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Super
8 & the End of Innocence
A rather mean-spirited retelling of the E.T. story?
Rise
of the Planet of the Apes - Feature
So how does the upcoming prequel fit in with the other
Apes movies?
Star
Wars on Blu-Ray
Star Wars fans should get a life!
Jar
Jar Binks Must Die - Book review
An enjoyable collection of essays dealing with science
fiction movies . . .
The
Almighty Thor Interview
"We shot the entire film in 12 days!"
Why
Nothing Hollywood Ever Does Excites Us Anymore
Sci-fi fans can be an excitable and wondrously
optimistic bunch!
Princess of
Mars - DVD Review
Not even lawyers could save one of Edgar
Rice Burroughs' most beloved characters!
The Donald
Kushner / TRON Interview
Disney was never afraid of computers back in the early
1980s and there will be a Tron Legacy sequel says
producer Donald Kushner . . .
The
Dan Abnett Interview
Sci-fi writer Dan Abnett talks about the
upcoming Warhammer 40, 000 movie he wrote and
which classic sci-fi novel should be made into a movie
. . .
The
Tron: Legacy Podcast Interviews
The cast and creative crew behind the
upcoming sequel talk about anything from Ziggy
Stardust and high heels to Facebook pages for their
dogs and the original Tron movie never having paid the
bills!
We
speak to Greg Nicotero, one of the mad geniuses at KNB
visual effects, responsible for the effects in
Predators!
"Is
this a dagger I see before me, Number One?" Patrick
Stewart talks to us about his role as Hamlet (and a
little bit about Trek as well of course) . . .
Star Wars in 3D
It's official! Star Wars is going to be
released in 3D in 2012! We play irate blogger and ask
only one question: why?
SGU:
Season 2 - Trailer & Set Secrets Revealed
Check out the official trailer now, plus a
behind-the-scenes video!
SGU
Season 2 - Podcast Interviews
Producer Brad Wright and the SGU cast reveals what
audiences can expect of the upcoming season . . .
Did
Avatar rip off FernGully?
It is nasty and vindictive to compare this cheesy
‘Nineties animated flick with Cameron’s multimillion
dollar epic, but . . .
Was
Predator Arnie's Most Macho Role?
Yup, we certainly think so . . .
The
Walking Dead
Check out a cool video about Frank Darabont's new
zombie TV show!
Iron Man 2
- Soundtrack review
AC/DC are commercial sell-outs. Deal
with it . . .
Scarlett Johansson - Interview
Scarlett Johansson who plays Russian
superspy Black Widow in Iron Man 2 talks to us!
Prince of Persia - Jerry Bruckheimer Interview
We find out why Prince of Persia won’t be in 3D and whether Zach Efron
will be in Pirates 4!
What 2010
(the movie) got wrong about 2010 (the year)
Number 8: the president of the United States will bear an uncanny
resemblance to Arthur C. Clarke . . .
The Sci-Fi
Movies You WON'T get to see in 2010
The Internet Movie Database lists about 278 science fiction movies for
2010! Of course all of these movies are in various stages of production
and many will probably never even get made.
Them Floating
Mountains in Avatar
Just how do those mountains stay afloat in Avatar? Our readers come
up with some possible explanations . . .
The
Nitpicker's Guide to Avatar
We don't even want to go into interspecies sex here!
Avatar vs. District 9
We pick 2009's best SF movie!
Top 10 SF
Movies of the 2000s
Find out which movie is number one now!
Planet Building . .
. James Cameron style!
“Avatar is the most challenging film I’ve ever made,” says
writer-director James Cameron . . .
Fading of
the Cries: Exclusive Interview with director Brian A. Metcalf
"I specifically had Brad Dourif in mind for this role many years ago when
I saw him as The Gemini Killer in The Exorcist 3 . . ."
Your Handy
Guide to Monsters vs. Aliens
Impress your drinking buddies today by pointing out which character in
Monsters vs. Aliens (out now on DVD) was "inspired" by which famous
'Fifties movie monster!
Do Androids
Dream of Bruce Willis?
"My character’s clone acts like a superhero!" Bruce Willis says of
Surrogates.
Upcoming Sci-Fi Movie Roundup - September 2009
We take a look at some upcoming sci-fi movies. . .
Knowing
your atheists
Atheists get a bum rap in Knowing!
The Poseurs of
Fringe
The characters in Fringe spend a lot
of time talking about classical music. Only problem is that
none of them actually listens to the stuff . . .
G.I. Joe:
Action Man Turns Movie Star
The
world's best-selling action figure began life as the boy’s version of Barbie!
Land of
the Lost
The original Land of the Lost TV show
was so squeaky clean it made Little House on the Prairie
look sleazy!
The
Green Lantern: First Flight
interviews
We speak to director Lauren Montgomery &
actress Juliet Landau!
They
haven't saved Spock's brain!
The new J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot squanders the
best character from the original 1960s series!
What's
on TV?
Don’t feel like braving long cinema queues to check out the
latest blockbusters this summer?
Nicolas
Cage Uncaged!
We look at Nic Cage's schizoid career and what is next in
store for the Knowing star . . .
Exclusive
Interview With Watchmen's Dave Gibbons
"I based The Comedian loosely on Groucho
Marx!"
Kitty Genovese &
the Watchmen
More than two decades later Watchmen
is still “the Citizen Kane of comics”, but it got one
thing wrong however . . .
2009
Oscar-nominated shorts
Is there anything of interest to sci-fi &
fantasy fans?
XIII
Action movie fans will appreciate the NBC mini-series XIII
that will air on February 8th and 15th from 9-11 p.m.
XIII -
Q&A WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JAY FIRESTONE
A XIII TV series is in the works he reveals . . .
Someone Make This Into A Movie - Superman: Brainiac by Geoff
Johns
We just have one piece of advice for Hollywood: let comic
book author Geoff Johns write the next Superman movie
. . .
Someone Make
This Into a Movie - The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
Isn’t it time someone made a movie out of one of British
science fiction author Peter F. Hamilton’s books? Or perhaps
a TV series, considering what doorstop novels they all are .
. .
13 - Fear Is Real
Tired of reality shows? Well, this one promises to be
different – a reality show that is inspired by horror movies!
Legend of the Seeker
Check out the new fantasy TV show produced by Sam Raimi,
the director of the Spider-man movies now!
Inkheart
Recommended for the
underage Harry Potter crowd . . .
The
Ten-Cent Plague - The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It
Changed America
We can't recommend
David Hajdu's new book enough . . .
Vicious
Circle
Comic book author Mike Carey’s latest supernatural
thriller featuring his wise-ass exorcist-for-hire hero Felix Castor
will make for one heck of a horror movie in the Hellblazer
mode . . .
Watchmen Q&A
with actors Matthew Goode and Billy Cradup
Read this exclusive interview with the actors who
play Dr. Manhattan and
Ozymandias in the
highly anticipated upcoming adaptation of the
graphic novel by the author of V for Vendetta and the
director of 300.
The graphic novels
that inspired The Dark Knight movie
Definitely some of the best Batman books
around . . .
Someone Make This Into A
Movie: Gone by Michael Grant
It's
Lord of the Flies
meets X-Men!
Indie SF Roundup
American vice-president Dick Cheney is a shape-shifting
blood-drinking Satanist reptilian alien! Fact!
Empress
Is Hollywood ready for a “darker”
brand of fantasy such as Empress, the latest book by Aussie
author Karen Miller?
The Andromeda
Strain Remade
Fans of the original ‘Seventies movie will probably
be irked by the new mini-series remake of The Andromeda Strain
. . .
Exclusive Podcast Interview
Writer/director Kenneth Johnson discusses a movie
remake of V amongst others. . .
Someone
Make This Into a Movie Part VI - Wanted, by Mark Millar & J.G.
Jones
The upcoming Wanted movie starring Angelina Jolie
seems to have stripped the graphic novel of all its science fiction
elements . . .
V: The Second Generation
The highly anticipated sequel to the popular miniseries V about
aliens invading Earth masquerading as humanity's friends . . .
Battlestar
Galactica - The War on Terror, In Space
Is the new Battlestar Galactica series a thinly-veiled
comment on the invasion of Iraq? U.K.-based writer Nick Goundrey
thinks so . . .
Post-Apocalypse Toasties
With the DVD release of I Am Legend with Will
Smith as the only survivor of the Apocalypse, we look at some of our
favorite post-apocalyptic stuff . . .
I
Am Legend - Book review
One wonders why Warners even bothered acquiring the rights to
Matheson’s novel.
Superman vs. Hollywood: How
Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an
American Icon by Jake Rossen
"Christopher Reeve
wasn’t the nicest of people until he got hurt. And when he got hurt,
he became a nice person . . ."
From Page to
Screen: The Ruins by Scott Smith
One can easily picture novelist Scott Smith thinking “I’m going to
build myself a swimming pool when I sell this baby to Hollywood”
when he sat down at his word processor to churn out The Ruins.
. .
UFO Hunters
We couldn't help but
laugh out loud at the newest History Channel TV show . . .
The
Road – and stuff Pulitzer Prize winners get away with . . .
If you were to spell “can’t” as “cant” in a school essay you will
get a D minus. But when Cormac McCarthy did it in The Road,
they gave him a Pulitzer. . .
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