Ray Bradbury, one of America’s beloved sci-fi writers, turns 91 today. So how about a little party favor: This retro clip takes you back to the 1970s (we believe) and it features Bradbury giving a rather intriguing take on the role of literature and art. For the author of Fahrenheit 451, literature has more than an aesthetic purpose.

You know George Lucas’ classic, The Empire Strikes Back. Now roll it back a good 60 years and imagine the silent version. It works unexpectedly well. H/T to @wesalwan. And don’t miss many landmark silent films in our collection of Free Movies Online.

Ever since Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created the very first installment of the The Uncanny X-Men for Marvel in 1963, the beloved team of mutant superheroes known as the X-Men have conquered almost every medium in popular culture from television to video games, to movies and of course comic books.

Seen by over 20 million Russians when it came out in 1965, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin was a film based on a 1927 novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, who is not to be confused with his famous relative Leo Tolstoy.

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From Blade Runner to Terminator to at least 30 percent of what made Battlestar Galactica great, violent robot revolt is nothing new.

We mentioned this documentary some time ago, and it’s time to give it another look. Why? Because Philip K.

This week, The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott revisits Solaris (watch online here), Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film adaptation of the sci-fi novel written by the Polish author Stanisław Lem (1961).

A year before the Wright brothers launched the first airplane flight in 1903, Georges Méliès, a French filmmaker with already 400 films to his credit, directed a film that visualized a much bigger human ambition – landing a spacecraft on the moon. Loosely based on works by Jules Vernes (From the Earth to the Moon) and H. G.

This short trailer will give you a little taste of Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown – the 2008 documentary that’s now fully available online. Named the Best Documentary at the 2008 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the film revisits the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of modern horror fiction.

As you may have heard, mathematician Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85. You can read the full obit in The New York Times, and if you want to learn more about his work, let me resurface this documentary we featured not too long ago. Back in 1995, Sir Arthur C.