The Fourth Kind (2009) Movie Review

It’s been written that cannibals refuse to eat divorced women because they are too bitter. They’d be wise to adopt the same attitude towards anyone who sat through “The Fourth Kind”, it’s hard to feel anything else when exiting this failed experiment in scifi cinema verite....

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Avatar’s Latest Trailer Goes for the Kiddie Adventure Vibe

Apparently whoever is cutting the trailers for James Cameron’s “Avatar” got word from high up at 20th Century Fox that the first few trailers were too gosh darn serious, what with all the military occupation, political backstabbing, planet razing, and alien genocide-attemptin’...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

What Two Sides Will Tussle In Peter Berg’s BattleShip?

It’s been known for awhile now that Peter Berg is set to direct a film strangely based on the famous Hasbro board game Battleship. Other than the whole ship on ship naval war concept I’m not sure there can be much more to adapting the board game but who knows? Latino Review has the scoop...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Jake Gyllenhaal and Duncan Jones Find the Source Code

Fans of sci-fi have been looking forward to Duncan Jones’ follow up to his cerebral thriller “Moon”, and recently he’s been talking up the “Blade Runner”-ish film called “Mute”. As it turns out, that may not be his next film after all. THR reports that...

November 8th, 2009 | Read More

Some More 2012 Run for Your Lives Images

A couple of more pics from Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster porn, “2012″. These features more of the ladies of “2012″, including Thandie Newton as the Prez’s daughter, and Amanda Peet as the suffering wife of John Cusack’s Everyman Hero character....

November 8th, 2009 | Read More

Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2

German director Roland Emmerich, aka the man who made death porn on a global scale (aka disaster films) popular again, blames the lack of a sequel to “Independence Day” on the studio’s unwillingness to pay Will Smith his due. And oh yeah, that guy George W. Bush is also to blame, too....

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

Enzo G. Castellari’s Bronx Warriors Trilogy Gets the Box Set Treatment

If you haven’t figured out what to get me for Christmas yet, allow me to point you in the right direction. According to Latemag.com, Enzo G. Castellari’s entire post-apocalypic saga — namely, “The Bronx Warriors,” “Escape From the Bronx,” and “The New Barbarians”...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

Micronauts the Movie? J.J. Abrams? WTH?

The Wall Street Journal, of all places, currently has an article on Hollywood’s gold rush to make movies out of toys and board games following the phenomenal success of Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. Toward the end of the article, it mentions that “Star Trek’s”...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

Behind the Scenes On The Casting Of Zachary Quinto As Spock

Having been raised on the old school Trek and being of the advanced age to have actually watched the show while it was still on it’s network run, getting to know a new Spock was a little difficult. I think Zachary Quinto did a fine job. The thing I think he missed was Nimoy Spock’s very carefully...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Avatar TV Spot Showcases The Battle

Here’s a nice and juicy 30 second trailer released to the wilds of T.V. land. Some footage I either haven’t seen or missed as I gawked at the pretty blue scenery or at the pretty blue girls. “Avatar” is on it’s way. I’ll see you there Dec 18th.

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Mandalay Pictures Has Eyes for the Machine Man

Mandalay Pictures would like to make a movie based on the novel “Machine Man” by author Max Barry, only they don’t quite know how it’s going to end. Because, see, the book itself isn’t finished, and as we speak, Barry is putting one up one page from his novel online every...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Roland Emmerich Has His Plans Made For 2013

Roland Emmerich has an early Xmas present ready for all you fans of fine, tasteful and hysterical disaster movies. “2012″ will enrich all our Sci-Fi Holiday preparations with absolutely photo realistic footage of mother Earth undergoing an extreme makeover. In the crumbly aftermath, who will...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Dreamworks Options The Future Robopocalypse

Dreamworks and Doubleday have acquired the film rights to Daniel H. Wilson’s as yet unpublished book “Robopocalypse”, about how humans deal after the robots take over. Daniel H. Wilson is a robotics engineer so he knows a thing or two about how screwed we will end up being. I’m...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

What Roland Emmerich Couldn’t Obliterate

I am confident in reporting that in “2012″, an imminent digital masterpiece by director Roland Emmerich, your favorite phallic monument or architectural wonder is going to be completely squashed. However, in deciding which statue, building, city or structure was going to be tidal waved, rolled,...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

Diora Baird Is Orion But Not A Slave In Star Trek Deleted Scene

As the epic Blu Ray (ditch your Grandpa’s DVD, Poindexter) release of Star Trek approaches (Nov 17) we are getting some data drops of some of the deleted scenes sure to light up your big screen television set. In this release we’ve got the lovely blue hued Diora Baird having none of James...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

The Cast Of Roland Emmerich’s 2012 Wax On about the Return Of Quetzalcoatl!

My significant spouse and I are debating whether to go to “2012″. I, naturally, am firmly in the “Yup” camp as destruction of this quality and scope comes perhaps once in a Sci-Fi movie going lifetime. The spouse unit thinks that maybe the movie could be depressing and perhaps...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Robert Rodriquez Moves On From The Jetsons

Robert Rodriquez has apparently found other shiny little movie trinkets to capture his eye and has left the remake of the 60’s Sci-Fi cartoon “The Jetsons” to other interested parties. And it seems that the interested party is Peter Segal, the director of “Get Smart” and...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Is It Official? Will Tom Hardy And Charlize Theron Star In Mad Max: Fury Road?

We reported on the rumour and now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the star of “RockNRolla”, “Bronson” and a ton of other things, Tom Hardy and everyones favorite charity auctioneer Charlize Theron (The Road), are in negotiations to play the major parts in writer-director...

October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Men in Black 3 is Defintely Moving Forward

We’ve known that Sony wants to make another “Men in Black” movie since April, but we haven’t really heard anything concrete about the movie since. That change today, with word that Sony has already hired “Tropic Thunder” writer Etan Cohen to pen the sequel and that...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel Plot

Ridley Scott is looking forward to doing an “Alien” sequel. Or, er, prequel. Speaking to Empire, the director gives out a little bit more detail about the setting for his “Alien” movie, which he has boarded to direct after 20th Century Fox bulked at having someone else take over...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More