Sci-fi

The giant octopus wasn’t able to take down the high-flying Megalodon. Will the Crocosaurus put up a better – i.e. funnier – fight? We think part 3 should be Mega Shark vs. Sharktopus.

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford get ready to duke it out in the wild West when the unexpected happens. Aliens invade. Huh, wha? Yep. Iron Man’s Jon Favreau directs, Steven Spielberg produces.

Like alien invasion movies? How about war flicks? Battle: Los Angeles combines the best of both. Stars Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, and Bridget Moynahan. Out 3/11/2011.

We’d never heard of this campy retro sci-fi flick just hitting DVD, but after seeing this footage, we’re ready to embrace the gooey green guys, their tentacles, and their awesome theme song.

John Smith has to mask his identity and be constantly on the move to evade the people who are eliminating his kind in a specific order. The first three have already been killed. He is number four.

The latest trailer for the sci-fi thriller gives us more glowing blue lights, and a tiny taste of the alien invasion that comes to destroy Earth. Looks like Independence Day 2010 to us. (Thanks, Zack!)

Blastr’s gallery of sci-fi actors’ yearbook photos is pretty random – Radcliffe is there, but Shatner and Nimoy are missing. But it’s still worth a peek, if only for Chris Pine’s goatee. And Van Damme.

the-affair’s Mind Killer tee is based on the infamous Litany Against Fear invented by the secretive Bene Gesserit nuns of Wallach IX in Dune; use the code awesomer5 to get £5 (US $7) off.

There’s no better way to play the theme from Star Trek but on one of those squealy theremins. Actually, there is one better, geekier way: dressed in full Starfleet garb on the transporter deck.

Remember the Star Wars: Uncut project we told you about? It turns out the fan flick, compiled from 472 15-second user-submitted clips is finally complete, and you can view the entire 2-hour plus movie now.

BAFTA-nominated VFX artist Gareth Edwards won SciFi London’s 48-hour film contest, and now has his first feature film in the can. It’s got mysterious giant monsters and lots of old school thrills.

Just in time for this week’s Comic-Con, Disney rolled out a new trailer for the upcoming TRON sequel, complete with digitally “de-aged” Jeff Bridges, and lots of new footage.

The guys over at Sci-Fi Wire have done their best to memorialize 5 key concepts sci-fi films in infographic form. The BTTF one is crystal clear, while we’re still confused by The Matrix.

Jamie Martin created this conceptual 3D animation of his Cybernetic Remote Autonomous Barricade (or C.R.A.B., for short) robot. We definitely wouldn’t want to run into this thing in a dark alley.

Arising from his lifelong love of spaceships, Bill George created the Sci-Fi Airshow, a non-existent exhibit filled with fictional, but beautiful air- and spacecrafts. Take the guided tour today!

The house of Massive Black creates art for movies, games, comics, toys and more. Bask in the warm glow of these wondrous creatures and fantastical worlds from their concept art collection.

We don’t care that it’s in Japanese. This horror / action flick looks awesome. The story centers on a man who loses everything and becomes an iron-celled-metal-man hell-bent on revenge.

We have no idea what’s going on in Steve Kostanski’s “sci-fi/action/horror/comedy epic,” but it involves stop-motion, kung-fu, and demon-nazi-vampires, and a guy named Dr. Scorpius.

While the full-size replicas have all sold out, you can get your hands on this 1/4-scale mini version of the assault rifle Wikus used to do his first target practice when he’s captured at MNU headquarters.

Based on a Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story, George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt as people whose romance is foiled by creepy men wearing hats in a virtual world.

Gregoire Sivan’s short film gives us a really bad case of crabs. Sit back and enjoy his monster movie tribute in which the world is attacked by gigantic crustaceans. Extra points for the dubbing.

How can you resist a book where the plot centers on bloggers ruling the world in a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic 2039? You’ve got to love the bloody RSS feed icon on the book cover.

Nothing goes better with popcorn and yellow topping than a horror flick filled with buckets of ooey-gooey slime, nasty tentacled monsters and a title like “Bio-Slime”. Must add to Netflix queue.

This oddity comes to us from designer Mario Pitsch. For a future in which global warming has turned us into nomads, the egg-shaped car would extract water from air and be fueled by an algae reactor.

If you frequent Las Vegas, you might have visited the now defunct Star Trek: The Experience. If you move fast, you can get your hands on a piece of it. The auction ends at 3pm Pacific today, 4/10.

Looks like somebody’s best friend has gotten their jaws on TRON’s disc. This funny t-shirt is printed with awesome glow-in-the-dark ink and designed by the warped minds of The Chopping Block.

This animated film by Bricenco and Alapont may be in French, but you don’t need to understand a word to drink in the story – in which the true colors of a black-and-white world are revealed.

The Force is strong in this card. Whatever game you’re playing, when someone pulls out this card it’s game over. The Ace of Vades T-shirt, designed by Beradan – is available at MySoti.

Illustrator Franco Brambilla envisions a world of alien invasions, carefully compositied into vintage postcards. There are a variety of lifeforms in the series, the Star Wars images are classics.

This street-legal Battlestar Galactica’s Viper was built by amusement park mechanic Dean Shorey. It’s made from a postal jeep with a small-block Chevy V8 – just like the original spaceships.