Treat yourself to some home cooked science fiction, with a bunch of recommended reads from the 1970s… Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances? Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. More than that its the ultimate selling point....

The Man Who Fell to Earth gains its vision by losing sight of the stars. It is subtle, ethereal and a wholly human story. Indeed, David Bowies Thomas Jerome Newton is the most human character in the film. If not more human, certainly one with more humanity. This is an environmentally conscious film with an avaricious heart. You get thirsty watching the movie and you dont know why. In the beginning of the film, Tommy savors his first sips of water from a stream....

The War Of The Worlds has done it all… A live tour, based on the album, began in the UK and Ireland in 2006. This time, he got the reviews he wanted. A mostly faithful, generously-moneyed adaptation ofThe War Of The Worldshas been a long-time coming. Its due to air Christmas 2018. Jeff Waynes The War Of The Worlds: The Musical Drama is released on November 29 order it here.

This then is the current state of play. Marco J. Ramirez, the showrunner for season 2 of NetflixsDaredevilshow, has been hired to pen a screenplay. Warner Bros. is still backing the film, which was previously abandoned over budget issues. Jaume Collet-Sera (Non-Stop), who had been set to direct, then exited the picture. Tantalizingly, Taika Waititi became attached for the project which was then aiming for a May 2021 release date....

These are the best episodes of the Justice League animated series and Justice League Unlimited! Its tough to pick favorites when discussing theJustice Leagueanimated series and its follow up,Justice League Unlimited. Its also tough to really make a distinction between the two, despite the different titles and increased roster. A few tweaks aside, theyre the same show, and the level of quality is consistent throughout. But lets celebrate some of our favorites....

From crime novels to non-fiction, J.K. Rowling has found some time to write outside of the Potterverse. Dont go into this novel if youre looking for something like Harry Potter, though. There is no magic here. Only the unflinching mundane. The crime series has three installments so far:The Cuckoos Calling,The Silkworm, andCareer of Evil. Rowling is currently working on the fourth book in the series. Her arguably most well-known pieces of non-fiction actually started as a speech....

Whether four-on-four or five-on-five, the traditional Survivor Series tag team match tends to give us some memorable moments. In the early days of PPV,WWEhad its Big Four system down. Here are what I consider to be the most memorable eliminations inSurvivor Serieshistory. Were going in chronological order here. Because if anyone needed to be protected, its Hacksaw for some reason. So if you were ever wondering, Savage, Steamboat, and Roberts were the original survivors....

It’s NaNoWriMo season, and we’re hoping to motivate current writers with these success stories! Have you joined the Den of Geek Book Club? Here are seven books that began life as NaNoWriMo projects… The Night Circuswas released in 2011 and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. AndWinteris based on Snow White. In Marys post-apocalyptic reality, her dwindling village considers itself the last of humanity. Also, there is a love triangle....

Secret agents go by many names. The following are ranked in descending order, from least to best. Ad content continues below 25. Coburn gives Flint an easy charm, and hes highly effective in his combat scenes. Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In James CameronsTrue Lies(a remake of FrancesLa Totale! Who else would think of riding a horse to the top of a skyscraper? Mallory Kane Haywire (2011)...

Whether real or fake, sometimes WWE’s world champ has to give up their belt. From Antonio Inoki to Roman Reigns, here are 33 examples. Other times it comes from politics. Then theres many instances where vacating a title is nothing more than a planned plot unit. Maybe you want to dethrone a wrestler without them truly losing. Maybe you want to build up a rematch without having the title actually change hands....

When writer-producer Beau Willimon was four years old, he was taken to see his dads workplace. Beau Willimons dad wasnt an astronaut; he was chief engineer on a nuclear submarine. It felt like a rocket built to go underwater, Willimon reminisced to the crowd atThe Firstpress screening. He would go on tour for months at a time and we had no contact with him. Id draw cross-sections of that submarine, wondering where in the world he was....

Weary of vampires, werewolves and the odd zombie apocalypse? Guess whos going to get her faith in science shattered? Extra points for a cheekily ambiguous ending. Watch The Awakening on Amazon Prime Ad content continues below 24. And how do you stop ghosts from dripping pond weed all over your carpet? Watch The Gift on Amazon 23. And there are certainly high jinks in the boys dormitory. And the children do have to band together to outsmart the bad guys....

Lots and lots of horror novels to freak you out this Halloween season… Its October. The leaves are turning brown and the nights are drawing in. Its cold and its raining and its Halloween. The perfect time, then, to curl up with a good book and give yourself the creeps. Any of those would be perfectly good choices. But not for pleasure. This group of old men has a shared secret, and somethings haunting them....