Strange Alloy is a self-produced short film from Loïc Bramoullé. It took two months to make and shows a dinosaur-dragon creature explore the ruins of an abandoned human city. Based on images of Myanmar the film looks wonderful but we’re left wondering how we let things go so terribly wrong. Would you risk a game […]
Snowpiercer TV series optioned
There is a third Snowpiercer comic coming and Geek Native’s already shared a sneak preview. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, we might get a TV series. Tomorrow Studios has optioned the rights, based on the 2013 Chris Evans film, to a TV series. Josh Friedman will write the script. Previously, Friedman has worked on […]
These people were thrown into a real-life sci-fi adventure
Have you ever watched a TV show and just felt the characters did everything wrong? As a gamer you’d navigate the dangers of the plot far better than they did? Users of Chatroulette – where you log in to have a video chat with a random stranger – found themselves thrown deep into a first […]
What’s more dangerous? Belief or bullets: A review of Slow Bullets
Slow Bullets is a novella from Alastair Reynolds. The sci-fi is set at a time where humanity has expanded to very many planets but split into two. A war rages between the Central Planets and the ones of the Periphery. The government uses a device embedded into its soldiers and people to record their identity […]
Huge, hard sci-fi: A review of Bowl of Heaven
Bowl of Heaven is a combined project from sci-fi faves Larry Niven and Gregory Benford. I’m in the interesting position of having read both Bowl of Heaven and the followup Shipstar based on recommendations for the latter of the two. Bowl of Heaven is harder to get into and ends in such a way that […]
Short film: Giant Robots from Outer Space
Giant Robots from Outer Space manages to be a parody, a tribute and a twist all in one. The animation is inspired by those wonderful b-movies from the 50s. Expect to see some iconic scenes re-made here. It’s also a twist. We don’t get the traditional damsel or hero here. This is a gradulation movie […]
Short film: State Zero
Some high-octane zombie action before Halloween with State Zero. This is an excellent short sci-fi that looks like it’s a clip from a Hollywood level movie. Over a million people have watched this on YouTube now and that’s pretty much unheard of for short films. Produced by Claire Fleming, the video was shot in London […]
Short film: Noon
You may see Noon at the cinema as Chernin Entertainment, the company behind RIse of the Planet of the Apes, is considering it. How so? Noon is a sci-fi by Kasra Farahani. Farahani is a concept artist and art director who’s worked on movies like Thor and Star Trek Into Darkness. In Noon we picked […]
Competition: Metal Hurlant – Resurgence
Based on the popular sci-fi comic book the Metal Hurlant Resurgence live action sci-fi anthology has a cast that includes James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight) and many faces geeks with taste will recognise. There’s six different adventures in this anthology, […]
11 illustrations of sci-fi wonder from Juan Pablo Roldan
Juan Pablo Roldan is a concept artist and visual developer. You can keep track of his brilliant creations via his Tumblr, blog or even his fairly active Twitter account at @JuanPaRoldan.
