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The Many Faces Of Karl Urban
Currently in cinemas, David Lowery's remake of Pete's Dragon is a surprisingly decent piece of entertainment. As one of the reasons for this, Jim Tudor notes in his review that the film has a very solid cast, which includes the...
Review: PETE'S DRAGON Doesn't Drag On
Does anyone remember Pete’s Dragon? I’m talking about the original version, an old-school blending of live action and cell animation delivering the titular human kid and cartoon dragon. By all appearances, it was the exact kind of thing that Disney...
Fantasia 2016 Interview: Adam Nimoy Remembers Leonard in FOR THE LOVE OF SPOCK
The name Nimoy is very well-known in the worlds of celebrity, pop culture, and sci-fi fandom; Leonard Nimoy was a titan of all of these worlds, and is one of the most recognizable --- and beloved --- figures of them...
Destroy All Monsters: FIRST CONTACT Is When STAR TREK Sold Out
Look at them guns! That's Patrick Stewart in 1996's Star Trek: First Contact, a movie which had a lot of actual guns in it, too, arming the crew of the Starship Enterprise with their own skinny version of the pulse...
New STAR TREK BEYOND Trailer Goes Where No One Has Gone Before
I have no idea what to expect from Star Trek Beyond. Oh, I've been keeping up with the marketing and, especially, the trailers. The first one, released back in December, appeared to promise a "goofy adventure," as our own Todd...
First STAR TREK BEYOND Trailer Is An Odd - But Fun - Blend Of Influences
Right. I think it's safe to say that where Star Trek is concerned the time has come to pretty much throw expectations aside as far as how the Trek universe is supposed to behave and just kind of roll with...
STAR TREK: Stream Me Up, Scotty
A new Star Trek series is on its way to the streaming universe. The series will debut in January 2017, according to Deadline, and will be available to watch exclusively on CBS All Access, a streaming service available on a...
STAR TREK 3 Will Go BEYOND, Director Justin Lin Reveals Title And Uniform Pic
Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin revealed the new title of the third film in the latest incarnation of the famed sci fi franchise. The Beyond part does hint in a way that the crew of the Enterprise finally pull out...
TV Beat: ALMOST HUMAN, As Science Fiction, It's A Decent Cop Show
Whenever I watch a TV show set in the future, I split into two people. One is the kid who was drawn to science fiction in his early teens, dreaming about Big Ideas played out in far distant galaxies and...
The Stack: FRIDAY THE 13TH THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Blu-ray Tin, WAR WITCH, AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL, And More
It's fitting that I have 13 items to cover this week since Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection hits Blu-ray in a beautiful tin. Does this set kill the possibility of other purchases? No way! Blandings: Series One is anything but...
Destroy All Monsters: Retire Superman
While the internet is tearing itself apart in its efforts to empirically determine whether Man of Steel "sucks" or "is awesome" - because such things are now apparently possible, given Superman Returns' near-unilateral, and intellectually disturbing, dismissal - I'd like...
China Box Office: SWITCH Primed To Send STAR TREK Packing
Star Trek Into Darkness holds on to the top spot at the China Box Office for a second week, but Jay Sun's action-packed spy thriller Switch arrives late in the week and already looks like a huge success. Rank Title...
Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock
They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back...
AnarchyVision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN
Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update:...
70s Rewind: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Still Goes Slowly Where No One Wants to Go
In December 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a major letdown. Earlier in the decade, a handful of my school friends banded together to form the Science Fiction Club. Initially, we discussed Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Ray Bradbury's stories,...
Mr Hyperbole Teases WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D In First International Trailer
If you played this teaser without watching the video and just listening to Mr Voice, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's the latest Jaden Smith movie. But open your eyes and you'd see it's a tale about a little dinosaur...
Listen to Paul Leonard-Morgan's Fantastic DREDD Score For Free!
The latest big screen adaptation of 2000AD's most famous creation, Judge Dredd, has just hit cinemas here in the UK and if nothing else it completely decimates any memory of Danny Cannon & Sylvester Stallone's abysmal effort of 1995. Dredd...
