit aims to address the underrepresentation of women, particularly Native American girls, in STEM fields. Based near Tucson, the organization provides mentoring, instruction, and Space Camp scholarships to disadvantaged girls on a…

Read More

‘Alien: Romulus’ is a visceral return to form for a venerable sci-fi franchise (review)

NeRD

Heading into the early evening IMAX screening of 20th Century Studios’ “Alien: Romulus” to experience what director Fede Álvarez had up his sleeve for this seventh film in the main Alien franchise, I was filled with trepidation and palpable anxiety.  After all, it had been seven years since Sir Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Covenant” stunk up theaters with its sick slaughterfest and his involvement in this project’s direction just didn’t have the clout it might have carried decades ago regardless of his stellar Hollywood career. Would this be more aimless mythology…

Read More

Angel City Brewery releases Weyland-Yutani’s Aspen Beer from 1979’s ‘Alien’

NeRD

Hauling a massive processing refinery with 20 million tons of mineral ore back to Earth from deep space can be thirsty work indeed — and that’s just why the intrepid space truckin’ team of the USCSS Nostromo in the film “Alien” drinks lots of beer.  Aspen Beer, to be precise. One of the cool overlooked details in director Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 “Alien” universe is the benign prop placement of colorful cans of Aspen Beer which, according to the label, is brewed by another wholly-owned subsidiary of the nefarious Weylan-Yutani…

Read More

Darth Jar Jar? This ‘Lego Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy’ trailer imagines an odd, twisted universe (video)

NeRD

LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy | Official Trailer – YouTube Watch On It’s truly a wonder that this miraculous mashup of “Star Wars” proportions has never been properly executed in any of the many media arms this omnipotent franchise occupies, but leave it to Lego to tackle the task. Let the mixing and matching begin! Last Friday, at the the D23 fan event in Southern California, a new trailer for “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy” was revealed that doubles down on the crazy concept of an alternate “Star…

Read More