Well, this space was supposed to be filled by an interview with the director of “Splice,” but he failed to call at the appointed time. So instead, let’s turn our attention to the actual news story that surfaced today – totally in the spirit of that movie, in which renegade geneticists discover how terribly wrong things can go when you get all Frankenstein in the lab – about scientists who’ve created the first synthetic life form. Moving us one step closer to the part where we are all wiped out by either SkyNet or a superflu that turns people into zombies, depending on which kind of cinematic apocalypse you prefer. Happy weekend!