If you aren’t familiar with the Saturn Awards, it’s basically the awards show geared for geeks (and since you’re reading this site, you’re basically one too. Geek!). The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ 32nd annual ceremony will be held on May 2nd, when genre-friendly movies, TV shows, DVD releases and even videogames get their … Continue reading
If you aren’t familiar with the Saturn Awards, it’s basically the awards show geared for geeks (and since you’re reading this site, you’re basically one too. Geek!). The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ 32nd annual ceremony will be held on May 2nd, when genre-friendly movies, TV shows, DVD releases and even videogames get their … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Even though it’s just now finally seeing official release here in the US, the Russian supernatural blockbuster Night Watch was slick enough to get hard-to-say helmer Timur Bekmambetov a few new gigs. The Russian director has grabbed the comic series The Red Star for development, making it the second comic book project he’s adapting for … Continue reading
I’m relieved and elated that a few people in Hollywood saw A History of Violence and remembered what a great goddamn filmmaker David Cronenberg can be when he’s on his game – the guy who brought us exploding heads and mugwump jism is quickly lining up more projects than you can fit in a Brundlepod. … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
I recently commented on director Ridley Scott’s Spielbergian/Fincheresque creative vicissitude, and here he is just a couple weeks later proving my point. He just started development on the espionage movie Penetration and the Iraq abduction story The Invisible World, but apparently he’s shoving them aside to defibrillate a previously flatlined project. Scott has now decided … Continue reading
We recently heard that New Line was attempting to rush everyone’s favorite sex-hating mass murderer Jason Voorhees back into theaters before the end of the year, and now Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company is helping polish the machete for a new Friday the 13th movie. But before you roll your eyes at the prospect … Continue reading
What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid will be very easy and sometimes it’ll be … Continue reading
Though it’s getting a little overused, the "faux documentary" can be a good way for filmmakers to circumvent budgetary limitations and provide an interesting narrative device (see Interview with the Assassin or Incident at Loch Ness for examples). The new indie Behind the Mask (not to be confused with the unnecessary Hannibal Lecter prequel) has taken … Continue reading