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Second Skin (2008) Movie Review

Online gaming. What’s it good for? Apparently lots if you’re into it, but not very much if you’re not. Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza, the director of “Second Skin”, goes spelunking in the world of massively multiplayer online role playing games (aka MMORPG) and surfaces 20 pounds heavier for...

September 20th, 2009 | Read More

New The Fourth Kind Poster Still Refuses to Address Anal Probing

Joblo.com’s got your first look at the new poster for the Milla Jovovich “based on a true story” alien abduction movie “The Fourth Kind”. Check it out below. 1n 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter...

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

New Action-Packed Astro Boy Clip and Images

Check out the latest clip from “Astro Boy” released by Summit Entertainment and a new batch of images, including our first look at the robot Zog, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. That is one huge robot, and definitely doesn’t look nearly “groovy” enough to be voiced by Sam The...

September 18th, 2009 | Read More

First Full Trailer for Percy Jackson and That Pesky Lightning Thief

If you need to launch a fantasy franchise, you could do worst than Chris Columbus, who helped launch that little guy named Harry Potter from across the pond. His latest is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”, and a full trailer for it has shown up on YouTube. A young...

September 17th, 2009 | Read More

New Star Trek Guys Talk Old Star Trek, Sequel

The L.A. Times recently caught up with “Star Trek” wunderkinds J.J. Abrams (director) and Roberto Orci (writer) on the Vancouver set of their TV show Fringe, and of course, the topic of “Star Trek 12″ came up. Here’s what the duo had to say about where they plan to take...

September 16th, 2009 | Read More

Shawn Levy to Direct Futuristic Battling Robots in Real Steel

Battling robots? You mean like Rock’em Sock’em Robots? Um, not quite. The movie is called “Real Steel”, and at one point “The Kingdom” director Peter Berg was attached. Berg has now moved on, leaving the space open for Shawn Levy. The idea behind the futuristic actioner...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

Is Defying Gravity Canceled or isn’t it? ABC Answers.

I never really gave Defying Gravity a shot, mostly because the concept of Grey’s Anatomy In Space made me want to barf. I have no use for Grey’s Anatomy, so any offshoot of it, well, ain’t that tempting. Recent rumors have Defying Gravity being canceled after just eight episodes. This,...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

FAQ About Time Travel (2009) Movie Review

Time travel is unpredictable business. Just ask the blokes of the UK movie “Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel”, a sci-fi comedy that barely has any big-budget special effects, but still manages to be pretty darn good if you enjoy wacky stories about time paradoxes, hot girls from the future,...

September 15th, 2009 | Read More

Five Pandorum Clips for Your Space Terror Pleasure

Overture Films just sent us five clips from their upcoming sci-fi/horror movie “Pandorum”, one of those movies that will, surely, bring back the age of space horror. Or at the very least, an ass kicking good time at the movies if you’re into the genre. In PANDORUM, Dennis Quaid (Vantage...

September 14th, 2009 | Read More

Smallville Season 9 Premiere Episode Promos and TV Spot

Boy, it’s a good thing Lois Lane is always knocked out when Superman is around, huh? Or else she might discover that he was, in actuality, mild-mannered newspaper man Clark Kent from the farm. Or something like that. Not sure where they’re going with the Smallville Season 9, but it looks...

September 14th, 2009 | Read More

Wanted: Dead or Animated — Superman/Batman Public Enemies Trailer

Oh, that rascal Lex Luthor. One day he’s CEO of his own diabolical corporation and the next he’s President of the United States. Then he goes and frames Superman for some impending disaster, and somehow Batman gets involved, as does everyone else in the D.C. universe. That’s the plot...

September 13th, 2009 | Read More

New Surrogates Trailer Lays on the Sales Pitch

Take a look at the second trailer for the Bruce Willis sci-fi actioner “Surrogates”. There isn’t a whole lot of buzz about the movie as it chugs toward its September 25th release date, which is probably not something the studio wants to hear. Here’s the second trailer, maybe it’ll...

September 11th, 2009 | Read More

TV Review: Supernatural 5.01 Season Premiere

The boys return for their fifth season, picking up where Season 4 left off, with Sam and Dean Winchester (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) stuck in a vault as Lucifer begins to rise from Hell, the boys having failed miserably to stop the Evil One’s return to Earth throughout much of last season....

September 10th, 2009 | Read More

New Pretty Surrogate Pics Make me Want to Get a Surrogate

You gotta admit, when Bruce Willis shows up in these new “Surrogates” pics with that blonde hair of his, the dude just looks … DIFFERENT. Maybe I’m just used to seeing ol Willy bald and goateed up, but wow, it really does sell the film’s whole “get younger, buy a Surrogate”...

September 10th, 2009 | Read More

Pandorum Clips Prove that Being Stuck on a Dark Ship with Creatures CAN be Fun

Summit Entertainment has released two new clips from Christian Alvart’s “Pandorum”, which is looking more and more like a horror movie disguised as a sci-fi flick. Hey, I ain’t complaining. Horror and sci-fi, when done right, goes together like a fat kid and cake. The first clip,...

September 10th, 2009 | Read More

Sunshine’s Alex Garland Writing Judge Dredd Remake

It’s been almost a year since Rebellion and 2000 AD announced that they were planning to reboot their “Judge Dredd” property. Haven’t heard much from it since, but now we know who is currently writing the script: one Alex Garland. The news comes from the Twitter account of one...

September 9th, 2009 | Read More

Patton Oswalt Explains What’s Wrong with the Star Wars Prequels

One of comedian Patton Oswalt’s most famous riffs is explaining what was wrong with the “Star Wars” prequels. By way of imaginary time travel, here’s Oswalt’s fictional encounter with George Lucas, who has just informed him of his ideas for a “Star Wars” prequels. The...

September 9th, 2009 | Read More

Chuck Producer Plans an Epic Western with a Sci-Fi Twist

Now this sounds like an intriguing idea for a TV show — one of the producers of the TV show Chuck has sold the idea for a Western drama to FOX. But what’s really cool about this Western is that it has a sci-fi twist. What exactly is that twist? Well it wouldn’t be a twist if people...

September 8th, 2009 | Read More

Official Look at Smallville’s Superman in his Super Suit

The CW already showed off a glimpse of Superman’s new spanky super suit in an earlier promo video, but here’s the official look at it. I’m not sure what ol Supes is doing spraypainting that big S on his chest, it looks like some tagger art. Oh well, I suppose he has his reasons. Maybe...

September 8th, 2009 | Read More

Preview Clips: Supernatural 5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

They’re baaaaaaaaaack. That’s right, cool kids, the Winchester bros are back to fight them some demons. And, er, the Devil. As you’ll recall, the Devil got himself released at the end of last season, leaving our boys to face the consequences of their actions. Ain’t that a bitch? Supernatural,...

September 7th, 2009 | Read More