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30 Jul 10

Go Straight to Jail

Author Jeremy Hammett

With the A-Team released this week Jeremy salutes those borderline heroes who get dumped in jail for crimes they didn't commit... then kill half the criminal world on the way out.
30 Jul 10

Top 5 sci-fi styles of the 80s

Author Emily Jayne

The 80s is often known as the decade that fashion forgot, but the decade was actually responsible for some uber-fierce costuming in the sci-fi and fantasy worlds.
30 Jul 10

Top Ten Cult Horror of the 80s

Author Miriam Kent

The 80s might not have been a great decade for haircuts, but it was vintage for Horror films. From The Shining to The Lost Boys, here's a look at ten of the best.
29 Jul 10

Top Ten TV Title Sequences

Author Dean Newman

Back in the 70s and 80s there was thing you could rely on with TV programmes - a truly bombastic title sequence. Dean runs down his top ten, from Magnum P.I. to Buck Rogers.
29 Jul 10

The Rule of 3 - Master director or studio hack?

Author Rob Smart

What makes the difference between an average film director and a great film director? 3 bona fide classic movies according to Rob.
27 Jul 10

1.21 Jiggawatts? Why Back to the Future is still great 25 years on

Author Tim Colman

Tim Colman will gladly consign most of the 80s to the bin, but hell, never banish Back to the Future to history.
27 Jul 10

Teenage Kicks: Remembering The Karate Kid

Author Dean Newman

With the remake being released imminently, now seems the perfect time to wax on (wax off) lyrically about the original The Karate Kid.
23 Jul 10

Top Five Episodes - Sanctuary

Author Megyn Stacey

Everyone has their favourite episodes of a particular show. In her debut blog for Syfy Megyn Stacey tells us about her five favourite episodes of Sanctuary.
23 Jul 10

Is Leonardo DiCaprio's Dream Hacking in Inception Really Possible?

Author Craig Webb

Lucid and Shared Dreaming point to an Invisible “Innernet” that connects us all
22 Jul 10

Blame it on the Weather man – Five great deaths by weather

Author Tim Colman

It’s Syfy’s extreme weather week and Tim wraps up warm to celebrate some of the best deaths by weather in sci-fi cinema.