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Photo: Roberto Machado Noa (Getty Images) Charles Entertainment Cheese, the once mighty novelty entertainment restaurant King Of Kings, has fallen on hard times. His original form usurped by some redesigned CGI pretender and the once-wealthy lands he presided over now turned to fields of dust, the original Cheese has been left to molder in the minds of those who once paid tribute to him—and, quite literally, in some landfill. Advertisement First posted on Reddit, the sad photo of the abandoned, shattered visage of a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic, ear torn off, eyes downcast in despair, and me...

How Blade Runner’s Opening Scene Introduces a New Kind of Human Four decades since it was originally filmed, and seven different versions later, the influence of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) still pervades the science fiction genre. It’s a neo-noir detective story where a bounty hunter, Deckard (Harrison Ford), stalks the android remnants of an off-world revolt, but the startling visuals, Vangelis’ iconic score, and the beguiling android performances are all discussed more frequently than the film’s screenplay, co-written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. But a fantastica...

Scientific American Aerodynamics, androids and fly larvae feature in our curated collection of top indie tunes inspired by science It’s been 10 years since the first Scientific American rundown of science songs, and a great deal has changed in that time. Books, art and music are now under the strict control of the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, under the auspices of the Solar Federation, and … oh sorry, hang on, that’s just the plot of Rush’s 2112 album. In any case, Scientific American has carefully curated even more killer science-related tunes into a playlist on our new Spoti...

1 of 50 Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin Douglas Trumbull had previously brought his VFX experience to film on such groundbreaking classics as 2001, but Silent Running – a sort of proto-Wall-E, with humanity facing the demise of its natural resources – let him loose as a director. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of several crew members on a greenhouse vessel that carries some of the few remaining plants from a ruined Earth. But when his ship is ordered to destroy the vegetation and return, Lowell mutinies and continues to tend his foliage with the help of three memorable...

Top 10 Behind The Scenes Facts About Dystopian Sci-fi Movies Science fiction has the ability to transport us to entirely new worlds, to see the possibilities of the future. Writers and filmmakers often feature technology in a dystopic setting. From rogue machines to technological singularities, tech itself becomes the source of mankind’s downfall. Major figures in the tech industry are even starting to fear their own creations. The likes of Elon Musk and Clive Sinclair worry about the rise of sentient machines. Max Tegmark has spoken about how AI could one day change the face of cyber warfa...