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Yuko Shimizu’s Art Is Like A Cooler Version Of Your Wildest Dreams

You’ve probably admired the work of award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu before — her art has adorned some covers of Vertigo Comics’ The Unwritten as well as some great book covers and illustrations at Tor.com. But when you see a bunch of her gorgeous work all in one place, it’s pretty mind-blowing.

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Star Trek Into Dumbness

The new Star Trek movie isn’t a terrible film. Star Trek Into Darkness has some bravura action scenes, and some brilliant comic bits. But it’s also aggressively, tragically stupid. It’s not even a great popcorn film, because it fails to deliver on its own promises. And it’s not half as good as J.J. Abrams’ first Star Trek.

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Portal 2 Writer Ted Kosmatka Imagines A World Where Creationism Won

Ted Kosmatka’s Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up dead.

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Dark Knight Rises Trailer Screencaps Show Just How Bad It Gets For Bruce Wayne

After going through the latest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises frame by frame, we only have one question left in our minds: Why isn’t this movie called The Dark Knight Falls?

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Our Spoiler-Free Verdict On Game Of Thrones Season 2

Game of Thrones returns to HBO this Sunday, and at last our burning questions will be answered. For some of us, those questions include, “What happens next to Arya and Sansa in the wake of their father’s death?” For others of us, they’re more like, “How can a television show possibly capture everything that happens in George R.R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings?” Either way, we’re happy to tell you that we’ve seen the first four episodes of the season, and we don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

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Could Bloodrayne III: The Third Reich Be Uwe Boll’s Masterpiece?

Vampire Hitler attacks Rayne, the sexy young half-vampire heroine, in a crazy-pants dream sequence from Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Yes, Uwe Boll’s World War II epic is out on DVD, and it’s chock full of crazy.

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Transformers 3 Is A Movie About How Wrong You Were To Hate Transformers 2

A lot of people paid a lot of money to hate Transformers 2. The movie made enough money for Michael Bay to bathe in the blood of supermodels every hour, for the rest of his life. But people loathed it.

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X-Men: First Class: Not Your Same Old Mutant Angst

Are superpowers a blessing or a curse? Are mutants more like ethnic minorities, or queer people? For too long, TV shows and movies have been asking these same old questions, without really finding any interesting answers.

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Klingon For Beginners: A Video Tutorial!

Speaking Klingon means never having to say you’re sorry. And there are many other benefits to learning this most noble of languages. So we’re proud to be able to bring you this Klingon language tutorial from Star Trek: Infinite Space.

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Does The Green Lantern Movie Introduce Too Many Zany Creatures?

Green Lantern isn’t just the story of an ordinary run-of-the-mill fighter pilot who gets a magic ring from space. It’s also the saga of a whole army of aliens, each with his/her/its own magic ring.

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