Gene Turnbow, Author at SCIFI.radio

Pooky Amsterdam’s Machinima and YouThisMe

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jun 25, 2014 | Science Fiction / Fantasy |

Pooky Amsterdam of PookyMedia is using Second Life to make machinima ads for YouThisMe. The results are surprisingly good.

Why Film is Leaving the Movie Business

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jan 7, 2014 | Editorials, Movies / Video / Theater |

Movies like The Avengers, all five of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings pictures and almost every other FX film shot in the past five years have something important in common: they weren’t shot on film.

DARPA Working on Sentient Robots With “Positronic” Brains

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jul 17, 2013 | Blinded by Science, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

“The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line.” Hold onto your hats, folks. Sentient robots may be on their way.

‘Man Of Steel’ Suit Points To Deeper Problems

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jun 15, 2012 | Blinded by Science, Comics, Editorials, Fandom, Movies / Video / Theater, Politics |

If ‘Man of Steel’ doesn’t do well, chances are pretty good the Justice League movie is toast. Read our editorial on why we think so.

Goodbye, Ray Bradbury. We’ll Miss You.

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Jun 6, 2012 | Comics, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction whose lyrical evocations of the future reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died on Tuesday in Southern California. He was 91.