Billy Ray Goes from Fact to Fantasy with ‘The Conjure Wife’
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals
Billy Ray’s fact-based dramas are one of this decade’s true — and largely unappreciated — pleasures. With Shattered Glass and Breach, Ray demonstrated real sense of how to turn a true story into a compelling narrative, maintaining its credibility without becoming a slave to the facts. The same skillset should […]
Cinematical Seven: The Best Sci-Fi Remakes
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Cinematical Seven, Remakes and Sequels
With this weekend’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, Hollywood continues its attempt to remake every remotely viable classic property it can get its hands on. (It also conjures up the perfect role for Keanu Reeves, but that’s another post.) The science-fiction genre has been a […]
Read More..>>Movies We’re Thankful For: Dark City
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Noir
When Scott, my editor here at Cinematical, sent around an invitation to write a brief blurb about a movie each of us is Thankful For this holiday season, I decided to take the prompt as literally as I could. It’s easy enough to churn out 250 words on what one […]
Watch This: ‘Star Trek’ Meets ‘Beverly Hills 90210′
Posted on November 18, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Trailers and Clips
The latest Star Trek trailer has only been floating around for a few days online (24 hours for the official version), and it sure didn’t take long to find a spoof-ish video up on YouTube. The production qualities aren’t very strong, but I couldn’t help and chuckle […]
Read More..>>‘Where the Wild Things Are’: New Images, Spike Speaks!
Posted on November 18, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Images
It’s been awhile since we heard anything regarding Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, and after the release date was pushed back a year, folks started to spew rumors that Warner Bros. didn’t like Jonze’s version of the flick, how it was […]
Read More..>>Universal Visiting the Nine Levels of Hell
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Universal, Games and Game Movies
OK, I highly doubt that anyone has ever sat down to read Dante’s Divine Comedy and thought, “Hey! This would make a great video game!” — But I guess there have been worse places to get an idea. Variety reports that Universal has snapped up […]
‘The Hobbit’ in 3-D? Del Toro Says Maybe
Posted on October 29, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, RumorMonger, Tech Stuff, Exhibition, Peter Jackson, Comic/Superhero/Geek
As far as I’m concerned, all discussion about the merits and viability of 3-D technology must be put on hold until we get a look at James Cameron’s Avatar. By all accounts, Cameron is genuinely trying to turn 3-D into a storytelling tool instead […]
New Image of Heath Ledger in ‘Parnassus’ Hits!
Posted on October 22, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Images
If you’re like me and didn’t get to peek at the teaser for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, at least you can whet your Gilliam appetite with a new image of Heath Ledger, which you can see a crop of on the right (and in its full glory […]
The Rocchi Review — With io9.com Editor-in-Chief Annalee Newitz!
Posted on October 17, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, Podcasts, The Rocchi Review: Online Film Community Podcast
Can J.J. Abrams boldly go where many have gone before to relaunch Star Trek? Why is The Road being pushed back? How will Ridley Scott’s planned adaptation of The Forever War be different from any sci-fi film in the history of […]
Read More..>>Ridley Scott Returns to Sci-Fi with ‘The Forever War’
Posted on October 13, 2008 - Filed Under Sci-Fi | Leave a Comment
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Say what you like about the collected works of Mr. Ridley Scott, but when this man sets out to make a science fiction film … good things happen. The always-busy director has only done two sci-fi films, but those ones are called Blade Runner and A L I E N. Since […]