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Don't let second-week blues get "The Avengers" down -- especially if this movie's second week is more than what most movies would scrounge up their entire run. The Joss Whedon-directed comic book flick earned an estimated $103.2 million at the box office this weekend -- just its second week in re ...

You could say that all the awards in the 2012 Airlock Alpha Portal Awards are special, but even within these fan-chosen awards, there are some categories that are even more special. They are called the Gene Roddenberry Award and the Rod Serling Award. The Roddenberry honor rewards lifetime achiev ...

This column contains possible spoilers from the new Tim Burton film "Dark Shadows." The first science-fiction-related parody I recall experiencing was "Superduperman" by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood in the fourth issue of Mad. I’ve read or watched many others over the years, including "Qu ...

It would be the first time it's ever happened, but Twentieth Century Fox doesn't care -- it feels it's time for history to be made. Fox, the distributor for the recent film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," wants the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to finally recognize Andy Serkis, ev ...

Sunday night was Oscar night and, as usual, Hollywood turned out to celebrate another year of the movie industry with their annual awards. While science-fiction and fantasy were very scarce in the nominees for the big awards, the genres was well represented in both the broadcast, and among the overa ...

I have always been an amateur historian, with a deep interest in the history of the great tragedy of our country, the Civil War. I am also a fan of those who write alternate history novels. When I discovered Seth Grahame-Smith's book, "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter," I was quickly caught up in ...