Area 51 just got a little more mysterious. The US Air Force’s top-secret Boeing 737-200 aircraft, also known as the RAT55 jet, was spotted soaring over Nevada’s Groom Lake facility, confirming long-rumored ties to the classified base. From 26 miles away atop Tikaboo Peak, a mountain in Nevada, plane-obsessed photographer Michael Rokita recorded fuzzy footage of … Read more
Could science fiction become reality? In 2004’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey’s character undergoes a memory-erasing procedure to forget his ex. But while the procedure seemed farfetched at the time, technology has gotten us closer to the possibility of wiping painful memories from our minds — or at the very least, making … Read more
It’s giving sci-fi nightmare. Just in time for spooky season, a bizarre, slimy orange bag said to resemble a glowing dinosaur egg has been pulled from a river. And while scientists say they know what it is — a colony of Bryozoans, slimy little hermaphrodites that cluster together to create a dinosaur-egg like pod — they’re … Read more
A new short story by “Dracula” author Bram Stoker is being published for the first time in 134 years. Amateur historian Brian Cleary was paging through Stoker’s works at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, the gothic novelist’s hometown, when he made the discovery. “I read the words ‘Gibbet Hill’ and I knew that … Read more
The creator of the controversial Disney+ “Star Wars” show “The Acolyte” is pushing back against those who say that her show is “woke” propaganda featuring “lesbian space witches,” slamming the criticism as “reductive.” Leslye Headland, the “first openly queer person to create” a major Star Wars project as The Hollywood Reporter (THR) described her, spoke … Read more
Maybe they’re not gravitating to it after all. In a new interview, Jessica Chastain claimed there have been “a lot of couples who have told me they’ve named their children, their daughters Murph,” after her NASA scientist character, Murphy “Murph” Cooper, in the 2014 science fiction film “Interstellar.” “Well, maybe this means it’ll be a boon … Read more
He’s ripping off his mask — for good. “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Doug Jones has built a professional life as the perpetual prince of prosthetics, often donning all-encompassing costumes, both in film and television. Now the 63-year-old star is shedding his skin as Saru, the lanky Kelpian Starfleet commander on “Discovery,” which launches its fifth … Read more
This is no magician’s act. British start-up Invisibility Shield Co. has revealed that it has created a 6-foot-tall “Megashield” being sold for $828 — which they claim can make multiple people invisible, like something straight out of a “Harry Potter” film. The shields utilize ultra-large, precision-engineered lens arrays, which form the face of each shield … Read more
Moviegoers were thirsty for this sci-fi desert sequel. “Dune: Part Two” landed in first place in the box office on its opening day, with a solid $32.2 million in sales, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. The Post called the film, which is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, a “sci-fi triumph … Read more
Welcome to “Hello, Tomorrow,” where everything isn’t as it seems. The new Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a fast-talking salesman with secrets, unfolds in a weird, hybrid world mixing 1950s attitudes, clothing and lifestyles with a quasi-steampunk futuristic flavor. It’s a world in which sandwiches cost 40 cents, people tool around in tail-finned, … Read more
There’s a strong personal thread connecting Dean Devlin both to the original “Star Trek” and to his new Syfy series, “The Ark” — his late mother, actress Pilar Seurat, who guest-starred in a 1967 episode of “Star Trek” on NBC. “She was in the ‘Wolf in the Fold’ episode and she plays a psychic princess … Read more
Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” But depending on your zodiac sign, not all friends are created equal. Since the dawn of humanity, we have been storytellers. Literature is one of the greatest art forms human kind has ever known. Great epics fascinated the first people, who passed … Read more