Browsing: SciFi

Are you ready to unlock the door with the key of imagination and move into a land of shadow and substance? If so, go check out “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling’s groundbreaking sci-fi anthology series. This show aired on CBS with five seasons spanning from 1959 through 1964, but today you can stream it for…

Screenwriter-filmmaker Joss Whedon’s career hit a pretty ignominious downturn for someone who indisputably changed pop culture twice over. His creation “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” became the template for a whole generation of genre television, and Whedon cemented cultural dominance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when he wrote-directed 2012’s “The Avengers,” pulling off the world’s first…

Apple TV’s most mind-bending sci-fi show just proved it still has a grip on streaming audiences everywhere. The series climbed back into the platform’s top three, holding its own against some of the biggest titles on the charts.

Star Trek fans waited almost 20 years for The Next Generation after the original series ended in 1969. By comparison, The Orville faithful have only put up rookie numbers so far. It’s been over four years since we last saw the crew of the USS Orville. Seth MacFarlane originally began work on the series as…

Sci-Fi Holocaust Play, Memoriam by Noga Flaishon, Gets Its Full Cast, ahead of its premiere in London next month

Actor William Shatner is indisputably a Hollywood legend at this point in his long and storied career, and while his part as Captain James T. Kirk in “Star Trek” remains one of his most popular, the man has actually done quite a bit of sci-fi in his time.

First airing in 1966, “Star Trek” perfectly showcased everything sci-fi TV could achieve, as one of the best shows set in the future, sending the crew of the Starship Enterprise into encounters with strange new worlds, mysterious alien beings and different civilizations. The ingenuity of “Star Trek” has helped ensure the series’ longevity,” “Star Trek:…

In 2023, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro proclaimed during his award-winning speech for the better “Pinocchio” of the two that year that “Animation is cinema, animation is not a genre.” Most importantly, it’s not limited to strictly family-friendly stories, and it can push boundaries by telling tales that are off-limits for children. Through animation, more…

Ah, the 2000s, a time when flip phones and iPods were at the forefront of technology, and social media was still finding its groove. However, it was also a period of scientific breakthroughs, as NASA found water on Mars and cloning experiments were all the rage. In short, sci-fi storytellers had plenty of real-world concepts…

Comedy is the most difficult genre to get right, no matter the medium, from movies to television and even anime. The secret to comedy depends on who you ask. Some comics say it’s all about timing, others go for shock value, and in the case of the 1990s anime Excel Saga, the studio decided to…