I have decided that recapping The Venture Bros. is impossible. Well, for me, at least. Now I’m going to try to do it anyways.Read more...    
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We have no idea if The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be good — but we do know that there will be at least two more movies before Peter Parker is too old to pull off "angsty teen." That's right Sony has announced that they are making Amazing 3 and 4.Read more...    
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Many of us are familiar with the Pengaton's Cheetah robot — the world's fastest mechanical mammal. But that feline brute is rather big and, well, even a bit severe. Thankfully, there's now a kinder, gentler version — the cheetah-cub robot.Read more...    
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The 19th century was still trying to wrap its head around the theory of evolution when a group of scientists decided to up the ante and declare that the universe was teeming with “ultra-terrestrial” life.Read more...    
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At long last, Ray Bradbury's masterpiece about faith, history and human nature, The Martian Chronicles, has been published in Iran.Read more...    
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We got our Firefly movie, and now at last Veronica Mars is becoming a film as well. So there's still hope for your favorite show that lived too fast and died too soon. Which TV show that was killed in its prime do you want to see as a big-screen movie?Read more...    
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Last week, we all got our hopes up that the huge gaps in Doctor Who's history, with whole years of the show basically gone, might be filled in with the return of a bunch of missing episodes. And now, the inevitable has happened and reality has set in.Read more...    
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Look. There are other DVDs coming out this week. Indeed, some of them are pretty cool. But the fact remains that there is a DVD out tomorrow that contains beloved/cranky scifi author Harlan Ellison teaming up with the original Scooby gang to fight ancient evil. What more do you really need?Read more...    
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Fans of Neil Gaiman's dark, mythology-soaked fantasy will rush out to buy his first adult book in years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. But for people who haven't yet delved into Gaiman's massive body of work, this slim volume is an excellent starting place.Read more...    
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I don't know what's cooler: That someone drew such amazing Game of Thrones fan art at their office, or that the cleaning staff left it there when they erased everything else. There are a lot of Stark supporters lurking in corporate America.Read more...    
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Show creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are showing off a bunch of new monsters, in our first glimpse of footage from the new season of The Legend of Korra. Creature Spirits and Light/Dark Spirits, oooooh! We cannot WAIT for this show to get back on the air. Read more...    
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There's no more space opera on television, and even when we get space movies they have a distinct lack of over-the-top insanity. There's not enough spaceship smackdowns and shit blowing up in vacuum. Luckily, there's this trailer.Read more...    
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Jules Verne is one of the best-known authors who ever lived. A record 300 movies, TV shows and plays have been based on his work and more are on their way. But although everyone knows Jules Verne much of what they know is wrong.Read more...    
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Biologists at University College London say they now know why cancerous cells group together and spread to different parts of the body. And shockingly, it appears that the malignant cells are migrating by literally chasing healthy cells that are trying to get away. Read more...    
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A group of U.K. jokesters decided to see what would happen if they kept a public elevator's doors from closing by using "the Force," a.k.a. a friend hidden around the corner. I don't know much about British law, but I think if a guy on your "lift" pulls this, you should be legally allowed to cut him in two and chuck the pieces down a shaft.Read more...    
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When you see pictures of dinosaurs, there are a few awful tropes that come up again and again. Not only do they make dinosaurs vulnerable to Dalek attack, says paleoartist Mark Witton, but they also prevent people from understanding what the big animals were really like.Read more...    
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The long awaited Y: The Last Man movie adaptation is as "close as it's ever been" to happening. Which fills us all with excitement and dread. Please be good. Please be good. Read more...    
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So many manga and anime series are about becoming better fighters. Whether it’s Dragonball Z, Bleach, Naruto, or whatever, they take fighting very seriously — but even more esoteric anime and manga can be guilty of obsessing over their subjects to the point of insanity. Here are nine series that take certain subjects way too far. Read more...    
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On March 27, 1968, the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, died. He was in a MiG-15 on a routine training flight with his instructor when his plane crashed. The official explanation has been that he had to avoid a "foreign" object, but new information from Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov tells a different story.Read more...    
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Just a month before his passing, Iain M. Banks did a final interview with the Guardian, and it's a must-read in general. In particular, he answers one of the great longstanding questions about his Culture novels: why didn't he ever write a novel about the fall of the Culture, his massive spacefaring civilization?Read more...    
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We're not sure how it's even possible but the kids in Despicable Me 2 are even CUTER than the first movie. We've got seven clips of uncut adorableness. These little kids all other animated characters with their cuteness. Even that entire movie about a baby fox and a puppy can't hold a candle to these little girls. Read more...    
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Imagine, with the wave of a hand, adjusting the thermostat without getting out of bed, or turning up the music in the other room while in the shower. WiSee, a new gesture-recognition system, aims to harness the ever-present wireless Internet signals blanketing people’s homes to allow remote control of all their electronics.Read more...    
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It's going to be tough to let go. But hopefully the final batch of Futurama episodes, starting this week, will help numb the pain of saying farewell to the Planet Express Crew. Meanwhile, there's a superhero "girls' night out," and someone finally explains how sex works. Plus Finn and Jake have a time machine!Read more...    
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The CG anime Captain Harlock movie has a new trailer out, and it's somehow even more phenomenally badass than the first two. I honestly don't know what I can say about this thing that I haven't said already, other than it may be the best scifi flick of 2013.Read more...    
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Of all the movies you could possibly choose to reboot, why pick Ed Wood cult fave Plan 9 From Outer Space? When you see this clip from the upcoming remake, you'll see why.Read more...    
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