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The Fourth Kind (2009) Movie Review
4 hours ago
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. What makes the film such a catastrophic failure is that is has so much potential, that writer/director Olantunde Osunsami never seems capable of coming close to fulfilling. “The Fourth Kind” could have been an amazing faux documentary on alien home invasions in the remotest part of America, but instead all we’re offered is a rather boring film that’s occasionally spiked with something mildly interesting. If you’re inclined to believe the film, there were things more disturbing than Sarah Palin’s moose hunting going on in Alaska during the final months of 2000. Specifically in the city of Nome, »
- Joseph Savitski
Catch The Latest Trailer For The Prisoner
12 hours ago
The Prisoner, starring Ian McKellan and Jim Caviezel hits the airwaves this Sunday on AMC. It is going to rock. That’s my prediction. Forget the on and off quality of your recent Sci-Fi fare. Flash Forward, Fringe and Sgu might be wobbling, but this show, a 6 hour miniseries retelling the classic 60’s paranoid dream, is gold people. Study the latest trailer to get a foreshadowing of just how screwed up your head is going to be after digesting 6 hours of life in The Village. »
- endymi0n
Another Stargate Universe Producer Takes Umbrage with Sgu Criticism
12 hours ago
This is actually getting pretty amusing. As you’ll recall, last week we posted a blog posting by “Stargate: Universe” producer Joseph Mallozzi, who fired back at critics of “Sgu” through his blog. Today, SciFiWire has another intriguing fight with another “Sgu” producer over the show, except this time “Sgu” producer Brad Wright is picking the fight not with fans, but with a newspaper columnist who dared to call his show anything but great. So, it begins with Chicago Tribune’s TV reviewer Maureen Ryan writing this during her positive review of ABC’s new show “V”: (And let’s face it, we sci-fi fans are a frequently disappointed lot. ABC hasn’t quite managed to quite recapture the magic of “Lost” with any of its subsequent genre-flavored offerings. “FlashForward” still seems like a show that is more about its concept than its characters. And the other notable fall genre offering, »
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Avatar’s Latest Trailer Goes for the Kiddie Adventure Vibe
13 hours ago
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’ going on. The result: this new trailer, which sells the movie as a kiddie adventure film, ala some shitty Disney kids movie. You can’t really blame them for hedging their bets. The budget for “Avatar” has soared somewhere into the $250-$350 million dollar range (trying to get a fix on it is impossible at this point, with special effects not even finished yet), but word is by the time the P&A costs are added in, “Avatar” is going to cost the studio somewhere in the $500 million dollar range. Say it with me, now: “What recession?” Help the good guys kill the locals and rape their »
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Five Preview Clips from V Episode 1.02 There is No Normal Anymore
13 hours ago
Five preview clips from “V’s” Tuesday episode, 1.02, “There is No Normal Anymore”. My favorite clip: Erica stumbling into Father Jack at the FBI, and her priceless quote, “You’re a friggin’ priest???” Love it. Also, Chad the reporter realizes he just sold his soul to the devil, and more alluring V girl action with Laura Vandervoort and Morena Baccarin. Plus, alien wounds are yucky. »
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What Two Sides Will Tussle In Peter Berg’s BattleShip?
18 hours ago
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 that the foe to take on the human fleet upon the deep blue sea is Aliens. Yes that’s right. It’ll be Aliens. I don’t remember Aliens in the board game unless you count my brother across from me on Christmas morning. Well, I guess that spices it up a bit. Battleship has a release date already. It’s August 5, 2011. Filming will get underway in the Spring. »
- endymi0n
Jake Gyllenhaal and Duncan Jones Find the Source Code
8 November 2009 8:12 PM, PST
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 Duncan has been attached to direct a new sci-fi movie called “Source Code”, and Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star. The article doesn’t say that Duncan is in negotiations to direct, they say he’s already “attached”, which makes a big difference. What little we know of the plot for “Source code” is a bit cryptic, but I suspect that’s the point: The project centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter and must solve the mystery of a train explosion. Philippe Rousselet and Mark Gordon will produce, while Summit Entertainment has already lined up to distribute the film. »
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