Awesome Sci-fi

The latest trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim gives more sneak peeks at the monsters and giant robots that will go head-to-head in the movie. Check out the movie’s website for sweet images of the mecha.

Vin Diesel reprises the character that made him famous. Antihero Riddick intentionally calls upon a group of mercenaries who are out for his head, knowing that he’s their only hope against an even deadlier threat.

The full trailer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sees Agent Coulson – or someone who looks like him – assemble a team of crime drama stereotypes secret agents to handle cases involving superhumans. It’s CSI: Fringe.

Agen Phil Coulson springs back to life in Marvel’s live action TV series. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sees Coulson assemble his own team to “protect the ordinary from the extraordinary.” Co-written by Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb, among others.

Losing her daughter in the wake of an alien infestation, an ex-special forces soldier embarks on a mission deep into alien territory to seek her revenge in Patrick Kalyn’s HYBRIDS.

For the upcoming SyFy show/video game combo Defiance, the vehicle team took a stock Charger, and decked it out with everything needed to outrun alien killing machines. Video footage here.

A robotics genius struggles on his quest to make the perfect android. Drew Mylrea’s short film asks the age-old question: what makes us human? There’s a twist here begging to be explored.

We could go on and on about the post-apocalyptic setting of NOON, but writer and director Kasra Farahani had us more enamored of the tension and compelling protagonist in his short film.

(PG-13) The first six issues of one of the best comic book series to come out this year, Saga is a space opera written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) and masterfully illustrated by Fiona Staples.

A science fiction short in the vein of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Total Recall and other dystopian sci-fi works that explore the limits of augmentation. Written and directed by Stephan Zlotescu.

Who knows what the future holds? Hollywood seems eager to provide an answer. Mashup artist Eclectic Method put together a supercut of futuristic movies and made a ballin’ beat to go along with it.

A wonderful animated short that perfectly captures the proverb, “Home is where the heart is.” Made by 3rd year students at Gobelins. English translation of text and dialogue here.

The Corridor Digital crew find themselves in battle with a slew of nasty aliens who have a bad habit of planting their slimy appendages in the most inconvenient of places – on their heads.

Colin Levy’s Kickstarted adaptation of Igor Teper’s short story, about a mathematician who is confined to a mental institute because of his insistence that there is an integer between 3 and 4.

Appearing on a 1964 episode of the BBC show Horizon, author, inventor and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke predicts the rise of the Internet and telecommuting. Watch the complete episode here.

88:88 sees a woman determined to defend herself from a persistent intruder. We like to think of it as a science fiction version of Home Alone. The music is by Makeup and Vanity Set.

A concept web series from Corridor Digital about cutthroat bandits trying to survive in a world where a virus wiped out most of humanity. And it’s about to get much, much worse.

The Lost Planet franchise is one of those things that began with awesome ideas – Pilot robots! Fight aliens! – but often ends with flawed execution. We hope third time’s the charm for this series.

Brace yourselves for cheesy humor, astronauts going up against space Nazis and bad puns in the latest trailer for Iron Sky. Those poor Moon-raised kids are going to be destroyed by Earth’s gravity.

Kirsten Dunst kisses an upside-down man again. Directed by Juan Diego Solanas, the French-produced film features two worlds divided by gravity. We hope the story lives up to the visuals.

(NSFW: Language) A man convicted of espionage is offered freedom if he rescues the president’s daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates in MS ONE Maximum Security.

Inspiration can come from anywhere, but you don’t necessarily have to admit where it came from. Otherwise, this not-Transformers has enough eye candy to be a good renter or Netflix filler.

Three teens gain neat telekenetic powers, but power does not a hero make. Will they be more Anakin than Luke? More Eddie Brock than Peter Parker? More Dark Phoenix than, uhm, Phoenix?