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Let's hope the teaming up of Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy in a film goes better than the pairing of Patrick Stewart and William Shatner in "Star Trek Generations" 18 years ago -- where one character ended up buried in a rocky grave. Stewart, who played Professor X in three X-Men films in the ...

All I can think of is that Madonna is the cause of so much of our discourse in the world. Seriously. In the mid-1990s, producers were looking for someone to play a singer who slept her way to the top and couldn't act for a little film they were doing called "Evita." And the first person that came ...

It took a couple seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" and a dozen more of "South Park" for Peabody to notice those shows. But for HBO's "Game of Thrones," all the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications needed were 10 episodes. "Game of Thrones" was named among 38 ...

Sorry, Star Trek fans. There won't be any Benicio del Toro a part of this universe. At least not for "Star Trek 2." The long-awaited "Star Trek" prequel seemed to have a lock on del Toro, the actor who won an Oscar in 2001 for "Traffic." However, del Toro and Paramount Pictures could not come to ...

Loyal fans who can’t wait until next month's release of “Star Trek: Into Darkness” will have a chance to see one of the beloved episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” on the big screen for one night only. "The Best of Both Worlds" comprising the third season finale and the fourth ...

September is Issue #0 month at DC, meaning that the revamped New 52 universe, which started up in media res five years in, has finally offered some glimpses of How It All Began. Which is to say, the Secret Origins of the characters. By and large, I didn’t care for the #0 issues I read. I’m a ...

If you thought the name of the first Percy Jackson film was long, wait until you see what's coming next for The X-Men. The latest film in the franchise, which goes in front of the cameras in January, will be called "X-Men: First Class - Days of Future Past." Bryan Singer, a producer on the fil ...

The movie categories have always been interesting ones for the Airlock Alpha Portal Awards, especially at times when readers have questioned how much of a "genre" film certain productions are, and if the biggest box office winners are usually the winners here as well. The fact is, the movie categ ...

Is there some bad blood between BBC Worldwide and Syfy for the American cabler's refusal to pick up shows like "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood"? Or is BBC just smelling opportunity? Syfy could soon be gaining some serious competition in the genre as BBC American and Clerkenwell Films have put togethe ...

There is British science-fiction television beyond "Doctor Who." Well, you say, I know that; there’s "Torchwood." You are right, but there is more, and I’m going to clue you in to some of it. For the past several years, I’ve been participating in panels on British television at scie ...