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When we use the term “science fiction,” almost invariably the branch of science we’re thinking of is physics: Quantum levels and warp speeds, artificial intelligence and advanced alien technologies. But Claire Denis’ first English-language film, the extraordinary, difficult, hypnotic, and repulsive “High Life” doesn’t give a damn about physics, and not just in the way that bodies tumble wrongly out of airlocks and nobody seems to spend a moment of their day engaged in cosmic problem-solving. In the science fiction of Denis’ forbiddingly austere and audacious imagining, the science is biology: Out here, we are not made of stars but of blood, hair, spit and semen.

We’re far from earth but this earthiness is everywhere. “Never drink your own urine, never eat your own shit — even if they’ve been recycled,” murmurs crew member Monte (Robert Pattinson) to the little baby in his care. “It’s what we call a taboo.

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As The Shannara Chronicles comes to the UK, we chat to and Lord Of The Rings and Indiana Jones actor, John Rhys-Davies…

Interviewing John Rhys-Davies is like trying to alter the flow of a mighty torrent with a teacup. Scoop as hard as you like in any given direction, and on it gushes with tremendous force, following its own course and making a wonderful spectacle as it goes.

Best known for his role as Gimli, son of Gloin in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Davies’ six decades-long career includes the roles of Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and Professor Arturo in Fox’s Sliders, a show he didn’t depart from happily after a network-orchestrated change in writing personnel.

I met Davies in the offices of Channel 5 to talk about his role as Eventine, King of the Elves in new MTV fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles,...

Eddie Redmayne is superb in The Theory Of Everything, a drama about Stephen Hawking. Our review's here...

For many, Stephen Hawking’s name will be synonymous with his best-selling book A Brief History Of Time, which made his groundbreaking theories about the nature of the universe - just about - intelligible to the masses.

The Theory Of Everything delves back to the university years of Hawking’s life, and tells a story that, as its producer Tim Bevan says, “nobody knew much about.” But the film isn’t just about Hawking, but also about his future wife Jane - how they met, fell in love and remained together, even as Hawking began to display the worst effects of motor neuron disease.

Eddie Redmayne is uncannily good as Hawking, a twinkle-eyed science geek when he first meets Jane (Felicity Jones) at Cambridge university in 1963. Although they seem an odd match at...

SXSW news as PBS will offer the first-ever autobiographical documentary about physicist Stephen Hawking, called Hawking, to air at the festival. The filmhas been accepted by SXSW as one of five .Headliner. films to be featured at its film festival in March. Slated to air on PBS in 2013, the film offers rare insight into Hawking.s life, past and present, aided by a stellar cast of A-list contributors and Hawking fans, including astronaut Edwin Eugene .Buzz. Aldrin, Jr., actors Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch, mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson. From PBS Hawking features exclusive access to Hawking.s life story, told largely in his own words. It includes dramatic accounts of his life from...

Announced today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS president Paula Kerger announced that the first-ever autobiographical documentary of physicist Stephen Hawking, called A Brief History of Mine (w.t.), is slated to air in 2013. The program gives viewers rare insight into Hawking.s life, past and present, aided by a stellar cast of A-list contributors and Hawking fans, including astronaut Edwin Eugene .Buzz. Aldrin, Jr., actors Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch, mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson. From PBS A Brief History Of Mine features exclusive access to Hawking.s life story, told largely in his own words. It includes dramatic accounts of his life from childhood through university, intimate footage of Hawking today, including...

Check out this collection of custom made action figures created by DeviantArtist datazoid featuring several heroes of science like Einstein, Schrodinger, Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, Benoît Mandelbrot, Paul Erdős, Roger Penrose, Dmitri Mendeleev, Richard Dawkins, Nikola Tesla and several more! I think these figures turned out pretty cool.

Here's a note from the artist detailing the project:

These little guys took between 40 minutes and 2 hours each, totalling around 50 hours of work.

I like action figures. I have a small collection of them. I’ve noticed that you can buy Albert Einstein figures, Nikola Tesla bobble-heads and The Simpsons even brought out a Stephen Hawking figure based on his appearance in an episode. However, I thought it’d be really cool if there was an entire series of them, based on all of the people who’ve contributed to our understanding of the world and the universe it sits in.

The figures...