Project Hail Mary is the kind of ambitious science-fiction blockbuster that remembers something many movies in the genre forget: saving the world can be thrilling, emotional, and genuinely funny at ...

Gemini 3.1 vs Claude 4.6 writing performance compared. Gemini groups more varied loglines, while Claude produces deeper detailed prose.

Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly science fiction, fantasy and comic book adaptations, not to mention all forms of animation animation. This ...

One of the longest running science-fiction radio programs, "Destinies" with host Howard Margolin, celebrates 43 years on 90.1 WUSB(FM) this month.

The Dollmaker' (Encantador) is the title of the film by Argentinian director José María Cicala that took the top prize at ...

These two rules are common in popular productivity narratives, but they aren’t one-size-fits-all. Here’s how ignoring them ...

Continuing the Stories RPG spin-off franchise, Monster Hunter Stories 3 introduces better, deeper gameplay systems befitting of a JRPG giant.

Art imitates life, and life can be horrifying. Every axe-murdering psychopath the ever stalked the pages of a thriller novel owes their existence to a real world killer. Fiction has its basis in fact, ...

Nicole Kidman's Kay Scarpetta spends more time navigating family drama than doing the forensic work that made Patricia Cornwell's character famous.

Remember in the ‘90s when the Horizon: An American Saga guy threw himself into an epic post-apocalyptic blockbuster that became an infamous failure at the box office? And then he did the exact same ...

Perched beside the huge mass of Russia, the small Baltic state has also been on the frontline of the Kremlin’s propaganda war for decades. It has had to embed resilience to mis- and disinformation ...

Diane is reading bodice rippers,” he said, citing the old-fashioned name for sexually explicit romance novels. Back then, they were my guilty pleasure. More than 30 years later, I remain a fan of ...