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The Black Beauty is in You, Australia. Awesome Pics.

GADGETS Tuesday, May 31 by Captain

The Green Hornet came to life on Sydney’s harbour foreshore this morning with the arrival of the Green Hornet’s awesome car, The Black Beauty, in Australia.

In its first trip ever outside North America, The Black Beauty braved icky weather to celebrate the release of The Green Hornet on DVD and BD.

The Black Beauty, the real star of the movie, features a Swiss Army Knife of weaponry, including machine guns on the hood and rocket launchers on the front grill – the perfect arsenal to cut through city traffic. Seeing it live - awesome.

If you want to see it - the famous Chrysler Imperial (with 29 coats of paint!) will be at the second game of the NRL State of Origin in Homebush on the 15th June.
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James Marsters Interview!

SPECIAL FEATURES Tuesday, May 31 by Captain

If you were a fan of our TrueBuff Marathon, then you would've enjoyed the interviews with James Marsters, the man behind Spike, voted one of the most popular characters in genre television history.

After calls went out across the internet for these interviews to be put online, we listened, and acted, and now - here they are!

James Marsters recently came out to Australia, and SCI FI put him on the Buffy griller, where he answered pretty much everything you'd ever wanted to know about Spike, Buffy and more. The result is a cool interview where James talks candidly about the show, his character, creator Joss Whedon, the surprises along the way and so much more.
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Duke Nukem Forever Soundboard App Now Available

GADGETS Monday, May 30 by Captain

The Duke Nukem Forever Soundboard App is now available for iOS devices worldwide for a cost of zero dollars and zero cents.

The app unleashes Duke-isms anywhere, anytime, but more than likely, on your iPhone. Fans can fire up and let loose an unfettered display of Duke’s most inappropriately appropriate one-line finishers, brazen insults and audaciously truthful claims sure to liven up boring midday board meetings. Do it now. I dare you.

It features over 25 classic Duke-isms including silky smooth seduction lines sure to impress the ladies like “I’ve got balls of steel” and “Anybody mind if I take off my pants?”. The app will also include such handy comebacks as “I had eggs for breakfast, your mom had sausage” and stand-up to bullies anthems like “my job is to kick ass, not make small talk”.
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Epic Matrix Fan-Film Worth Seeing: 'Kaydara'

VIDEO Monday, May 30 by Captain

Kaydara is a French fan film inspired by The Matrix. At 55 minutes long, it's an epic production, showcasing the special effects skills of Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard.

Six years in the making, sometimes working 24 hours a day, the two worked in a basement studio in the French Alps to create this masterpiece of fan filmdom. What's interesting is the quality not just of the direction and CGI, but the story, production value and characters, often the gaping hole in many fan-made films.
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What's On This Week May 30 - June 5

CAPTAIN'S BLOG Sunday, May 29 by Captain

This week sees a major event on SCI FI - the mini-series update of Michael Chrichton's classic 1969 novel, The Andromeda Strain!

Starring Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller from Scrubs, Rick Schroder, Andre Braugher, Daniel Dae Kim from Lost and Hawaii Five-0 and Eric McCormack from Will & Grace, this star-studded mini-series tells the tale of an alien invasion - a microbial alien invasion, that turns the inside of biological creatures to dust!


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Transformers: Dark of The Moon Opens Moscow Film Fest: Latest Clips

VIDEO Friday, May 27 by Captain

Transformers: Dark of the Moon will open the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival!

The opening gala will take place in Moscow at Pushkinsky Cinema Theater on Thursday, June 23, 2011, six days before the worldwide release on June 29. An unlikely pairing of place and film, but what the hey.

Leonid Vereschagin, General Producer, of the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is pretty excited about it.

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon at the Opening of the MIFF is an exception event. This is the first time the MIFF is opened not just by an American blockbuster with a Hollywood cast but by a world premiere of the film. This event will have global coverage attended by more than 150 journalists from all over the world. All this indicates the recognition of not only the MIFF but the Russian film market in general by the world film industry”.
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X-Men: First Class Clips!

VIDEO Friday, May 27 by Captain

X-Men: First Class is out June 2. We've seen a preview and we can say that it's arguably the best of ALL the X-Men films. Yes, including the first one.

It's a stylish, well constructed story, with some great cameos, good action scenes, and best of all, well created characters. The internet is already abuzz with talk of 'First Class 2' and if you do go and see the film when it opens in Australia next week, you won't be too surprised. It's darned entertaining.

Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy are perfect as the young Magneto and Professor X, but the show stealer is Kevin Bacon - as ubervillain Sebastian Shaw.
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Tom Felton and Firefly Crewmembers Head Supanova Lineup

NEWS Thursday, May 26 by Captain

Supanova is coming to Sydney and Perth at the end of June!
SYDNEY June 17-19 - PERTH June 24-26

The most recent addition to the stellar celebrity line-up is the return to Supanova of Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series. It's a huge coup given the proximity of his appearance to the July 7th worldwide premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in London, and the national release in Australia of July 13th.

Yes. Tom Felton will be a jetsetting ping pong, no doubt about it.
 
Tom recently showed fans in Brisbane and Melbourne what an incredibly nice guy he really is. Not at all evil like Draco. Please don't come to Suanova looking for a horcrux in his brain. That would be wrong.
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Watch Sanctuary This Friday Night, Win A Trip To Comic-Con!

CAPTAIN'S BLOG Wednesday, May 25 by Captain

It's the final piece of the puzzle you need to win a trip to San Diego Comic-Con!

You know about our Facebook competition - it ends this Friday night.

You've been to www.facebook.com/scifiaustralia clicked on the 'WIN' button and then followed the prompts.

You've watched the movies and shows last week, collected the codes and entered them accordingly. Now, all you need to do is watch Sanctuary on Friday night at 7:30pm, and you'll know enough to create an entry for the competition that will get you to the greatest geekfest on Earth. San Diego Comic-Con!
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Coffee Geek God In Seattle, Washington: Christiaan Morris

GADGETS Tuesday, May 24 by Captain

One of the most interesting things about being a Sci Fi fan is the times that you meet other people who enjoy the same thing - often from completely different backgrounds. For every person who works in finance, hasn't seen Star Wars, and pronounces it 'ski fi', there's a person like Chrissy Mayor, crochet enthusiast, who takes photos of coffee made with geek love.

Of course, we have to take our hats off to Chrissy for taking photos at the Fremont Coffee Company in Seattle, and publishing them on the internet (they've since been picked up worldwide and have even published in a paper in Peru) - but it's Christiaan Morris, the manager/lead barista at Fremont Coffee Company, that creates these joyous works of 'latte art'.
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